Native American Books
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The Sign of the Beaver
USD $8.99 Add to cartAlthough he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen-year-old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt realizes he has no (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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Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology
USD $3.00 Add to cartIn this carefully chosen collection, encompassing traditional songs and contemporary Native American poetry, readers will find a treasury of lyrics verse composed by Seminole, Hopi, Navajo, Pima, Havasupai, Arapaho, Paiute, Nootka, and other Indian writers and poets.
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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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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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Grandmother’s Dreamcatcher
USD $7.99 Add to cartWhile Kimmy's parents look for a house close to Daddy's job, Kimmy stays with her Chippewa grandmother. The bad dreams she has had still bother her. But with her grandmother's help, she learns about dreamcatchers.
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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 Add to cartAn 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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The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
USD $7.99 Add to cartIn spring, the hills and meadows of Texas and Wyoming are ablaze with the reds, oranges, and yellows of the Indian Paintbrush. How this striking plant received its name is told in an old Indian legend.
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We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga: Hardcover
USD $17.99 Add to cartThe Cherokee community is grateful for blessings and challenges that each season brings. This is modern Native American life as told by an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
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Be Your Own Best Friend Forever! — NEW RELEASE
USD $17.95 Add to cart"Readers of all backgrounds will cherish and celebrate the relatable, affirming messages that burst from these pages." —School Library Journal Be Your Own Best Friend FOREVER! is packed with inspiring tips (read more)
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A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History
From the author of the beloved classic The Great Kapok Tree, A River Ran Wild tells a story of restoration and renewal. Learn how the modern-day descendants of the Nashua Indians and (read more)USD $7.99 Add to cart
Native American Creation Myths— OUT OF PRINT
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)
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)
Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians
USD $15.95 Add to cartI think that anyone who has studied anthroposophy or the great myths and religions of the world will be interested in reading this book. In it you'll find accounts and stories that echo, expand, diverge and replicate perspectives and (read more)
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)
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)
Song of the Wild Violets
USD $5.95 Add to cartThe story of a young Chippewa girl who gains new understanding about her place in the world by spending time in the woods with the plants and animals. From her new sense of being, she inspires her parents to value (read more)
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)
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)
The Table Where Rich People Sit
USD $6.99 Read moreMountain Girl can see that her family is poor - and she can see that her parents aren't even sensible enough to notice. So, she calls a family meeting to discuss the problem. As her family sits around their homemade ((read more)