Culture

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...

Soups are packed with superfood vegetables, beans, grains, meats, fish, herbs, and spices, all of which support the immune system, nourish the body, and replenish depleted nutrients. In this book, authors Susan Crowther and Julie Fallone offer delicious...

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.

The Iron Horse in Indian Country examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and railroads that unfolded in the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Historians have long pondered the railroad's profound and...

When Lost Bird was found alive as an infant under the frozen body of her dead mother following the December 1980 massacre at Wounded Knee, a general from the U.S. Seventh Cavalry made the choice to adopt her. While the general, Leonard W. Colby, who...

This chilling historical novel is set in the nascent days of the sate of Montana, following a Blackfeet Indian named Good Stab as he haunts the fields of the Blackfeet Nation looking for justice. It begins when a diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran...

Eat healthy, save money, and enjoy edible wild plants! Foraging is a treasure hunt.  it's seasonal, sufficient, varied, and provides plenty of nutrients.  It yields the satisfaction born of food independence and competence.  There's no...

Combining stunning imagery with insights from the new science of awe and contemplative practices, The Wild Horse Effect reminds us that stepping away from our modern lives and reconnecting with the natural world is essential to our sense of...

A beautifully illustrated edition of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s poem “Washing My Mother’s Body,” which offers a way through grief when the loss appears unbearable.As I wash my mother’s face, I tell herhow beautiful she is,...

In a 33 x 41 ft plot - half the size of a doubles tennis court - you can grow enough vegetables to be self-sufficient.  Huw Richards tested his very own self-sufficiency garden, growing 7,250 portions in 10 months by spending an average of just 4...

A century ago, a Philadelphia philanthropist sponsored a series of journeys to the American West to document Native American cultures and traditions. The Wanamaker Expeditions, conducted between 1908 and 1913, visited Crow Agency, Montana, near the site...

Mitch Caddo started out with the best of intentions. After his mother’s sudden death in a car crash, he finished law school and returned to Passage Rouge—the reservation where he grew up—hoping to represent disadvantaged families in...

Ethnographer and American Indian studies scholar David Kamper examines how Indigenous youth and adults are making basketball and skateboarding meaningful to their communities by sustaining the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and combatting...

During the drought-stricken summer of 1950, two Lakota boys, ages eleven and six, huddle in a boxcar hurtling through the prairie night as they run from a government agent sent to take the younger boy to an Indian boarding school. But what begins as a...

Regarding peyote use among Native Americans, an ethnologist noted in 1891: “The ceremonial eating of the plant has become the great religious rite of all tribes of the southern plains.” But, as Lisa D. Barnett observes in Peyote...

Follow the concept of “right crop, right place” to grow delicious fruits and vegetables that will thrive in your outdoor space Expert gardener Lucy Chamberlain grows more than 150 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and crops in her...

Take charge of your health naturally with tried-and-true plant based treatments.  Explore the health properties and practical uses of more than 140 medicinal herbs, such as turmeric, rosemary, and ginger.  Browse the fully illustrated expert...

The older I get I think back to my childhood when life was simple.  We were grateful to get something to eat and were never picky about the food that was set in front of us.  We didn’t have indoor plumbing.  We got wood from nearby...

South Dakota Warriors in Khaki is a record of the native veterans from the nine reservations in South Dakota.  It includes some veterans who served in the 1920s. In the 1930 Federal Census, these men were listed as veterans of the World War. South...