Telling a Good One

Theodore Rios, Kathleen Mullen Sands

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Telling a Good One is the first comprehensive examination of the collaborative process that creates a Native American life story. Kathleen Mullen Sand... Lees meer

The Turtle's Beating Heart

Denise Low

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• "Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end," Denise Low writes, "as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we se... Lees meer

William W. Warren

Theresa M Schenck

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• This is the first full-length biography of William W. Warren (1825-53), an Ojibwe interpreter, historian, and legislator in the Minnesota Territory. D... Lees meer

Life, Letters and Speeches

George Copway

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh, 1818-69), an Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during ... Lees meer

John Rollin Ridge

James W Parins

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• John Rollin Ridge is the first full-length biography of a Cherokee whose best revenge was in writing well. A cross between Lord Byron, the romantic po... Lees meer

Alanis Obomsawin

Randolph Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native ... Lees meer

Sarah Winnemucca

Sally Zanjani

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• This book is the triumphant and moving story of Sarah Winnemucca (1844-91), one of the most influential and charismatic Native women in American histo... Lees meer

Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's searching account of her life as a mixed-blood woman coming of age off reservation, yet deepl... Lees meer

Postindian Conversations

A Robert Lee, Gerald Vizenor

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Postindian Conversations is the first collection of in-depth interviews with Gerald Vizenor, one of the most powerful and provocative voices in the Na... Lees meer

Mourning Dove

Mourning Dove

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State. She was the author of C... Lees meer

Alex Posey

Daniel F Littlefield

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Most of Alexander Posey's short and remarkable life was devoted to literary pursuits. Through a widely circulated satirical column published under the... Lees meer

I Tell You Now (Second Edition)

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• I Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second editi... Lees meer

Muscogee Daughter

Susan Supernaw

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• How American is Miss America? For Susan Supernaw, a Muscogee (Creek) and Munsee Native American, the question wasn't just academic. Throughout a child... Lees meer

Life Lived Like a Story

Julie Cruikshank

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collabo... Lees meer

First to Fight

Henry Mihesuah

• Hardcover | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Henry Mihesuah, a Comanche of the Quahada band, has led an ordinary modern American Indian life filled with extraordinary moments. Growing up in the 1... Lees meer

Bitterroot

Susan Devan Harness

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• 2019 High Plains Book Award (Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories) 2021 Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado In Bitterroot Susan... Lees meer

Chevato

William Chebahtah, Nancy McGown Minor

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Here is the oral history of the Apache warrior Chevato, who captured eleven-year-old Herman Lehmann from his Texas homestead in May 1870. Lehmann call... Lees meer

Song of Rita Joe

Rita Joe

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Here is the enlightening story of an esteemed and eloquent Mi'kmaq woman whose message of "gentle persuasion" has enriched the life of a nation. Rita ... Lees meer

I'll Go and Do More

Carolyn Niethammer

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• I'll Go and Do More is the story of Annie Dodge Wauneka (1918-97), one of the best-known Navajos of all time. A daughter of the popular Navajo leader ... Lees meer

My Side of the River

Elias Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• In 1971 the U.S. government created the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and extinguished Alaska Native aboriginal rights to hunting and fishing--f... Lees meer

First to Fight

Henry Mihesuah

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Henry Mihesuah, a Comanche of the Quahada band, has led an ordinary modern American Indian life filled with extraordinary moments. Growing up in the 1... Lees meer

Dreaming the Dawn

E K Caldwell

• Hardcover | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Fresh, informative, and provocative, this collection of interviews showcases twelve leading Native artists and activists who have challenged and helpe... Lees meer

Elias Cornelius Boudinot

James W Parins

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• Elias Cornelius Boudinot provides the first full account of a man who was intimately and prominently involved in the life of the Cherokee Nation in th... Lees meer

Chainbreaker

Chainbreaker

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Lives
• One of the earliest memoirs by an American Indian, Chainbreaker presents the recollections of a Seneca chief, also known as Governor Blacksnake. A fig... Lees meer