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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...

Drawing on the wisdom and personal experience of its esteemed contributors, this first-of-its-kind anthology tackles complex questions of our times to provide a rich tapestry of Indigenous life, past, present, and future. The letters explore the...

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,...

Never before has the story of Sitting Bull been written and published by a lineal descendant. In Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy, Ernie LaPointe, a great-grandson of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief, presents the family tales and memories told to him...

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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...

Join a pack of wolves during a year in Yellowstone National Park as they rear new pups, traverse their territory, cross rivers, chase ravens, bump into bears and meet a host of other diverse animals.With vibrant illustrations and engaging storytelling, a...

From North Dakota’s Standing Rock encampments to Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks, Native Americans have repeatedly asserted legal rights to religious freedom to protect their sacred places, practices, objects, knowledge, and ancestral remains...

Prairie Bones is a collection of poems about reconnecting with Lakota kin, culture, and learning what it means to stand alongside all the relatives of this land to fight for a better future. Author Robert Harold Bordeaux grew up disconnected...

When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays.Opin, his brother...

Written by a full-blood, Wisconsin Ho-Chunk member of the Bird Clan, Everett LoneWolf is a fictional account of an urban Indian finding his Spiritual identity with the Lakota Way of Life.  Kuna chronicles LoneWolf’s experiences of...

Tonight is a very special night a Lac La Croix First Nation.  A small herd of Ojibwe horses will arrive any minute!  The children are too excited to sleep, so Nookomis tells them the history of these horses.  They were once close...

Ever since Lucy Smith’s father died five years ago, “home” has been more of an idea than a place. She knows being on the run is better than anything waiting for her as a “ward of the state”. But when the sharp-eyed and kind...

Tappan Adney (1868-1950) was an artist, writer, ethnographer, historian and modelmaker of unparalleled ability. He tirelessly documented the cultures and languages of vanishing native cultures. His most enduring legacy is the extraordinary 110 birchbark...

A vivid portrait of the American prairie, which rivals the rainforest in its biological diversity and, with little notice, is disappearing even faster. The North American prairie is an ecological marvel, a lush carpet of grass that stretches to the...

In this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction. When a friend asked what books could help them understand Indigenous lives, Patty Krawec,...

The world contains countless cuisines, techniques, and ingredients.  But there is one thing that bonds them all- every single culture has some form of soup.  Long thought to be restorative, soups serve an even more important role in our diets:...

An ordinary day in August 1979 dawns hot and humid in Chicago. Teenager Teddy is living with his dad after being kicked out of his mom’s house due to his gang activity. But Teddy has thrived in the Simon City Royals, and today, he’ll be...

Bringing together forty Indigenous writers, artists, activists, athletes, scholars and thinkers from across Turtle Island, this joyful, proud and groundbreaking collection celebrates the potential of young people, who they are and what they dream of.