 | Manitous: The Spiritual World Of The Ojibway (Native Voices)
Publication Date: September 15, 2001| Series: Native Voices A collection of legends and spiritual teachings that depict the mysterious manitous, mystical beings who are divine and essential forces in the spiritual life of the Ojibway.From the rich oral culture of his own Ojibway Indian heritage, Basil Johnston presents a collection of legends and tales depicting manitous, mystical beings who are divine and essential forces in the spiritual life of his people.In this collection, the first by a Native American scholar, these lively, sometimes earthy stories teach about manitous who lived in hu...
 |  | Shell Shaker
Publication Date: September 1, 2001"A dangerous enemy has arrived on our shores with weapons of fire . . . He's a very different kind of Wasano, bloodsucker, he always hungers for more".—from Shell ShakerThe action in this debut novel alternates between 1738, as a Choctaw family prepares for war against the English, and the 1990s, as their Oklahoma descendants, the Billys, fight a Mafia takeover of the tribe's casino. In trouble with the law and in the fight of their lives, the Billy women must find a way, as their ancestors did, to join forces against a devious foe. Humor, toughness, ...
|  | The Double Life of Pocahontas
Release Date: March 1, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up In a story that is as gripping as it is historical, Jean Fritz reveals the true life of Pocahontas. Though at first permitted to move freely between the Indian and the white worlds, Pocahontas was eventually torn between her new life and the culture that shaped her. ...
|  | Solar Storms
Release Date: February 26, 1997Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Fiction, "Solar Storms" is at once a Native American coming-of-age story and a moving depiction of the ties that bind people to their roots and their land. ...
|  | Native American Literature: An Anthology
Publication Date: November 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0844259853 | ISBN-13: 978-0844259857| Edition: 1 This treasury of literature by Native American authors allows students to listen to the voices from America's first and oldest literature. More than fifty tribes from the U.S. and Canada are represented, giving readers opportunities to explore the diversity of authors' experiences through poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including the oral tradition. Two maps provide geographical context for the readings, one showing tribal locations and the other showing the Trail of Tears. ...
|  | Winter in the Blood (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 29, 2008| Series: Penguin Classics Two contemporary classics from a major writer of the Native American renaissance During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his on...
|  | The Toughest Indian in the World
Publication Date: April 9, 2000A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise." Now his acclaimed new collection, The Toughest Indian in the World, which received universal praise in hardcover, is available in paperback. In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hit...
|  | Inca Myths (Legendary Past)
Publication Date: 1999| Series: Legendary PastInca Myths begins with an introduction to the land and people of the Andes and reviews the sources of our current knowledge of Inca mythology. Gary Urton then recounts various creation myths, including a selection from various ethnic groups and regions around the empire. Finally, he draws upon his extensive knowledge of the history and ethnography of the Incas to illuminate the nature and relationships of myth and history.The contents include:Introduction Creation myths Origin myths of the founding of the Inca empire Myths of the works and ...
|  | Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Vintage Classics Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia. ...
|  | Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
Publication Date: March 15, 1995Set against the tragic events of the Cherokees' removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835-1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the suffering and endurance of the Cherokee people. It is the moving tale of Waguli (Whippoorwill") and Oconeechee, a young Cherokee man and woman separated by the Trail of Tears. Just as they are about to be married, Waguli is captured be federal soldiers and, along with thousands of other Cherokees, taken west, on foot and then by steamboat, to what is now eastern O...
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