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Folklore

John Bierhorst, editor
Latin American Folktales

Joseph Bruchac
Heroes & Heroines, Monsters & Magic: Native American Legends & Folktales
The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends

Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz, editors
American Indian Myths & Legends

Antonio R. Garcez
American Indian Ghost Stories of the Southwest

Earnest Gouge
Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales

Terri Hardin, editor
Legends & Lore of the American Indians

Susan Hazen-Hammond
Spider Woman's Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women's Power

Janet Ruth Heller
How The Moon Regained Her Shape

Kay Hill
Glooscap & His Magic: Legends of the Wabanaki Indians

Tony Hillerman
The Boy Who Made Dragonfly

Thomas King
The Truth About Stories

Bobby Lake-Thom
Call of the Great Spirit: The Shamanic Life & Teachings of Medicine Grizzly Bear

Frank B. Linderman
Old Man Coyote

Hallie N. Love & Bonnie Larson
Watakame's Journey: The Story of the Great Flood & the New World

Tim McNeese
Myths of Native America

Lawrence Millman
A Kayak Full of Ghosts: Eskimo Folk Tales

James Mooney
Cherokee Animal Tales
Myths of the Cherokee

Darrell Norman & Ramon Kramer
The Return of the Buffalo Horses

Teresa Pijoan
White Wolf Woman & Other Native American Transformation Myths

Daniel Pinchbeck
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Rona Rustige
Tyendinaga Tales

George F. Scheer, editor
Cherokee Animal Tales

Joanne Shenandoah & Douglas M. George
Skywoman: Legends of the Iroquois

Frank Waters
Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism


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History

D.L. Birchfield
How Choctaws Invented Civilization & Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World

John Bird, Lorraine Land, Murray Macadam & Diane Engelstad
Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty & the Future of Canada

Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Joseph Bruchac
The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends

Philip J. Deloria
Playing Indian

Vine Deloria Jr.
Singing for a Spirit: A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux

Peter Edwards
One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police & the Ipperwash Crisis

Jerome A. Greene
Nez Perce Summer 1877: The U.S. Army & the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis

Aubrey L. Haines
An Elusive Victory: The Battle of the Big Hole

James H. Howard
Shawnee! The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe & Its Cultural Background

Alfonso Ortiz, editor
New Perspectives on the Pueblos

Daniel N. Paul
We Were Not the Savages: Collision between European & Native American Civilizations

William K. Powers
Oglala Religion

Omer C. Stewart
Peyote Religion: A History

Paul Wallace
White Roots of Peace: The Iroquois Book of Life

Frank Waters
Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

C. Keith Wilbur
Woodland Indians: An Illustrated Account of the Lifestyles of America's 1st Inhabitants

Scott Zesch
The Captured


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Current Affairs

D.L. Birchfield
How Choctaws Invented Civilization & Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World

John Bird, Lorraine Land, Murray Macadam & Diane Engelstad
Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty & the Future of Canada

Joy Mannette, editor
Elusive Justice: Beyond the Marshall Inquiry

Stephen L. Pevar
The Rights of Indians & Tribes: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Indian & Tribal Rights


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Spirituality

Lynn Andrews
Spirit Woman: The Teachings of the Shields

Sun Bear, Wabun Wind & Crysalis Mulligan
Dancing with the Wheel: The Medicine Wheel Workbook

Joseph Bruchac
The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends

Raymond J. DeMallie & Douglas R. Parks, editors
Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition & Innovation

J.T. Garrett
The Cherokee Herbal: Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions
Meditations With the Cherokee: Prayers, Songs & Stories of Healing & Harmony

Michael Garrett
Walking on the Wind: Cherokee Teachings for Healing through Harmony & Balance

James H. Howard
Shawnee! The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe & Its Cultural Background

Lee Irwin, editor
Native American Spirituality

Bobby Lake-Thom
Call of the Great Spirit: The Shamanic Life & Teachings of Medicine Grizzly Bear

Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine

Henry Niese
The Man Who Knew the Medicine: The Teachings of Bill Eagle Feather

William K. Powers
Oglala Religion

Joseph Rael
Being & Vibration

Omer C. Stewart
Peyote Religion: A History

James Treat, editor
Native & Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States & Canada

Frank Waters
Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

TerryLee Whetstone
Good Medicine Book


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Music

Our Native American music library can be found here.
Check out reviews of more than 100 traditional and contemporary Native American musicians, including:

Brule
Robert Tree Cody
Coyote Oldman
Joseph Fire Crow
R. Carlos Nakai
Joanne Shenandoah
TerryLee Whetstone
Johnny Whitehorse
Robert WindPony
Mary Youngblood

... and many more!


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Biographies

Vine Deloria Jr.
Singing for a Spirit: A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux

Hugh A. Dempsey
Red Crow: Warrior Chief

Doris Shannon Garst
The Picture Story & Biography of Red Cloud

Basil Johnston
Crazy Dave

Henry Niese
The Man Who Knew the Medicine: The Teachings of Bill Eagle Feather

Joe S. Sando & Herman Agoyo, editors
Po'Pay: Leader of the First American Revolution

James Alexander Thom
Panther in the Sky

Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Tracking Doctor Lonecloud: Showman to Legend Keeper


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Poetry

Louise Erdrich
Original Fire: Selected & New Poems


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Fiction

Sherman Alexie
Indian Killer
Ten Little Indians

Robert P. Arthur
Crazy Horse in Heaven

Charles de Lint
Medicine Road, illustrated by Charles Vess
Svaha

Louise Erdrich
The Antelope Wife

Louis Garafalo
The Sassamon Circle

Mercedes Lackey
Sacred Ground

Louis L'Amour
The Haunted Mesa

David Matheson
Red Thunder

C.E. Murphy
The Walker Papers #1: Urban Shaman

Bill & Cindy Paul
Shadow of an Indian Star

Celia Rees
Sorceress

James Alexander Thom
Panther in the Sky


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Movies

Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) (2001)

Billy Jack (1971)

Dances With Wolves (1990)

Dreamkeeper (2003)

Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)

Last of the Dog Men (1995)

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Medicine Man (1992)

Powwow Highway (2004)

Skins (2002)

Smoke Signals (1998)

Spirit Rider (2003)

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

Thunderheart (1992)

Wolfen (1981)


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