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.
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.
Value Proprietary, September 1996. Trade Paperback.
SAR Press, April 1991. Hardcover.
HarperCollins, January 1990. Trade Paperback.
Beaver's Pond Press, March 2017. Hardcover. This is the story of my years living and working with Agna Iyanka, Elmer Norbert Running, one of the last old-time Lakota wicasa wakan, or medicine men. Agna Iyanka, Elmer Norbert Running, was perhaps the last of the old-time Lakota wicasa wakan.....
Binford & Mort Publishing, January 1979. Trade Paperback.
Mesa Verde, January 1984. Trade Paperback.
Heyday Books, August 1981. Trade Paperback. 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.....
Thunder's Mouth Press, December 1988. Trade Paperback.
University of Oklahoma Press, December 1988. Hardcover.
University of Washington Press, 1979. Trade Paperback. 11 pages. B/W illustrations. Bold, inventive and highly graphic, the indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and complexity. It is also composed of basically simple elements, which, guided by a rich mythology, create images of striking power. This.....
Yale University Press, November 1994. Hardcover. In this book, the first long-term follow-up study of alcohol use among Native Americans, a physician and sociologist and an anthropologist examine the data on three groups of Navajos whom they first interviewed about their use of alcohol in 1966. The authors find verification.....
University of Oklahoma Press, (1981). Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Second printing. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). A young Chippewa Indian from Minnesota collected these legends and stories told by the Tanaina Indians of southwestern Alaska. Called suk-tus (legend-stories) and stemming from the seventeenth century, they are anecdotal narratives centered.....
Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 1991. Trade Paperback. The only official history of the Sky City sanctioned by the tribal council, Acoma: Pueblo in the Sky chronicles the social, economic, and political history of the Acoma tribe. For centuries the people of Acoma have endured newcomers on the New.....
Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 1990. Trade Paperback. The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. It discusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question.....
History Publishing Company, LLC, January 2010. Trade Paperback. It has been recorded in official government records that there were no survivors of the five companies of the Seventh Cavalry who were with General George Armstrong Custer at the battle at the Little Big Horn. Recently, uncovered records and forensic handwriting.....
W. W. Norton & Company, February 1974. Trade Paperback. Studies the philosophies underlying Jefferson's disastrous attempts to incorporate the American Indian into white society.
Institute of American Indian Arts Press, 1983. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 351 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A substantial anthology of Native American poets. First edition (first printing). Spine cracked, else very good in wrappers (paperback). This copy is signed or incribed to the previous owner by six contributors: Simon.....
Holiday House, March 1987. Hardcover. A narrative biography of six native leaders facing an historical moment of crisis, by award-winning historian Russell Freedman As pioneers began to head westward in the mid-1800s, they came in contact with the native inhabitants of those territories--a meeting that was often peaceful at first.....