Books

For a Girl Becoming imagines a girl’s journey from birth to young adulthood - one threaded with wonder, magic, tears, and laughter.  Captivating verse accompanied by radiant paintings conjure home, generations of family, a land of desert...

Adornment - jewelry, beadwork, and ceremonial regalia - is a defining medium in cultural expression for North American Indians.  Southwestern turquoise jewelry and Plains beadwork are recognized hallmarks of Indian peoples, yet there exist many...

This revised and updated edition contains the most important writings of Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), the first Native American author to live simultaneously in both the traditional world of the Santee Sioux and the modern civilization of the white man. Dr...

Fitzgerald’s work focuses on Charles Eastman’s (Ohiyesa’s) compelling story of embracing the traditional cultural ideals of his nomadic ancestors while living in the modern industrialized world of his time.  Born in a buffalo-hide...

Raised among the Sioux until the age of 15, Charles Alexander Eastman (1858–1939) resolved to become a physician in order to be of the greatest service to his people. Upon completing his education at Boston University School of Medicine, he...

Deep in the night, when James should be sleeping, he tosses and turns. He thinks about big questions, like why we don't feel dizzy when the Earth spins. He looks at the stars outside his bedroom and thinks about the Night Sky Stories his kōkom has told...

Julian Brave NoiseCat’s childhood was rich with culture and contradictions. When his Secwépemc and St’at’imc father, an artist haunted by a turbulent past, abandoned the family, NoiseCat and his non-Native mother were embraced...

Discover the vital role fungi play in your garden.  Fungi are all around us, including in our gardens.  From the vast mycorrhizal networks in the soil to rings of mushrooms that pop up in lawns overnight, we live surrounded by this...

Sometime in August 1913, two Sioux warriors, Old Buffalo and Swift Dog, met with Frances Densmore at a makeshift recording site in McLaughlin, South Dakota. What Old Buffalo and Swift Dog said that day—about life as they knew it before the...

In Blending Cultures: A Journey of Identity in Lakota Country, three non-Native men bind themselves to the Lakota culture through marriage. This authentic family saga is rich in historical detail, offering a profound human perspective on...

Dubbed Mako Sica by the Lakotas and les Mauvaises Terres by the French, South Dakota’s White River Badlands is famous for its stunning vistas of saw-toothed ridges, dry-wash canyons, and looming mesas and pinnacles, which...

In her new memoir, Special Places, Sacred Circles, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve delivers a fascinating look at the people and places that shaped her life. Collecting writings and reminiscences spanning her life, Driving Hawk Sneve brings readers...

Halhata na Thathanka / Magpie and Buffalo, written and illustrated by Lakota author and artist Alfreda Beartrack Algeo, is the perfect introduction for young children to the important roles the American bison (commonly known as the American buffalo) has...

Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry Native Americans: racially and legally differentiated from nonmixed Indigenous people by U.S. government policy, their lives have continually been treated as peripheral to Indigenous societies...

In the Red River Valley of North Dakota, several lives revolve around a wedding fraught with desire, jealousy, and uncertainty. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed goth who...

Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more than 100 ancestral and modern recipes from three-time James Beard...

An inspirational work of wisdom, warmth, and generosity from a three-term US poet laureate. “To know ourselves is the most profound and difficult endeavor. Though we are all made of the same questions, we have individual routes to the answers, or...

The Great Knot Challenge: Can You and Your Child Become Knot Legends?Are you looking for a fun and engaging way for your child to learn a practical skill? Look no further! "Knot Tying for Kids” is packed with easy-to-follow instructions and vibrant...

A new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equalizer” to not only be a lie, but also a myth...

Charlotte has outgrown her moccasins, so she and her Mom head to Grandma’s for new ones. Grandma teaches Charlotte how to make her new mocs step-by-step, and she learns a valuable skill from her beloved elder in this heartwarming multigenerational...

In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving—and largely lawless—boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time,...

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This is the follow-up book from Buffalo Fluffalo! Every day, Buffalo Fluffalo goes about his usual routine. He munches all the grass he can eat, frolics and rollicks with his friends, and at noontime, lies down for a nap in the shade. But one morning,...

Zoon’s shadow is always in his way. It makes a mess of his room, disrupts his class at school, and trips him on the soccer field. Zoon doesn’t know what to do! Until he tells his grandmother about it, and she gives him his grandfather’s...