Nonfiction - Indigenous Reads
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Strange Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Descendants of fur traders and Indians, the Métis mounted insurrections against the Canadian government in 1869-70 and 1885 led by the messianic ...
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Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine's Mt. Desert Island
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and ...
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Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Beginning with the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670, the fur trade dominated the development of the Canadian west. Although detailed ...
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Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /**2nd place for the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize** Ayetli gadogv—to "stand in the middle"—is at the heart of a Cherokee perspective of the natural...
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The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and the crucial role of women in t...
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Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake S...
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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Prior to the onslaught of the Europeans, the Puget Sound area was one of the most heavily populated regions north of Mexico City. The Native Amer...
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The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Potawatomi Indians were the dominant tribe in the region of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and southern Michigan during the seventeenth and ea...
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Spirit and Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Spirit & Reason is a collection of the works of one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century—Vine Deloria, Jr. Author of such ...
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Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this lively and sometimes poignant collection of essays and autobiographies, nearly fifty Alaska Native writers tell of their unique way of li...
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The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Abridged Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /"This is Francis Paul Prucha's magnum opus. It is a great work. . . . This study will . . . [be] a standard by which other studies of American In...
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The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855-1970
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws’ removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the t...
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The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region’s original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in t...
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The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This compelling narrative explains how Native Americans found themselves time and again betrayed by the ever-expanding white nation of the East, ...
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Divining the Self: A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the text...
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Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Who are Florida’s Seminole and Miccosukee Indians? Where did they come from? How and why are they different from one another, and what cultural a...
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Colonial Racial Capitalism
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenou...
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The Land Looks After Us: A History of Native American Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Native Americans practice some of America's most spiritually profound, historically resilient, and ethically demanding religions. Joel Martin dra...
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Santeria: African Spirits in America
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professio...
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Folklore of the Winnebago Tribe
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The oral tradition of the Winnebago, or Ho-Chunk, people ranges from creation myths to Trickster stories and histories of the tribe. It is partic...
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This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving...
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The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved in Their Legends and Traditions
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Here the noted folklorist brings together traditional accounts of epic events and adventures in the life of Hopi clans and villages, from legenda...
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The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95Original price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations pr...
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Dinéjí Na`nitin: Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachin...
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