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From Homeland to New Land
UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 60.00This history of the Mahicans begins with the appearance of Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the removal of these Native people to Wisconsin in the 1830s. Marshaling the methods of history, ethnology, and archaeology, William A. Starna describes as comprehensively as the sources allow the Mahicans while in their Hudson and Housatonic... more...
Sandy
Triumph Books 2013; US$ 15.99On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall in the Mid-Atlantic region. The devastation she would bring to the New York and New Jersey was widespread and unimaginable. Though warnings had been issued for days and many evacuated their homes and offices, thousands stood in the path of one of the strongest storms in the history of America. Winds... more...
Imagining Geronimo
University of New Mexico Press 2013; US$ 39.95Clements?s study samples the repertoire of Geronimo stories and examines Americans? changing sense of Geronimo in terms of traditional patterns?trickster, social bandit, patriot chief, sage elder, and culture hero. more...
L?exploitation du phoque à l?embouchure du Saguenay par les Iroquoiens de 1000 à 1534
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa 2013; US$ 65.00Au cours du Sylvicole supérieur (1000-1500), le secteur de l?embouchure du Saguenay aurait été exploité par des Iroquoiens du Saint-Laurent en quête de ressources marines, plus particulièrement de phoque. more...
Mabel McKay
University of California Press 2013; US$ 26.95A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit speaks through the Dream, how the spirit heals, and how the spirit demands to be heard. Greg Sarris weaves... more...
My Indian Boyhood, New Edition
UNP - Bison Books 2013; US$ 15.95Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as Plenty Kill, young Standing Bear belonged to the Western Sioux tribe that inhabited present-day North... more...
Stories of the Sioux, New Edition
UNP - Bison Books 2013; US$ 9.95Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old nomadic life of the Sioux, when buffalo were plentiful and all nature fed the spirit. The twenty stories honor not only the buffalo but also the dog, the horse,... more...
Crazy Horse, Third Edition
UNP - Bison Books 2013; US$ 15.95Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being ?strange,? fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government?s efforts to confine the Lakotas to reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877... more...
My People the Sioux, New Edition
UNP - Bison Books 2013; US$ 15.95When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as ?one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever had.? It remains a landmark in Indian literature, among the first books about Indians written from the Indian point of view by an Indian. Born in the... more...
Land of the Spotted Eagle, New Edition
UNP - Bison Books 2013; US$ 15.95When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years' absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book, first published in 1933. In addition to describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, Standing Bear also offered general comments... more...









