A volume filled with legends, lore and spiritual seeking of North America's native peoples. This book's theme is a oneness with the universe - a path all people of good will can follow.

In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Author readings.

This intriguing chronicle of Native experiences in this all-but forgotten war, both overseas and on the home front, leads insights into the diversity of Native reactions to a single historical event.

The religious world view of the Nahuas at the beginning of the sixteenth century is known today because of the work of such investigators.

The experiences of a young man who grew up in the 1960's and 1970's and who "wanted to remember these things, to write them down, the old Lakota words and my connection to the world around me through them."

Drawing on childhood memories of Christmas in a New Mexican village, Momaday produces a poetic story that skillfully blends Christian and Native American traditions. On Christmas Eve, Tolo, a lonely mute boy, is drawn by the spirit of his beloved grandfather to a bonfire in the mountains, where he shares a ``circle of wonder and good will'' with an elk, a wolf and an eagle.

An intimate photo history of Native American children from the 1870s to 1920 that includes over 20 tribes of the American West. Over 90 photos, many very rare, are accompanied by descriptions of daily life as well as ceremonial and other special occasions.

This book reflects on his first Christmas at  Jemez Pueblo when he was twelve. Journey with Tolo a lonely mute boy who lives with his parents in a Pueblo village, but dreams the dead grandfather he loves and of the summers they spent in the mountains.

A book that charts the development of a new kind of architecture, one that reflects a cultural regeneration among Native Americans since the 1960s and one that seeks alternative ways of expressing tribal sponsorship and identity.

Deloria asserts the worth of the redman and blasts the political, social, and religious forces that perpetuate the stereotyping of his people.

First published in 1972 during a resurgence in Native American activism, this work critiqued the Western spiritual worldview and its effect on Native Americans and the society.

A murderer is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle. While this so-called Indian Killer terrorizes the city, its Native American population is thrown into turmoil. John Smith, an Indian adopted as a newborn baby into a white family, is increasingly dissatisfied with his life and dreams of the existence he might have led on the reservation - he is gently descending into madness.

Inspired by the richly detailed picture stories of the Plains Indians--sometimes drawn on ruled ledgers--this book is a visual feast that introduces children to pictographic art. This fictional account, based on historical fact, tells of a young Sioux warrior's childhood adventures on the plains and his journey East to the white man's school. Full-color.

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life.

Modern by Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style presents the form, style, and pictorial intention behind the finest artists to emerge from the Studio, the renowned art program developed at the Santa Fe Indian School in the 1930s by Dorothy Dunn.

The Mud People serves as a book of consejos from Mexican elders of social change. Written in the literary journalism genre, the Mud People transmits a waking dream of the author's healing from violence and historical trauma.

From creation stories to childhood memories, reflections on tribal rituals to the profound effect, good and bad, of white people on Navajo land and culture. A renowned Navajo artist/writer combines the best of his paintings with his rich poetic voice, to give young readers an insightful glimpse into the lives and souls of his people. Full-color illustrations.

One Nation under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church,

This is a book that traces the history of the Native American Church and its sacramental use of peyote through a struggle for religious freedom, culminating in the passage of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments of 1994.

Photographs of the adults and children who participate. They feel the feelings of pride and native unity in these celebrations.

A Rainbow at Night: THE WORLD IN WORDS AND PICTURES BY NAVAJO,

This engaging collection includes the children's drawings and paintings, each accompanied by a photograph of the artist, comments by both the artist and the author, and questions that will prompt young readers to explore-in their minds and in their art-aspects of their own lives corresponding to those each artist has explored.

Native American activist Vine Deloria, Jr., whose national bestseller Custer Died for Your Sins changed the public's view of Native Americans.

In this spiritual text, the author explores sacred teachings hidden by the Mayan priesthood shortly after the Spanish Conquistadors arrived in Mexico in 1519. He concludes with an explanation of the metaphysics of ancient Mayan glyphs, and the secret path to illumined consciousness of the feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl.

A Native culture that endures and prevails in a harsh environment by recognizing the interrelatedness of human and natural worlds.

Spirit of the White Bison,  By Culleton, Beatrice, The Book Publishing Co., 1989.

A young bison growing up on the plains in the late 1800s faces peril at the hands of soldiers intent on destroying the great buffalo herds as a way to control native tribes. He is befriended by a native warrior and a white hunter who try to save him and his herd from annihilation.

Teachings of Nature, By Hungry Wolf, Adolf, The Book Publishing Co., 1992.

Growing concerns about our environment are causing many people to learn more about the natural world around them...knowledge of the old ways described here can stilt be of direct use.