Trade Books for Courses :: Trade Books For Courses: Native American Studies Native American Studies Books

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	The Other Side of Eden Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World Hugh Brody North Point Press "An informed, passionate and enlightening volume, one that draws on an exceedingly rich experience and adds new dimensions to our understanding of the diversity of human life."—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times

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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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Prison Writings

My Life Is My Sun Dance

Leonard Peltier; Edited by Harvey Arden St. Martin's Griffin

"It would be inadequate to describe Leonard Peltier's Prison Writings as a classic of prison literature, although it is that. It is also a cry for help, an accusation against monstrous injustice, a beautiful expression of a man's soul, demanding release."—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

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*

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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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The Sky Fisherman

A Novel

Craig Lesley Picador

The lives of young Culver, his twice-married mother, and his charismatic uncle Jake have been always overshadowed by the death of Culver's father in a fishing...

Oregon Book Award - Nominee - Fiction
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award - Regional Book

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Storm Riders

A Novel

Craig Lesley Picador

Winner of the Oregon Book Awards H.L. Davis Prize for Fiction Storm Riders examines the conflicted love of a single father struggling to raise his adopted...

Oregon Book Award - Nominee - Fiction

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The Survival of the Bark Canoe

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same...

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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...

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...

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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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Hardcover : $29.99 Buy	Warriors of the World: The Native American Warrior 1500 CE - 1890 CE Chris McNab Thomas Dunne Books A new, lavishly illustrated book on the weapons, uniforms, and other key details that defined the world’s most legendary warriors This illustrated book...

Trade Paperback : $22.99 Buy	Where White Men Fear to Tread The Autobiography of Russell Means Russell Means with Marvin J. Wolf St. Martin's Griffin Means is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. This is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life so far, in which he has done everything...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Winterkill A Novel Craig Lesley Picador Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award From the two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award: a...