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1	Nectar in a Sieve more books like this by Kamala Markandaya add to wishlist This American Library Association Notable Book of 1955 tells the story of a peasant woman in India, married as a child bride to a tenant farmer, working with her husband to wrest a living from land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. Through years of poverty and disaster, she sees one of her infants die, her daughter become a prostitute, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.54! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Yellow Raft in Blue Water more books like this by Michael Dorris add to wishlist A novel that works its way backwards from the 1980s to the 1950s to tell the stories of three generations of women. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Coyote Summer more books like this by W Michael Gear add to wishlist In the conclusion to the story of Richard Hamilton begun in "The Morning River", Hamilton meets up with a Shoshoni medicine woman, and together they face the frontier as it is slowly eroded by the advance of the white man. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Perma Red more books like this by Debra Magpie Earling add to wishlist An American Indian reservation in Perma, Montana, is the setting for this novel about Louise White Elk and her complicated love for Baptiste Yellow Knife. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Vanishing Act more books like this by Thomas Perry add to wishlist The protagonist, Jane Whitefield, is a Native American woman who helps people change their identities and start new lives. A new client is not who he claims to be, and she tries to find out who he really is before turning him into someone else. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Power more books like this by Linda Hogan add to wishlist After witnessing the killing of a panther--considered to be the sacred ancestor of her people--a young Taiga girl is torn between the feelings of her Westernized mother and the traditions of her people. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Canaan more books like this by Donald McCaig add to wishlist A saga of post-Civil War America, from the defeat of the Confederacy to the Battle of Little Bighorn, "Canaan" fills a vast canvas stretching north, south, and west from Appomattox. This is the story of America over 20 years of its most turbulent history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Shadow Woman more books like this by Thomas Perry add to wishlist Casino executive Pete Hatcher is in trouble. His bosses think he's been leaking information and pocketing money, so they've put a price on his head. Pete hires Jane Whitfield, "The Shadow Woman," to hide him, and she does a great job--until the assassins come after her for revenge. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Dance for the Dead more books like this by Thomas Perry add to wishlist A Native American trained in tracking and hiding, Jane Whitefield's job is to make people disappear. Jane's latest client is a boy-millionaire whose parents were murdered for the money that now belongs to their son. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Solar Storms more books like this by Linda Hogan add to wishlist Troubled 17-year-old Angela Johnson narrates the story of her return to Adam's Rib, an island town between Minnesota and Canada. Through getting to know her great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother, Angela comes to understand not only her own mother but also the importance of her Native American heritage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions more books like this by Paula Gunn Allen add to wishlist This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of the American Indian tradition and of women's leadership within that tradition. In her new preface to this edition, Allen reflects on the remarkable resurgence of American Indian pride and culture in recent times. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Fire Arrow more books like this by Richard S Wheeler add to wishlist Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Women of the Plains more books like this by Mark St Pierre, Tilda Longsoldier add to wishlist The mystical and spiritual traditions of the Plains Indians--brought to life through interviews with holy women and their families and the authors' observations of their life with the Lakota Sioux. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Drums of Change: The Story of Running Fawn more books like this by Janette Oke add to wishlist IN see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Nakoas Woman more books like this by Gayle Rogers add to wishlist This is the tale of a beautiful white girl, Maria, captured by a Blackfoot Indian warrior, Nakoa, and of their stormy relationship. As she struggles against her growing love for her captor, he struggles against the customs of his people in his efforts to keep her. Years before, Mafia had appeared to him in a sacred vision as his Nitsokan, or touch ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.38! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Face-Changers: A Novel of Suspense more books like this by Thomas Perry add to wishlist After more than a decade of helping people in trouble "disappear", Jane Whitfield has promised Carey, her new husband, that she will never work again. But when his mentor, a famous plastic surgeon, shows up wounded and wanted for murder, Carey asks Jane to perform her magic one last time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Wisdom's Daughters: Conversations with Women Elders of Native America more books like this by Steve Wall add to wishlist Interviews with the women elders of several Native American nations reveal the knowledge, philosophies and traditions of their ancestry. This book is a documentation of the female spiritual elders of these tribes who have been entrusted with handing down the tribal wisdom through the generations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.10! \| first editions
18 view cover	Killing Raven more books like this by Margaret Coel add to wishlist Father John O'Malley is trying to find the murderer of a white man whose body is discovered at the Wind River Reservation. At the same time, his friend Vicky Holden, now a lawyer for the reservation's casino, is threatened by a mysterious group that believes that the casino is evil. As Vicky investigates the goings-on at the casino, she wonders if ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Wynema: A Child of the Forest more books like this by S Alice Callahan, A Lavonne Brown Ruoff (Introduction by) add to wishlist Originally published in 1891, "Wynema" is the first novel known to have been written by a woman of American Indian descent. Set against the sweeping and often tragic cultural changes that affected southeastern native peoples during the late nineteenth century, it tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women from vastly different ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.25! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Mountain Man more books like this by Vardis Fisher add to wishlist Vardis Fisher captured both the romantic idealism and harsh realism of the wilderness experience with this classic tale of the west (which served as the inspiration for the Sidney Pollack/Robert Redford film, Jeremiah Johnson). In the intertwined tales of Sam Minard and Kate Bowden, Fisher weaves a violent and poignant tale of love and loss, ... see all copies from $2.60! new only from $7.71! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Pretty-shield, medicine woman of the Crows. more books like this by Frank Bird Linderman add to wishlist Pretty-shield, the legendary medicine woman of the Crows, remembered what life was like on the Plains when the buffalo were still plentiful. A powerful healer who was forceful, astute, and compassionate, Pretty-shield experienced many changes as her formerly mobile people were forced to come to terms with reservation life in the late nineteenth ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $10.36! \| SVS
22 view cover	The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexes more books like this by James Axtell (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.04! new only from $21.95! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide more books like this by Andrea Smith add to wishlist A recognized Native American scholar and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the largest grassroots, multiracial feminist organization in the country, Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is an emerging leader in progressive political circles. In "Conquest," Smith places Native American women at the center of her analysis of sexual violence, ... see all copies from $16.52! new only from $17.18! \| SVS
24 view cover	Heart of the Storm more books like this by Lindsay McKenna add to wishlist Two years after the murders of Dana Thunder Eagles husband and mother on the Rosebud reservation, the killer is still on the loose, and only Dana has the mystical power to stop him. However, Dana needs help from the sexy mercenary Chase to succeed. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
25 view cover	Mystic Dreamers more books like this by Rosanne Bittner add to wishlist Unwillingly promised in marriage to Stalking Wolf, an Oglala warrior, Star Dancer, a Sichangu, is forced to leave her home and travel to a distant land far from her family, but their loveless marriage leads them both to a union blessed by love and by destiny. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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