The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It (Native American Literature/Oral Tradition)
HarperCollins, January 1990. Trade Paperback.
Native American Studies
Working with Grandpa: My Years Living and Working with the Oldest Living Lakota Medicine Man, and Afterward
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.....
Monument Valley and the Navajo Country
Hastings House, January 1951. Hardcover.
Pomo Indians of California and Their Neighbors
Naturegraph Publishers, August 1969. Trade Paperback. -- and Their Neighbors, is by Vinson Brown, with illustrations by Douglas Andrews. A 17 x 22 color map shows the old trails and tribelet villages with their Pomo names. Months were spent going to the way-back rancherias learning from the old people what.....
Ancient Modocs of California and Oregon
Binford & Mort Publishing, January 1979. Trade Paperback.
Stones Speak and Waters Sing
Mesa Verde, January 1984. Trade Paperback.
The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
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.....
The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved in Their Legends and Traditions
University of New Mexico Press, October 1987. Trade Paperback. Here the noted folklorist brings together traditional accounts of epic events and adventures in the life of Hopi clans and villages, from legendary to historical times. The setting of these various adventures and events is not the Southwest as we know.....
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
Spinsters, Ink, January 1983. Trade Paperback.
Fightin': New and Collected Stories
Thunder's Mouth Press, December 1988. Trade Paperback.
Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak (American Indian Lives) (UNCORRECTED PROOF)
University of Nebraska Press, September 1990. New Trade. In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor; and James Welch. They.....
The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories
University of Oklahoma Press, December 1988. Hardcover.
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1992. Trade Paperback.
Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast
University of Washington Press, May 1979. Trade Paperback. 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 indispensable and beautifully.....
Drinking Careers: A Twenty-Five Year Study of Three Navajo Populations
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.....
Eskimo Storyteller: Folktales from Noatak, Alaska
Univ of Tennessee Pr, March 1975. Trade Paperback.
Tanaina Tales from Alaska (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
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.....
Zuni : Selected Writings of Frank H. Cushing
N/A, November 1981. Trade Paperback. Frank Hamilton Cushing's stay at Zuni pueblo from 1879 to 1884 made him the first professional anthropologist actually to live with his subjects. Learning the language and winning acceptance as a member not only of the tribe but of the tribal council and the Bow.....
Acoma : Pueblo in the Sky
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.....
American Indian Medicine
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.....
Custer Survivor: The End of a Myth, the Beginning of a Legend
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.....
Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian (Norton Library)
W. W. Norton & Company, February 1974. Trade Paperback. Studies the philosophies underlying Jefferson's disastrous attempts to incorporate the American Indian into white society.
The Clouds Threw This Light: Contemporary Native American Poetry
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.....
Indian Chiefs
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.....
A Magic Dwells: A Poetic and Psychological Study of the Navajo Emergence Myth
Guild for Psychological Studies, September 1985. Trade Paperback.