American Indian Books

History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

• ISBN 0-914875-19-1
• Condition : Excellent.
• Other Info : 6" x 9" Soft Cover. 397 pages.

This large book contains two books by James Mooney. They are 'Myths of the Cherokee' and 'The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees' as originally published by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1900 and 1891 respectively.

In James Mooney's writings, the memory and culture, the mind and spirit of a great people, the Cherokees, were saved from irreparable loss by the effort and vision of a gifted anthropologist.

In this work 'unique' is genuinely appropriate and the author is an authentic 'genius'.

$40

Native American Religions

• ISBN 0-8091-3404-7
• Condition : Excellent
• Other Info : 6" x 9" Soft Cover. 270 pages.

Native American Religions is a rich look at the graceful and religiously significant ways in which Native American peoples organized their lives. It surveys tribes of all the regions from north Alaska and Canada to the southernmost point of South America. Especially enlightening in view of today's environmental awareness, this balanced and fascinating book is a much-needed and welcome introduction to the spiritual traditions of Native Americans.

$15.00

Native American Stories

• ISBN 1-55591-094-7
• Condition : Excellent.
• Other Info : 7" x 10" Soft Cover. 145 pages.

Joseph Bruchahc--or Sozap, as he is known under his Abenaki name--is a well-known storyteller who follows the old ways as much as possible. A poet and novelist as well, has won national awards for his writing. His work reflects his Native American hertiage, which is the basis for his belief that storytelling is natural and necessary to all people. He has been a storyteller-in-residence at the Onondaga Indian School and the Akwesasne Mohawk School.

A common thread throughout these stories is the native view of the world as family-Earth as our Mother. Sun as our Father and the animals as our brothers and sisters.

A great book for teachers.

$11.95

Signs From The Ancestors

• ISBN 0-8263-1203-9
• Condition : Excellent.
• Other Info : 6" x 9" Soft Cover. 308 pages.

Thousands of painted and carved rock art images, dating from A.D.400 to the present, are located on mesa walls, boulders, and the interiors of caves around Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico. This book tells us what these images mean to the Zuni people, setting the rock art in their vast symbolic network of thought, verbal expression and ritual action.

$25

The Chilkat Dancing Blanket

• ISBN 0-80612299-4
• Condition : Excellent.
• Other Info : 8.5" x 11" Soft Cover. 232 pages.

This book unravels the mysteries of the Chilkat weavers through research of surviving masterpieces in museums around the world, then reweaves a very readable and well-illustrated account enriched with the legends of the people and rituals of the potlatch. An essential book for both weaving enthusiast and admirers of Northwest Coast Indian art.

$35

Meditations with Animals

• ISBN 0-939680-26-2
• Condition : Excellent.
• Other Info : 6.5" x 8.5" Soft Cover. 141 pages.

This is the first bestiary ever issued from Native Americans showing the helping and healing roles animals have played in their spiritual history. These are not animal stories, nor mere tales to delight and provoke interest. They are the rites and rituals of a variety of tribes depicting a world unified by the belief that the animal spirit dwells within each of us. With the power given by animals humankind transcends the earthly realm and enters into a unique oneness with a thousand-and-one things seen and not seen by the senses.

$8

The Soul of the Indian

• ISBN 0-8032-6701-0
• Condition : Excellent.
• Other Info : 5" x 8" Soft Cover. 170 pages.

Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) was a mixed- blood Sioux. His maternal grandmother, a daughter of Chief Cloudman of the Mdewankton Sioux, was married to a wll-known western artist, Captain Seth Eastman, and in 1847 their daughter Mary Nancy Eastman became the wife of Chief Many Lightenings, a Wahpeton Sioux. Their fifth child, Charles Alexander Eastman, as a four-year old was given the name Ohiyesa (the Winner).

During the Sioux Uprising of 1862 Ohiyesa became separated from his father, his mother had died soon after his birth and fled from the reservation in Minnesota to Canada under the protection of his grandmother and uncle. There he was schooled in the Indian ways until the age of fifteen, when he was reunited with his father, who took him back to his homestead in present South Dakota.

"The Soul of the India" is to paint the religious life of the typical American Indian as it was before he knew the white man.

$6.95

Early Man and the Cosmos

• ISBN 0-8061-1919-5
• Condition : Excellent.
• Other Info : 7" x 10" Soft Cover. 263 pages.

In the New World, Hadingham illuminates recent discoveries in California and the Southwest: the Chumash cave art of California, sun-dagger solar devices of New Mexico, and the intriguing alignments of twelfth-century pueblos, near which a form of the ancient astronomer's art is still practiced today. Paticular attention is given the temples and cosmologies of the Mayans,whose ancient priest compiled books on lunar cycles so accurate that they err by only two hours every five centuries.

$30

Mountain Windsong

• ISBN 0-8061-2452-0
• Condition : Excellent.
• Other Info : 5.5" x 8.5" Hard Back. 218 pages.

At last a Cherokee love story about two ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary period of time. In telling the love story of Oconeechee, Bob Conley takes the reader on a journey that allows one to feel the effects of the Trail of Tears on individual people and their families while weaving in solid historical information about all the external forces which forever changed the Cherokee Nation. Mountain Windsong evokes deep feelings and thoughtful reflection. It is a poignant story, powerful and disturbing.---Wilma P. Mankiller, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

$25

The People

• ISBN 0-933452-37-3
• Condition : Excellent.
• Other Info : 7.5" x 10" Soft Cover. 496 pages.

A huge book about the Native peoples of the American Southwest, who know themselves by names that in their own languages mean' The People', are fiercely dedicated to preserving their lands, their families, and their ethnicity. Despite the difficulties they face-loss of land and water rights, poverty, attempts at assimilation-they remain emotionally connected to their past. These feelings keep traditions alive and dynamic.

For nearly a decade, Stephen Trimble visited the fifty modern Indian nations throughout the American Southwest, listening and photographing. Now he seamlessly weaves together these words and photographs to present an unparalleled picture of The People as they have lived for generations--and as they live today.

$40