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1	Song of Hiawatha more books like this by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow add to wishlist A picture-book version of a section of Longfellow's epic poem. The illustrations were created by using fine-line pen with color ink and dyes. This book contains only the sections of the poem that deal with the boyhood of Hiawatha, who is actually a composite character created, in part, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.04! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences more books like this by Malcolm Margolin (Editor) add to wishlist Ranging from love songs to death chants, legends to oral histories, The Way We Lived captures the vitality and continuance of native culture in California. Includes dozens of historic photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.42! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Elders Are Watching more books like this by David Bouchard, Roy Henry Vickers (Illustrator) add to wishlist A celebrated poet combines his words with the art of Roy Henry Vickers to celebrate the wonders of Canada's West Coast. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Home Places: Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks more books like this by Larry Evers (Editor), Ofelia Zepeda (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology of stories, songs, poems, and other writings revolves around the central theme of Native-American home places. Among the 19 contributors are Joy Harjo, N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, and Luci Tapahonso. see all copies from $2.44! new only from $2.47! \| first editions
5	Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America more books like this by Joy Harjo, Valerie Martinez (Editor), Gloria Bird (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of writings by 87 Native American women writers from some 50 tribal nations includes prayers, testimonials, personal narratives, essays, poetry and fiction. Well-known writers such as Louis Erdrich, Linda Hogan and Leslie Marmon Silko have pieces in the collection, as do many other less well-known and first time writers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature more books like this by John L Purdy, James Ruppert add to wishlist For courses in Native American Literature, Freshman Composition, History of Native Americans, and American Literary Survey. This anthology includes some of the best and class-tested works of Native American Literature--with a good representation of major authors, geographic dispersion, gender balance, and a variety of genres. Its illustrative and ... see all copies from $44.36! new only from $58.99! \| SVS
7	Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries more books like this by Laurance D Linford add to wishlist In more than a dozen novels set in the American Southwest, Tony Hillerman's heroes, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, travel the mountains, deserts, and towns of the Four Corners tracking wrongdoers. In see all copies from $5.68! new only from $12.64! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community more books like this by Heid E Erdrich (Editor), Laura Tohe (Editor), Winona LaDuke (Foreword by) add to wishlist This anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the nation that celebrate, record, and explore Native American women's roles in community. The result is a rich tapestry that contains work by established ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $11.27! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature more books like this by Joy Porter (Editor), Kenneth M Roemer (Editor) add to wishlist Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth century. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by defining relevant institutional, historical, cultural, and gender contexts, by outlining the variety of genres written since the ... see all copies from $11.25! new only from $11.25! \| SVS
10	Native American Renaissance more books like this by Kenneth Lincoln add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel more books like this by Louis Owens add to wishlist This first book-length critical analysis of the full range of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery. In his introduction, Louis Owens places the novels in context by considering their relationships to traditional American Indian oral literature as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women more books like this by Beth Brant (Editor) add to wishlist A collection by North American Indian women demonstrating the vibrancy and breadth of Native women's writing. see all copies from $1.99!
13 view cover	The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture more books like this by Professor Leonard Cassuto, Ph.D. add to wishlist In revealing the source of the ideology of whiteness in the imagination, Cassuto turns to images of blackness in American literature and culture from 1622 to 1865, examining such texts as Swallow Barn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Typee, and Moby Dick. see all copies from $3.27! new only from $4.98!
14 view cover	Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature more books like this by Gordon Brotherston add to wishlist The Book of the Fourth World offers detailed analyses of texts that range far back into the centuries of civilised life from what is now Latin- and Anglo-America. At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of our planet. In the course of just a few centuries its original inhabitants, though settled ... see all copies from $15.96! new only from $45.22! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native America Literature more books like this by Geary Hobson (Editor) add to wishlist This broad survey of Native American writing today is incisive, reflective, moving, and provocative in its variety. see all copies from $3.24! new only from $56.46! \| first editions
16 view cover	In Vain I Tried to Tell You: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics more books like this by Dell H Hymes add to wishlist A landmark volume that revolutionized our understanding of the power and significance of Native stories and storytellers in North America, "In vain I tried to tell you" showcases the methodology and theory of ethnopoetics. Focusing on the rich Native storytelling traditions of the Pacific Northwest, Hymes investigates what particular stylistic and ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $9.50! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Native American Literatures more books like this by Suzanne Lundquist add to wishlist Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, Native American Literatures includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of developments within the genre. Critical concerns to bear in mind while reading in the genre. Detailed readings of a range of widely taught ... see all copies from $9.98! new only from $27.96! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Invention of Native American Literature more books like this by Robert Dale Parker add to wishlist see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
19	The Wishing bone cycle : narrative poems from the Swampy Cree Indians more books like this by Howard A. Norman add to wishlist see all copies from $22.95! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World more books like this by Miguel Leon-Portilla add to wishlist Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor? What were the poems of a culture so different from our own? In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, an expansion of his classic Trece poetas del mundo azteca, Miguel Len-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and ... see all copies from $17.95! new only from $21.79! \| SVS
21 view cover	A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children more books like this by Doris Seale (Editor), Beverly Slapin (Editor) add to wishlist "A Broken Flute" is a book of reviews that critically evaluate children's books about Native Americans written between the early 1900s and 2003, accompanied by stories, essays and poems from its contributors. The authors critique some 600 books by more than 500 authors, arranging titles A to Z and covering pre-school, K-12 levels, and evaluations ... see all copies from $18.19! new only from $34.46! \| SVS
22 view cover	Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: A Casebook more books like this by Allan Richard Chavkin (Editor) add to wishlist Along with Louise Erdrich's "Love Medicine", Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony" is one of the two most widely taught and studied Native American literature texts. In "Ceremony" Silko recounts a young man's search for consolation in his tribe's history and traditions, and his resulting voyage of self-discovery and discovery of the world. This ... see all copies from $5.60! new only from $7.67! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Savagism and Civilization more books like this by Professor Roy Harvey Pearce (Photographer) add to wishlist First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce's "Savagism and Civilization" is a classic in the genre of history of ideas. Examining the political pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the drama, poetry, and novels of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.43! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	American Indian Autobiography more books like this by H David Brumble add to wishlist "American Indian Autobiography" is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and Hollywood Indians, spiritualists, visionaries, mothers, fathers, and English professors. Many ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $12.95! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Writers on the Left more books like this by Daniel Aaron add to wishlist "Writers on the Left" provides a chronicle of the involvement of American writers with the critical style and politics of communism. Emphasizing the golden age of American communism, Aaron traces the movement's bohemian origins to its demise in the early 1940s. Aaron creates a perceptive portrait of writers like Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, John Reed, ... see all copies from $4.29! new only from $28.85! \| first editions \| SVS

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