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  • Chauncey Yellow Robe

    A Biography of the American Indian Educator, ca. 1870-1930

    by David W. Messer ...
    In 1883, 12-year old Canowicakte boarded a train on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, beginning a journey his friends said would end at the edge of the world. Raised as a traditional Lakota, he found Carlisle Indian School, with its well-documented horrors, was the end of the world as he knew it.Renamed Chauncey Yellow Robe, he flourished at Carlisle, developed a lifelong friendship with founder ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Henry Roe Cloud

    A Biography

    by David W. Messer ...
    Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale. His education, his religion, his personal life, and his public life were a mosaic made up of traditional Native American beliefs and practices, the white man's educational system, reform theology, progressive education and progressive politics. Cloud was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1913. His widely read ... Read more

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  • Code Talker

    The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

    by Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila ...
    The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination didn’t stop Chester from answering the call to defend his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

    Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

    by Michael F. Steltenkamp ...
    Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Indian Boyhood

    by Charles Eastman, Ohia ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux: Ohiyesa February 19, 1858 - January 8, 1939) was a Native American author, physician and reformer. He was active in politics and helped found the Boy Scouts of America." ... Read more

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  • The Redemption Of Black Elk: An Ancient Path To Inner Strength Following The Footprints Of The Lakota Holy Man

    by Linda L. Stampoulos ...
    As a young child of the Oglala Lakota Sioux, Black Elk had been given a mighty vision which would lead him on a personal journey that lasted his entire life. Although Black Elk's vision was a prophetic message telling the terrible future of his tribe, it also held positive aspects that must be reclaimed. It is through this reclamation that the guiding beacons given to him reveal an ancient pathway ... Read more

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  • Back to the Red Road

    A Story of Survival, Redemption and Love

    by Florence Kaefer, Edward Gamblin ...
    In 1954, when Florence Kaefer was just nineteen, she accepted a job as a teacher at Norway House Indian Residential School of Manitoba. Not fully aware of the difficult conditions the students were enduring, Florence and her fellow teachers nurtured a school full of lonely and homesick young children.Edward was only five when he was brought to the school at Norway House and Florence remembered him ... Read more

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  • American Legends: The Life of Crazy Horse

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes pictures of important people and places in Crazy Horse's life.*Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and several Lakota oral legends, including the origins of Crazy Horse's name. *Includes a Table of Contents"Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • American Legends: The Life of Sitting Bull

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Includes pictures of Sitting Bull and important people and places in his life.Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and several Lakota oral legends.Includes a Table of Contents"When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? Is it wrong for me ... Read more

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  • Sitting Bull

    The Life and Times of an American Patriot

    by Robert M. Utley ...
    "Gripping. . . . transforms Sitting Bull, the abstract, romanticized icon and symbol, into a flesh-and-blood person with a down-to-earth story." — The New York Times Book ReviewWinner, Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction Historical BookA New York Times Notable BookReviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as a great warrior chief, Sitting Bull ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Old Indian Days

    Enriched edition. Tales of Love, Loss, and Resilience: A Cultural Journey through Native American Life

    by Charles A. Eastman, Zachary Henson ...
    In "Old Indian Days," Charles A. Eastman intricately weaves a tapestry of narratives that encapsulate the rich oral traditions, cultural practices, and philosophical thoughts of Native American life as it existed before significant European influence. Written in a lyrical prose style that resonates with empathy and authenticity, Eastman draws upon his own Dakota heritage to portray a series of ... Read more

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  • American Legends: The Life of Geronimo

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Discusses the myths, legends, and controversies surrounding Geronimo's life.*Explains where the name Geronimo originated from.*Analyzes Geronimo's legacy and depictions of him in pop culture.*Includes pictures of Geronimo and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents. "This boys name was Apache. Usen taught him how to prepare herbs for medicine, how to hunt, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD