History & Stories

It was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life. Written over the past two decades, Louise...

Grounded in meticulous research and written with an uncanny understanding of the military and of American Indian culture, Blake offers soulful profiles of the participants, both Indian and cavalry. Indian Yell is filled with accounts of...

On a warm winter day in 2005, while mending fences in the backcountry of White Sands National Park, David F. Bustos, the park’s biologist turned resource-program manager, spotted his first Ice Age human footprint. He initially ignored it as a print...

Dale Auger was a gifted interpreter of Cree culture, using the cross-cultural medium of art to portray scenes from the everyday to the sacred and dissemble stereotypes about Indigenous Peoples. His use of bold, bright colours in oil painting explore the...

Much has been written about Lakota Sioux Indian men and their arts, especially those made in support of their hunting and warrior culture. Historically, however, very little scholarship has addressed Lakota women and their art forms. This lack of...

Generations of Indigenous artists have sought to make a place for Native art in North American culture and society as well as the broader art world. Written at the intersection of history and art history, Painting Native America tells the...

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...

Charles Eastman, or Hakadah, as his Sioux relatives and fellow tribesmen knew him, as a full-blooded Indian boy learned the reticent manners and stoical ways of patience and bravery expected of every young warrior in the 1870's and 1880's. The hunts,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world’s best frybread. The...

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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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...

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...