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When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?The story they have chosen to tell is wrong. It is time to tell a better story. Thus begins Keith Richotte's playful,...

Lasting nearly two years, the Great Sioux War pitted almost one-third of the U.S. Army against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyennes. By the time it ended, this grueling war had played out on twenty-seven different battlefields scattered across five...

Two kids, two worlds.  One unexpected friendship.  Cody is a smart kid - a survivor with a great sense of humor.  But Cody’s home life is a messy too-often terrifying story of neglect and abuse.  Autumn is from a wealthy...

Little has been done to compile a complete, in-depth oral history of the Battle of the Little Bighorn from the descendants of the Native American and First Nations people who fought there on June 25th, 1876. Until now. With the help and guidance of...

When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear’s autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging an veracious we have ever had.” It remains a landmark in Indian...

When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen year’s absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book, first published in 1933.  In addition to...

The wild plants in this book tell stories of land, people, and food. As renowned botanist Kelly Kindscher guides us through over one hundred edible plants in this beautiful field guide, we find that foraging has always been an important part of prairie...

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When Europeans came to the Americas centuries ago, too many of them brought racism along with them. Even presidents such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson each had different takes on how to solve the “Indian...

As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from...

This unique book sheds new light on Crazy Horse and his people, the Teton Sioux.  It is based on interviews with over thirty elderly Sioux people as well as on years of research in published and unpublished sources.  All of the informants...

Listen, this book is boring. We're telling you it's boring. It's in the title of the book―in fact, it's THE MOST BORING BOOK EVER! And created by #1 New York Times bestsellers Brandon Sanderson and Kazu Kibuishi! Don't peek behind the cover!...

“Noozhishenh, bimadiziwin,” Nookomis says. “My granddaughter, live a good life.” An Ojibwe grandmother carefully measures and selects just the right colors of fabric, and her sewing machine hums whirr, whirr, whirr late...

To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim Native identity has exploded―increasing 85 percent in just ten years―the number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not...

Timothy C. Winegard's The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe. When one human tamed one horse, an unbreakable bond was forged and the...

As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage—to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions:...

On a walk through a snow-covered garden, big sister Miriam claims to hear the sound of a snow dragon. Little sister Celeste has lots of questions: snow dragons are real? Where do they hide? What do they eat? And is that frost on the greenhouse windows or...

Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective (VOLUME 3) presents a selection from Balkowitsch's photographic project which aims to capture 1000 wet plate portraits of Native Americans over four volumes. Following in the footsteps of...

In The Sacred Wisdom of the Native Americans, Professor Larry J. Zimmerman tells the tragic tale of their conquest and dispossession, followed by their survival against the odds and the renewal of pride in a distinctive cultural heritage. Learn...

Billy Mills was once an orphan on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation. But before his father was called to the ancestors, he told Billy how to conquer his suffering: You have broken wings, son. You have to dig deeper, below the anger, the...

When Mother Earth was very young and the Great Spirit had created all the beings, he noticed how quiet everything was. As he walked about the earth, listening to the sounds of the animals and the wind and the waters, some birds flying by caught his eye...

Once number ing in the tens of millions, these magnificent creatures played a significant role in the varies ecosystems they occupied and North American Indigenous People depended upon them. With the arrival of Europeans, the Buffalo were all but...

The Rights of Indians and Tribes explains Federal Indian Law in a conversational manner, yet is highly authoritative, containing over 2000 footnotes with citations to relevant court decisions, statutes, and agency regulations. Since its initial...

 National Parks, Native Sovereignty proposes a reorientation of relationships between tribal nations and national parks, placing Indigenous peoples as co-stewards through strategic collaboration. More than simple consultation, strategic...