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Grandmother's Grandchild
My Crow Indian Life
Av Alma Hogan Snell, Becky Matthews
Häftad, 2001
203 kr
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"I became what the Crows call káalisbaapite—a 'grandmother's grandchild.' That means that I was always with my Grandma, and I learned from her. I learned how to do things in the old ways."—Alma Hogan Snell Grandmother's Grandchild is the remarkable story of Alma Hogan Snell (1923–2008), a Crow …
Dreaming the Dawn
Conversations with Native Artists and Activists
Inbunden, 1999
347 kr
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Fresh, informative, and provocative, this collection of interviews showcases twelve leading Native artists and activists who have challenged and helped reshape prevailing expectations about Native cultures and identities during the late twentieth century: writers Sherman Alexie and James Welch, …
Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
A Story of Survival
Inbunden, 2004
415 kr
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Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's searching account of her life as a mixed-blood woman coming of age off reservation, yet deeply immersed in her Huron, Metis, and Cherokee heritage. In a style at once elliptical and achingly clear, Hedge Coke details her mother's …
Viet Cong at Wounded Knee
The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
Av Woody Kipp
Häftad, 2008
173 kr
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It was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the searchlights of armored carriers seeking him out, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had become the enemy, the Viet Cong, to a country that he had defended with his life. With candor, …
Elias Cornelius Boudinot
A Life on the Cherokee Border
Häftad, 2008
275 kr
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Elias Cornelius Boudinot provides the first full account of a man who was intimately and prominently involved in the life of the Cherokee Nation in the second half of the nineteenth century and was highly influential in the opening of the former Indian Territory to white settlement and the eventual …
No One Ever Asked Me
The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier
Av Hollis D. Stabler, Victoria Smith
Häftad, 2008
234 kr
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As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference as an Omaha Indian adding to the poignancy of …
First to Fight
Av Henry Mihesuah, Devon A. Mihesuah
Häftad, 2010
234 kr
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Henry Mihesuah, a Comanche of the Quahada band, has led an ordinary modern American Indian life filled with extraordinary moments. Growing up in the 1920s and 1930s on his family's allotment outside Duncan, Oklahoma, Mihesuah was a member of a family of farmers who gave part of what they grew to …
William W. Warren
The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader
Häftad, 2009
234 kr
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This is the first full-length biography of William W. Warren (1825–53), an Ojibwe interpreter, historian, and legislator in the Minnesota Territory. Devoted to the interests of the Ojibwe at a time of government attempts at removal, Warren lives on in his influential book History of the Ojibway, …
Chevato
The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehmann
Av William Chebahtah, Nancy McGown Minor
Häftad, 2009
294 kr
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Here is the oral history of the Apache warrior Chevato, who captured eleven-year-old Herman Lehmann from his Texas homestead in May 1870. Lehmann called him "Bill Chiwat" and referred to him as both his captor and his friend. Chevato provides a Native American point of view on both the Apache and …
Muscogee Daughter
My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant
Inbunden, 2010
368 kr
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How American is Miss America? For Susan Supernaw, a Muscogee (Creek) and Munsee Native American, the question wasn’t just academic. Throughout a childhood clouded by poverty, alcoholism, abuse, and a physical disability, Supernaw sought escape in school and dance and the Native American Church. She …
First to Fight
Av Henry Mihesuah, Devon A. Mihesuah
Inbunden, 2002
249 kr
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Henry Mihesuah, a Comanche of the Quahada band, has led an ordinary modern American Indian life filled with extraordinary moments. Growing up in the 1920s and 1930s on his family's allotment outside Duncan, Oklahoma, Mihesuah was a member of a family of farmers who gave part of what they grew to …
Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition
Av John M. Oskison, Lionel Larre
Häftad, 2012
890 kr
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Territory, which would eventually become the state of Oklahoma, was a multicultural space in which various Native tribes, European Americans, and African Americans were equally engaged in struggles to carve out meaningful lives in a harsh landscape. …
Rights Remembered
A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future
Av Pauline R. Hillaire, Gregory P. Fields
Inbunden, 2016
792 kr
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Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, ScÄlla–Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her …
Searching for My Destiny
Häftad, 2012
353 kr
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George Blue Spruce Jr. is recognized as the first American Indian dentist in the United States. His life story reaches back to the ancient Pueblo culture cherished by his grandparents and parents and extends to state-of-the-art dentistry and the current needs of the American Indian people. Blue …
Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
A Story of Survival
Häftad, 2014
203 kr
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Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's searching account of her life as a mixed-blood woman coming of age off reservation, yet deeply immersed in her Huron, Metis, and Cherokee heritage. In a style at once elliptical and achingly clear, Hedge Coke details her mother's …
Authentic Alaska
Voices of Its Native Writers
Av Susan B. Andrews, John Creed
Häftad, 1998
237 kr
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In this lively and sometimes poignant collection of essays and autobiographies, nearly fifty Alaska Native writers tell of their unique way of life and bear witness to the sweeping cultural changes occurring in their lifetimes. They explore a range of experiences and issues, including skinning a …
Winged Words
American Indian Writers Speak
Häftad, 1990
203 kr
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In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor; and James Welch. They candidly discuss …
Life Lived Like a Story
Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders
Häftad, 1992
462 kr
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Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collaborated with Julie Cruikshank, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, to produce this unique …
Chainbreaker
The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake As Told to Benjamin Williams
Av Chainbreaker, Thomas S. Abler
Häftad, 2005
227 kr
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One of the earliest memoirs by an American Indian, Chainbreaker presents the recollections of a Seneca chief, also known as Governor Blacksnake. A fighter in the American Revolution who lived more than a century, Chainbreaker told his story as an old man in the 1840s to a fellow Seneca, Benjamin …
Life, Letters and Speeches
Av George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh), Donald B. Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
353 kr
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George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh, 1818–69), an Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during the mid-nineteenth century. His colorful, kaleidoscopic life took him from the tiny Ojibwe village of his youth to the halls of state legislatures …
Essie's Story
The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher
Av Esther Burnett Horne, Sally McBeth
Häftad, 1999
234 kr
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This is the spirited story of Esther Burnett Horne, an accomplished and inspiring educator in Indian boarding schools. Born in 1909, Horne attended Haskell Indian Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, and often visited relatives on the Shoshone Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Motivated by teachers like …
LaDonna Harris
A Comanche Life
Av LaDonna Harris, H. Henrietta Stockel
Häftad, 2006
203 kr
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This book is the unforgettable story of a Comanche woman who has become one of the most influential, inspired, and determined Native Americans in politics. LaDonna Harris was born on a Comanche allotment in southern Oklahoma in the 1930s. From her earliest years, she was immersed in a world of …
Song of Rita Joe
Autobiography of a Mi'kmaq Poet
Av Rita Joe
Häftad, 1996
183 kr
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Here is the enlightening story of an esteemed and eloquent Mi'kmaq woman whose message of "gentle persuasion" has enriched the life of a nation. Rita Joe is celebrated as a poet, an educator, and an ambassador. In 1989, she accepted the Order of Canada "on behalf of native people across the …
Alex Posey
Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist
Häftad, 1997
253 kr
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Most of Alexander Posey's short and remarkable life was devoted to literary pursuits. Through a widely circulated satirical column published under the pseudonym Fus Fixico, he did much to document and draw attention to conditions in Indian Territory. He rose to prominence among the Creeks and …
Alanis Obomsawin
The Vision of a Native Filmmaker
Häftad, 2006
264 kr
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In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured in cinema and television. In this book, the first devoted to any Native filmmaker, Obomsawin receives her due as the …
Mourning Dove
A Salishan Autobiography
Häftad, 1994
218 kr
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Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State. She was the author of Cogewea, The Half-Blood (one of the first novels to be published by a Native American woman) and Coyote Stories, both reprinted as Bison Books. Jay …
I'll Go and Do More
Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist
Häftad, 2004
218 kr
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I'll Go and Do More is the story of Annie Dodge Wauneka (1918–97), one of the best-known Navajos of all time. A daughter of the popular Navajo leader Chee Dodge, Wauneka spent most of her early years herding sheep and raising nine children. After her father's death, she entered politics and was …
Singing an Indian Song
A Biography of D'Arcy McNickle
Häftad, 1994
203 kr
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One of the foremost Native American intellectuals of his generation (1904-77), D'Arcy McNickle is best known today for the American Indian history center that carries his name at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and for his novels, The Surrounded, Runner in the Sun, and Wind from an Enemy Sky. A …
John Rollin Ridge
His Life and Works
Häftad, 2004
279 kr
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John Rollin Ridge is the first full-length biography of a Cherokee whose best revenge was in writing well. A cross between Lord Byron, the romantic poet who made things happen, and Joaquin Murieta, the legendary bandit he would immortalize, John Rollin Ridge was a controversial, celebrated, and …
Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter
Häftad, 2003
218 kr
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Told in their own words, Turtle Lung Woman’s Granddaughter is the unforgettable story of several generations of Lakota women who grew up on the open plains of northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota. Delphine Red Shirt has delicately woven the life stories of her mother, Lone Woman, and Red …
