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[Hardcover] - $34.95
American Indian Educators in Reservation Schools
by Terry Huffman
The role of Native American teachers and administrators working in reservation schools has received little attention from scholars.... more

[Paperback] - $11.00
Ancient Acid Flashes Back
Poems
by Adrian C. Louis
Ancient Acid Flashes Back is the true story of one who was there—and remembers—through the cloying marijuana haze, around the jagged edges of L.... more

[Paperback] - $19.95
As Long as the River Shall Run
An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation
by Martha C. Knack, Omer C. Stewart
The history of the Northern Paiutes of Pyramid Lake in northwestern Nevada is one fraught with the conflicts and tensions of the modern West—relentless encroachment by non-Indians into Indian lands;... more

[Paperback] - $17.00
The Basket Woman
A Book of Indian Tales
by Mary Austin
Austin's charming and evocative stories dramatize the legacy of conquest upon a land and its native peoples.... more

[Paperback] - $24.95
Cave Rock
Climbers, Courts, and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place
by Matthew S. Makley, Michael J. Makley
On August 27, 2007, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier district court ruling that sport climbing on a Washoe Indian sacred site in western Nevada must cease.... more

[Paperback] - $15.00
Ceremonies of the Damned
Poems
by Adrian C. Louis
The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of pain—the blizzard-blasted plains and dusty towns of the northern Midwest, the hopeless barrenness of the Reservation, and a bleak interior world of loss, illness, and despair.... more

[Hardcover] - $34.95
Dancing Ghosts
Native American and Christian Syncretism in Mary Austin's Work
by Mark T. Hoyer
How did an Illinois Methodist homesteader in the West come to create one of the most significant cosmological syntheses in American literature?... more

[Hardcover] - $44.95
A Fateful Time
The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act
by Elmer R. Rusco
The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934 has been generally acknowledged as the most important statute affecting Native Americans after the General Allotment Act of 1887, and it is probably the most important single statute affecting Native Americans during the two-thirds of a century since its passage.... more