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Here are the great stories of the Blackfeet, including the entertaining Na’Pi (Old Man) stories of mischief and trickery; the hero Kut-o-yis’, who got rid of the bad things; ... -
The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty ... -
Schultz writes the great legends of the Blackfeet Indians. Married to a Blackfeet woman and inducted into the tribe, his first hand experiences will leave you intrigued and wanting ... -
The little known story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West – Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull – told through their time in ... -
Elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona reveal their world-view of life. They have kept this a secret for countless generations, and this book was made possible ... -
This book reveals the ways that Navajo tradition fundamentally reshaped and defined trading practices in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. -
The lives of Plains Indian women are revealed through this series of fascinating vignettes. Some of these women never knew anything but the old, nomadic way of life, while ... -
Dee Brown’s eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian became a publishing phenomenon when first published in 1970. -
The dairy of a medical officer, Leonard Wood, tells the dramatic story of the last campaign against the Apache chief Geronimo. It is the only journal kept by anyone ... -
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce is far more than the story of a man and a people. It is a grand saga of a pivotal ... -
The Nez Percé people lived in peace with white intruders in their homelands from the time of Lewis & Clark until 1863 when a treaty called for the tribe’s ... -
He is the only original World War II Navajo code talker still alive–and this is his story . . . His name wasn’t Chestesr Nez. That was the English ... -
The Navajo language helped win World War II, and it lives on in this book, as the Code Talkers remember the war and reflect on the aftermath and the ... -
Standing 6’2″ in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, Johnson was a mountain man among mountain men, one of the toughest customers on the western frontier. As ... -
An absorbing and enlightening view of the lives and legends of American Indian women, from childhood to burial customs. B&W photographs, illustrations. 450 pages.
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