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Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans thi...
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A New York Times bestseller!“Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review"Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal“Entertaining and well-...
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review “Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.”—W...
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Dine Tah: My Reservation Days 1923?1939
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The bicultural story of a childhood on the Navajo Reservation. In this engaging memoir, Girdner tells the story of his childhood on the Navajo Rese...
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Oklahoma Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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The Sawners of Chandler: A Pioneering Power Couple in Pre-Civil Rights Oklahoma
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Juxtaposed against the grim realities of black life at the turn of the twentieth century, the lives of George and Lena Sawner shone like the blazin...
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Geronimo's Story of His Life
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /First published in 1906, "Geronimo's Story of His Life" is the true account of the life of Geronimo, in his own words, narrated in the style of his...
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The Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In 1861, war between the U.S. and the hostile Chiricahua Apaches seemed inevitable. When a young boy was kidnapped, Lieutenant George Bascom confro...
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Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee, Texas Ranger
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In this reprint of a classic Indian Captivity Narrative from the 19th century, Nelson Lee recounts his adventures and his narrow escape from the Co...
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Texas Indian Troubles: The Most Thrilling Events in the History of Texas
PaperbackOriginal price $17.50 - Original price $17.50Original price $17.50$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This book gives a graphic portrayal of frontier life in Texas with marauding Comanche and Kiowa Indian tribes. Replete with many stories of Indian ...
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Reservation Restless
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2021 Southwest Books of the Year Winner of the 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Autobiography & MemoirIn the powerful and haunting lands ...
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Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospi...
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Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death ...
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Indians of Arizona
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications. Since much of Nativ...
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Texas Slave Narratives - Parts 3 & 4: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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Texas Slave Narratives - Parts 1 & 2: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars--fueled b...
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King Ranch: A Legacy in Artvolume 24
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Covering 825,000 acres in the Coastal Plain and Brush Country of South Texas, King Ranch, established in 1853, looms large in Texas and American hi...
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Legendary Locals of Gallup
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Geography has conspired to make Gallup, New Mexico, a special place with unique people and a colorful history. It has been a place of struggle a...
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Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Most people are familiar with the famous pre-Columbian civilizations of the Aztecs and Maya of Mexico, but few realize just how advanced were conte...
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Riding with Cochise: The Apache Story of America's Longest War
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Riding With Cochise brings the violent drama of the American Southwest to life through the eyes of the legendary Apache chieftain Cochise and three...
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Painting Culture, Painting Nature: Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in Oklahoma
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the late 1920s, a group of young Kiowa artists, pursuing their education at the University of Oklahoma, encountered Swedish-born art professor ...
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A Strange Mixture: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New Mexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo pe...
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Surviving Desires: Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In its classic union of gleaming silver and blue turquoise, Native American jewellery of the Southwest is an iconic art form. Internationally rec...
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