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  • Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life

    The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy

    by Robert S. McPherson, Jim Dandy, Sarah E. Burak ...
    Born in the early 1940s in northern Arizona’s high country desert, Jim Dandy began life imbued with the traditions of the Navajo people. Raised by his father and grandfather—both medicine men—and a grandmother steeped in Navajo practices, he embraced their teachings and followed in their footsteps. But attending the LDS Placement program in northern Utah changed his life’s course when he became a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Education of Augie Merasty

    A Residential School Memoir

    by Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty, David Carpenter ...
    Series series The Regina Collection
    The Education of Augie Merasty offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school.Now a retired fisherman and trapper, Joseph A. (Augie) Merasty was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government-funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of "aggressive assimiliation."As ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Gall: Lakota War Chief

    Lakota War Chief

    by Robert W. Larson ...
    Called the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex the Black Hills. It was Gall, enraged by the slaughter of his family, who led the charge across Medicine Tail Ford to attack Custer’s main forces on the other side of the Little Bighorn.Robert W. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tecumseh

    Shooting Star, Crouching Panther

    by Jim Poling Sr. ...
    Shawnee war chief Tecumseh dedicated his life to stopping American expansion and preserving the lands and cultures of North American Aboriginal peoples. He travelled relentlessly trying to build a confederation of tribes that would stop the territorial ambitions of the newly created United States of America.Tecumseh tried both diplomacy and battle to preserve his Ohio Valley homelands. When he ... Read more

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  • Mi'sel Joe

    An Aboriginal Chief’s Journey

    by Raoul R. Andersen, John K. Crellin ...
    The inspirational memoir of a Mi'kmaq civil rights leader. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Molly Brant

    Mohawk Loyalist and Diplomat

    by Peggy Dymond Leavey ...
    Series Book 36 - Quest Biography
    Molly Brant, a Mohawk girl born into poverty in 1736, became the consort of Sir William Johnson, one of the wealthiest white men in 18th-century America. Suspected of being a spy for the British during the American Revolution, Molly was forced to flee with her children or face imprisonment. Because of her ability to influence the Mohawks, her assistance was needed at Fort Niagara, and she found ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sitting Bull

    The Life and Times of an American Patriot

    by Robert M. Utley ...
    "Gripping. . . . transforms Sitting Bull, the abstract, romanticized icon and symbol, into a flesh-and-blood person with a down-to-earth story." — The New York Times Book ReviewWinner, Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction Historical BookA New York Times Notable BookReviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as a great warrior chief, Sitting Bull ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • A Metaphoric Mind

    Selected Writings of Joseph Couture

    Edited by Ruth Couture, Virginia McGowan ...
    Dr. Joseph Couture (1930–2007), known affectionately as "Dr. Joe," stood at the centre of some of the greatest political, social, and intellectual struggles of Aboriginal peoples in contemporary Canada. A profound thinker and writer, as well as a gifted orator, he easily walked two paths, as a respected Elder and traditional healer and as an educational psychologist, one of the first Aboriginal ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • He Moved A Mountain

    The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga’a Land Claims Accord

    by Joan Harper ...
    Dr. Frank Arthur Calder of BC’s Nisga’a First Nation was the first aboriginal person to be elected to any Canadian governing body. For twenty-six years he served as an MLA in the legislature of British Columbia. He was the driving force behind Canada’s decision to grant recognition of aboriginal land title to First Nations people throughout the country. He accomplished this goal by guiding the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • American Legends: The Life of Geronimo

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Discusses the myths, legends, and controversies surrounding Geronimo's life.*Explains where the name Geronimo originated from.*Analyzes Geronimo's legacy and depictions of him in pop culture.*Includes pictures of Geronimo and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents. "This boys name was Apache. Usen taught him how to prepare herbs for medicine, how to hunt, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • From the Tundra to the Trenches

    by Eddy Weetaltuk ...
    Series Book 4 - First Voices, First Texts
    “My name is Weetaltuk; Eddy Weetaltuk. My Eskimo tag name is E9-422.” So begins From the Tundra to the Trenches. Weetaltuk means “innocent eyes” in Inuktitut, but to the Canadian government, he was known as E9-422: E for Eskimo, 9 for his community, 422 to identify Eddy.In 1951, Eddy decided to leave James Bay. Because Inuit weren’t allowed to leave the North, he changed his name and used this new ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Under the Eagle

    Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker

    by Samuel Holiday, Robert S. McPherson ...
    Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which the narrator relates his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD