Indigenous

A Chiricahua Apache of the Chokonen band, Cochise (c. 1810-1874) was one of the most celebrated Indian leaders of his time, battling both American intrusions and Mexican troops in the turbulent border region of nineteenth-century Arizona. Much of what we...

A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in...

She's Tricky Like Coyote is the story of Annie Miner Peterson, who was born in an Indian village on a tidal slough along the southern Oregon Coast in 1860. Annie lived a full and fascinating seventy-nine years. In the 1930s, she dictated her story, in...

Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth shares the life accounts, told in her own words, of the growing-up years of a woman from Michigan of mixed blood - both Indian and white. These warm and graceful stories begin with the author's earliest childhood,...

Billy Frank Jr. was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and handcuffed on the riverbank, he emerged as one of the most influential Northwest Indians in modern history. His efforts helped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772034158Author Theodore Niizhotay FontaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

In this autobiography, Viola Burnette braids the history of the Lakota people with the story of her own life as an Iyeska, or mixed-race Indian. Bringing together her years growing up on a reservation, her work as a lawyer and legal advocate for Native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550177848Author Peter O'NeilFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Nearing graduation from Phoenix Indian School,Peterson Zah decided he wanted to attend college. He was refused the reference letters needed for college admission by teachers who told him he would fail and thus embarrass them. Several years later, these...

Paul Radin, one of America''s first professional anthropologists, lived among the Winnebago Indians for years, and for years he tried without success to interview the notorious Crashing Thunder. This book shows that he eventually succeeded.'Book...

One Voice Rising is a memoir by a Ute healer, historian, and elder as told to Anglo writer, Linda Sillitoe. Clifford Duncan (1933-2014) was a tribal official and medicine man, a museum director, a trained lay archaeologist, an artist, a U.S. army...

One Voice Rising is a memoir by a Ute healer, historian, and elder as told to Anglo writer, Linda Sillitoe. Clifford Duncan (1933-2014) was a tribal official and medicine man, a museum director, a trained lay archaeologist, an artist, a U.S. army...

Louis Kenoyer, born in 1868 at Grand Ronde reservation, Oregon, was the last known native speaker of Tualatin Northern Kalapuya. His autobiographical narrative was recorded in 1928 and 1936 and is archived in the Special Collections of the University of...

This book is the first life history of a Northwest Coast Indian woman. Florence Davidson, daughter of noted Haida carver and chief Charles Edenshaw, was born in 1896. As one of the few living Haida elders knowledgeable bout the culture of a bygone era,...

Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth shares the life accounts, told in her own words, of the growing-up years of a woman from Michigan of mixed blood - both Indian and white. These warm and graceful stories begin with the author's earliest childhood,...

On March 16, 1621, Samoset, a sagamore of the Wawenock, cemented his place in history. He was the first Indigenous person to make contact with the colonists at Plymouth Plantation, startling them when he emerged from the forest and welcomed them in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555664817Author Kathryn Gabriel LovingFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower HouseWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816514441Author Tiana BighorseFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 192g

When Charles Ohiyesa Eastman, a degreed Dakota physician with an East coast university education, met Elaine Goodale, a teacher and supervisor of education among the Sioux, they were about to witness one of the worst massacres in U.S. history: The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816523917Author Eva Tulene WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870208157Author Louis V Clark (Two Shoes)Format PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873517652Author Diane WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S...

What do most career women do after a successful run on Madison Avenue? Catherine Finerty watched her friends settle into the country-club life. She opted instead for Mexico. When the 60-year-old widow loaded up her car and headed south, what she found at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771862530Author Peter McCambridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Baraka BooksPublisher Baraka BooksWeight(grams) 128g

Louis Riel (1844-1885) was an iconic figure in Canadian history best known for his roles in the Red River Resistance of 1869 and the Northwest Resistance of 1885. A political leader of the Metis people of the Canadian Prairies, Riel is often portrayed as...

Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito: A Personal History of an Apache Chief, 1821-1919 relates the little-known life and career of a leader of the Aravaipa band of Apaches during the late...

A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family's traditional stories. When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870209291Author Louis V Clark (Two Shoes)Format PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506474779Author Diane GlancyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816502462Author Peterson ZahFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771603218Author Briony PennFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063242098Author Mark Lee GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Required reading on Turtle Island. Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. George Manuel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476748412Author David MaranissFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771099106Author Murray SinclairFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120100Author Leslie Marmon SilkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award - General Audience 2024.Book InformationISBN 9780735242821Author Rueben GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage...

In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Canada Reads 2022 and Dafoe Book Prize 2022 and McNally Robinson Book of the Year 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780735240087Author Clayton Thomas-MullerFormat...

Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk Speaks is the most widely-read Native American testimony of the last century and a key work in our understanding of American Indian...