Autobiography of a Yaqui Poet

• ISBN 081650628-0
• Condition : Excellent.
• Size 5.5" x 8.5" Soft Cover; 228 pages

This is the major literary achievement of a sensitive gifted man. The author is a Yaqui Indian, a railroad gandy dancer who sees beauty in iron spikes and rail clamps as well as in twilight-purple mountains and glossy-leafed cottonwood trees.

In the seventy years following his flight from the Yaqui-Mexican wars in Sonora, Savala became a talented poet and loving recorder of his people's cultural heritage. A large sampling of his original works appear in the interpretations section of this book. Together with the beautifully written autobiography, they offer a unique view of Arizona Yaqui culture and history, railroading in the American West, and the personal and artistic growth of a Native American man of letters.

$16.95

American Indian Identity

• ISBN 0-940113-19-8
• Condition : Very Good - A couple scratches on the back of the book
• Size 8" x 8.5" Soft Cover. 104 pages

The authors offer seven intriguing essays discussing a variety of topics relative to today's American Indian. They argue that many aspects of Indian identity exist among the numerous tribes of North America and that no one tribe or person personifies what that identity is today. Indeed, there are many elements of American Indian identity, and the editor has skillfully assembled a fine collection of original works which examine this significant question. Topics include in this short volumn range from cowboys to pickups and from Indian education to middle class Indian America. This is a lively book filled with provocative ideas. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand American Indians today. Lots of black and white photos.

$15

Meditations with the Navajo

• ISBN 0-939680-39-4
• Condition : Excellent.
• Size 8" x 5" Soft Cover; 143 pages

With poetry, stories, and drawings by his brother Sid, poet and ancient-wisdom seeker, Gerald Hausman brings us into communion with the Navajo and their society-their creation or emergence myths; their ceremonies; their connection to wandering wolf, the creature who always reappears.

$8

Yellowtail - Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief

• ISBN 0-8061-2333-8
• Condition : Excellent
• Size 8.5" x 5.5" Hardback; 240 pages

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 principle figure in the Crow-Shoshone Sun Dance religion, Yellowtail has preserved traditional values in the face of the constantly encroaching, diametrically opposed values of materialistic modern society. In part one, Yellowtail introduces us to traditional Indian ways. Part two focuses on the Sun Dance religion, particularly purification in the sweat lodge, the individual spiritual retreat known as the "Vision Quest", daily prayer with the sacred pipe, and the Sun Dance ceremony itself.

$30

Cochise

• ISBN 0-08061-2337-0
• Condition : Excellent. [on the outer edge there are about 5 small black marks but nothing inside or on the cover]
• Size 6" x 9" Hard Back; 501 pages

Cochise, a Chiricahua, was said to be the most resourceful, most brutal, most feared Apache. He and his warriors raided in both Mexico and the United States, crossing the border both ways to obtain sanctuary after raids for cattle, horses and other livestock. Once only he was captured and imprisoned, on the day he was freed he vowed never to be taken again. From that day he gave no quarters and asked for none. Always at the head of his warriors in battle, he led a charmed life, being wounded several times but always surviving.

In 1861, when his brother was executed by the Americans at Apache Pass, Cochise declared war. He fought relentlessly for a decade, and then only in the face of overwhelming military superiority did he agree to a peace and accept reservation. He faithfully kept that peace until his death in 1874.

$35

Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place

• ISBN 0-8061-1828-8
• Condition : Excellent
• Size 9" x 6" Soft Cover; 480 pages

On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles. With Geronimo, at the time of his surrender, were Chief Naiche (the son of the great Cochise), sixteen other warriors, fourteen women, and six children. It had taken a force of 5,000 regular army troops and a series of false promises to "capture" the band.

Yet the surrender that day was not the end of the story of the Apaches associated with Geronimo. Besides his small band, 394 of his tribesmen, including his wife and children, were rounded up, loaded into railroad cars, and shipped to Florida. For more than 20 years Geronimo's people were kept in captivity at Fort Pickins, Florida; Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama; and finally Fort Sill, Oklahoma. They never gave up hope of returning to their mountain home in Arizona and New Mexico, even as their numbers were reduced by starvation and disease and their children were taken from them to be sent to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.

$30

The Cheyenne Way

• ISBN 0-8061-1855-5
• Condition : Excellent.
• Size 9" x 6" Soft Cover. 360 pages.

The Cheyenne Indians, in sharp contrast to other Plains tribes, are renowned for their clear sense of form and structure in their institutions. Chapters included in this book are, The Council of Forty-Four, The Military Societies, Homicide and the Supernatural, Marriage and Sex, Property and Inheritance, The Law-Jobs, and the Cheyenne Way. More than a study of the jurisprudence of this single tribe, this book deals with the evolution of law and legal procedure among various other primitive peoples of the world. The cases themselves are so beautifully alive that an emementary school child will forget to go to sleep reading them; so will the adult.

$18.95

Lakota Spirituality

• ISBN 0-939680-13-0
• Condition : Excellent
• Size 5" x 8" Soft Cover 143 pages

Wakantanka, God, has given his children the power of prayer. He has told them, 'Join with everything and pray to Me. And I will not leave you. Take something of Mother - her red heart and red stone; take something of the wood - a short branch; take something of the animals - the eagle feathers. And with all these make a sacred pipe'.

$8

The Phoenix of the Western World Quetzalcoatl

• ISBN 0-8061-1773-7
• Condition : Excellent
• Size 5.5" x 8.5" Hardback. 349 pages

A lot of illustrations are included in this book which is about the sky religion of the Aztec people. There were 4 interwoven yet distinctive religions. There were others such as fire, earth, and the cult of Tezcatlipoca. Central in the sky religion is Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, the great sky dragon, son of the dawn and the earth and the slayer and awakener of the light.

Quetzalcoatl and his powerful cult of priest, had their origins on the Gulf Coast and in time reached through Mesoamerica, merging with Mayan cults, and into North America. He was the wind, the god of priest, the god of blood sacrifice. He was at once a culture hero, a god of warriors, a god of the underworld, the evening star, the god of the Aztec ball game-the great cult act of the sky religion. And always he was the god of the fearsome night, who held in his power to resurrect or withhold the dawn.

$30

The Southern Cheyennes

• ISBN 0-8061-1199-2
• Condition : Excellent
• Size 8" x 5" Soft Cover. 442 page

After nearly two centuries of fighting other Indians and whites for their lands, in the eighteenth century the Cheyennes were forced to shift their range from the Minnesota River Valley to the Central and Southern Plains. From 1861 to 1875 they fought to maintain their nomadic existence. There were bloody wars with territorial forces and army troops and a few years of intermittent peace and retaliation, including the massacre at Sand Creek in 1864.

$20