Craft & How to Books

One of the best examples of Plains Indian craftsmanship is the beaded knife sheath, worn by men and women for both everyday and ceremonial use. Plains Indian Knife Sheaths is a comprehensive, well illustrated resource for anyone wishing to recreates or...

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe...

Lakota is an oratorical society. The language is not so much kept by reading and writing Lakota, it is kept alive by speaking it to each other in everyday settings. If we truly hope to save the Lakota culture, we must save the language. Language is what...

Oglala Chief Red Cloud is quoted as saying, "The white man made many promises to us, but he kept only one; he promised to take our land and he took it."Initially the method of taking Indian land was through treaties, a legitimate and acceptable agreement...

Lakota is an oratorical society. The language is not so much kept by reading and writing Lakota, it is kept alive by speaking it to each other in everyday settings. If we truly hope to save the Lakota culture, we must save the language. Language is what...

"What is good in this book is given back to the six grandfathers and to the great men of my people" ~Black Elk Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight...

For all the keepers of the fire... As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest...

"It was the first time that the animals and birds danced to the heartbeat of Mother Earth." Animals stop and listen. A new sound is in the forest. The beat vibrates through the trees and across the meadows. What is it? Where is it coming. Muskrat and...

Lakota is one of the three languages spoken by the greater Sioux Nation.Based on extensive research and teaching on the Rosebud Reservation, this elementary grammar presents the Sicangu dialect using an orthography developed by Lakota speakers in 1982...

This step by step instructional workbook helps to clear up the mysteries surrounding the making of a star quilt. The book starts off with the language of the star quilt, goes onto the materials needed and even instructions on tools used. If you have ever...

Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost-Dance among the tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, at his home in Nevada and...

As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896-1914, Dr. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. This book presents the primary accounts of his informants and his syntheses dealing with the...

Severt Young Bear stood in the light - in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine Singers, a traditional singing and drumming group, he also stood, figuratively, in the...

Studies in Lakota Stellar Theology. Throughout the Americas, whether from the stars, the sun or moon, Native North Americans have found laws and principles in the heavens by which to live.Native American groups throughout the hemisphere have been avid...

Through his retelling of traditional Native American stories, Joseph Bruchac offers readers a rich mix of American Indian history, culture and values. A diverse range of Native groups is included - Tlingit, Navajo, Cree, Abenaki, Yupik, Seminole, Sioux,...

Includes black & white, full color photographs, plus how to instructions This how to guide presents photographs of Fancy Dancers and provides basic instructions for creating your own regalia. Just keep in mind that this book is meant to help you...

The majestic Black Hills mountain range contains some of the most breathtaking features of the American landscape, including Wind Cave in South Dakota and the stunning rock formation Devil's Tower in Wyoming.It was here that the Lakota people established...

This compendium of medical herbalism by one of the most eminent herbalist practicing today is both comprehensive and extremely practical. Answering basic as well as complicated questions about herbal medicine, it provides amateur and professional...

This how to guide presents photographs and the history of Northern Traditional Dancers and provides basic instructions for creating your own regalia. Presented in a narrative and photos, we explore the contemporary Northern Traditional Outfit and...

It's history, construction and use. This book will show how to make, use and enjoy the best of all movable shelters, the Indian tipi or teepee.The American Indian was a strictly practical man. But he was also a born artist. As a result, his inventions...