Native American Heritage
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Fry Bread: Hardcover
USD $18.99 Add to cartThis book is a perfect snack-time story, fourth grade Native American tale, or book to read to any child from age 5 and up. Three reasons this is the perfect book for Waldorf students: 1. It is in beautiful verse 2. It speaks (read more)
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The Rough Faced Girl
USD $8.99 Add to cartFrom Algonquin Indian folklore comes a powerful, haunting rendition of Cinderella. In a village by the shores of Lake Ontario lived an invisible being. All the young women wanted to marry him because he was rich, powerful, and supposedly (read more)
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Dream Feather
USD $11.95 Add to cartWhen the time is right all things are released from their hidden places and brought to the light of day.
A native boy on is led on a spirit journey by a sacred (read more) -
Fingerweaving Basics
USD $25.00 Add to cartWeaving is a wonderful handcraft for older students and adults. It gets the two hemispheres of the brain talking to each other, develops eye/hand/touch coordination, enhances cognitive awareness -- and it's fun and produces useful and beautiful (read more)
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Gray Wolf’s Search – Swanson
USD $14.95 Read moreIn this richly illustrated picture book, young Gray Wolf lives on the Pacific Northwest coast with the other members of the Wolf Clan. His uncle, the clan shaman, tells Gray Wolf that his future success depends on completing an important (read more)
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
USD $7.99 Add to cartThis is a wonderful story, written out of a true knowledge, of a young newly-ordained vicar who arrives in the village of Kingcome and enters into the Native culture of totems and potlatch. Because he has an open heart, he (read more)
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Indian Why Stories
USD $6.95 Add to cartI can hardly believe that I'm only now discovering this gem of a book! How is it that I've not known about it all these years? The stories, collected by a devotee of Native American lore and originally published in 1915 (read more)
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Deer Dance: Yaqui Legends of Life
USD $11.95 Add to cartFrom earliest times, the Yaqui people have had to overcome many oppressive and exploitative conditions to continue their own laws and customs. Many of their tribal stories reflect this struggle and are preserved in this collection of Yaqui legends and (read more)
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Knots on a Counting Rope
USD $7.99 Add to cartIt has been hard for me to find books about children with disabilities that fit into the Waldorf curriculum. So imagine my joy upon finding this one that is written in such a beautiful way and can be used in (read more)
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Legends of the Iroquois
USD $9.95 Add to cartWhen introducing myths and legends in second and third grade this book can provide your curriculum with diversity. Or, if you are teaching children with Native American heritage, this book can provide a story "of one's own people and (read more)
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Native American Night Before Christmas: HARDCOVER
USD $14.95 Read moreAn innovative retelling of the classic Christmas tale, this full-color book takes a whimsical look at what Christmas Eve might be like for an American Indian family when Old Red Shirt (the Indian Santa Claus) comes a-calling with his team (read more)
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Native Women of Courage
USD $9.95 Add to cartNative Women of Courage profiles ten outstanding women leaders in the Native community. All of these successful, trailblazing women are stellar role models who have raised the profile of indigenous culture in North America. From heroines of the past to (read more)
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Pathfinders Series: Autumn’s Dawn
USD $9.95 Add to cartWe decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage readers because they tell stories of every day Native American teenagers from their own point of view. As part of a curriculum that seeks to embrace diversity and (read more)
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Pathfinders Series: Finding Grace
USD $9.95 Add to cartWe decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage readers because they tell stories of every day Native American teenagers from their own point of view. As part of a curriculum that seeks to embrace diversity and (read more)
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Pathfinders Series: Found
USD $9.95 Add to cartWe decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage readers because they tell stories of every day Native American teenagers from their own point of view. As part of a curriculum that seeks to embrace diversity and (read more)
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Pathfinders Series: Standing Strong
USD $9.95 Add to cartCongratulations to Gary Robinson, 2019 winner of the Moonbeams Children's Book Gold Award for Nature Issues and voted 2019 Best Books for High School by American Indians in Children's Literature. We decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage (read more)
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Spirit of the White Bison
USD $5.95 Add to cartA young bison growing up on the plains in the late 1800s faces peril at the hands of soldiers, who are destroying the great buffalo herds as a way to control native tribes. He is befriended by a native warrior (read more)
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The First Fire: A Cherokee Story
USD $14.95 Add to cartThe First Fire, A Cherokee Story takes place in a time when animals could do many of the things that people do. The Creator gave the animals the world to live on, but they were without a source (read more)
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Native American Creation Myths
USD $14.95 Add to cartJeremiah Curtin was one of the greatest linguists and ethnographers of his day, and it is to him that we owe the preservation of many of the world's greatest myths and legends. I should add, he was also a consummate (read more)
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Native American Tales and Legends
USD $4.99 Add to cartThis exciting collection contains more than thirty richly imaginative stories from a wide variety o f Native American sources covering a broad spectrum of subjects. Included are creation myths, hero tales and trickster stories, as well as tales of little (read more)
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Native Defenders of the Environment – Schilling – Paperback
USD $9.95 Add to cartFrom the Native Trailblazers series comes a new book with the stories of twelve brave people who work tirelessly to save our environment. These are stories of courage, determination and resistance to multinational corporations and disastrous government policies that are (read more)
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Never Cry Wolf
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Paddle-to-the-Sea
USD $12.75 Add to cartAn Indian boy living along the shores of Lake Superior carves a small canoe with a "Paddle Person" in it. He names it "Paddle-to-the-Sea" and sets it on its journey from Lake Superior all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. (read more)
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Sacred Song of the Hermit Thrush
USD $5.95 Add to cartThe hermit thrush, a shy bird with an enchanting song, usually hides deep in the forest and reveals his song only to the lucky few. Tehanetorens, a master storyteller steeped in Mohawk tradition, presents the legendary tale of this bird (read more)
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Secrets of the Talking Jaguar
USD $16.95 Add to cartI love this book; so much so that after making three attempts at writing my own review of it, I've decided to let Robert Bly speak from his Foreword instead: "[Prechtel's] father is Swiss, his mother a Native American from (read more)
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Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo – OUT OF PRINT
USD $12.95 Read moreFolklore, myths, and legends compiled by a 19th century explorer offer intriguing glimpses of an unspoiled culture. This treasury of 150 stories constitutes a priceless reference for anthropologists and historians and a delight for aficionados of folktales. New Introduction. 35 black-and-white illustrations.
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The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said
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The Contest
USD $9.95 Add to cartAnyone who loves Anne of Green Gables, will love The Contest. Rosy is a girl who loves Anne of Green Gables, recognizing a kindred spirit when she reads about one. When Rosy's favorite (read more)
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Walking Two Worlds: Hardcover
USD $9.95 Add to cart“Eee-leee! Master Parker,” Reverend Stone, headmaster at the Baptist school, called. “The answer, please.” “Four,” Ely thought. But he also thought something else. Why is English so strange? In Seneca every word always meant the same thing. But (read more)
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The Orange Fairy Book
USD $14.95 Add to cartThe Orange Fairy Book delves into the oral traditions of Rhodesia, Uganda, and the American Indian; the traditions of the Punjab and of Jutland; and such familiar European sources as Hans Christian Andersen (“The Ugly Duckling”) and Madame (read more)
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The Secrets and Mysteries of the Cherokee Little People
USD $23.95 Add to cartSecrets and Mysteries of the Cherokee Little People is a treasure of traditional Native American stories of elemental beings and angels and their workings with human beings. The Cherokee have spoken of the Little People as long (read more)
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The Yellow Fairy Book
USD $14.95 Add to cartThe Yellow Fairy Book is a wonderful collection of tales from all over the world. There are such familiar old favorites as the "Story of the Emperor's New Clothes," "The Tinder-box," "How to Tell a True Princess," and "The Nightingale." (read more)