Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) wrote "The Soul of the Indian" to examine the spiritual history of Native American's before European settlement in America. Born of Minnesota Sioux parents in South Dakota, Charles Eastman spent his life working with Natives and Europeans to bridge cultural divides. Born into and raised by a traditional Sioux family, Eastman developed a deep connection to the life of American Indians. Yet at the age of 15 Eastman's...

The turmoil within the world, as well as within oneself, the storms both within and without, can be checked and brought to a calm before they rage out of control, set on a path of destruction. Prejudice is a storm of life that can be overcome by reminding ourselves that individualism is a God-given right to be set apart, to be different. We must learn to look for the "good salt" in others, to see their spirit. With courage, boldness, a keen hindsight,...

The prologue describes the First and fatal contact between Russians and the Tlingit. Chapter One introduces, Lisianski's rival, Yaskadut, a Tlingit shaman. Chapter Two describes the commencement of Lisianski circumnavigation. In chapter Three the magical birth and childhood of Yaskadut, a Kiks.adi Tlingit is revealed. Chapter Four describes the voyage from St. Petersberg to the Equator and an encounter with a French privateer. Here there are scenes...

The Key: Half-breed born in "NO man's Land" Indian Territory. Half from Texas & half from Oklahoma both with Chickamuaga ancestors-Cherokee Stock that did not want to be CIVILIZED! Seen the war between the haves and have-nots in Europe. Is that not what they are trying to get us to fight over now? And wanted no part of it! Started migrating in the 1700's. To the Washita River and grants given by Spain to my father's side of family (and tribe), got...

Astounding eyewitness accounts of Indian captivity by people who lived to tell the tale. Fifteen true adventures recount suffering and torture, bloody massacres, relentless pursuits, miraculous escapes, and adoption into Indian tribes. Fascinating historical record and revealing picture of Indian culture and frontier life. Introduction. Notes.

Edmund Wilson's personal and informative study on the plight of the Native American Indians, Apologies to the Iroquois. As Wilson writes, "[In August 1975] I discovered in the New York Times what seemed to me a very queer story. A band of Mohawk Indians, under the leadership of a chief called Standing Arrow, had moved in on some land on Schoharie Creek, a little river that flows into the Mohawk not far from Amsterdam, New York, and established a...

Young readers and students of Native American lore will delight in these 27 entertaining, instructive tales. Chosen by a renowned folklorist who was raised among the Sioux, they include creation myths and animal fables as well as adventures of Unktomee, the trickster; Chanotedah, the pixie; and the cannibal giants, Eya and Double-Face.

Adventures - Hopi Migrations - Hopi Prophecies - about Lemuria and the rise and fall of Atlantis - the truth about Kachinas - a look into Clan ceremonies, Hopi legends and more. It's all inside! The Migrations of the Hopi People are the History of Humanity. In the pages of this book you will come to know White Bear as a man. And experience his walk with a "Man" from the stars, a Man he called "The Master" - a Man Christians know as Jesus Christ. This...

Spanning three centuries, from Champlains first encounter in 1609 with primitive Iroquois warriors to Geronimos death in 1909, Hiawatha to Geronimo chronicles the demise of the native peoples of North America to the relentless encroachment of white European settlement. From the forests of New England to the deserts of the American southwest, the indigenous peoples of America were driven mercilessly from the lands they had roamed for thousands of years....

(Volume 1 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world-ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and forced assimilation. Spanning more than a millennium of antiquity and recovering stories and ideas interpreted from a Cheyenne worldview, the works' joint purpose is rooted as much in a decolonization roadmap as it is in preservation of culture and identity...