Native American History & Ethnology
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Sharing the Skies provides a look at traditional Navajo astronomy, including their constellations and the unique way in which Navajo people view the cosmos and their place within it. ... -
How a lone man’s epic obsession led to one of America’s greatest cultural treasures: Prize-Winning Writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in ... -
The Blackfeet were people of the buffalo. They originated on the plains of today’s southern Alberta, western Saskatchewan, and central Montana. Fur trader, hunting guide, and later, acclaimed chronicler ... -
In 1992 Doug Preston and his family rode horseback across 400 miles of desert in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. They were retracing the route of the Navajo deity ... -
After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil ... -
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the author of the highly acclaimed The Winter People tells the moving, searing story of the betrayal and brutal ... -
Keyed to official highway maps, this richly illustrated guide leads the traveler to virtually every principal landmark associated with the war. Publisher Marketing: Keyed to official highway maps, this ... -
A crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes ... -
“Although Geronimo is the main character in this book, the reader also is given a valuable insight into the lives of the Apache nation as a whole. The descriptive ... -
Silko’s first new work in 10 years combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the ... -
Longtime art collector Gary Beaudoin gives readers a rare glimpse into the world of modern Navajo weavers. Beaudoin and the three generations of Begay weavers grandmother Mary, mother Lucy, ... -
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications ... -
The Navajo Code Talkers devised a complex code based on their native language and perfected it so that messages could be coded, transmitted, and decoded in minutes. The Navajo ...
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