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Saga of the Sioux

The great chiefs and warriors speak for themselves about what happened to the Sioux Nation from 1860 to the Massacre of Wounded Knee in 1890. Includes time line and glossary.

Native American Myths and Beliefs

An overview of Native American beliefs; contains a glossary, further reading list, and index.

You Are Now on Indian Land

In 1969, a group of Native American activists landed on the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay and claimed it for American Indians to call attention to Indian repression in the United States. This book gives the historical background to centuries of oppression, war, and suppression of Indian rights, all of which led to the occupation. The book shows how this act spurred other Indian activists to protest U. S. government policies, such as the American Indian Movement (AIM) stand-off in 1973 at Wounded Knee in the Pine Ridge reservation of South Dakota and the Longest Walk from Sacramento, CA, to Washington in 1978.

Reinventing the Enemy's Language

This long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect poetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir from Native American women. Over eighty writers are represented from nearly fifty nations, including such nationally known writers as Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lee Maracle, Janet Campbell Hale, and Luci Tapahonso; others — Wilma Mankiller, Winona LaDuke, and Bea Medicine — who are known primarily for their contributions to tribal communities; and some who are published here for the first time in this landmark volume.

Before Columbus

This compelling and convincing study of Native American Societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling "1491." Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.

American Indian Voices

This book has prayers, legends, biographical sketches, stories, and poetry of Native Americans.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Traces the white man's conquest of the Indians of the American West, emphasizing major Indian Wars.

Jim Thorpe, Original All-American

Shadow Catcher: how Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Looks Like Daylight

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People

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