 | Smoke Signals
Release Date: July 1, 1998FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. --This text refers to the School & Library Binding edition....
 |  | Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa
Release Date: January 17, 2007| ISBN-10: 0807854212 | ISBN-13: 978-0807854211This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends, writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, this extraordinary work imaginatively brings to life the sixteenth-century world of the Coosa, a native people whose territory stretched across the Southeast, encompassing much of present-day Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciaci¹n, a real-life Spanish priest who traveled to the Coosa chiefdom around 1559, and the Raven, a fiction...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Keepers of the Children
Publication Date: August 15, 2004"Keepers of the Children" (subtitle: Native American Wisdom and Parenting) uses little known Native American secrets to teach parents how to raise children who know their nature and use their strengths to create lives of meaning and contribution. By raising children to unfold the uniqueness in their hearts, parents touch the depths of their own. By teaching children the secrets of genuine fulfillment, they grow up to lead purposeful lives and cherish their parents for this gift. ("Keepers of the Children" is the first in a trilogy of parenting books.) ...
|  | Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women
Publication Date: March 11, 2008| ISBN-10: 0195109252 | ISBN-13: 978-0195109252The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. Their stories are vital testaments of our times. Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers a sampling of two to three stories by a select number of both famous and lesser known Native women writers in what is now the United States. Here you will find much-loved stories, many made easily accessible for the first time, and vibrant new stories by well-...
|  | Wind from an Enemy Sky
Publication Date: July 1, 1988| ISBN-10: 0826311008 | ISBN-13: 978-0826311009A tragedy of good intentions gone hopelessly wrong, Wind from an Enemy Sky tells the story of the Little Elk People, a fictional Northwestern tribe. Through the eyes of Antoine, grandson of the tribal leader, we see the tribe attempt to overcome their demoralization at the hands of advancing white civilization. The Indians respond to the building of a dam by trying to gain the return of a sacred medicine bundle. McNickle�s ability to depict psychologically complex characters of both races, such ...
|  | American Indian Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 2003American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. One of the most famous Sioux writers and activists of the modern era, Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) recalled legends and tales from oral tradition and used experiences from her life and community to educate others about the Yankton Sioux. Determined, controversial, and visionary, she creatively worked to bridge the gap between her own culture and mainstream American society and advocated for Native rights on a national level. Susan Rose ...
|  | Seven Arrows
Release Date: May 12, 1985A heartbreaking story of victory, defeat, and of a spiritual search in a profane world, this is the story of Night Bear and his people. It is the tale of the land they cherish and the lives they hold sacred, lived until the enemy can no longer be stopped, and the dead have few left to weep for them. ...
|  | Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun
Release Date: September 12, 1997With the publication of Two Old Women, Velma Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important voices in Native American writing. A national bestseller, her empowering fable won the Western State Book Award in 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award in 1994. Translated into 16 languages, it went on to international success, quickly reaching bestseller status in Germany. To date, more than 350,000 copies have been sold worldwide.Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun follows in this bestselling tradition. Rooted in t...
|  | GARDENS IN THE DUNES: A Novel
Release Date: April 13, 2000A sweeping, multifaceted tale of a young Native American pulled between the cherished traditions of a heritage on the brink of extinction and an encroaching white culture, Gardens in the Dunes is the powerful story of one woman's quest to reconcile two worlds that are diametrically opposed.At the center of this struggle is Indigo, who is ripped from her tribe, the Sand Lizard people, by white soldiers who destroy her home and family. Placed in a government school to learn the ways of a white child, Indigo is rescued by the kind-hearted Hattie and her worldly hus...
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