Category: Indigenous

Aboriginal Voices: Amerindian, Inuit, and Sami Theater (PAJ Books)

Price: $9.95

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press : September 1992

Seller ID: 68793

ISBN-13: 9780801843761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The North American Indian

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Taschen America Llc : October 2005

Seller ID: 80024

ISBN-13: 9783822847725

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

At the turn of the century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868?1952) started on his thirty-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out. With tireless personal commitment Curtis visited American Indian tribes from the Mexican border to the Bering Straits, gaining their confidence by his patience and sensitivity. This, his photographic life's work, was print...
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This Is My Homeland : Stories of the Effects of Nuclear Industries by the People of Serpent River and the North Shore of Lake Huron

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Serpent River First Nation : January 2003

Seller ID: 79059

ISBN-13: 9780973305500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Song of the earth spirit (Celebrating the earth)

By: Anderson, Susanne

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Friends of the Earth : January 1973

Seller ID: 80785

ISBN: B0006C3UTA

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

North American Indian Traditions and Ceremonies

By: Berman, Karen

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Brompton Books Corporation : January 1977

Seller ID: 62070

ISBN-13: 9781858412153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Chiwid (Transmontanus series) (Transmontanus, No 2)

By: Birchwater, Sage

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New Star Books : August 1995

Seller ID: 53960

ISBN-13: 9780921586395

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Chiwid was a Tsilhqot'in woman, said to have shamanistic powers, who spent most of her adult life living out in the hills and forests around Williams Lake, BC. Chiwid is the story of this remarkable woman told in the vibrant voices of Chilcotin oldtimers, both native and non-native.Chiwid is Number 2 in the Transmontanus series of books edited by Terry Glavin.
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Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier

By: Brody, Hugh

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd : December 1988

Seller ID: 59199

ISBN-13: 9780888945938

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (Volume 36) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

By: Brown, Joseph Epes

Price: $14.95

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press : October 1989

Seller ID: 80599

ISBN-13: 9780806121246

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the keeper of the sacred pipe, he said, It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and through this book in which I shall explain what our pipe really is, peace may come to those peoples who can understand, and understanding which must be of the heart and not of the head alone. Then they will realize that we Indians know the One true God, and that we pray to Him continually. Black Elk was the only qua...
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The Buffalo People: Pre-contact Archaeology on the Canadian Plains

By: Bryan, Liz

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing : January 2010

Seller ID: 84092

ISBN-13: 9781894384919

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Liz Bryan reconstructs the lives of some of the very first Canadians, who lived as nomadic buffalo hunters between the final days of the great Ice Age and the coming of the first Europeans. Bryan went beyond the part of their story that can be told through oral history, taking clues from decades of archaeological research. In a writing style that is non-scientific yet based on scientific evidence, Bryan explains where the buffalo people might have come from and how they got on with their lives. Photographs, maps and line drawings help illustrate this immensely entertaining and informative acc...
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Without Reserve : Among the Northern Forest Indians

By: Burnford, Sheila Illustrated by Susan Ross

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Limited : January 1974

Seller ID: 74412

ISBN-13: 9780773770607

Binding: Trade Paperback

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North American Indian Landmarks: A Traveler's Guide

By: Cantor, George

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Visible Ink Pr : February 1993

Seller ID: 72280

ISBN-13: 9780810391321

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is a guided tour of more than 300 sites across the continent of North America which are associated with Native American Indians. Arranged by region, the guide is illustrated with photographs and detailed maps of the sites, bringing the history and culture of the first Americans to life. It also includes practical travel information, a glossary and timeline.
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Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians (American Women Writers Series)

By: Child, Lydia Maria

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Rutgers University Press : May 1986

Seller ID: 71692

ISBN-13: 9780813511641

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him--with the child--for another man. This novel, originally published in 1824, is a powerful first among antipatriarchal and antiracist novels in American literature. In addition, this collection contains seven remarkable short stories; an extract on Indian women from Child's groundbreaking History of the Condition of Women in Various Ages and Nations (1835); a selection from her best-selling volume of journalistic sketches, Letters from New-York (1843); a...
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Chippewa Customs (Borealis Books)

By: Densmore, Frances

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press : October 1979

Seller ID: 56951

ISBN-13: 9780873511421

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians of the United States and Canada.

Praise for Chippewa Customs

"Densmore . . . has done a valuable piece of work for posterity by collecting this material."--Minnesota History
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'All the Real Indians Died Off': And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans (Myths Made in America)

By: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne,Gilio-Whitaker, Dina

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Beacon Press : October 2016

Seller ID: 84292

ISBN-13: 9780807062654

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native Americans In this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: "Columbus Discovered America""Thanksgiving Proves the Indians Welcomed Pilgrims""Indians Were Savage and Warlike""Europeans Brought Civilization to Backward Indians""The United States Did Not Have a ...
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Forbidden Voice Reflections of a Mohawk

By: Greene, Alma

Price: $23.95

Publisher: Hamlyn Publ Group Ltd : January 1971

Seller ID: 54032

ISBN-13: 9780600348290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples

By: Grinde, Donald A.

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Clear Light Pub : August 1998

Seller ID: 55310

ISBN-13: 9781574160055

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book is not only a work of history, it makes history.... We desperately need to hear this story if we are to save the earth, the sky, the water, the air -- save ourselves.... I thank Donald Grinde and Bruce Johansen for their eloquent and powerful contribution to our education. (Howard Zinn) A dense, hard-hitting well-documented work ... Ecocide of Native America offers a much needed option to European perspectives of history.... It is a valuable alternative textbook, if you can hold with its difficult truths. (New Mexican) The book includes the moving testimony of those who continue to e...
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Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the Pacific Northwest Coast

By: Indian, Smithsonian American

Price: $12.95

Publisher: National Geographic : November 2005

Seller ID: 78476

ISBN-13: 9780792241904

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Illustrated with never-before-published artifacts from the unique treasures in the museum's Northwest Coast collections, Listening to Our Ancestors profiles native communities of the Pacific Northwest and showcases the region's rich cultural history and artwork. Sophisticated in conception and execution and rich with symbolism, the totem poles, painted housefronts, masks, dance regalia, feast bowls, and elaborately decorated boxes made by the native people of the North Pacific Coast have long been recognized as masterworks of art. Here, in a series of community self-portraits, cultural figures...
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We Share Our Matters: Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River

By: Monture, Rick

Price: $9.95

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press : November 2014

Seller ID: 82949

ISBN-13: 9780887557675

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to understand its enduring intellectual traditions. Rick Monture's We Share Our Matters offers the first comprehensive portrait of how the Haudenosaunee of the Grand River region have expressed their long struggle for sovereignty in Canada. Drawing from individualsas diverse as Joseph Brant, Pauline Johnson and Robbie Robertson, Monture illuminates a...
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The Song and the Silence

By: Price, Tim

Price: $7.50

Publisher: OverTime Books : October 2010

Seller ID: 46800

ISBN-13: 9780919433540

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is the story of the fascinating and challenging life of Stoney Chief Frank Kaquitts-Sitting Wind. It includes his time as an actor, when he played Sitting Bull opposite Paul Newman in Buffalo Bill and the Indians. This award-winning biography explores cultural differences with eloquence and sensitivity.
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Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

By: Simpson, Audra

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Duke University Press Books : May 2014

Seller ID: 82933

ISBN-13: 9780822356554

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnaw ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism. The Kahnaw ke Mohawks are part of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy. Like many Iroquois peoples, they insist on the integrity of Haudenosaunee governance and refuse American or Canadian citizenship. Audra Sim...
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Category: Indigenous