Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: June 27, 2006 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-43513-2 (0-345-43513-3)
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, songs, herbal mixtures, counseling, and many other remedies that...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: June 12, 2007 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7749-6 (1-4000-7749-4)
At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own unique answers; from Pulitzer prize-winner N. Scott...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: National Geographic On Sale: October 21, 2008 Price: $22.00 ISBN: 978-1-4262-0335-0 (1-4262-0335-7)
This gorgeous volume draws from the vast archives of the National Museum of the American Indian and the voices of some of the most prominent Native American scholars, writers, activists and tribal leaders. More than 300 full-color illustrations depict the artistry and culture of our hemisphere’s diverse indigenous peoples. With its...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 9, 2007 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7707-6 (1-4000-7707-9)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman, whose relationship helped redefine North...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 12, 2008 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-38662-5 (0-307-38662-7)
Dr. Apelles, a translator of ancient texts, has made an unsettling discovery: a manuscript that has languished for years, written in a language that only he speaks. Moving back and forth between the scholar and his text, from a lone man in a labyrinthine archive to a pair of beautiful young...
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Format: Hardcover, 216 pages Publisher: National Geographic On Sale: November 18, 2008 Price: $30.00 ISBN: 978-1-4262-0361-9 (1-4262-0361-6)
Native Americans have willingly served in the U.S. military during each of this country’s wars, and their current numbers in the armed forces exceed the percentage of any other ethnic group. Their stories encompass heroism and tragedy, humor and stoicism, loyalty and conflict—all part of the riveting experience of Warriors in...Read more >