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She Had Some Horses: Poems
She Had Some Horses: Poems
WWN847
$16.95  
Paperback, Joy Harjo, 96 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393334210
A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets. First published in 1983 and now considered a classic,  She Had Some Horses  is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their...
Four Faces of the Moon
Four Faces of the Moon
IPS188
$17.95  
Paperback, Amanda Strong, 136 pages, 6 x 9, 9781773214535
On a journey to uncover her family’s story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land—creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel.   In the dreamworld she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls. They stand as a...
Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
IPS230
$24.95  
Paperback, Josephine Woolington, 272 pages, 6 x 9, 9781947845367
Reconnect with the natural world through essays that blend science and prose.  In her debut work, Josephine Woolington turns back the clock to review the events that have challenged Pacific Northwest wildlife in an effort to provide a deeper sense of place. Only then can we imagine how these...
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
PGN395
$19.50  
Paperback, Drew Hayden Taylor, 360 pages, 5 x 8, 9781039000612
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.   Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie,...
Ben the Sea Lion
Ben the Sea Lion
HPC169
$18.95  
Hardcover, Roy Henry Vickers, 32 pages, 12 x 8, 9781550179736
Tsimshian storyteller and artist Roy Henry Vickers shares an adventure from his childhood in the Indigenous Pacific Northwest village of Kitkatla. When Uncle Johnny accidentally catches an orphaned sea lion pup in his fishing net, young Roy and his cousin Bussy take responsibility for...
Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
PGN406
$24.00  
Paperback, Bobby Lake-Thom, 224 pages, 7 x 9, 9780452276505
An extraordinary compilation of legends and rituals about nature's ever-present signs. From the birds that soar above us to the insects beneath our feet, Native American healer Bobby Lake-Thom shows how the creatures of the earth can aid us in healing and self-knowledge. “There are ancient...
Transformations: The George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Northwest Coast Art
Transformations: The George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Northwest Coast Art
UWP013
$50.00  
Hardcover, Rebecca J. Dobkins & Tasia D. Riley, 216 pages, 9 x 12, 9781930957855
Since the 1980s, Oregon-based art collectors George and Colleen Hoyt have amassed one of the finest private collections of Northwest Coast art in the United States. Transformations traces the history of contemporary Northwest Coast Native art since the 1950s. Included are works by some of the...
Myths and Legends of the Sioux
Myths and Legends of the Sioux
IPS263
$7.99  
Marie L. McLaughlin, , 120 pages, 5 x 8, 9781513277462
Marie L. McLaughlin delivers a memorable selection of Native American stories infused with folklore and oral traditions passed on from one generation to the next.  This book features vivid stories with larger-than-life characters and unforgettable adventures. Myths and Legends of the...
Nisqually Indian Tribe
Nisqually Indian Tribe
ARC161
$21.99  
Paperback, Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, Maria Victoria Pascualy, Trisha Hunter, 123 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738556116
The Nisqually are the original stewards of prairie lands, mountains, and rivers in Thurston and Pierce Counties. They welcomed British and American newcomers and tightly bound the outsiders to the Native American world. This volume visually explores the traditional time, when Nisqually political...
A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales
A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales
WWN845
$17.95  
Paperback, Joy Harjo, 137 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393320961
"This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is alive with deeply felt and beautifully expressed emotions."―Wilma Mankiller In her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America’s brutal history into a...
Arrowheads and Stone Artifacts, Third Edition: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist
Arrowheads and Stone Artifacts, Third Edition: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist
PER209
$24.99  
Paperback, C.G. Yeager, 236 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780871083319
This practical, down-to-earth guide for surface collectors of arrowheads and stone artifacts is designed especially for amateur archaeologists and people interested in learning how to study and collect artifacts safely and responsibly. The author reveals invaluable tips on: where to look for...
My Powerful Hair - Book
My Powerful Hair - Book
HNA062
$18.99  
Hardcover, Carole Lindstrom, 48 pages, 9 x 0.65 x 11", 9781419759437
The Displacement of Native Peoples
The Displacement of Native Peoples
CBP003
$10.95  
Paperback, Lynn Peppas, 48 pages, 7.1 x 0.2 x 9.1 inches, 9780778725732
This revealing book examines how First Nations and Native Peoples have been displaced in the United States and Canada through treaties, empty promises, and military force. Through close examination of primary source images, documents, and first-hand accounts, readers will gain an understanding...
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
WWN848
$15.95  
Paperback, Joy Harjo, 160 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393353631
A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through...
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
WWN850
$25.00  
Hardcover, Joy Harjo, 240 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393248524
National bestseller Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses,...
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky
PGN205
$8.99  
Paperback, Susan Jeffers, 32 pages, 9.5 x 0.2 x 12.1, 9780142301326
The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth. The great American Indian Chief Seattle spoke these words over a hundred years ago. His remarkably relevant message of respect for the Earth and every creature on it has endured the test of time and is imbued with passion born of love of...
There There
There There
PGN379
$17.00  
Paperback, Tommy Orange, 304 pages, 5 x 8, 9780525436140
NATIONAL   BESTSELLER   •   PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER   •   One of  The New York Times  10 Best Books of the Year   •   A wondrous and shattering novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may...
Lila and the Crow PAPERBACK
Lila and the Crow PAPERBACK
IPS202
$9.95  
Paperback, Gabrielle Grimard, 32 pages, 9 x 9, 9781554518579
Lila has just moved to a new town and can't wait to make friends at school. But on the first day, a boy points at her and shouts: “A crow! A crow! The new girl's hair is black like a crow!” The others whisper and laugh, and Lila's heart grows as heavy as a stone. The next day, Lila covers her...
The Button Blanket
The Button Blanket
EPP020
$16.95  
Paperback, Nan McNutt, 34 pages, 11 x 8.5, 9781941890325
An activity book for kids ages 9-12, includes teaching guide. It tells the story of a Kwakiutl girl making her first ceremonial button blanket. Introduces activities that provide information about the crafts and way of life of the indians living along the Northwest Coast of the United States...
American Indian Trickster Tales
American Indian Trickster Tales
PGN310
$16.00  
Paperback, Richard Erdoes, 320 pages, 7 x 5, 9780140277715
Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the...
Life of the California Coast Nations
Life of the California Coast Nations
CBP015
$9.95  
Paperback, Molly Aloian, 32 pages, 8.3 x 0.1 x 10.8 inches, 9780778704744
Describes the lifestyles and traditions of the nations that lived along the coast of California during the seventeenth century. This work helps children discover how these Native people used the area's many natural resources to construct homes, canoes, rafts, clothing, and other everyday items.
Native American Wisdom: A Spiritual Tradition at One With Nature
Native American Wisdom: A Spiritual Tradition at One With Nature
PGN286
$17.95  
Hardcover, Alan Jacobs, 192 pages, 6.5 x 4.5, 9781786781390
A wonderful and inspiring collection of eloquent prose, beautiful poetry and ancestral wisdom from Chiefs, Medicine Men and ordinary members of many Native American tribes. Although there are major differences in the lifestyles of the numerous Native American nations, they share fundamental...
Powwow Day
Powwow Day
PGN402
$17.99  
Hardcover, Traci Sorell, 32 pages, 9 x 9, 9781580899482
In this uplifting, contemporary Native American story, River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she ever dance again? River wants so badly to dance at powwow day as she does every year. In this uplifting and contemporary picture book perfect for beginning...
Go West: First Contact with Native Nations
Go West: First Contact with Native Nations
CBP007
$8.95  
Paperback, Cynthia O'Brien, 32 pages, 10.5 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches, 9780778723486
As settlers came west, they discovered there were already people living on this "new" land. Discover how this mass invasion of settlers impacted the indigenous peoples of the West: their first contacts with explorers such as Lewis and Clark; the gradual encroachment of white settlers on their...
Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks
Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks
UWP006
$39.95  
Hardcover, Emily L. Moore, 288 pages, 7 x 10, 9780295743936
Among Southeast Alaska's best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its...
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
WWN853
$19.95  
Paperback, Various, 496 pages, 6 x 9, 9780393356809
Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through" United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates...
The Woman Who Fell from The Sky: Poems
The Woman Who Fell from The Sky: Poems
WWN849
$16.95  
Paperback, Joy Harjo, 88 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393313628
Joy Harjo, one of this country's foremost Native American voices, combines elements of storytelling, prayer, and song, informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background, in this, her fourth volume of poetry. She draws from the Native American tradition of praising...
A Is for Anemone: A First West Coast Alphabet (BOARD)
A Is for Anemone: A First West Coast Alphabet (BOARD)
HPC165
$12.95  
Board, Roy Henry Vickers, 28 pages, 7 x 5, 9781550179477
Bestselling and award-winning children’s book collaborators Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd come together again to create a colourful West Coast alphabet board book. With crisp, luminous illustrations by celebrated Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers, and a simple rythmic text, this...
The Bentwood Box
The Bentwood Box
EPP019
$16.95  
Paperback, Nan McNutt, 34 pages, 11 x 8.5, 9781941890349
The Bentwood Book is an activity book for kids from ages 9-12, including teaching guides. It tells the story of how indians from the Nortwest Coast made boxes out of bent wooden planks. Introduces activities that provide information about the crafts and ways of life of these people
The Cedar Plank Mask
The Cedar Plank Mask
EPP021
$16.95  
Paperback, Nan McNutt, 34 pages, 11 x 8.5, 9781941890165
The Cedar Plank Maskis the third book in a four part series, preceded by The Bentwood Box and The Buttion Blanket. This book is designed for students of 3rd through 6th greade. The art style represented in this book is called Westcoast style by the people who live on the western most tip of...
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
WWN851
$15.00  
Paperback, Joy Harjo, 240 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393867916
A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets...
Arrowhead Magnet
Arrowhead Magnet
PAR158
$5.95  
F3, 3 x 1.5, 760999953649
Laser-cut steel, stone tumbled and finished with Squatch Metalworks proprietary distressed metal patina treatment. Clear coated with durable automotive clear-coat. Backed with a Rare Earth magnet. DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED IN THE USA.
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
HRW152
$17.99  
Paperback, Kent Nerburn, 448 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780061136085
Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation - the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and eight hundred Nez Perce men,...
Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass
PGW269
$20.00  
Paperback, Robin Wall Kimmerer, 408 pages, 5 x 1 x 8.2 inches, 9781571313560
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" ( Publishers Weekly ) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by  Library Journal ,  Braiding Sweetgrass  is poised to be a...
Native North American Foods and Recipes
Native North American Foods and Recipes
CBP010
$9.95  
Paperback, Kathryn Smithyman, 32 pages, 8.3 x 0.2 x 10.6 inches, 9780778704751
This fascinating book focuses on the many foods that were first discovered and cultivated by Native Americans. Children will learn about the ingenuity of Native American farming techniques, hunting methods, and cooking styles, and enjoy preparing many Native-inspired dishes that they can prepare...
Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines
Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines
HPC168
$29.95  
Paperback, Dr Luschiim Arvid Charlie, 288 pages, 6 x 9, 9781550179453
An invaluable compendium of Hul′q′umi′num′ traditional knowledge. Respected Cowichan Tribe Elder and botanical expert, Luschiim Arvid Charlie, began his education in early childhood, learning from his great grandparents and others of their generation.  Luschiim’s Plants  represents his...
Understanding Native America Myths
Understanding Native America Myths
CBP012
$9.95  
Paperback, Megan Kopp, 48 pages, 7.8 x 0.2 x 9.8 inches, 9780778745310
This book allows the reader to explore the rich worldview of Native North American tribes through their myths and legends. Tales originating from various tribes functioned in a number of important ways: they explained the story of creation, described the relationship of humans to the rest of the...
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
HMC342
$24.99  
Paperback, Andrés Reséndez, 448 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, Andrés Reséndez
“Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas.”— San Francisco Chronicle “A necessary work . . . [Reséndez’s] reportage will likely surprise you.”—NPR “One of the most profound contributions to North...
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
WWN846
$16.95  
Paperback, Joy Harjo, 176 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393345438
A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place...
Coyote Tales of the Northwest
Coyote Tales of the Northwest
LPP045
$18.95  
Paperback, Thomas George, 216 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781926696096
A creature of myth and magic emerging from the mist-shrouded forests of the Northwest, Coyote appears as a creator, messenger, hero, trickster, fool or shapeshifter. Always on the lookout for fun, mischief or the opportunity to help humans, Coyote's encounters with gods, demons and the...
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection, 10th Anniversary Edition
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection, 10th Anniversary Edition
IPG104
$29.95  
Paperback, Matt Dembicki, 248 pages, 8 x 8, 9781682752739
2010 Maverick Award winner, 2011 Aesop Prize Winner—Children’s folklore section, and a 2011 Eisner Award Nominee. All cultures have tales of the trickster—a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of...
We Are Water Protectors
We Are Water Protectors
MPS258
$17.99  
Hardcover, Carole Lindstrom, 40 pages, 10 x 10, 9781250203557
Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America,   We Are Water Protectors   issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption ― a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade....
The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
HEY011
$18.00  
Paperback, Malcolm Margolin, 182 pages, 6 x 9, 9780930588014
Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco–Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds “with a sound like that of a...
Raven Brings the Light
Raven Brings the Light
HPC147
$19.95  
Hardcover, Roy Henry Vickers, 40 pages, 12 x 0.2 x 8.2, 9781550175936
In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the Chief of the Heavens who...
Native Homes
Native Homes
CBP008
$9.95  
Paperback, Bobbie Kalman, 32 pages, 8.5 x 0.1 x 10.8 inches, 9780778704638
Children's author Bobbie Kalman's new series Native Nations of North America is an ongoing series that looks at the lives of the indigenous peoples of North America before the land was divided into the countries of the United States and Canada. The books focus on geographical areas, language...
Sacagawea and the Bravest Deed
Sacagawea and the Bravest Deed
SIM281
$4.99  
Paperback, Stephen Krensky, 32 pages, 6 x 0.1 x 9, 9780689848032
Young Sacagawea wants to be as brave as her brother. If only she were allowed to go with him and the other boys on a hunt to prove it! But while gathering wood with her grandmother, an angry rattlesnake shows Sacagawea that there are many ways to be brave.
Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition
Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition
UWP005
$29.95  
Paperback, Bill Holm, 144 pages, 7.5 x 9, 9780295994277
The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book.  The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native...
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
MPS259
$18.99  
Hardcover, Kevin Noble Maillard, 48 pages, 10 x 10, 9781626727465
Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal A 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner “A wonderful and sweet book . . . Lovely stuff.” ― The New York Times Book Review Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard,...
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
HMC334
$18.99  
Paperback, Timothy Egan, 384 pages, 5.3 x 1 x 8, 9780544102767
“A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan’s spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life.” —  Washington Post  Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the...
Art of the Northwest Coast, 2nd Edition
Art of the Northwest Coast, 2nd Edition
UWP008
$29.95  
Paperback, Aldona Jonaitis, 416 pages, 6.75 x 9.75, 9780295748559
Originally published in 2006,  Art of the Northwest Coast   offers an expansive history of this great tradition, from the earliest known works to those made at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although non-Natives often claimed that First Nations cultures were disappearing,...
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