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.....
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.....
Spinsters, Ink, January 1983. Trade Paperback.
Thunder's Mouth Press, December 1988. Trade Paperback.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Guild for Psychological Studies, September 1985. Trade Paperback.
Curbstone Books, 2000. Trade Paperback. 97 pages. B/W illustrations. For the first time in poetic form, The Cherokee Lottery treats one of the greatest tragedies in American history, the forced removal of the Southern Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in northern Georgia.....
Jameson Books, March 1994. Trade Paperback.
Confluence Press, May 1990. Trade Paperback. Trapped in the Rocky Moutains in winter- will the boys survive? Thomas and his friend Pitamakan, a Blackfoot boy, live at Fort Benton on the western frontier. One day, having ventured into the mountains to trap beaver, Tom and Pitamakan are attacked by a......
Beaufort Books, 1985. Trade Paperback. 139 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
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.....