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Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An extraordinary compilation of legends and rituals about nature's ever-present signs. From the birds that soar above us to the insects beneath o...
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Dakota Texts
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Ella Deloria (1889–1971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Rese...
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Tonkawa Texts: A New Linguistic Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Although tribal traditions survive among the Tonkawa people, now located in northern Oklahoma, the Tonkawa language has been extinct for more than ...
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Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Learn about the rich history of North America through the legends and tales of those who inhabited the land first in Voices of the Winds. This won...
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West African Folk Tales
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the universal brot...
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Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /By combining their expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these folktales an integral method ...
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Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Caribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to Britain Caribbean islands are rich in oral stories...
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith...”splendidly vivid and true.”—Ne...
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Mules and Men
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding....
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American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /"Whether your interest in Sioux folklore is great or small, you will find this a fascinating book to devour. Pick up a copy today and be thrilled...
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The Blind Man and the Loon: The Story of a Tale
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is mag...
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The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Although few recognize the name of Bras-Coup today, Bryan Wagner's riveting history The Life and Legend of Bras-Coup illustrates why the saga of ...
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Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the India...
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Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world's most treasured Indigenous creators. Trickster is zany, rid...
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The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A CBC BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022Award-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling.Approached ...
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African American Folk Healing
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catchi...
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Moroccan Folktales
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled wi...
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Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Men and women who carried the mantle of African healing and spirituality in the Mid-South were frequently accused and attacked for their misunderst...
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The Yellow Rose of Texas: The Song, the Legend and Emily D. West
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas holds an indisputable place in Lone Star culture, tethered to a familiar song that has served as a Civil ...
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Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Winner, Wayland D. Hand Prize, American Folklore Society, 2018 Originating in a homicide in St. Louis in 1899, the ballad of “Frankie and Johnny”...
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Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints, and Queerness Through the Ages
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Featuring 50 profiles and select B&W illustrated portraits, Heroes of Queer Myth & Legend is a celebration of gay gods and goddesses, sapph...
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Black Folktales
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Twelve remarkable folktales, culled from the black experience in Africa and America, are freshly retold in the thoroughly original voice of Julius ...
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Old Greek Stories
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, margina...
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A Barren Woman Had A Son
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The legend of a demigod who fathered a nation begins this origin story. As the community he created faces multiple threats, the foundational role o...
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