 | 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. ...
 |  | 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celebrates theexperience of Native American women and is atonce an important contribution to our literature and an historical document.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...
|  | Warrior Woman: The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief
Release Date: November 23, 2004A bestselling master of historical fiction, James Alexander Thom has brought unforgettable Native American figures to life for millions of readers, powerfully dramatizing their fortitude, fearsomeness, and profound fates. Now he and his wife, Dark Rain, have created a magnificent portrait of an astonishing woman–one who led her people in war when she could not persuade them to make peace.Her name was Nonhelema. Literate, lovely, imposing at over six feet tall, she was the Women’s Peace Chief of the Shawnee Nation–and already a legend when the ...
|  | The Book of the Navajo
Release Date: March 1, 2002Paperback deals with Navajo history and a description of Navajo life. 496 pages. ...
|  | 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.) ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | American Indian Trickster Tales (Myths and Legends)
Release Date: March 1, 1999| Series: Myths and Legends The authors of the magnificent American Indian Myths and Legends have once again combined their talents as eminent anthropologist and master storyteller/artist to produce a rich and ribald sequel featuring the myriad tricksters of Southwestern and other Native American oral traditions.From the rascally and irascible Coyote, master thief and insatiable lover of the Southwest, to Iktomi, the shapeshifting Lakota spiderman; from Veeho, the Cheyenne daredevil, to Glooscap of the Passamaquoddy; here in one volume are over one hundred tales fr...
|  | Waterlily
Publication Date: August 1, 1990This novel of the Dakota Sioux written by Sioux ethnologist Deloria takes protagonist Waterlily through the everyday and the extraordinary events of a Sioux woman's life. ...
|  | Smoke Signals
Release Date: July 1, 1998FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. --This text refers to the School & Library Binding edition....
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