Native American
18 Featured Titles
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As Long as the Rivers Flow
Written by James Bartleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage Canada
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39875-8 (0-307-39875-7)
From the accomplished memoirist and former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario comes a first novel of incredible heart and spirit for every Canadian.
The novel follows one girl, Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is “stolen” from her family at the age of six and flown far away to... Read more >
Written by James Bartleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage Canada
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39875-8 (0-307-39875-7)
From the accomplished memoirist and former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario comes a first novel of incredible heart and spirit for every Canadian.
The novel follows one girl, Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is “stolen” from her family at the age of six and flown far away to... Read more >
Little Big Man
Written by Thomas Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 1, 1989
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-29829-2 (0-385-29829-3)
Jack Crabb is a 111 year old man. He is also the son of two fathers, one white, the other a Cheyenne Indian chief who gave him the name Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, Crabb feasted on dog, loved four wives, and saw his people butchered by horse-soldiers commanded by... Read more >
Written by Thomas Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 1, 1989
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-29829-2 (0-385-29829-3)
Jack Crabb is a 111 year old man. He is also the son of two fathers, one white, the other a Cheyenne Indian chief who gave him the name Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, Crabb feasted on dog, loved four wives, and saw his people butchered by horse-soldiers commanded by... Read more >
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Written by Margaret Craven
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: January 15, 1980
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-440-34369-1 (0-440-34369-0)
This bestselling classic of Native American literature captures the essence of the modern Native American experience with compassion, poignancy and compelling drama. It tells the story of a new generation of Native Americans in an ancient village in which the old culture of totems and potlatch is rapidly being replaced by... Read more >
Written by Margaret Craven
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: January 15, 1980
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-440-34369-1 (0-440-34369-0)
This bestselling classic of Native American literature captures the essence of the modern Native American experience with compassion, poignancy and compelling drama. It tells the story of a new generation of Native Americans in an ancient village in which the old culture of totems and potlatch is rapidly being replaced by... Read more >
American Indian Myths and Legends
Written by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 12, 1985
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-74018-8 (0-394-74018-1)
This collection gathers one-hundred-sixty tales from eighty tribal groups to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation, love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. Alfonso Ortiz, an eminent anthropologist, and Richard... Read more >
Written by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 12, 1985
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-74018-8 (0-394-74018-1)
This collection gathers one-hundred-sixty tales from eighty tribal groups to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation, love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. Alfonso Ortiz, an eminent anthropologist, and Richard... Read more >
Watershed
Written by Percival Everett
Introduction by Sherman Alexie
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: May 15, 2003
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8361-1 (0-8070-8361-5)
A classic of politics, murder, and espionage.
On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets... Read more >
Written by Percival Everett
Introduction by Sherman Alexie
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: May 15, 2003
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8361-1 (0-8070-8361-5)
A classic of politics, murder, and espionage.
On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets... Read more >
The Storytelling Stone
Traditional Native American Myths and Tales
Written by Susan Feldmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: February 9, 1999
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33402-0 (0-385-33402-8)
An original anthology of Native American myths and tales representative of all major tribes and cultures. Along with a comprehensive bibliography and an introduction by the editor, the 52 tales are organized according to themes such as creation myths, trickster stories, tales of heroes, supernatural journeys and other folk tales. Read more >
Traditional Native American Myths and Tales
Written by Susan Feldmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: February 9, 1999
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33402-0 (0-385-33402-8)
An original anthology of Native American myths and tales representative of all major tribes and cultures. Along with a comprehensive bibliography and an introduction by the editor, the 52 tales are organized according to themes such as creation myths, trickster stories, tales of heroes, supernatural journeys and other folk tales. Read more >
A River Out of Eden
Written by John Hockenberry
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72150-9 (0-385-72150-1)
On a night of torrential rain, a warrior appears near the Colombia River, where the Chinook people thrived before the hydroelectric dams came and changed their entire way of life. He has come to reclaim the river, to return it to its original majesty.
Soon after, government employees are found murdered... Read more >
Written by John Hockenberry
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72150-9 (0-385-72150-1)
On a night of torrential rain, a warrior appears near the Colombia River, where the Chinook people thrived before the hydroelectric dams came and changed their entire way of life. He has come to reclaim the river, to return it to its original majesty.
Soon after, government employees are found murdered... Read more >
Bird of Another Heaven
Written by James D. Houston
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38808-7 (0-307-38808-5)
From the acclaimed author of Snow Mountain Passage comes this richly evocative novel that follows a half-Indian, half-Hawai'ian woman and her complex relationship with the last king of Hawai'i.
When talk show host Sheridan Brody finds the journals of his great grandmother Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), he uncovers a mythic, unknown... Read more >
Written by James D. Houston
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38808-7 (0-307-38808-5)
From the acclaimed author of Snow Mountain Passage comes this richly evocative novel that follows a half-Indian, half-Hawai'ian woman and her complex relationship with the last king of Hawai'i.
When talk show host Sheridan Brody finds the journals of his great grandmother Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), he uncovers a mythic, unknown... Read more >
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Green Grass, Running Water
Written by Thomas King
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: June 1, 1994
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37368-4 (0-553-37368-4)
In this contemporary classic of Native American fiction, King unites two strong, sassy women with three hard-luck, stubborn men in search of the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world. King mixes realism, fantasy, and stories within stories to set up a meeting between five Blackfoot Indians and... Read more >
Written by Thomas King
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: June 1, 1994
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37368-4 (0-553-37368-4)
In this contemporary classic of Native American fiction, King unites two strong, sassy women with three hard-luck, stubborn men in search of the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world. King mixes realism, fantasy, and stories within stories to set up a meeting between five Blackfoot Indians and... Read more >
The White
Written by Deborah Larsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71289-0 (0-375-71289-5)
In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock, Mary—now named... Read more >
Written by Deborah Larsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71289-0 (0-375-71289-5)
In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock, Mary—now named... Read more >
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Bad Medicine
Written by Ron Querry
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: May 4, 1999
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37799-6 (0-553-37799-X)
A novel of modern-day plague and timeless evil in the desolate landscape of the Navajo nation. The silence that surrounds this plague makes it even deadlier. Dr. Push Foster–himself a Native American–is forced to leave the laboratory, cross a cultural divide, and squarely face a dark certainty about “bad medicine” long... Read more >
Written by Ron Querry
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: May 4, 1999
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37799-6 (0-553-37799-X)
A novel of modern-day plague and timeless evil in the desolate landscape of the Navajo nation. The silence that surrounds this plague makes it even deadlier. Dr. Push Foster–himself a Native American–is forced to leave the laboratory, cross a cultural divide, and squarely face a dark certainty about “bad medicine” long... Read more >
The Death of Bernadette Lefthand
Written by Ron Querry
Format: Trade Paperback, 228 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: June 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37536-7 (0-553-37536-9)
The acclaimed, award-winning novel about heritage and family that stunningly portrays the spirit and struggles of contemporary Navajo people. The story revolves around the brutal murder of Bernadette Lefthand, a young woman renowned on the Jicarilla Apache reservation for her beauty and graceful dancing. Read more >
Written by Ron Querry
Format: Trade Paperback, 228 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: June 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37536-7 (0-553-37536-9)
The acclaimed, award-winning novel about heritage and family that stunningly portrays the spirit and struggles of contemporary Navajo people. The story revolves around the brutal murder of Bernadette Lefthand, a young woman renowned on the Jicarilla Apache reservation for her beauty and graceful dancing. Read more >
Trickster
AMERICAN INDIAN MYTH
Written by Paul Radin
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 13, 1987
Price: $11.96
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0351-6 (0-8052-0351-6)
Introduction by Stanley Diamond, Commentaries by Karl Kernyi and C.G. Jung. The Myth of the Trickster is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind; nowhere does it survive in more starkly archaic form that in the uninhibited episodes of the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, recorded here in full. Radin... Read more >
AMERICAN INDIAN MYTH
Written by Paul Radin
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 13, 1987
Price: $11.96
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0351-6 (0-8052-0351-6)
Introduction by Stanley Diamond, Commentaries by Karl Kernyi and C.G. Jung. The Myth of the Trickster is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind; nowhere does it survive in more starkly archaic form that in the uninhibited episodes of the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, recorded here in full. Radin... Read more >
Coming To Light
Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America
Written by Brian Swann
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 1996
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74358-3 (0-679-74358-8)
From Inuit and Aleut to Iroquois, Lakota, and Navajo, this magnificent anthology acquaints readers with the untrammeled breadth and power of the spoken literatures of North America's native peoples. It is the first collection to present its selections in their full cultural context, for each of its stories, songs, prayers, and... Read more >
Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America
Written by Brian Swann
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 1996
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74358-3 (0-679-74358-8)
From Inuit and Aleut to Iroquois, Lakota, and Navajo, this magnificent anthology acquaints readers with the untrammeled breadth and power of the spoken literatures of North America's native peoples. It is the first collection to present its selections in their full cultural context, for each of its stories, songs, prayers, and... Read more >
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Blue Dawn, Red Earth
New Native American Storytellers
Written by Clifford E. Trafzer
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-47952-3 (0-385-47952-2)
These 30 varied and powerful short stories by Native American storytellers incorporate traditional oral tales into modern narratives. The writers, most of whom are new, featured in this collection represent a wide range of tribes and cultural backgrounds, and demonstrate the vibrancy and diversity of Native American writing. The characters in... Read more >
New Native American Storytellers
Written by Clifford E. Trafzer
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-47952-3 (0-385-47952-2)
These 30 varied and powerful short stories by Native American storytellers incorporate traditional oral tales into modern narratives. The writers, most of whom are new, featured in this collection represent a wide range of tribes and cultural backgrounds, and demonstrate the vibrancy and diversity of Native American writing. The characters in... Read more >
Earth Song, Sky Spirit
Written by Clifford E. Trafzer
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $15.96
ISBN: 978-0-385-46960-9 (0-385-46960-8)
In this collection of thirty varied and powerful short stories, most written especially for this volume, established and emerging talents in Native American writing present and explore the plight, the pride, and the uneasy presence of Indians in this country today. Editor Clifford Trafzer presents a mix of beloved and rarely... Read more >
Written by Clifford E. Trafzer
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $15.96
ISBN: 978-0-385-46960-9 (0-385-46960-8)
In this collection of thirty varied and powerful short stories, most written especially for this volume, established and emerging talents in Native American writing present and explore the plight, the pride, and the uneasy presence of Indians in this country today. Editor Clifford Trafzer presents a mix of beloved and rarely... Read more >
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 >
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 >
The Heartsong of Charging Elk
A Novel
Written by James Welch
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49675-9 (0-385-49675-3)
Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the show travels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in... Read more >
A Novel
Written by James Welch
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49675-9 (0-385-49675-3)
Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the show travels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in... Read more >
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