INDIGENOUS STUDIES Backlist Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta HC | 9780062975645 | 5/12/2020 | $34.99 A paradigm-shifting book in the vein Nonfiction of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indige- nous perspective to historical and cul- tural issues of history, education, mon- for Adults ey, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living. Sand Talk includes 22 black-and-white illustrations that add depth to the text. The North-West Is Our Mother: Dead Reckoning The Story of Louis Riel’s People, by Ken McGoogan the Métis Nation HC | 9781443441261 | 2017 | $33.99 by Jean Teillet PB | 9781443441278 | 2018 | $19.99 HC | 9781443450126 | 9/17/2019 | $36.99 With this book—his most ambitious Written by the great-grandniece of yet—Ken McGoogan delivers a vivid, Louis Riel, this popular and engaging comprehensive recasting of Arctic - history of “forgotten people” tells the exploration history. By integrating non- story up to the present era of national British and fur-trade explorers and, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. above all, Canada’s indigenous peo- ples, into the history of Arctic discov- 2019 marks the 175th anniversary of ery, this work brings the story into the Louis Riel’s birthday (October 22, 1844) twenty-first century. Stolen Sisters: Flint And Feather The Story of Two Missing Girls, by Charlotte Gray Their Families, and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women PB | 9780006391197 | 2003 | $19.95 by Emmanuelle Walter Charlotte Gray explores the life of this nineteenth-century daughter of a Mo- HC | 9781443445160 | 2015 | $26.99 hawk chief and English gentlewoman, Pauline Johnson, creating a fascinating Stolen Sisters is a moving and deeply portrait of a young woman equally at shocking work of investigative journal- home on the stage in her “Indian” cos- ism that makes the claim that not only tume and in the salons of the rich and is Canada failing its First Nations com- powerful. munities, but that a feminicide is tak- ing place. Riel: A Life of Revolution by Mag- The Ways of My Grandmothers gie Siggins by Beverly Hungry Wolf PB | 9780006394730 | 2003 | $21.95 PB | 9780688004712 | 1998 | $17.50 Infused with atmosphere and detail, Including many rare photographs, The this fascinating portrait is illuminating Ways of My Grandmothers is an authentic in its accounts of the people and contribution to our knowledge and under- events that moulded the enigmatic standing of Native American lore-- and a rebel. Revealing a man passionate classic that will speak to women every- about forging an equitable and just where. relationship between native and white people, Riel: A Life of Revolution is more relevant today than ever before. Without Reservation Empires, Nations, and Families: A by Jeff Benedict New History of the North American PB | 9780060931964 | 2001 | $19.99 West, 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde In compelling detail, tells the stunning PB | 9780062225153 | 2012 | $26.99 story of the rise of the richest tribe in Historian Anne F. Hyde tells a riveting history. It begins with the grand ambitions true story of Native Americans, entrepre- of two men. Together, they resurrect the neurs, fur trappers and fur traders in a Pequots and battle the local townspeople vibrant “wilderness” to which Daniel to aggressively expand their reservation, Boone himself was a Johnny-come-lately. taking on the state government for the right to gamble on their land. American Indians/American Presi- Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, dents by National Museum of the Entrepreneur, Diplomat American Indian by Paula Gunn Allen HC | 9780061466533 | 2009 | $36.99 PB | 9780060730604 | 2004 | $19.99 An illustrated, multi-author history of Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the unique relationship between Na- the extraordinary story of the beloved tive American leaders and American Indian maiden from a Native American presidents, from George Washington perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn Allen draws on to George W. Bush. sources often overlooked by Western his- torians and offers remarkable new insights into this foremost American heroine. Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Do All Indians Live in Tipis? Nez Perce by Kent Nerburn By National Museum of the American Indian PB | 9780061136085 | 2006 | $21.99 In this comprehensive & engaging PB | 9780061153013 | 2007 | $18.50 biography, Nerburn exposes the myth In this friendly and informative Q&A, the of Chief Joseph shedding new light on foremost experts in Native American why his life and the ultimate surren- studies reveal the little-known truths der of the Nez Perce forever altered behind 101 of the most common myths the American West. and stereotypes about Native Americans. Growing Up Native American Crow Dog: Four Generations by Bill Adler of Sioux Medicine Men by Leonard C. Dog PB | 9780380724178 | 1995 | $18.50 PB | 9780060926823 | 1996 | $18.50 Stories of oppression and survival, of her- itage denied and reclaimed -- twenty-two From the co-author of Lakota American writers recall childhood in their Woman, which has sold more native land. than 150,000 paperback copies, comes a compelling account de- tailing the unique experiences and spiritual knowledge accumu- lated by four generations of pow- The Death of Sitting Bear : New and Selected Poems by N. Scott Momaday HC | 9780062961150 | $35.99 Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Fiction Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 100 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition. This luminous collection demonstrates Momaday’s mastery and for Adults love of language and the matters closest to his heart. To Moma- day, words are sacred; language is power. Spanning nearly fifty years, the poems gathered here illuminate the human condition, Momaday’s connection to his Kiowa roots, and his spiritual rela- tionship to the American landscape. Five Little Indians Crow Winter: by Karen McBride by Michelle Good PB | 9781443459679 | 2019 | $22.99 PB | 9781443459181 | 2020 | $22.99 Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point Taken from their families when they are First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been very small and sent to a remote, church- dreaming of an old crow. He tells her run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, he’s here to help her, save her. From Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out what, exactly? Sure, her dad’s been of childhood when they are finally re- dead for almost two years and she leased after years of detention. hasn’t quite reconciled that grief, but is that worth the time of an Algonquin demigod? Soon Hazel learns that there’s more at play than just her own sadness and doubt. Birdie Harper's Anthology of Twentieth by Tracey Lindberg Century Native American Poetry PB | 9781443451352 | 2016 | $22.99 PB | 9780062506665 | 1988 | $31.00 Birdie is a darkly comic and moving Representing the work of thirty-one first novel about the universal experi- poets since the turn of the century, this ence of recovering from wounds of is the definitive anthology of Native the past, informed by the lore and American poetry. knowledge of Cree traditions. House Made of Dawn: A Novel Ancient Child by N. Scott Momaday by N. Scott Momaday 50th Ed PB | 9780062909954 | 2018 | $19.99 PB | 9780060973452 | 1990 | $17.50 The 50th Anniversary edition of the mag- The Ancient Child juxtaposes Indian nificent Pulitzer Prize-winning classic lore and Wild West legend into a hyp- about a young Native American named notic, lyrical contemporary novel--the Abel who is caught between the tradi- story of Locke Setman, a Native Ameri- tions and culture of his father and the can raised far from the reservation by disruptive pull of industrial America. his adoptive father. Orig. PB | 9780061859977 | 2010 | $19.99 Indians on Vacation by Thomas King HC | 9781443460545 | 8/25/2020 | $32.99 Thomas King By turns witty, sly and poignant, this is the unforgettable tale of one couple's holiday trip to Europe, where their wanderings through its famous capitals reveal a compli- cated history, both personal and political. 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin Green Grass, Running Water PB | 9781443459440 | 9/24/2019 | $19.99 PB | 9781554685257 | 2010 | $19.99 Seventy-seven poems intended as a Strong, sassy women and hard-luck, eulogy for what we have squandered, hard-headed men, all searching for a reprimand for all we have allowed, a the middle ground between Native suggestion for what might still be sal- American tradition and the modern vaged, a poetic quarrel with our intol- world, perform an elaborate dance of erant and greedy selves, a reflection approach and avoidance in this magi- on mortality and longing, as well as a cal, rollicking tale by award-winning long-running conversation with the author Thomas King. mythological currents that flow throughout North America.. The Back of the Turtle Truth And Bright Water PB | 9781443431637 | 2017 | $19.99 PB | 9781443438827 | 2014 | $19.99 This is Thomas King's first literary novel Tecumseh and Lum live in Truth, a in fifteen years . Filled with brilliant small American town, and Bright characters, trademark wit, wordplay Water, the reserve across the border and a thorough knowledge of native and over the river. Family is the only myth and story-telling, this novel is a reason most of the people stay in the masterpiece by one of our most im- towns, and yet old secrets and new portant writers. Winner of the 2014 mysteries keep pulling the more no- Governor General’s Award for Fiction. madic residents back to the fold. A Short History of Indians in One Good Story That One Canada PB | 9780006485254 | 1999 | $16.95 PB | 9780002006163 | 2006 | $18.95 One Good Story, That One is Acclaimed author Thomas King is steeped in native oral tradition, led in fabulous, fantastical form in off by a sly creation tale, introducing this bestselling short story collec- the traditional native trickster coy- tion.