 | The Book of the Navajo
Release Date: March 1, 2002Paperback deals with Navajo history and a description of Navajo life. 496 pages. ...
 |  | A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers)
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| Series: Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For a thousand years and more before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished in these islands. The masterworks of classical Haida sculpture, now enshrined in many of the world's great museums, range from exquisite tiny amulets to magnificent huge housepoles. Classical Haida literature is every bit as various and fine. It extends from tiny jewels crafted by master songmakers to elaborate myth...
|  | From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies)
Publication Date: February 15, 2000| Series: American Indian Literature & Critical Studies (Book 22) The Din...
|  | 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.) ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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 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. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories From Red People Memory
Publication Date: April 1, 2005In Walking the Choctaw Road, Tingle reaches far back into tribal memory to offer this deeply personal collection of stories woven from the supernatural, mythical, historical and oral accounts of Choctaw people living today. Native American storyteller Joe Bruchac says, “For a good many years now, Tim Tingle has been one of my favorite American story-tellers. Walking the Choctaw Road . . . will stay with you and lend you some of its strength. Cross the river with these stories—they’ll give you safe passage.”Tim Tingle lives in Canyon Lake...
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