Native American Studies Books

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  Ceremony

  by Leslie Marmon Silko  

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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and aliena  read more
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  This Land Was Theirs: A Study Of Native North Americans

  by Wendell H. Oswalt  

  Price:   Rs.3721 Rs.3012
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  This Land Was Theirs examines the traditional and contemporary lifeways of twelve North American Indian tribes. Ranging from the Netsilik hunters who straddle the Arctic Circle to the Natchez farmers of the lower Mississippi River area, the tribes represe  read more
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  Nunavut: Rethinking Political Culture

  by Ailsa Henderson  

  Price:   Rs.1945 Rs.1529
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Nunavut: Rethinking Political Culture explores the complex processes at work in the generation of political cultures. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and quantitative analysis, it provides the first systematic, empirical study of political life in Nunavu  read more
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  Simply Native American Astrology

  by Deborah Durbin  

  Price:   Rs.350 Rs.297
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Like their Western and Chinese counterparts, Native Americans developed an astrological system for understanding the world and envisioning harmony in the universe. Based on animals and clans—and with corresponding trees, stones, and colors—i  read more
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  Encyclopedia Of Native American Jewelry: A Guide To History, People, And Terms

  by Allison Bird-Romero   Paula A. Baxter  

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  Language: English | Binding: Hardbound

  This new guide is the first to explore all facets of Native American jewelry--its history, variety, and quality--in one convenient resource. With coverage beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, this resource includes artists, techniques, materials, m  read more

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  Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom In Native American Herbalism

  by Stephen Harrod Buhner  

  Price:   Rs.916 Rs.788
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  The first in-depth examination of the sacred underpinnings of the world of Native American medicinal herbalism
  
  • Reveals how shamans and healers "talk" with plants to discover their medicinal properties
  
  • Includes the p  read more
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  The Soul Of The Indian

  by Charles Alexander Eastman  

  Price:   Rs.283 Rs.244
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  The author, who was raised among the Sioux until the age of 15, is a uniquely qualified interpreter of Native American ways. He discusses forms of ceremonial and symbolic worship, the unwritten scriptures, and the spirit world, emphasizing the universal q  read more
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  American Woodland Indians (Men-At-Arms)

  by Michael Johnson  

  Price:   Rs.1028 Rs.777
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  The Woodland cultural areas of the eastern half of America has been the most important in shaping its history. This volume details the history, culture and conflicts of the 'Woodland' Indians, a name assigned to all the tribes living east of the Mississip  read more
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  Navajo & Photography

  by James C Faris  

  Price:   Rs.1429 Rs.1407
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  This thorough critical examination of photographic practices calls attention to the inability of most photography to communicate the lived experiences of native people or their history. Faris's survey, beginning with the earliest photographs of Navajo  read more
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  Kachina & The Cross

  by Carroll L Riley  

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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  "Here [among the Tewa] and in the other above-mentioned provinces there must be...sixty thousand Indians, with towns like ours and with houses built around rectangular plazas." --Juan de Oate, 1598 At the beginning of the seventeenth century the Pueblo I  read more
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  Ancient Visions: Petroglyphs And Pictographs Of The Wind River And Bighorn Country, Wyoming And Montana

  by Julie Francis   Lawrence L Loendorf  

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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  "The Bighorn and Wind River basins of north-central Wyoming and southern Montana have been home to Native American tribes for at least 11,000 years and contain some of the most diverse assemblages of hunter-gatherer rock art anywhere in the world. Most no  read more
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  Splendid Heritage: Perspectives On American Indian Arts

  by John Warnock   Marva Warnock   Ted J. Brasser  

  Price:   Rs.2862 Rs.2776
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  The Splendid Heritage catalog of American Indian artifacts represents the commitment of American collectors to share the beauty and significance of hundreds of ethnographic treasures with a worldwide audience. Originally exhibited as the Akicita Collectio  read more
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  Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers Of Creatures Great & Small

  by Ted Andrews  

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  Open your heart and mind to the wisdom of the animal world. Animal Speak provides techniques for recognizing and interpreting the signs and omens of nature. Meet and work with animals as totems and spirits by learning the language of their behaviors  read more
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  For An Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay On The Foundations Of A Social Ethic (Mcgill-Queen's Native And Northern Series)

  by Georges E. Sioui  

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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  This is a presentation of guidelines for the study of native history from an Amerindian perspective. Georges Sioui, a Huron Indian, argues that these guidelines must be respected if the self-image and social ethics of native people are to be understood an  read more
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  Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers: The Transformation Of Inuit Settlement In The Central Arctic (Mcgill-Queen's Native And Northe

  by David Damas  

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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  In recent years the view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. In Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers David Damas demonstrates that for many years government poli  read more
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  Coyote And Raven Go Canoeing: Coming Home To The Village (Mcgill-Queen's Native And Northern Series)

  by Peter Cole  

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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven, and the colonized and the colonizers, his narrative takes the form of a canoe j  read more
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  The American Empire And The Fourth World: The Bowl With One Spoon (Mcgill-Queen's Native And Northern Series)

  by Anthony J. Hall  

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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  In The American Empire and the Fourth World Anthony Hall presents a sweeping analysis of encounters between indigenous people and the European empires, national governments, and global corporations on the moving frontiers of globalization since Columbus "  read more
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  Firekeepers Of The Twenty-First Century: First Nations Women Chiefs (Mcgill-Queen's Native And Northern)

  by Cora J. Voyageur  

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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  A quiet revolution is occurring in Canada's First Nations communities, with changes taking place on social, political, and economic fronts and a significant redistribution of power. Changes to the Indian Act in 1951 paved the way for women to become offic  read more
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  Disrobing The Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation

  by Albert Howard   Frances Widdowson  

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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Despite the billions of dollars devoted to aboriginal causes, Native people in Canada continue to suffer all the symptoms of a marginalized existence - high rates of substance abuse, violence, poverty. "Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry" argues that the p  read more
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  First Nations?: Second Thoughts

  by Tom Flanagan  

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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as 'nations' entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include the inherent right to   read more

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