... If You Lived with the Sioux Indians


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Describes the daily life of the Sioux Indians--their clothing, food, games, customs, and more--before and after the coming of the white man.




If You Lived in Colonial Times


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Looks at the homes, clothes, family life, and community activities of boys and girls in the New England colonies.







If You Lived with the Indians of the Northwest Coast


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An addition to a popular history series presents a child's eye view of the Native American cultures of America's northern Pacific coast, showing their housing, clothing, social structure, religious customs, occupations, and more. Original.




My People


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" ... [The book] is just a message to the white race; to bring my people before their eyes in a true and authentic manner ..."--Preface.




The World We Used to Live In


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In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used To Live In, a fascinating collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country, explores everything from healing miracles and scared rituals to Navajos who could move the sun. In this compelling work, which draws upon a lifetime of scholarship, Deloria shows us how ancient powers fit into our modern understanding of science and the cosmos, and how future generations may draw strength from the old ways.




These Were the Sioux


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"The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them," writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, written in her last decade, takes the reader far inside a world of rituals surrounding puberty, courtship, and marriage, as well as the hunt and the battle.




Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem


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From the mid-1860s until the end of organized resistance on the Great Plains, Red Cloud, the noted Oglala Sioux, epitomized for many the Indian problem. Centered on Red Cloud?s career, this is an admirably impartial, circumstantial, and rigorously documented study of the relations between the Sioux and the United States government during the years after the Civil War.




Kitchi


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"He is forever and ever here in spirit" An adventure. A magic necklace. Brotherhood. Six-year-old Forrest feels lost now that his big brother Kitchi is no longer here. He misses him every day and clings onto a necklace that reminds him of Kitchi. One day, the necklace comes to life. Forrest is taken on a magical adventure, where he meets a colourful cast of characters, including a beautiful, yet mysterious fox, who soon becomes his best friend. www.kitchithespiritfox.com




On the Rez


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Raw account of modern day Oglala Sioux who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.