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  Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux

  by John Gneisenau Neihardt, Black Elk

  Black Elk Speaks is the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this... (more)
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  Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men

  by Richard Erdoes, Leonard Crow Dog

  From the co-author of Lakota Woman , which has sold more than 150,000 paperback copies, comes a compelling account detailing the unique experiences and spiritual knowledge accumulated by four generations of powerful medicine men.
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  Dear America

  My Heart Is on the Ground

  The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880

  by Ann Rinaldi

  Acclaimed historical novelist Ann Rinaldi makes her "Dear America" debut with the diary of a Sioux girl who is sent to a government-run boarding school to learn the white man's customs and language.
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  Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota

  by Wallace H. BlackElk, Wallace Black Elk

  "Black Elk opens the Lakota sacred hoop to a comic humanism for everyone. His book will stretch the common definition of shamanism and lift the Buckskin Curtain to the characters behind the great visions."--Kenneth Lincoln (author of Native American Renaissance) in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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  The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux : Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala

  by Joseph Epes Brown

  During the winter of 1947, Black Elk, the Oglala Sioux holy man, related to Joseph Brown seven of the sacred Oglala traditions, including such revered rites as "The Keeping of the Soul," "The Rite of Purification," and "Preparing for Womanhood." The San Francisco Chronicle calls The Sacred Pipe "a valuable contribution to American Indian literature."
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  Stories of the Sioux

  by Luther Standing Bear

  Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. Haunting in mood and imagery, they celebrate the old nomadic life of the Sioux when buffalo were plentiful and all nature fed the spirit. The twenty stories honor not only the buffalo but also the dog, horse, eagle, and wolf as workaday helpers and agents of divine... (more)
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  Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertrude Käsebier

  by Michelle Anne Delaney

  A visual pleasure and a unique insight into American history For the first time ever, here is renowned photographer Gertrude Käsebier's haunting collection of photographs of Native American performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at the turn of the century. One hundred years later, Käsebier's portraits remain significant visual records into the lives of these Sioux performers and their nation. Her... (more)
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  The Silent Spirit (A Wind River Reservation Myste)

  by Margaret Coel

  Margaret Coel returns to Wind River with a brand new mystery featuring Vicky Holden and Father John OÂ’Malley. In 1923, Arapahos from the Wind River Reservation were recruited to appear as extras in the silent film The Covered Wagon . But Charlie Wallowingbull never returned home, leaving people to believe he abandoned his wife and unborn son. Kiki Wallowingbull, CharlieÂ’s great-grandson, went to Hollywood... (more)
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  Lakota Sioux Legends and Myths: Native American Oral Traditions Recorded by Marie L. Mclaughlin and Zitkala-Sa

  by Marie L McLaughlin, Zitkala-Sa

  Oral traditions and myths have long been an integral part of Native American cosmology. Not only have they been - and continue to be - an essential part of handing down Native American customs, norms, beliefs, and cultural histories, but they also form a communal mythic discourse. This discourse is not a "fixed text," but rather a dynamic process of interactive relations that are developed over generations of... (more)
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  Black Elk Speaks

  by John G. Neihardt

  Black Elk Speaks. The Legendary Book Of Visions Of An American Indian
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  Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

  by John G. Neihardt

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  Crazy Horse

  by Larry McMurtry

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  The Sioux; life and customs of a warrior society

  by Royal B. Hassrick

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  Crazy Horse: The Strange Man Of The Oglalas

  by Mari Sandoz

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  Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

  by Stephen Ambrose

  A dual portrait of the leader of the Oglala Sioux and the general of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry in 1876 cites the battle of June 25 and chronicles the sometimes striking similarities in the lives of both men. Reprint. LJ.
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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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  Assiniboin Girl

  by Kathleen Wallace