History & Stories

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...

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...

Abe Jacobs is Kanien’kehá:ka from Ahkwesáhsne―or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen, Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. He met the love of his life, started...

In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal government’s treaty negotiations with the Lakota and other tribes of the northern plains. Gardner, known for his iconic portrait of...

How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North America From the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp bounties and volunteer campaigns to murder and mutilate...

Frances Densmore's Teton Sioux Music and Culture is one of the many volumes that resulted from her prolific life-long project to record and transcribe the traditional music of American Indian peoples. The book explores the role of music in all...

Prominent Redoubt County rancher Hal Lamar and retired Smokey River Bureau of Indian Affairs Agency Superintendent William Black Spotted Horse could not be more different. Forced to travel to a different continent to cooperate in a daring rescue mission...

It falls to university professor Dr. Gavin Lone Wolf to protect and preserve his family's surprising legacy and to solve a murder on South Dakota's Smokey River Indian Reservation. Set within the framework of the historical Battle of the Little Bighorn...

Stephen Graham Jones takes familiar horror tropes—zombies, camping mishaps, damaged children—and intertwines them with the dark forces of human nature to create unique and unforgettable short fiction. These thirteen tales run the gamut,...

In the second volume of The Great Vanishing Act, voices from Indian Country convey the insidious impacts of the Indian Reorganization Act confronting the existential and pragmatic questions facing many Native Nations to determine who is—and...

The canoe was essential to the early exploration of North America. Today, it is a vital link to the natural environment and vast wilderness, still widely used for recreation, transportation and sport. The Canoe is the definitive history of the...

Great Plains Ethnohistory offers a collection of state-of-the-field work in Great Plains ethnohistory, both contemporary and historical, covering the traditional anthropological subfields of ethnography, cultural history, archaeology, and...

You never know what's hunting you, while you're hunting it... Eleven of the deadliest writers from across Turtle Island have crafted stories for you calculated to chill, thrill, and kindle your worst imaginings. Zegaajimo brings together tales...

Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man.  Suddenly, a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair.  It is the hattakfullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who...

As the first official symbols of U.S. government presence on the western frontier, the forts of the northern plains were both centers of commerce and sources of conflict.  The integral roles these forts played during decades of warfare with the...

In August 1862, nineteen-year-old Edward G.  Granger joined the 5th Michigan Cavalry Brigade as a second lieutenant.  On August 20, 1863, the newly promoted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer appointed Granger as one of his aides, a position...

Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as...

Métis millennial Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she learns she’ll be evicted from the tiny Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and irresistible...

This is a special American Bison shaped puzzle with approximately 1000 pieces Measures 27 x 33 inches once finished (approximately) Artwork by Dennis Rogers  

This is a round 500 piece jigsaw puzzle by artist John Stewart features a colorful dragonfly against a dainty flower background. Dimensions: 19.5 inches (round finished size) *measurements are approximate*

In The Education of Clarence Three Stars Philip Burnham tells the life story of the remarkable Packs the Dog, a member of the Minneconjou Lakotas who was born in 1864 east of the Black Hills. His father, Yellow Knife, died when the boy was...