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  • AMERICAN INDIAN WHY STORIES - 22 Native American stories and legends from America's Northwest

    22 American Indian myths and legends from America's Northwest

    by Anon E. Mouse, Retold by Frank B Linderman ...
    These 22 “Why” stories from the Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Cree tribes were handed down from father to son, with little variation, through countless generations. These 22 stories were used to teach the young ones about the environment in which they lived but also the lessons of life. But the time of the tribal story-teller has passed, and only here and there is to be found a patriarch who loves the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pretty-shield

    Medicine Woman of the Crows

    by Frank B. Linderman ...
    A rare, documented account of the life of a Crow medicine woman, drawn from interviews conducted by legendary writer and ethnographer Frank Bird Linderman and told in her own words.In the spring of 1931, Pretty-shield, a grandmother and medicine healer in the Crow tribe, met Frank Linderman for a series of interviews. When Linderman asked Pretty-shield about her life, the old woman relaxed and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows

    The Life Story of a Great Indian

    by Frank B. Linderman ...
    In his old age, Plenty-Coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B. Linderman, a well-known western writer who had befriended him.First published in 1930, Plenty-Coups is a classic account of the nomadic, spiritual, and warring life of Plains Indians before they were forced onto reservations. Plenty-Coups tells of the great ... Read more

    $6.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indian Why Stories Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-Fire

    by Frank B.Linderman ...
    Indian Why Stories Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-FireBy Frank B.LindermanOld-man, or Napa, as he was called by the Blackfeet, is an extraordinary character in Indian folklore. He appears in different guises: god or creator, fool, thief, clown. Subordinate to Manitou, the Deity, Old-man is both powerful and fallible. The world he made is marvelous but filled with mistakes. As a result, tension ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Indian Why Stories

    by Frank B. Linderman ...
    Illustrated by Charles M. Russell ...
    Series series Dover Children's Classics
    The Native American was a true lover of nature and close observer of the sights and sounds about him. He delighted in composing tales that offered imaginative explanations for everything--from simple stories about creation to fanciful accounts of how animals acquired certain physical characteristics.This entertaining collection of 22 stories, compiled nearly a century ago by a devotee of Indian ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Best Native American Stories for Children

    by G.W. Mullins ...
    "The Best Native American Stories For Children" features stories which have been selected for young readers, while presenting children with a chance to explore Native American history. Contained within 186 pages in 6x9 format, Mullins brings history to life along with original art by award winning artist C.L. Hause.Most Native American tribes did not write down or record their history, so we have ... Read more

    $3.42 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sacajawea

    by Anna L. Waldo ...
    Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation.She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies, across the Great Divide to the crystal capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Little Big Man

    A Novel

    by Thomas Berger ...
    “The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man’s extraordinary double life.After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Wolf Willow

    A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier

    by Wallace Stegner ...
    Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willowbrings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it.For more than seventy years, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Sundance 03: Dakota Territory

    Sundance, #3

    by John Benteen ...
    Series Book 3 - Sundance
    Jim Sundance, half-white, half-Cheyenne gunslinger found himself hip-deep in the big strike that had hit the Dakota Territory. A money-hungry head of a band of buffalo hunters swore he would grab the lion's share of the loot. Before Sundance faced him in a showdown, he would tangle with the conceited General George A. Custer, a kill-crazy Sioux medicine man and Lucille, the beautiful, hot-blooded ... Read more

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  • Thunder Rolling in the Mountains

    by Scott O'Dell ...
    Through the eyes of a brave and in****dependent young woman, Scott O'Dell tells of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce**,** a classic tale of cruelty, betrayal, and heroism.This powerful account of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce Indians in 1877 by the United States Army is narrated by Chief Joseph's strong and brave daughter.When Sound of Running Feet first sees white settlers on Nez Perce land ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Algonquin Indian Tales

    by Egerton R. Young ...
    CHIEF BIG CANOE'S LETTERGEORGINA ISLAND, LAKE SIMCOE.REV. EGERTON R. YOUNG.DEAR FRIEND: Your book of stories gathered from among my tribe has very much pleased me. The reading of them brings up the days of long time ago when I was a boy and heard our old people tell these tales in the wigwams and at the camp fire.I am very glad that you are in this way saving them from being forgotten, and I am ... Read more

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