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  • On the Edge of Nowhere

    by James Huntington, Lawrence Elliott ...
    For sheer excitement and adventure, few novels match the true-life story of James Huntington. The son of a white trapper and Indian mother, Huntington learned early to fight for survival in Alaska's remote Kuskokwim region, where life was hard. Huntington's mother once walked 1,000 miles in the dead of winter to return to her family. Later, when she died, it fell to her son--then just seven--to ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Daniel Boone

    The Long Hunter

    by Lawrence Elliott ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Daniel Boone, the most famous of America’s early western pioneers is a figure almost more legendary than real. When he was born in 1734 Americans paid obeisance to the English king: by the time he died in 1820 the United States had come into existence and it was Boone, foremost among an inspired handful of Long Hunters, who opened the land.When it was originally published in 1976, Lawrence Elliott ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

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    On the Edge of Nowhere

    by James Huntington, Lawrence Elliott ...
    Narrated by P.J. Ochlan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    His father is a white trapper, his mother an Athabascan Indian who walks a thousand miles in winter to reunite with her family. Thus, Jimmy Huntington learns early how to survive on the land.Huntington is only seven when his mother dies, and he must care for his younger siblings. A courageous and inspiring man, Huntington hunts wolves, fights bears, survives close calls too numerous to mention, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • American Holocaust : The Conquest of the New World

    Columbus and the Conquest of the New World

    by David E. Stannard ...
    For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed as ... Read more

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  • Canada's Indigenous Constitution

    by John Borrows ...
    Canada's Indigenous Constitution reflects on the nature and sources of law in Canada, beginning with the conviction that the Canadian legal system has helped to engender the high level of wealth and security enjoyed by people across the country. However, longstanding disputes about the origins, legitimacy, and applicability of certain aspects of the legal system have led John Borrows to argue that ... Read more

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  • Crazy Horse

    A Lakota Life

    by Mr. Kingsley M. Bray ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend.Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts—and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies—to expose ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Survival of the Bark Canoe

    by John McPhee ...
    In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of ... Read more

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    An Apache Odyssey

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    In the Truth of a Hopi, Edmund Nequatewa relates the Hopis' myths, legends, belief systems, and oral history. Nequatewa's writings give us a glimpse into the psyche of the Hopi in the way that only a Hopi could. Here you will find not only the traditional oral histories, but stories of how the Hopi resisted sending their children away to enforced boarding schools. A fascinating view of a subtle ... Read more

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  • We Share Our Matters

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    $19.99 CAD

  • They Died With Custer

    Soldiers' Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn

    by Douglas D. Scott, P. Willey, Melissa A. Connor ...
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