Indigenous

Over one million copies sold. The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and...

Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hunters, and medicine men who knew the freedom and sacred ways of pre-reservation life. As the principal...

*A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!*A Navajo Ranger's chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and unexplained in NavajolandAs a Native American with parents of both...

The Canyon Wren is the continuation and beautiful punchline of the full tale of MartIn Prechtel's trilogy, The Story of My Horses, and picks up right where The Wild Rose leaves off. This third book in the trilogy brings the story far away from all those...

An unflinching memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds of sexual assault from a resilient, emerging Indigenous voice. Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Washington State Book Award (Biography/Memoir) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780544102767Author Timothy EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Houghton...

A biography of America's greatest all-around athlete that "goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe's life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty" (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic...

The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782828136Author Lucy ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147617Author Russell MeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 573Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 907g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506486673Author Steven CharlestonFormat HardbackPage Count 207Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary-an authorized insight into the making of a legend." -Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart BerriesA powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist.Folk hero...

Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645052176Author YalmambirraFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint MMH PressPublisher MMH PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman's experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198668Author Alicia ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316396776Author Sherman AlexieFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary-an authorized insight into the making of a legend." -Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart BerriesA powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist.Folk hero...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513283401Author Sarah WinnemuccaFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385479660Author Stephen E. AmbroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888397430Author Ted MeyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 722Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realisations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave (ISBN 978 0 393 34543 8),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786868636Author Jennifer NivenFormat HardbackPage Count 431Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 739gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 168mm *...

Born in Wisconsin, Philip Bergin Gordon-whose Ojibwe name Tibishkogijik is said to mean Looking into the Sky-became one of the first Native Americans to be ordained as a Catholic priest in the United States. Gordon's devotion to Catholicism was matched...

"A remarkable life story. . . Angela Sterritt is a formidable storyteller and a passionate advocate."-Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves"Sterritt's story is living proof of how courageous Indigenous women are."-Tanya Talaga, author of Seven...

In The Mare and the Mouse, the first book in the Stories of My Horses trilogy, Martin Prechtel sets loose his mystical memoir of a few mixed-breed horses who transform into allies of mythic proportions by his one-of-a-kind style of maneuvering through...

"I sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love," says award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at age fifteen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553653127Author Richard WagameseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Greystone Books,CanadaPublisher Greystone Books,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809077380Author Professor of History Camilla TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams)...

Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world - rodeo clown, painter, prisoner. But, above all, he was a holy man of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145420Author Mary Crow DogFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662601637Author Julian AguonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Minedition (imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)Publisher Astra Publishing...

The life of William Apess (1789--1839), a Pequot Indian, Methodist preacher, and widely celebrated writer, provides a lens through which to comprehend the complex dynamics of indigenous survival and resistance in the era of America's early nationhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990776854Author Delores ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

When the anthropologist Grenville Goodwin died in 1940 at the age of 32, he had published several papers and one book, Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache, and had already achieved a stature that has only continued to grow. His posthumous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640096943Author Sasha LaPointeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 128mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816526604Author Jennifer Nez DenetdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816520695Author Melissa Jayne FawcettFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

From award-winning journalist Joseph Lee, a sweeping, personal exploration of Indigenous identity and the challenges facing Indigenous people around the world.Before Martha's Vineyard became one of the most iconic vacation destinations in the country, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Mid-West Nonfiction) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780982274941Author Dennis C. PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint...