Culture

What have you always wanted to know about Indians? Do you think you should already know the answers—or suspect that your questions may be offensive? In matter-of-fact responses to over 120 questions, both thoughtful and outrageous, modern and...

Images from movies and film have had a powerful influence in how Native Americans are seen. In many cases, they have been represented as violent, uncivilized, and an impediment to progress and civilization. This book analyzes the representation of...

In Medicinal Plants of the Prairie, ethnobotanist Kelly Kindscher documents the medicinal use of 203 native prairie plants by the Plains Indians. Using information gleaned from archival materials, interviews, and fieldwork, Kindscher describes...

Stumbling upon plump wild berries on a hike or discovering succulent fresh mushrooms on the forest floor can be a welcome surprise. Turn up these happy accidents to a whole new level with the only guide on foraging you'll ever need! Chock full of...

Begin Identifying and Collecting Seven Edible Mushrooms! Since 1993, Start Mushrooming has been the trusted guide for beginners. This second edition introduces seven of the most common, edible wild mushrooms in North America. It features more...

The Medicine you have been searching for lives within you. Follow the path of the 13 Ojibwe Moons with Animal Spirits and Ancestors as your guides as you unlock your connection to your own unique, inherent healing power. Through storytelling, ceremonies,...

Compelling stories from behind—and around—the massive limestone walls of Minnesota's major historic site, told 200 years after their construction.Fort Snelling, a foundational place in the story of Minnesota, was built 200 years ago at the...

A necessary reckoning with America’s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous peopleAfter One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what...

With photographs and stunning illustrations from acclaimed author-artist S.D. Nelson, this thrilling double biography juxtaposes the lives of two enemies whose conflict changed American history: Crazy Horse and George CusterIn 1876, Lakota chief Crazy...

Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she...

Religion and Culture in Native America presents an introduction to a diverse array of Indigenous religious and cultural practices in North America, focusing on those issues in which tribal communities themselves are currently invested.  These topics...

A Modern-Day Explorer's Guide to the Old West- From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the Great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American...

"R. Grace Morgan's important study of the impact of beaver, bison, and horse on the lifeways of Indigenous people of the Northern Great Pains remains relevant in our times. Morgan deftly analyzes the long-term ecological history of this region, where...

It is well-known that there is a complicated relationship between Native American Tribes and the US government.  Relations between Tribes and the federal government are dominated by the principle that the government is supposed to engage in...

For decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos served as Code Talkers during World War II, but more often...

Mari Sandoz’s beautifully written account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life—and lost it—reveals on every page the author’s intimate knowledge of her subject. The character of the Sioux, the...

The U.S. Army built Fort Phil Kearny in the foothills of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains in 1866 to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail headed to Montana’s gold fields. The need for this protection arose because the Bozeman Trail cut through...

In the same voice that has comforted and challenged countless readers through his daily social media posts, Choctaw elder and Episcopal priest Steven Charleston offers words of hard-won hope, rooted in daily conversations with the Spirit and steeped in...

More than 160 tribes are featured in this outstanding new encyclopedia, which presents a comprehensive overview of the history of North America's Native peoples. From the Apache to the Zuni, readers will learn about each tribe's history, traditions, and...

From journalist Abe Streep, the story of coming of age on a reservation in the American West and a team uniting a community.March 11, 2017, was a night to remember: in front of the hopeful eyes of thousands of friends, family members, and fans, the...

A rich trove of stories from Pejuhutazizi K’api, the place where they dig the yellow medicine – now also known as the Upper Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota. From long ago: “The bear was too close at hand to think of running away...

Modern Indigenous cuisine from the renowned Native foods educator and former chef of Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American IndianFrom Freddie Bitsoie, the former executive chef at Mitsitam Native...

Have you studied with interest the original inhabitants of what is now the United States of America?  Are you interested in the dishes these first people of the nation have passed down? Would you like to recreate these authentic Native...

In I Will, Sheron Wyant-Leonard weaves the personal recollections of four members of the American Indian Movement--Leonard Peltier, Dennis Banks, Dorothy Ninham, and her husband Herb Powless--into a unique narrative to expose their trials and...