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River of Sorrows: Life History of the Maidu-Nisenan Indians
Richard Burrill
Format: Hardcover
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This historical fiction on the Maidu-Nisenan people, who lived along the American River, reveals their lifeways before and after the forces of western civilization swept across their land destroying and forever changing their lives. |
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The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey of Healing With Native Americans
Carl A Hammerschlag
Format: Book
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This fascinating account of a Yale-trained psychiatrist's twenty-year experience with Native American healing interweaves autobiography with stories of the Native Americans who challenged his medical school assumptions about their methods.While working as a family physic |
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Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing
Ken Cohen
Format: Print book
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For thousands of years, Native medicine was the only medicine on the North American continent. It is America's original holistic medicine, a powerful means of healing the body, balancing the emotions, and renewing the spirit. Medicine men and women prescribe prayers, dances |
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Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems
Brian Swann
Format: Book
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Here is a luminous collection of Native American songs and verse selected and updated by the editor of Coming to Light, the highly praised anthology of Native American literature. These are stories of the earth and the sky, of mourning and of love, of ceremonies and rites and ritu |
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Spirit Faces: Contemporary Native American Masks from the Northwest
Gary Wyatt
Format: Book
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Spirit Faces collects 75 masks by 23 of the best living Native American artists in the Northwest. These beautiful and powerful masks draw on the natural and supernatural worlds to depict such archetypal characters as Eagle, Moon, and Thunderbird.The mask is an important part of ceremonial... |
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Native American Architecture
Peter Nabokov
Format: Book
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For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, loung |
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Navajo Jewelry
Lois Essary Jacka
Format: Paperback
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Reference of Navajo jewelry |
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Art of the Totem: Totem Poles of the Northwest Coastal Indians
Marius Barbeau
Format: Paperback
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Majestic spires, reminders of ages past, pierce the Northwest Coast forest. These totem poles, as well as ones now in parks and museums, are a medium through which modern day anthropologists can learn much about the past cultures of the great Northwest Coast Indian tribes. The car |
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Talking With the Clay: The Art of Pueblo Pottery
Stephen Trimble
Format: Paperback
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Stephen Trimble conveys the beauty and fine craftsmanship of Pueblo Indian pottery and shows how pottery making is closely connected to the Pueblos' beliefs, their ties to the land, their role in the modern economic world, and their feelings of identity. With over 75 photographs, |
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Native American Dance: Ceremonies and Social Traditions
Charlotte Heth
Format: Paperback
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This premier publication of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian documents Native American dance with stunning photographs and essays by noted contributors. |
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Foods of the Americas: Native Recipes and Traditions
Fernando Divina
Format: Book
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The culinary traditions of the native peoples of the Americas are celebrated in this lavish book produced in association with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Written by chef Fernando Divina and Marlene Divina, who is of Chippewa heritage, FOODS OF THE AMERI |
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Enduring Harvests
E Barrie Kavasch
Format: Book
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More than 150 tempting Native American recipes here have been adapted for the modern kitchen, making use of vegetables, fruits, fish, and game indigenous to the Americas. Delve into the delicious worlds of American Indian cookery and glimpse the cultures who made food preparation |
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The Mythology of Native North America
Jake Page - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Hardcover
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Most North Americans experience mythology by way of translations of classical texts, and surprisingly few of us are familiar with Coyote, Spider Woman, Water Jar boy, Falling Sky Woman, or the epic of the Blessingway - to name just a few of the stories retold in this collection of significant... |
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Wisdom of the Elders
Peter Knudtson
Format: Book
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An exploration of the shared beliefs about the relationship between humans and the environment presents native Americans' ecological wisdom in sacred stories and traditions, juxtaposing them with the ideas of Einstein, Guth, Eiseley, and other thinkers. |
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus landing had crossed the Bering... |
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Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land
Mark Warhus
Format: Book
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Opening a window for modern readers to see how the original inhabitants viewed the American continent more than three hundred years ago, this unique and valuable reference combines rare maps made by Native Americans with essays on their historical and cultural context. |
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With my own eyes : a Lakota woman tells her people's history
Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun
Format: Book
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"With My Own Eyes tells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857-1945) , the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brule Lakota woman, was raised near Fort Laramie and experienced firsthand the often devastating changes forced |
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Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers
Sally McClain
Format: Book
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Read the True Story that inspired Windtalkers, a major summer 2002 release that honors the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, directed by John Woo (Mission Impossible II) and starring Nicholas Cage and Adam Beach. Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, th |
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Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
Paul Chaat Smith - New Press, The
Format: Hardcover
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For a brief but brilliant season beginning in the late 1960s, American Indians seized national attention in a series of radical acts of resistance. Like a Hurricane is a gripping account of the dramatic, breathtaking events of this tumultuous period. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials,... |
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Browns eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost... |
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Voices from the Trail of Tears (Real Voices, Real History Series)
Vicki Rozema - John F. Blair Publisher; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Although British and American governmental policy had been pushing Native Americans westward for much of the 18th and early 19th centuries, passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 brought this policy to a head. This act, which provided for the exchange of American Indian lands in the East... |
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