 | The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence
Publication Date: July 19, 1990| ISBN-10: 0195065751 | ISBN-13: 978-0195065756| Edition: Fourth Impression An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the seventeenth century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations--and Indian responses to them--have shaped contemporary Indian political fortunes. Cornell shows how, in the early days of colonization, Indians were able to maintain their nationhood by playing off the competing European powers; and how the American Revolution and westward expansion eventually caused Native Americans to lose their land...
 |  | The Names (Sun Tracks)
Publication Date: November 1, 1987| Series: Sun Tracks (Book 16) Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, The Names may be the most personal.A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as "an act of the imagination.When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold."Complete with family photos, The Names is a book that will captivate readers who wish to experience the Native American way of life. ...
|  | Living Stories of the Cherokee
Release Date: June 17, 1998This remarkable book, the first major new collection of Cherokee stories published in nearly a hundred years, presents seventy-two traditional and contemporary tales from the Eastern Band ofCherokee Indians in North Carolina. It features stories told by Davey Arch, Robert Bushyhead, Edna Chekelelee, Marie Junaluska, Kathi Smith Littlejohn, and Freeman Owle—six Cherokee storytellers who learned their art and their stories from family and community.The tales gathered here include animal stories, creation myths, legends, and ghost stories as well as family tales ...
|  | The Translation of Dr. Apelles (Vintage Contemporaries)
Release Date: February 12, 2008| Series: Vintage Contemporaries Dr. Apelles, a translator of ancient texts, has made an unsettling discovery: a manuscript that has languished for years, written in a language that only he speaks. Moving back and forth between the scholar and his text, from a lone man in a labyrinthine archive to a pair of beautiful young Indian lovers in an unspoiled and snowy woodland, David Treuer weaves together two love stories. Enthralling and suspenseful, The Translation of Dr. Apelles dares to redefine the Native American novel. ...
|  | Sundown
Publication Date: September 15, 1988Challenge Windzer, the mixed-blood protagonist of this compelling autobiographical novel, was born at the beginning of the twentieth century "when the god of the great Osages was still dominate over the wild prairie and the blackjack hills" of northeast Oklahoma Territory.Named by his father to be "a challenge to the disinheritors of his people," Windzer finds it hard to fulfill his destiny, despite oil money, a university education, and the opportunities presented by the Great War and the roaring twenties.Critics have praised Sundown generously, both as a...
|  | Young Bass Reeves: The Life of the First Black Marshal west of the Mississippi (Revised Copy) (Volume 1)
Publication Date: September 9, 2012Bass Reeves was born a slave, escaped captivity during the Civil War and became the first Black Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi. His years of service to the lawless Indian Territory helped write the history of Oklahoma.His honor and courage makes him eligible to be called the greatest lawman of his times. Bass Reeves story, based on true historical facts, will make any lover of the old west wonder why he is not more famous. ...
|  | The Last of the Mohicans (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)
Publication Date: October 31, 1986| ISBN-10: 0684187116 | ISBN-13: 978-0684187112During the French and Indian War, adventure and tragedy befall two sisters as they travel through the wilderness near Lake Champlain trying to join their father, the British commander of Fort William Henry. Full-color illustrations. ...
|  | Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America: An Anthology
Publication Date: July 27, 2000This marvelous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States--from the creation stories of the first inhabitants, to the tall tales of the Western frontier, to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s, and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope, embracing Big Foot and Windigo, Hiawatha and Uncle Sam, Paul Revere and Billy the Kid, and even the Iroquois Flying Head and Elvis. In the book's section on dogmas and icons, for instance, Leeming and Page discuss the American melting pot, the notion of manifest desti...
|  | Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America
Publication Date: September 17, 1998"A collection of important, eloquent, and often mesmerizing writings by American Indian Women. . . . A profoundly moving statement of resilience and renewal."—San Francisco ChronicleThis long-awaited anthology celebrates theexperience of Native American women and is atonce an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the mostcomprehensive anthology of its kind to collectpoetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir from NativeAmerican women. Over eighty writers arerepresented from nearly fifty nations, including such nationall...
|  | Wolfsong: A Novel (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)
Publication Date: March 15, 1995| ISBN-10: 0806127376 | ISBN-13: 978-0806127378In the Cascade Range of northwest Washington, Tom Joseph, a young Indian who had gone south to attend college, returns for his uncle's funeral and finds himself caught up in the old man’s fight to save the wilderness from destruction. In his first novel, Louis Owens exposes the raw edge of the current American land-rights controversy and poses questions about authenticity and the common bonds that American Indians, of very different or mixed backgrounds, are in the process of discovering today. ...
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