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  Plenty-Coups: Chief of the Crows (Bison Book)

  by Plenty Coups

  In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848–1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B. Linderman, the well-known western writer who had befriended him. Plenty-coups is a classic account of the nomadic, spiritual, and warring life of Plains Indians before they were forced onto reservations. Plenty-coups tells of the great triumphs and struggles of his own life: his... (more)
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  Pretty-shield

  Medicine Woman of the Crows

  by Frank Bird Linderman

  Pretty-shield, the legendary medicine woman of the Crows, remembered what life was like on the Plains when the buffalo were still plentiful. A powerful healer who was forceful, astute, and compassionate, Pretty-shield experienced many changes as her formerly mobile people were forced to come to terms with reservation life in the late nineteenth century. Pretty-shield told her story to Frank Linderman through an... (more)
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  Native American Storytelling: A Reader of Myths and Legends

  The myths and legends in this collection have been selected both for their excellence as stories and because they illustrate the distinctive nature of Native American storytelling. They are drawn from oral traditions of the major culture areas of aboriginal North America, and include trickster tales, origin myths and stories of domestic sexual conflict. In a substantial introduction and headnotes to each... (more)
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  Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America

  by Franz Boas

  A Translation of Franz Boas' 1895 Edition of Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste-Amerikas
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  Native Healing: Four Sacred Paths to Health

  by Wayne F. Peate

  Alternative medicine, holistic health, and spiritual healing are promoted as recent innovations in modern medicine, yet all have been practiced by native peoples for thousands of years. Native Healing: Four Sacred Paths to Health is unique among health-related books. Native healers explore and promote the powerful effects of family and community, as well as spiritual and traditional treatments, on personal... (more)
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  Shadow of an Indian Star

  by Bill Paul

  The Pauls have woven family legends with facts from 19th century newspaper articles, court documents and Chickasaw records into this epic novel which chronicles three generations of a brawling pioneer family, their friends and enemies, and the women who helped battle tragedy, corruption and their own inner demons to save themselves and the Chickasaw Nation from annihilation.
• Ella Deloria's the Buffalo PeopleElla Cara Deloria, Julian Rice

  

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  Ella Deloria's the Buffalo People

  by Ella Cara Deloria

  The five narratives in this book, the third volume in Julian Rice's ongoing examination of the work of Ella Deloria, demonstrate Deloria's artistry in portraying the central values of Lakota (Sioux) culture. The introductory stories illustrate courage in three extraordinary women and Deloria's ability to subordinate her voice to that of different narrators. Another tale, "The Prairie Dogs," explains how the... (more)
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  The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe

  by Helge Ingstad

  Available in English for the first time, The Apache Indians tells the story of the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad’s sojourn among the Apaches near the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona and his epic journey to locate the “lost” group of their brethren in the Sierra Madres in the 1930s. Ingstad traveled to Canada, where he lived as a trapper for four years with the Chipewyan Indians. The Chipewyans told him... (more)
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  Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers

  by Kent G. Lightfoot

  California's earliest European colonists-Russian merchants and Franciscan missionaries-both depended heavily on Native American labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of history-including little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and archaeological excavations-to present a vivid new look at how... (more)