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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	The Shaman's Coat A Native History of Siberia Anna Reid Walker & Company "[Reid] sets out on her travels determined to bring the land of her reckoning alive. In this she is aided by her acute curiosity, fine descriptive gifts and delight in detail. The result is almost always to give us, in her own wry, an indelible sense of place."—Benson Bobrick, *The New York Times Book Review*

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	Tecumseh A Life John Sugden A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. He does not stand for one tribe or nation, but for all Native Americans. He remains...

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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

The American Portraits Series

Camilla Townsend Hill and Wang

"Townsend provides students with a model for how to tease meaning out of a fragmentary and intensely biased historical record. I look forward to having an opportunity to assign her book to my students and anticipate that it will work both in the American history survey course and in upper-division courses in early America."—Michael Leroy Oberg, The Journal of American History

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Black Hawk

The Battle for the Heart of America

Kerry A. Trask A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

“Blending history with ethnography and a bit of sociology, Trask’s volume explains the war and its lingering impact extremely well . . ....

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Hiawatha A Novel David Treuer Picador Recently widowed, and encouraged by government relocation schemes to move Native Americans off their reservations, Betty takes her four young children from...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Little A Novel David Treuer Picador Mining the layers of family secrets that have built up over three generations on a reservation town called Poverty, members of the tiny community tell their...

Hardcover : $23.00 Buy	The Translation of Dr Apelles A Love Story David Treuer Graywolf Press Hardcover A daring new novel that "may be David Treuer's best book" (Charles Baxter) He realizes he has discovered a document that could change his life...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Native American Fiction A User's Manual David Treuer Graywolf Press Paper "In these crisp, sharp-edged essays David Treuer dares to question the usefulness, let alone the validity, of the term, 'Native American Fiction.'"—Alan Trachtenberg, author of the Francis Parkman Prize-winning Shades of Hiawatha

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Sitting Bull

The Life and Times of an American Patriot

Robert M. Utley A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

“His narrative is gripping . . . Utley transforms Sitting Bull, the abstract, romanticized icon and symbol, into a flesh-and-blood person with a down-to-earth story . . . [This book] clears the screen of the exaggerations and fantasies long directed at the name of Sitting Bull.”—The New York Times Book Review

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Walker and The Ghost Dance

Plays

Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"These two verse dramas show 1992 Nobel Prize winner Walcott at the top of his form. They are lean, focused, and powerful . . . These are history plays at their most energetic. Highly recommended."—Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts, Library Journal (starred review)

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Long, Bitter Trail Andrew Jackson and the Indians Anthony F.C. Wallace Hill and Wang "This informative, insightful, and sobering study deserves the attention of all who would understand American Indian policy, not just in Jackson's period but in our own."—Howard Lamar, Yale University

Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	North American Indian Arts A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Andrew Hunter Whiteford, under the editorship of Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D., Sc.D.; Illustrated by Owen Vernon Shaffer Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	The Captured A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier Scott Zesch St. Martin's Griffin Winner of the TCU-Texas Book Award "A fascinating reassessment of the not-uncommon phenomenon of white Indians in nineteenth-century Texas."—Mike Shea, Texas Monthly