Native American Studies
17 Featured Titles
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The First Americans
In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
Written by James Adovasio and Jake Page
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75704-4 (0-375-75704-X)
Archaeologist J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
H. L. Mencken said that “for every complex problem, there is a solution that is... Read more >
In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
Written by James Adovasio and Jake Page
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75704-4 (0-375-75704-X)
Archaeologist J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
H. L. Mencken said that “for every complex problem, there is a solution that is... Read more >
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Written by Lori Alvord and Elizbeth Cohen Van Pelt
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37800-9 (0-553-37800-7)
The first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing.
A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico--and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger... Read more >
The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Written by Lori Alvord and Elizbeth Cohen Van Pelt
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37800-9 (0-553-37800-7)
The first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing.
A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico--and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger... Read more >
Killing the White Man's Indian
Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century
Written by Fergus M. Bordewich
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 14, 1997
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-42036-5 (0-385-42036-6)
Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of Native American tribal life today. Based on three years of research, and written with neither a conservative nor a politically correct bias, the book reveals Native American politics and policies today in all their contradictory-and controversial-guises... Read more >
Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century
Written by Fergus M. Bordewich
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 14, 1997
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-42036-5 (0-385-42036-6)
Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of Native American tribal life today. Based on three years of research, and written with neither a conservative nor a politically correct bias, the book reveals Native American politics and policies today in all their contradictory-and controversial-guises... Read more >
A Sorrow in Our Hearts
Written by Allan Eckert
Format: Paperback, 1088 pages
Publisher: Domain
On Sale: February 1, 1993
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-56174-6 (0-553-56174-X)
With the meticulous accuracy of a scholar and the dramatic flair of a novelist, Eckert's biography details Tecumseh's life, from his birth in 1768 under the augury of a shooting star, through his formation of an unprecedented alliance of Native American tribes during one of the most crucial periods in Native... Read more >
Written by Allan Eckert
Format: Paperback, 1088 pages
Publisher: Domain
On Sale: February 1, 1993
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-56174-6 (0-553-56174-X)
With the meticulous accuracy of a scholar and the dramatic flair of a novelist, Eckert's biography details Tecumseh's life, from his birth in 1768 under the augury of a shooting star, through his formation of an unprecedented alliance of Native American tribes during one of the most crucial periods in Native... 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: $18.95
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: $18.95
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 >
Legends and Tales of the American West
Written by Richard Erdoes
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70266-2 (0-375-70266-0)
From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero and a fascinating folk mythology.
In... Read more >
Written by Richard Erdoes
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70266-2 (0-375-70266-0)
From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero and a fascinating folk mythology.
In... Read more >
Comanches
The History of a People
Written by T.R. Fehrenbach
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3049-1 (1-4000-3049-8)
Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.
Master horseback... Read more >
The History of a People
Written by T.R. Fehrenbach
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3049-1 (1-4000-3049-8)
Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.
Master horseback... Read more >
America in 1492
The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus
Written by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 2, 1993
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74337-8 (0-679-74337-5)
Developed at the D Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and edited by award-winning author Alvin Josephy, Jr., America in 1492 is an invaluable collection of essays by fifteen prominent historians, anthropologists, and scholars of art, religion, and folklore. With the dozens of illustrations, drawn largely from the... Read more >
The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus
Written by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 2, 1993
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74337-8 (0-679-74337-5)
Developed at the D Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and edited by award-winning author Alvin Josephy, Jr., America in 1492 is an invaluable collection of essays by fifteen prominent historians, anthropologists, and scholars of art, religion, and folklore. With the dozens of illustrations, drawn largely from the... Read more >
Here First
Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
Edited by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75138-7 (0-375-75138-6)
Here First is an important new collection of essays by Native American writers compiled by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann, the editors of I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers. In Here First, authors such as Sherman Alexie, Greg Sarris, and Elizabeth Woody tell the stories of their... Read more >
Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
Edited by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75138-7 (0-375-75138-6)
Here First is an important new collection of essays by Native American writers compiled by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann, the editors of I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers. In Here First, authors such as Sherman Alexie, Greg Sarris, and Elizabeth Woody tell the stories of their... Read more >
Arctic Dreams
Written by Barry Lopez
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72748-1 (0-375-72748-5)
Barry Lopez’s National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.
Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world–its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history... Read more >
Written by Barry Lopez
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72748-1 (0-375-72748-5)
Barry Lopez’s National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.
Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world–its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history... Read more >
1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3205-1 (1-4000-3205-9)
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
In the last twenty years, archeologists and anthropologists equipped with a battery of new scientific techniques have made far-reaching discoveries that have completely changed their understanding... Read more >
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3205-1 (1-4000-3205-9)
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
In the last twenty years, archeologists and anthropologists equipped with a battery of new scientific techniques have made far-reaching discoveries that have completely changed their understanding... Read more >
From The Heart
Voices of the American Indian
Written by Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 428 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 9, 1996
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76891-3 (0-679-76891-2)
Lee Miller retrieves the voices of Indian people over five centuries and weaves them into an alternate history of the continent, while introducing us to the grandeur and diversity of the 500 nations who held this land before the first European set foot on it. Here, collected in one volume, is... Read more >
Voices of the American Indian
Written by Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 428 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 9, 1996
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76891-3 (0-679-76891-2)
Lee Miller retrieves the voices of Indian people over five centuries and weaves them into an alternate history of the continent, while introducing us to the grandeur and diversity of the 500 nations who held this land before the first European set foot on it. Here, collected in one volume, is... 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 >
The Divided Ground
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Written by Alan Taylor
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-45471-7 (0-679-45471-3)
Taylor tells story of the decade-long "Cold War" that persisted, despite the official end of the War in 1783, along the tenuous new border between the U.S. and the British Empire in Canada and the wave of settlement that followed. Key players in that pull and tug were the Iroquois, attempting... Read more >
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Written by Alan Taylor
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-45471-7 (0-679-45471-3)
Taylor tells story of the decade-long "Cold War" that persisted, despite the official end of the War in 1783, along the tenuous new border between the U.S. and the British Empire in Canada and the wave of settlement that followed. Key players in that pull and tug were the Iroquois, attempting... Read more >
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Death and Rebirth of Seneca
Written by Anthony Wallace
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 1972
Price: $10.36
ISBN: 978-0-394-71699-2 (0-394-71699-X)
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-fiction
This is a cultural study of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the... Read more >
Written by Anthony Wallace
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 1972
Price: $10.36
ISBN: 978-0-394-71699-2 (0-394-71699-X)
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-fiction
This is a cultural study of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the... Read more >
Savages and Civilization
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 7, 1995
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-90957-7 (0-449-90957-3)
In Indian Givers and Native Roots Weatherford wrote of the clash between Native American and European cultures; in Savages and Civilization he widens his scope to illuminate the global scale of ethnic strife as the indigenous peoples that are facing the loss of their cultural identities demonstrate a growing resistance to... Read more >
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 7, 1995
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-90957-7 (0-449-90957-3)
In Indian Givers and Native Roots Weatherford wrote of the clash between Native American and European cultures; in Savages and Civilization he widens his scope to illuminate the global scale of ethnic strife as the indigenous peoples that are facing the loss of their cultural identities demonstrate a growing resistance to... Read more >
Voices of Ancestors
Written by Dhyani Ywahoo
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: November 12, 1987
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-87773-410-9 (0-87773-410-0)
Ywahoo, a member of the traditional Etowach Band of the Eastern Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation, shares the oral teachings of her people. Read more >
Written by Dhyani Ywahoo
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: November 12, 1987
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-87773-410-9 (0-87773-410-0)
Ywahoo, a member of the traditional Etowach Band of the Eastern Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation, shares the oral teachings of her people. Read more >
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