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1	The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 more books like this by Richard White, Frederick Hoxie (Editor), Neal Salisbury (Editor) add to wishlist This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations--stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $15.00! \| SVS
2	Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony more books like this by Karen O. Kupperman add to wishlist The story of Roanoke is a tale marked by courage, miscalculation, exhilaration, intrigue, and enduring mystery. Now in its second edition, Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony tells the tragic and heroic story of the lost colony during the years between Columbus's voyages and the landing of the Mayflower. Award-winning historian Karen O. Kupperman brings ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York more books like this by Evan T Pritchard add to wishlist This survey of the history and culture of the Algonquin tribe traces their presence in the New York region. Pritchard offers a guide to local points of interest, and offers anecdotes drawn from interviews with Algonquin leaders of today. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $26.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Little Firefly more books like this by Terri Cohlene add to wishlist "Cinderella" and other well-known romances are suggested by this Algonquian tale of a shy maiden who wins the heart of a great warrior despite her cruelly mocking older sisters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies
5	The sunflower garden. more books like this by Janice May Udry, Beatrice Darwin add to wishlist An Algonkian Indian girl lives in the shadow of her four brothers' achievements until her cultivation of a sunflower garden and an attack on a rattlesnake bring praise from the entire village. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $93.19! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Last Algonquin more books like this by Theodore L Kazimiroff add to wishlist As late as 1924, an Algonquin Indian lived in a still-wild corner of New York City. Astonishing as it is, he was unknown to his neighbors. This is the story of Joe Two Trees, his life and the moving account of the last of the once powerful Algonquins. Passed down from Joe Two Trees to a young boy, the young boy's son now makes the story available ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.99! \| first editions
7	Guests more books like this by Michael Dorris add to wishlist Thanksgiving from the viewpoint of the Native Americans present at the feast. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown more books like this by Seth Mallios add to wishlist With a focus on indigenous cultural systems and agency theory, this volume analyzes Contact Period relations between North American Middle Atlantic Algonquian Indians and the Spanish Jesuits at Ajacan (1570-72) and English settlers at Roanoke Island (1584-90) and Jamestown Island (1607-12). It is an anthropological and ethnohistorical study of how ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.08! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Algonquians of the East Coast more books like this by Time-Life Books, Cortright add to wishlist History, customs, mythology and lore of the continent's first inhabitants are interwoven in this rich new look at our Native American heritage. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, drawings and artifacts. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $17.00! \| first editions
10	The Middle Ground more books like this by Richard White, Frederick Hoxie (Editor), Neal Salisbury (Editor) add to wishlist This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations--stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they ... see all copies from $74.00! new only from $80.43! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Full Worm Moon more books like this by Margo LeMieux, Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator) add to wishlist An Algonquian family spends a cold night waiting to see the earthworms dance as they did in the ancient story about the Full Worm Moon. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World more books like this by Margaret Connell Szasz add to wishlist Two indigenous cultures encounter Scottish educators iin the eighteenth century see all copies from $32.50! new only from $41.94! \| SVS
13 view cover	An Algonquian Year: The Year According to the Full Moon more books like this by Michael McCurdy (Illustrator) add to wishlist Describes the life of the Algonquian Indians, month by month, as it would have been before the arrival of white settlers. see all copies from $9.95! new only from $77.73! \| first editions
14 view cover	Schoolcraft's Indian Legends more books like this by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Mentor L Williams (Editor), Philip P Mason (Editor) add to wishlist Schoolcraft's Indian Legends is drawn primarily from Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's 1839 edition of Algic Researches -- a rare, yet often cited, publication. However, stories from two later Schoolcraft collections, Oneota and The Myth of Hiawatha, are also included in an appendix. With a new foreword by Philip P. Mason, this book is designed to ... see all copies from $3.83! new only from $19.79! \| first editions
15	The Algonquin legends of New England; or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot tribes more books like this by Charles Godfrey Leland add to wishlist see all copies from $21.99! new only from $21.99! \| signed copies
16 view cover	Algonquin Legends more books like this by Charles Godfrey Leland add to wishlist Classic study of the myths and folklore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes. Glooskap, the divinity; Lox, the mischief-maker; Master Rabbit, more. 12 black-and-white illus. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $22.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Commoners, Tribute & Chiefs (P) more books like this by Stephen R Potter add to wishlist Using a combination of archaeology, anthropology and ethnohistory, this book traces the rise of one Indian group, the Chicacoans. By presenting a case study of the Chicacoans from AD 200 to the early 17th century, Potter offers readers a window onto the development of Algonquian culture. see all copies from $6.59! new only from $20.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Hiawatha Legends: North American Indian Lore more books like this by Henry R Schoolcraft add to wishlist This is the reprint of Schoolcraft's original 1856 work. A wonderful collection of North American Indian legends are within this cover, a must for every collector of Indian lore. Over 40 stories of Native American myths and legends. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50!
19 view cover	The Indian crafts of William and Mary Commanda more books like this by David Gidmark add to wishlist This thorough introduction to Indian crafts contains instructions for several satisfying projects, including moccasins, drums, jackets, and baskets. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $20.00!
20 view cover	Turtle Island: Tales of the Algonquian Nations more books like this by Jane Louise Curry, PH.D., James Watts (Illustrator) add to wishlist A collection of twenty tales from the different tribes that are part of the Algonquian peoples who lived from the Middle Atlantic States up through eastern Canada. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.21! \| first editions
21	The Conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian Cultures, 1504-1700: A Study in Canadian Civilization more books like this by Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Algonkian: Lifestyle of the New England Indians more books like this by Bob Eaton add to wishlist Algonkian is a comic-style book with hand-lettered text that graphically depicts life in New England before the English invasion. Author Bob Eaton created several dozen 40-page "comic" books focused on the New England Indians. In Algonkian we learn about the several New England tribes that shared a language and a culture. We meet Squam and Shomet ... see all copies from $6.64! new only from $7.70! \| first editions
23 view cover	Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs: The Development of Algonquian Culture in the Potomac Valley more books like this by Stephen R Potter add to wishlist When Captain John Smith explored the Potomac River in 1608, it was a frontier between two of the most politically complex Indian cultures in the Middle Atlantic region - the Conoy chiefdom of southern Maryland and the Powhatan chiefdom of eastern Virginia. Some of these diverse Algonquian-speaking peoples acknowledged the overlordship of the ... see all copies from $9.90! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
24	The Indians of the Subarctic: A Critical Bibliography more books like this by June Helm add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	The Legend of the Windigo: A Tale from Native North America more books like this by Gayle Ross, Murv Jacob (Illustrator) add to wishlist The Windigo is a terrible monster who is taller then the trees in the forest and has eyes like bottomless black pools. The Windigo is also a cannibal who arrives at a North Woodlands village looking for a meal. Will the brave villagers be able to defy the Windigo? Illustrated with acrylic paintings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.90! \| first editions \| SVS

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