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Messengers of the Wind

Written by Jane Katz

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2009
Price: $19.00

"Messengers of the Wind goes beyond the autobiographies of everyday women. These are women who have long been an invisible part of American culture. Their stories are haunting, frightening, encouraging, and courageous. . . . Katz is a faithful guide."
--The Minnesota Daily
In Messengers of the Wind, Native American women, old and... Read more >

The Long Exile
A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic
Written by Melanie McGrath

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.95

In 1952, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty, the unrecognized, half-Inuit son of filmmaker Robert Flaherty, director of Nanook of... Read more >

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

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $22.00

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 >

The Long Exile
A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic
Written by Melanie McGrath

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $13.95

In 1952, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty, the unrecognized, half-Inuit son of filmmaker Robert Flaherty, director of Nanook of... Read more >

Rollercoaster
My Hectic Years as Jean Chretien's Diplomatic Advisor, 1994-1998
Written by James K. Bartleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 376 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $17.95

For four years, James Bartleman mixed with all the biggest names – Clinton, Blair, Yeltsin, Mitterrand, Castro, Kohl, Chirac, and on and on, as Chrétien’s Henry Kissinger figure.

He was involved in deadly serious crisis management, accompanying Chrétien to all the world’s hot spots – dodging bullets in Sarajevo, and trying to... Read more >

Books & Islands In Ojibwe Country
Traveling Through the Land of my Ancestors
Written by Louise Erdrich

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $8.95

For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply poetic novels which have won her a place among today's finest writers. Her nonfiction is equally eloquent, and this lovely memoir offers a vivid glimpse of the landscape, the people, and the long tradition of storytelling... Read more >

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

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $16.95

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 >

Mother Rising

Written by Yana Cortlund, Barb Lucke and Donna Miller Watelet

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2006
Price: $16.95

Different from a baby shower, where gifts are lavished upon the soon-to-be-born child, a blessingway ceremony honors the mother-to-be and creates a circle of support that will cradle her as she prepares to give birth. Surrounded by the most important women in her life, she can explore the challenges and joys... Read more >

Listening to Our Ancestors
The Art of Native Life Along the Pacific Northwest Coast
Written by Smithsonian American Indian
Edited by Peter Macnair, Jay Stewart, Robert Joseph and Mary Jane Lenz

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $24.00

Illustrated with never-before-published artifacts from the unique treasures in the museum's Northwest Coast collections, Listening to Our Ancestors profiles native communities of the Pacific Northwest and showcases the region's rich cultural history and artwork.

Sophisticated in conception and execution and rich with symbolism, the totem poles, painted housefronts, masks, dance regalia, feast... Read more >

On Six Continents
A Life In Canada's Foreign Service, 1966-2002
Written by James K. Bartleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $17.95

Muskoka, the University of Western Ontario, Ottawa, New York, Colombia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Peru, Cuba, Israel, Belgium, South Africa, Australia –the place-names tell the story of an amazing career. Then there are the people involved –Trudeau, Clark, and Chrétien, Kissinger, Castro, Rabin, Walesa, Havel, Mandela and dozens of others. Not to mention... Read more >

Spirit of a Native Place

Edited by Duane Blue Spruce

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2005
Price: $24.00

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Rollercoaster
My Hectic Years as Jean Chretien's Diplomatic Advisor, 1994-1998
Written by James K. Bartleman

Format: Hardcover, 376 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $26.95

For four years, James Bartleman mixed with all the biggest names – Clinton, Blair, Yeltsin, Mitterrand, Castro, Kohl, Chirac, and on and on, as Chrétien’s Henry Kissinger figure.

He was involved in deadly serious crisis management, accompanying Chrétien to all the world’s hot spots – dodging bullets in Sarajevo, and trying to... Read more >

Native Universe
Voices of Indian America
Written by Clifford E. Trafzer
Edited by Gerald Mcmaster
Introduction by Richard West

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2004
Price: $40.00

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Lethal Legacy
Current Native Controversies in Canada
Written by J.R. Miller

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2004
Price: $18.95

Canadians greeted the disruptions in Native-newcomer relations that occasionally erupted during the 1990s with incomprehension. Politicians, journalists, and ordinary citizens understood neither how nor why the crisis of the moment had arisen, much less how its deep historical roots made it resistant to solutions. J.R. Miller believes that it takes a... Read more >

On Six Continents
Life in Canada's Foreign Service 1966-2002
Written by James K. Bartleman

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2004
Price: $25.95

Muskoka, the University of Western Ontario, Ottawa, New York, Colombia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Peru, Cuba, Israel, Belgium, South Africa, Australia –the place-names tell the story of an amazing career. Then there are the people involved –Trudeau, Clark, and Chrétien, Kissinger, Castro, Rabin, Walesa, Havel, Mandela and dozens of others. Not to mention... Read more >

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

Written by Louise Erdrich

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2003
Price: $20.00

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Here First
Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
Edited by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $23.00

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 >