American Indian Books

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

• ISBN 0-8050-1045-9
• Condition : Very good.
• Other Info : 6" x 9" Soft Cover. 487 pages.

Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Dee Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Utes, Sioux, Cheyenne and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated.

$15

Daughters Of The Earth

• ISBN 0-02-096150-2
• Condition : Very good. Front cover has been creased in the center.
• Other Info : 9.5" x 6.5" Soft Cover. 281 pages.

Here as it unfolds is the chronology of the native American woman's life. Here are the birth rites of Caddo women from the Mississippi-Arkansas border, who bore their children alone by the banks of the rivers and then immersed themselves and their babies in river water; here are Apache puberty ceremonies that are still carried on today. Women was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings.

$16

Five Indian Tribes Of The Upper Missouri

• ISBN 0-8061-1308-1
• Condition : Excellent. Still in shrink wrap.
• Other Info : 5" x 8" Soft Cover. 217 pages.

This is the early West from the horse's mouth, so to speak: a close-up, eyewitness account of how things really were on the Upper Missouri, 1833-1856, written by a hard-bitten, rye-drinking merchant of the American Fur Company who lived among the Plains tribes for twenty-two years and was married to an Assiniboine woman.

$15

Snake Dance Of The Moquis

• ISBN 0-8165-0872-0
• Condition : Very Good, A few pages are wrinkled at the corner, in the back of the book.
• Other Info : 5" x 8" Soft Cover. 364 pages + pictures.

John Bourke's 1884 account is notable for his having been accorded rare privileges in observing dance-related activities, both in deference to his military status and in ignorance of the impact his published report would have. So little has changed in the ceremony over the years that his book remains a valuable ethnographic document. The Hopi's were know as the Moqui.

$15

The Arapahoes, Our People

• ISBN 0-8061-2022-3
• Condition : Excellent. Still in shrink wrap.
• Other Info : 9" x 6" Soft Cover.

Both text and footnotes are rich in detail and anecdote glened from exhaustive research. Such ceremonies as the ritual of the Pipe, the Sun Dance, the Ghost Dance, and Peyotism are reported in such detail as to be envied by the anthropologist. Brilliant reportage and a gallery of rare photographs. South Dakota History.

$16.95

The Mound Builders

• ISBN 0-8214-0839-9
• Condition : Excellent.
• Other Info : 8" x 5" Soft Cover. 276 pages.

This book written by Robert Silverburg, which is charming written, ends with a history of the archaeological work which gives the mounds BACK to the Indians and not to the Phoenicians, stray Vikings, refugee from Atlantis, nor the lost tribes of Israel.

$15

American Indian Warrior Chiefs

• ISBN 1-85314-114-3
• Condition : Excellent
• Other Info :7." x 9.5" Soft Cover. 192 Pages .

This book has a lot of color and black and white photographs of the clothing, weapons, war shields and everyday items of the American Indians plus the chronology of four great Chiefs. They are Tecumseh, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph and Geronimo.

A lot of information covering a multitude of subjects.

$15

Custer Died For Your Sins

• ISBN 0-8061-2129-7
• Condition : Excellent
• Other Info : 5.5" x 8" Soft Cover. 278 Pages.

"The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again."

Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria's Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorbe his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientist. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest.

A great chapter on how the Native American have a wonderful sense of humor and laugh about everything in their daily lives.

$20

Interpreting the Indian

• ISBN 0-8061-2351-6
• Condition : Excellent
• Other Info : 8.5" x 5" Soft Cover. 220 pages.

This is the first book to describe the Indian influences on so many of the significant writers of this century. At the same time it opens up broader cultural issues, such as twentieth-century Americans' yearning for models of a more holistic awareness and rooted relationship to American nature and place.

"At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The White Man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds." CHIEF SEATTLE

$17

The Medicine Men Of The Apaches

• ISBN 87380-050-8
• Condition : Excellent
• Other Info : 8.5" x 11" Hard Back.

Interesting as to the practices of the Apache Medicine men. Some interesting pictures in this book are, the Scalp Shirt of Little Big Man, Necklace of human fingers, Apache medicine hat used in the ghost dance or spirit dance and the medicine shirt.

Was originally published in 1892, and this publication was in the year 1983. Pages begin in this copy with 443 and ends with page 603.

$40