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Honoring the Medicine
The Essential Guide to Native American Healing
Written by Ken Cohen


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... Read more >

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Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes
Nine Indian Writers on the Legacy of the Expedition
Written by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.


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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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Native Universe
Voices of Indian America
Edited by Gerald Mcmaster and Clifford E. Trafzer
Foreword by Kevin Gover


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... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.

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The Divided Ground
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Written by Alan Taylor


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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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The Translation of Dr. Apelles

Written by David Treuer


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... Read more >

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Warriors in Uniform
The Legacy of American Indian Heroism
Written by Herman J. Viola
Introduction by Ben Nighthorse Campbell


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 >
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