In this autobiography, Mary Crow Dog, a Lakota Sioux, tells of her youth, when her heritage was discouraged by her mother, and of her later education into Indian ways under the tutelage of Leonard Crow Dog, a Sioux medicine man. Active in the Indian civil rights movement, Mary Crow Dog was at the Wounded Knee incident, and her autobiography ...
In this memoir, a Sioux American Indian who has been in federal prison since 1977 for killing two FBI agents proclaims his innocence, describes life behind bars, and discusses several issues pertaining to American Indian politics.
This is the autobiography of Black Elk, a Lakota Indian fighting for freedom at the end of the 19th century, as told to author John G. Neihardt. While his tale glows with eyewitness accounts of historic events and Lakota Sioux customs, the heart of the book is Black Elk's soulful visions of a better future for his people and, by extension, for all ...
Fools Crow is based on interviews conducted in the 1970s. The holy man tells Thomas E. Mails about his eventful life, from early reservation days when the Sioux were learning to farm, to later times when alcoholism, the cash economy, and World War II were fast eroding the old customs. He describes this vision quests and his becoming a medicine man.
In this memoir, a doctor who is half Navajo explains how she had to deny her indigenous beliefs in order to become a surgeon of conventional Western medicine. She also explains how she introduced Navajo customs to her operating room in order to accommodate her Navajo patients who were reluctant to undergo surgery.
Stripping away the tall tales to reveal the essence of the brilliant warrior-hero Crazy Horse, the author captures the poignant passing of an era and offers a vibrant new understanding of the mythic man and what he stood for.
This is the autobiography of Black Elk, a Lakota Indian fighting for freedom at the end of the 19th century, as told to author John G. Neihardt. While his tale glows with eyewitness accounts of historic events and Lakota Sioux customs, the heart of the book is Black Elk's soulful visions of a better future for his people and, by extension, for all ...
In 1877, Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from its lands in Nebraska and marched south to Indian Territory. "I Am a Man" tells the story of Standing Bear's efforts to reclaim his lands and rights, ending in his successful use of habeas corpus to gain access to the courts and ultimately his freedoms. This is a story of ...
A character study of a Native American elder, against the unflinching backdrop of contemporary reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas. The author draws us deep into the world of this elder, identified only as Dan, as we journey under the vast Dakota skies.
The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Kroeber adds an informative tribute to the text, describing how the book came to be and how Kroeber's approach to the project was a product of her era and of her insight and empathy. Photos.
In her compelling story, Mankiller describes both the triumphs and hardships of being the first female chief of a large tribe. She honors and recounts Cherokee history, including the historic Trail of Tears, and tells of her own family's relocation when she was only 10 years old. 32 pages of photos.
In this stunning new biography, Pocahontas emerges for the first time in three complex dimensions--as a young child, as an influential princess visiting Jamestown, and as an English gentlewoman in London--allowing readers to see and sympathize with her and her people people as never before.
'This volume is a valuable contribution to the history of Indian-white relations...[Edmunds] is adept in portraying the circumstances among the midwestern tribes which inspired the transformation of Lalawethika, the village drunkard, into Tenskwatawa, the Prophet...It is all presented in a smooth and felicitous style which makes unobtrusive the ...
Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world - rodeo clown, painter, prisoner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe. The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun ...
From the author of "The Ice Master" comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate uninhabited Arctic island in 1921.
Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, "Black Elk Speaks" is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were ...
Feisty and funny, angry and passionate, a truly triumphant story of female valor in the face of overwhelming odds. The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling and award-winning Lakota Woman continues Bird's powerful, dramatic tale. Filled with contrasts between the philosophies and lifestyles of whites and Native Americans. Photos.
A 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. In this text, Greg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story straight - the white ...
This amazing journal of a life-long quest for healing and knowledge, written by the bestselling author of Seven Arrows, is a personal chronicle of Storm's odyssey of self-discovery and growth into manhood.
'All my life I have tried to learn as the Chickadee learns, by listening, - profiting by the mistakes of others, that I might help my people...My whole thought is of my people. I want them to be healthy, to become again the race they have been' - Plenty-coups. In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, ...
Originally published in the first half of the 20th century, this classic biography of Crazy Horse, the wise, proud, and heroic leader of the Cheyenne, is told from the Sioux point of view. Sandoz grew up in Nebraska hearing firsthand reports of Crazy Horse, and she interviewed several Sioux who actually knew him.
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