W. W. Norton & Company, September 2000. Trade Paperback. The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of.....
Penguin Books, March 1992. Trade Paperback.
Abingdon Pr, August 1979. Library Binding.
Dover Pubns, June 1969. Trade Paperback.
Oxford University Press, January 1987. Trade Paperback. The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevant to them, perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences, realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel. Their vision of themselves in relation to the.....
Berkley Trade, February 1998. Trade Paperback. With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world.
National Geographic, 2004. Hardcover. The Smithsonian's new National Museum of the American Indian will be the last museum to be built on the National Mall and its opening will be a major, national media event. To commemorate the opening, the National Geographic Society has collaborated with the museum's curators and.....
Univ of New Mexico Pr, December 1988. Trade Paperback.
Harper & Row, 1989. Hardcover. The author of the award-winning novels Love Medicine and The Beet Queen explores the grace that comes more from effort than accomplishment. Her determination to impose an acceptable reality on the chaos they encounter.
Harpercollins, February 1995. Hardcover. Documenting the voices of four generations of medicine men, a Native American saga of the Crow Dog family records an unbroken chain of historical events and celebrates Sioux history and culture.
Beacon Pr, April 1989. Hardcover.
University of Chicago Press, August 1962. Trade Paperback. Wolf drew on anthropology, archaeology, history, and geography to mold a magnificent, sweeping, and beautifully written synthesis. With style and deep personal engagement he unraveled the complexity of Mexico and Guatemala's past with its multiple ethnicities, many languages, and environmental diversity....
Naturegraph Pub, March 1992. Trade Paperback. -- from the Center to the Edge of the World by James Freeman. This gripping work of historical fiction allows us to see another side of the famous Yahi Indian, as he and his family take refuge in the most secluded areas of their.....
Random House Value Publishing, December 1988. Hardcover.
University of Washington Press, June 1977. Trade Paperback. The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and.....
William Morrow Paperbacks, July 2002. Trade Paperback. Award-winning historian Paula Mitchell Marks reconfirms her status as one of the foremost contemporary chroniclers of the American West with this often appalling, yet always engrossing, account of American Indian cultures under siege from 1607 to the present. In a dazzling synthesis of.....
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1967. Trade Paperback.
Werner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological research, 1959. Hardcover.
American Folklore Society, 1946. Hardcover.
Yosemite Association, August 1993. Trade Paperback. This is the revised edition of an entertaining collection of some of the most representative Miwok legends from the Yosemite region. Efforts have been made to find the earliest and presumably most accurate versions of the stories which have been rewritten in as consistent.....
Bison Books, January 1995. Trade Paperback. With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of my thumbnail, of family chores such as guarding the sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual.....
University of Oklahoma Press, (1950). Hardcover. 122 pages. 25 plates and 27 figures in B/W.
University of California Press, 1951. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 106 pages. The book covers winter and summer dances; war rites; formal rites; animal and other rites; and animal hunting formulas and rites. Contains 12 figures and 22 plates. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Mild edge and surface wear.
Value Proprietary, September 1996. Trade Paperback.
SAR Press, April 1991. Hardcover.