Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Through The Eyes of The Eagle

Mary Brave Bird

Richard Erdoes

Published 1993, 1st Edition/Dust Jacket, ex-library copy. Sticky sticker residue sticks to bottom around spine.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Ohitika Woman

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Margot Edmonds

Ella Clark

No writing or markings inside. Front cover of the dust jacket has a small tear in it as you can see in the first photo. Please view last photo that shows some marks on the bottom of the book.￼ y1fvvq

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

Native American Legends

This wonderfully colorful and appealing anthology gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and tribal historians.

Voices of the Winds

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Nancy Van Laan

Oregon

A Treasury of Native Lore from North America

A collection of Native American legends from North America about animals and nature.

In a Circle Long Ago

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#hardcover #NativeAmerican #family #VietnamWar #northernWI #Wisconsin #comingofage


Minnesota

Once every now and again a new voice emerges to astonish and Mary Relindes Ellis’s is one such voice. Lyrical, assured and deeply felt, Ellis’s debut novel is the story of two brothers, their parents, and their neighbors, who farm in the gloriously beautiful, isolated country of northern Wisconsin, inhabited by working-class European immigrants and the Ojibwe.By 1967, the Lucas farm has fallen into disrepair, thanks to the hard-drinking of John Lucas, who brutalizes his wife and two sons, James and Bill. The elder brother, James, escapes by enlisting in the Marines and fighting in Vietnam, a conflict he does not survive. Young Bill is left to protect his mother, with only his own will and the spirit of his dead brother to guide him. The warrior of the title, Bill fashions a shield from a giant turtle shell that he believes keeps him from harm. And, as he faces manhood, he longs to create a family very different from his father’s—a family that must include not only his damaged mother, but the elderly couple who offered him safe haven in his bleakest days.In The Turtle Warrior, Ellis takes the reader from the heartland of America to the battlefields of World War II and Vietnam, weaving a haunting tale of an unforgettable world where the physical and spiritual, the past and present merge.Lushly evoking both the natural world and the complexities of human relationships, The Turtle Warriorwill speak directly to the hearts of readers everywhere, especially to admirers of Leif Enger, Russell Banks, and Leslie Marmon Silko.

The Turtle Warrior

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New York

Native American Fetish Jewelry

Rajani LaRocca

Red, White, and Whole

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Rated a very impressive 4.4 out of 5 on Goodreads.
A Gwen Marcey novel

Maryland





"Rich characters, a forensic artist's eye for detail, and plot twists--Carrie Stuart Parks hits all the right notes!" --Mary Burton, New York Times bestselling author

An unsolved case. A tempest of memories. The future's at stake--and time is running out . . .

Gwen Marcey has done a good job keeping the pain of her past boxed up. But as she investigates the case of a missing child in Lapwai, Idaho, details keep surfacing that are eerily similar to her childhood traumas. She doesn't believe in coincidences. So what's going on here

No one knows more about the impact of the past than the Nez Perce people of Lapwai. Gwen finds herself an unwelcome visitor to some, making her investigation even more difficult. The questions keep piling up, but answers are slow in coming--and the clock is ticking for a missing little girl. Meanwhile, Gwen's ex-husband is threatening to take sole custody of their daughter.

As Gwen's past and present collide, she's in a desperate race for the truth. Because only truth will ensure she still has a future.

Portrait of Vengeance

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#paperback #fiction #suspense #mystery #fbi #nativeamerican


Wisconsin

A Novel of Suspense

From Kirk Mitchell comes a riveting suspense thriller in the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Joseph Wambaugh, featuring Bureau of Indian Affairs Criminal Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, two Native American cops searching for justice between their heritage and the law.

Though there are signs of foul play, Emmett Quanah Parker and Anna Turnipseed aren't looking for a killer -- the remains dug out of a riverbank by an illegal fossil hunter are 14,000 years old. Parker and Turnipseed have been sent to central Oregon as official witnesses to the examination of the relics.

But the bones quickly provoke a controversy that threatens to erupt into violence: the skeleton is not Native American but distinctly Caucasian, shattering long-held tenets of who first inhabited this continent.

Emmett, with his Comanche and white ancestry, and Anna, a reservation-born Modoc with Asian blood, share a sensitivity to both parties' concerns -- and a forbidden attraction that's causing them professional and personal problems.

As people connected to the case begin to lose their lives, Emmett and Anna are paralyzed by their own demons. And if they stop watching each other's back, even for a moment, the killer may target them too.

Ancient Ones

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Susan Cooper

At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.

Ghost Hawk

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#hardcover #nativeamerican #quoz #firstedition

Kentucky

An American Mosey

About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads -- those colored blue on maps -- he uncovered a nation deep in character, story, and charm.

Now, for the first time since Blue Highways, Heat-Moon is back on the backroads. Roads to Quoz is his lyrical, funny, and touching account of a series of American journeys into small-town America.

Roads to Quoz

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#paperback #nativeamerican #hemingway #signed 

Michigan

The Hemingways had everything 1900's life had to offer, but it wasn't enough for their genius teenaged son, Ernest. Fueled by his overactive imagination, his devil-may-care attitude, together with too much late night consumption of classic adventure stories, Ernie and his friends and siblings embark upon a tumultuous, highly-stoked summer, deep into virgin forests of wild Petoskey, Michigan.

Hemingway's Indian Girl

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Tomie dePaola

Texas

This favorite legend, based on Comanche lore, tells the story of how the bluebonnet, the state flower of Texas, came to be. A "Reading Rainbow" Review Title, an American Bookseller #1 Pick of the List Book, Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, NCSS Notable Children's Trade Book. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Legend of the Bluebonnet

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Whitman Mission: National Historic Site 

Scott O'Dell

Wear on edges, creases, name across pages and on inner cover. Pages are clean.

The Spanish Slavers were an ever-present threat to the Navaho way of life.  One lovely spring day, fourteen-year-old Bright Morning and her friend Running Bird took their sheep to pasture.  The sky was clear blue against the red buttes of the Canyon de Chelly, and the fields and orchards of the Navahos promised a rich harvest.  Bright Morning was happy as she gazed across the beautiful valley that was the home of her tribe.  She turned when Black Dog barked, and it was then that she saw the Spanish slavers riding straight toward her.  

Sing down the Moon

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Time-Life Books Editors

Virginia

History, customs, mythology, and lore of the continent's first inhabitants are inter-woven in this rich new look at our Native American heritage. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, drawings, and artifacts.

The European Challenge

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#paperback #nativeamerican #threedollarsteal #dreams #saga #personalgrowth #success #ancestor 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Tribute to the American Dream

MORNING STAR. Lost & found dreams. A smashing saga spun upon the twists of life. A superbly crafted American tale that reveals the downside of fame and fortune, the clash of good and evil, the blinding magnetic force of power and greed, and the essence of passion along with its double edged sword. Stretching across the prairies of Southwestern Illinois, to the boardrooms of St. Louis, reaching deep into the trust funds of Virginia's old money families, and touching the heart of Paris, come, walk in the footsteps of Edward, Jaclyn, Adrianna, and Matt, and the woman who inspired them all -- Morning Star, the alluring Indian squaw whose spirit of beauty and strength shines like a beacon of hope to inspire all those who are searching. This is the ultimate virtual reality experience. Feel the pain and share in the ecstasy. Lose yourself in the minds and in the lives of these four characters. Encounter and understand their journeys of personal growth which enable them to make the choices, partake in the struggles, and endure the agony necessary to achieve their successes and make their dreams come true.

Morning Star

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Sharon Sala

Ohio

As teenagers, Raine Beaumont and Joseph Colorado tasted the joys of first love, until her father's lies destroyed their fragile bond. Now, twelve years later, Raine receives news that will take her back to her hometown of Oracle, Arizona, where she will face her lost love again. Haunted by the memory of the boy she once adored, Raine was not prepared for the mysterious, seductive man before her. For deep in Joseph's eyes lies a power that binds him to his Apache heritage, a power that promises to heal all wounds and restore long lost dreams . . . and love.

Legend

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Jamake Highwater

Former library copy, has been reinforced, but completely in tact and readable copy. 

A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Anpao is young and Handsome and Brave -- a man any maiden would be proud to call her husband. Any maiden but Ko-Ko-Mik-e-is, that is, who calims she belongs to the Sun alone. And so Anpao sets off for the house of the Sun to ask permission to marry the woman he loves. But Anpao's journey is not an easy one. Before he can reach the Sun, Anapao must travel back in time to the dawn of the world. He must relive his own creation, venture through The World Beneath the World, and battle the many magical mystical creatures of Native American legends. For only by doing so can Anpao discover who he really is, and rove to the Sun why he alone is worthy of the fair Ko-komik-e-is

Anpao

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#paperback #Hiawatha #poem #Longfellow #NativeAmerican #Indian #Minnehaha #poetry #Ojibwe

Illustrated

The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The epic relates the adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature.In his book on the development of the image of the Indian in American thought and literature, Pearce wrote about The Song of Hiawatha: "It was Longfellow who fully realized for mid-nineteenth century Americans the possibility of image of the noble savage. He had available to him not only poems on the Indian . . . but also the general feeling that the Indian belonged nowhere in American life but in dim prehistory. He saw how the mass of Indian legends which Schoolcraft was collecting depicted noble savages out of time, and offered, if treated right, a kind of primitive example of that very progress which had done them in. Thus in Hiawatha he was able, matching legend with a sentimental view of a past far enough away in time to be safe and near enough in space to be appealing, fully to image the Indian as noble savage. For by the time Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, the Indian as a direct opponent of civilization was dead, yet was still heavy on American consciences . . . . The tone of the legend and ballad... would color the noble savage so as to make him blend in with a dim and satisfying past about which readers could have dim and satisfying feelings."

The Song of Hiawatha

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New Hampshire

In IN THE SHADOW OF EAGLE, author Donna Loring explains how Maine is the only state in the nation to have tribal representatives seated in its legislative body, a practice that began in the 1820s. Although the representatives from the Penobscot Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe don't have voting power on the house floor, they serve on committees and may chair committees. Donna's first session as representative of the Penobscot Nation was a difficult one'a personal struggle to have a "voice," but also because of the issues: changing offensive names, teaching Native American history in Maine schools, casinos and racinos, and the interpretation of sovereign rights for tribes. Some of the struggles and issues remain as she continues to serve, and the perspective she offers--as a Native American and as a legislator'is both valuable and fascinating.


In the Shadow of the Eagle

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Kevin Costner

Michael Blake

Jim Wilson

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Illustrated Story of the Epic Film

The official movie tie-in edition to the film produced by, directed by, and starring Kevin Costner (Field of Dreams, Bill Durham). This spectacular adventure epic recreates the natural world of a Sioux tribe in the Dakota Territory in 1864 through the eyes of a Union Soldier determined to experience the Western frontier before it is despoiled by white invaders. Photographs. Author appearancces.

Dances with Wolves

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Paul Goble

Signs of light water damage. Some writing on inner cover. All pictured.

A brave boy goes into the hills and prays for help for his people. A rider on a magnificent animal comes to him and says: "This animal is called the Sacred Dog. He can do many things your dogs can do and also more...He is as the wind: gentle but sometimes frightening." The clouds close and suddenly one by one countless Sacred Dogs course down from the sky. And so the courage of one determined boy is rewarded by the Great Spirit: The horse, or Sacred Dog, is given to his tribe.

The Gift of the Sacred Dog

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Brandon Hobson

Pennsylvania

A Novel

Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings of alienation. With the family's annual bonfire approaching--an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray's death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memory--Maria attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more. But as the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. Maria and Ernest take in a foster child who seems to almost miraculously keep Ernest's mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man named Vin, despite--or perhaps because of--his ties to tragedy in her lifetime and lifetimes before. And in the wake of a suicide attempt, Edgar finds himself in the mysterious Darkening Land: a place between the living and the dead, where old atrocities echo. Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of trauma--a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.

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