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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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James W Loewen
Why do so many Americans have little grasp of the ideas that shaped their nation? In this groundbreaking book, Loewen not only exposes the villain--textbooks that are embarrassing combinations of blind patriotism and outright lies--but reinstates suppressed information in a fascinating chronology. 26 photos.
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Charles C Mann
In this groundbreaking study, Mann shows how a new generation of anthropologists and archaeologists, using new research techniques, have come to the persuasive conclusion that more people lived in the Americas in 1491 than in Europe.
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Relic
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Douglas J Preston
The New York Museum of Natural History is the scene of gruesome murders and a lost anthropological expedition may hold the secret.
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The Plague of Doves
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Louise Erdrich
A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time. Pluto, North Dakota, is a town on the verge of extinction. Its unsavory origins -- which lie in white greed -- contain the seeds of its demise. Here, everybody is connected -- by love or friendship, by blood, and, most importantly, by ...
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Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Sherman Alexie (Read by)
Based on the authors own experiences, this first young adult novel by bestselling author Alexie features poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney that reflect the characters art as it chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he was destined to live.
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Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
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Carlos Castaneda
In THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN, Carlos Castaneda, an anthropologist with an interest in peyote and psychedelics, introduces Don Juan Matus, the Yaqui Indian shaman who became Castaneda's teacher and passed on to him the wisdom of a long line of sorcerers. Under the tutelage of Don Juan, the author embarked on a quest to transcend the boundaries of ...
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
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Hampton Sides
Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, and at the center of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson--the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier who embodies all the contradictions and ambiguities of the American experience in the West.
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Tracks
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Louise Erdrich
Erdrich writes about a collection of diverse Native American women in these interrelated tales that begin in the early 20th century. Fleur is a Chippewa trying to raise her difficult daughter, while she struggles to maintain her identity and keep alive her people's traditions in a white world that is increasingly alien.
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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John Gneisenau Neihardt
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 ...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Scott O'Dell
When the young Indian girl Karana's tribe leaves their island because of marauding Russian fishermen, Karana insists on staying. Left to fend for herself and to do men's work that she had never done before, Karana spends 18 years on the island with only a dog as company. Based on a true story. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal.
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Last of the Breed
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Louis L'Amour
In this thriller, a Native American Air Force pilot must rely on his wits and survival skills after escaping from a Russian prison as he begins a long, lonely trek across the Bering Strait to freedom in the U.S.
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Black Star, Bright Dawn
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Scott O'Dell
Bright Dawn must take over for her father when he is unable to participate in the Iditarod--a 1,159 mile dogsled race between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska. As she struggles to complete the race, Bright Dawn finds she is challenged not only by the other competitors, but also by harshness of the Alaskan wilderness.
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Maya
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Michael D Coe
In this revised and expanded introduction to the Maya, Professor Coe incorporates the latest ideas and research in a fast-changing field. Spectacular tomb discoveries at the city of Copan reveal some of the early artistic and architectural splendours at this major site. New finds here and elsewhere entail a complete reinterpretation of the ...
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Reservation Blues
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Sherman Alexie
In this magical tale, Robert Johnson, a blues musician who was murdered on August 16, 1938, appears on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets the misfit storyteller of the tribe, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who assists him on his mythical journey.
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Journey to Ixtlan
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Carlos Castaneda
JOURNEY TO IXTLAN is the third book in Castaneda's series of books on don Juan, and many of his readers consider it their favorite. It follows A SEPARATE REALITY.
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Coyote Blue
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Christopher Moore
Sam Hunter thinks that his life is complete until he meets the beautiful Calliope, but he does not have the courage to even approach her. Enter Coyote, an ancient Indian god famous for his abilities as a trickster. He can bring them together, but after that he hasn't got a clue.
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The Yanomamo
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Napoleon A Chagnon
Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author ...
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Comanche Moon
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Catherine Anderson
Orphaned by Comanches, Loretta Simpson lives in terror that the warriors will return. Hunter of the Wolf believes that Loretta is a woman of ancient prophecy whom he must honor. In the midst of such conflict, it will take all the force of their love to find a safe haven. Reissue.
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The Wailing Wind
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Tony Hillerman
Navajo cops Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigate two murders that are somehow connected to the legend of an ancient gold mine.
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
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Professor Stephen E Ambrose
A biographical study of the U.S. Cavalry general and the Sioux chief who met in battle at Little Bighorn, Montana, on June 25, 1876. Stephen Ambrose is the author of many highly acclaimed works of history, among them "D-Day, June 6, 1944" and "Undaunted Courage: Meriweather Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West".
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Buddha of suburbia
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Hanif Kureishi
The winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel 1990, this is the story of Karim Amir, "an Englishman born and bred - almost", who lives with his English mother and Indian father in the South London suburbs. It is written by the author of "My Beautiful Launderette" and "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid".
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Ceremony
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Leslie Marmon Silko
Silko's book emphasizes the importance of storytelling in Pueblo culture, and discusses the implications of the ways the white man's culture has tried to destroy the tradition.
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Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
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Joseph Bruchac
Bruchac brings to life for young adults the stories of some of the unsung heroes of World War II--the young Navajo men who were a crucial part of the American effort in sending and receiving messages that used their native language. Young Adult.
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Book of the Hopi
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Frank Waters
In this strange and wonderful book, thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona--a people who regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America--freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form. The Hopi kept this view a secret for countless centuries, and anthropologists have long struggled to understand it. ...
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Last of the Mohicans
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James Fenimore Cooper
The classic frontier adventure story: Deep in the forests of New York State, the woodsman Hawkeye (a.k.a. Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends become involved in the bloody French and Indian War.
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