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CRAZY HORSE AND CUSTER: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
by Stephen Ambrose. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1986 Meridian-NAL large Trade Paperback, second printing. Tiny edgewear with light tanning to page edges. Content: Military historian Ambrose examines the connections between the Indian chief and the cavalry officer who fought at Little Bighorn. Reviewer: "Ambrose really brings history to life in this book about Custer, Crazy Horse, and the culture of plains indians and American expansionism. Ambrose is able to elquantly put down on to paper both sides of the story without becoming bogged down in what is so popularly reffered to as politically correct revisionist history. After reading this book I really feel as though I have a much better understanding of both the indian side of the story which is to preserve their way of life as well as the unstoppable expansion into the west. Anyway no matter who's [sic] side you take Custer's or Crazy Horse's it's a great book and was fun to read. [1 copy available]
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LAKOTA: Seeking the Great Spirit (Native American Wisdom series)
introduction by Terry Wilson. Wonderful color and B&W photos and drawings. Condition: NEW 1994 Chronicle Books small hardcover [6.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 (64 pages)] and DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Content: Before the Euro-Americans nearly destroyed the Lakota's basic way of life at the end of the nineteenth century, they were the great masters of the North American plains and prairies, feared and respected by other tribes from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains. Questions welcome. [1 copy available.]
$ 5.69 + shipping.

LAKOTA WOMAN
by Mary Crow Dog with Richard Erdoes. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1991 HarperPerennial Trade PB first thus, 36th printing. Tiny edgewear. Movie edition. Content: This is one of the best books available to people interested in contemporary Native Americans. Mary Brave Bird's life story sheds light on traditions of her Lakota (Sioux) people from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations in South Dakota. She shows, in a very clear way, their tortured history with the missionaries, state bureaucracy, the courts, the FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). We see to what extent the government has succeeded in destroying the old life and how small groups of the Sioux managed to preserve traditional ways and ceremonies. Reissued at the time of the TNT movie which, if you have not seen it, run to your local video store! [2 copies available]
$ 6.49 + shipping.

LAME DEER SEEKER OF VISIONS: The Life of a Sioux Medicine Man
by John (Fire) Lamd Deer & Richard Erdoes. Richard Pracher (cover) & B&W photo section. Condition: NEW 1973 reprint of Touchstone Trade Paperback. Remainder. Content: "John Lame Deer is a full-blooded Sioux Indian born at the beginning of the century on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Lame Deer is a medicine man, a vision seeker, a man who upholds the old religon and the ancient ways of his people. He is a man of the earth. He has been many things in his time - a rodeo clown, a soldier, a sign painter, a spud picker, a jail prisoner, a tribal policeman, a sheep herder, and a singer. But above all else he is "wicasa wakan," a Sioux Medicine Man." I am not familiar with Mr. Lame Deer, but I am familiar with the work of Mr. Erdoes and his name validates history for me. [1 copy available]
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LITTLE CROW: Spokesman for the Sioux
by Gary Clayton Anderson. 3 B&W photo sections. Condition: Gently pre-read 1986 Minnesota Historical Society Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Spine crease with light edgewear. Obviously pre-read, but still very good. Content: Government officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hunting grounds, sought to exchange title to their homeland for annuities of cash and food, schools and teachers, and farms and agricultural knowledge. By 1862 the Sioux realized that their extensive kinship network and religion were in jeopardy and that the government would not fulfill its promises. With their way of life endangered, the Sioux turned to Little Crow to lead them in a war for self-preservation, a war that Little Crow had tried to avoid during most of his adult life. Within a year, the Sioux had been evicted from Minnesota, Little Crow was dead, and a way of life had vanished. Through his life-his biography-the complex interrelationship of Indian and white can be studied and, in some measure, understood. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 8.79 + shipping.

MOON OF POPPING TREES:
The Tragedy at Wounded Knee and the End of the Indian Wars
by Rex Alan Smith. Cover art: Paul Pletka's Wakan Dagre. Condition: NEW 1981 University of Nebraska Press Trade Paperback, first thus, 5th printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Originally published in 1975. "An unbiased, original, creative, compelling mastperpiece, Moon of Popping Trees is a brilliant and "professionally detached" work regarding Native American/European American relations prior to and including the Wounded Knee "incident." Of course, by "professionally detached" I mean amazingly separated from this often times over-emotionally approached subject in American History. Yet, what is most compelling about this absolute masterpiece, is that despite Smith's own emotional detachment, he by no means fails to draw in the emotion of the reader--a danger which "scholarly reflections" often succomb to. Smith's work is perennial, cautious, and yet fascinatingly marvelous in its ability to "suck in" the reader." One of those "must-have" books. [1 copy available]
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NARRATIVE OF MY CAPTIVITY AMONG THE SIOUX INDIANS
by Fanny Kelly. Condition: UNREAD 2000 Konrcky & Konecky hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Content: In 1864 the Kelly wagon train left Kansas for Idaho and ran into a war party of 250 Sioux Indians resulting in a massacre of the Kellys with the exception of Fanny and her daughter. This story of her forced stay among the Sioux Indians is among the best of "Captivity Stories" - a popular genre in the nineteenth century. It details her capture and ordeals, while at the same time painting a vivid picture of a way of life that was soon to disappear. [1 copy available]
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SISTER TO THE SIOUX: The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman 1885-91
(Pioneer Heritage Series, Vol 7)
by Elaine Goodale Eastman. Edited by Kay Graber. Cover art by Darrel Stevens. B&W era photos & drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1985 University of Nebraska Press Trade Paperback, 6th printing. Perfect. Content: Reviewer: "Mrs. Eastman should be considered a pioneer in more ways than one. She was one of the first educators to teach in the Dakota territory. Mrs. Eastman advocated day schools which allowed the native children to remain with their families (a concept which was strongly discouraged by the church boarding schools of the time), she took the time to learn the D/Lakota language and conversed in it, and she lived within the community (as opposed setting herself against it). Mrs. Eastman worked many years while she was a single person (which was quite unusual). She also reported with accuracy what was really occuring on the reservations (often upsetting those in charge-including government and church officials). Among many things within this book, one can learn about: what works and does not work when teaching individuals whose first language is not English, the Native Americans of the Dakotas, a Feminist before her time, and the account of The Wounded Knee Massacre from someone who tended the few left alive. She was married to noted physician and writer Dr. Charles Eastman. [1 copy available]
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SUN DANCER: A Novel
by David London. Condition: NEW 1998 Bison Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Taking an actual historical event--the 1971 occupation of Mount Rushmore by 20 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM)--and moving it to the present day, David London has created a bleak and mystical first novel. The AIM members were protesting the U.S. Government's violations of the 1868 Laramie Treaty, which granted the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Sioux, but their brave, foolhardy protest was quickly suppressed by the federal government. Narrator Joey Moves Camp has doubts about the old ways, although he speaks Lakota and pierced his flesh and did the sun dance before leaving for his tour in Vietnam. When Joey's mother dies, Joey watches his half-brother, Clement Blue Chest, begin a spiritual transformation from bitter, self-pitying drunk to tribal holy man. Joey clarifies his own beliefs as well, as he helps Clem lead their neighbors to reclaim the "sacred" Black Hills by force, including an occupation of Mt. Rushmore, and to reveal their history of betrayal and injustice to the American people. London writes with authority and vividness of various Lakota Sioux ceremonies and rituals. He's not shy about taking sides, but if his portrayals of the novel's villains - FBI agents, meddling missionaries and racist cattlemen - tend toward caricature, his look at the assortment of characters, factions and philosophies on the local reservation is convincingly nuanced. Despite occasional preachiness, this is an intelligent, sure-handed debut, told with passion and skill. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SURVIVAL OF A NOBLE RACE (Native American History)
by August Nylander. Condition: UNREAD 1991 TP (Tipi) Press paperback. Pale tanning to white cover edges and small spot front cover edge & upper back cover. Interior clean & tight. Content: History of Native Americans written by a missionary to the Lakota of South Dakota. [1 copy available]
$ 3.89 + shipping.

WHERE WHITE MEN FEAR TO TREAD: Autobiography of Russell Means
by Russell Means with Marvin J. Wolf. Two B&W photo sections/B&W maps. Condition: NEW 1996 St. Martin's Griffin huge Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Russell Means has been the symbol of Native America for many years - first as a radical activist as one of the founders of AIM (American Indian Movement) (Wounded Knee 2) and now as a film & TV star. His life and career are a study in contradiction, opposition. From condeming the US for ignoring and misrepresenting Native American history to stating that Disney's Pocahontas was "one of the finest films ever made about Native Americans," Means confounds but is never dull. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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