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  • Northern Slave, Black Dakota

    The Life and Times of Joseph Godfrey

    by Walt Bachman ...
    Born into slavery in free territory, Joseph Godfrey died widely reviled for his controversial role in the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Separated from his mother at age five when his enslaver sold her, Godfrey sought refuge in his teens among the Dakota people he had befriended as a child. Godfrey married a Dakota woman and was living with his family on the Lower Sioux Reservation in 1862, when the U.S ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Northern Slave Black Dakota

    The Life and Times of Joseph Godfrey

    by Bachman, Walt ...
    Born a slave in free territory, Joseph Godfrey died widely reviled for his controversial role in the U.S. Dakota War of 1862. Separated from his mother at age five when his master sold her, Joseph Godfrey was kept in bondage in Minnesota to serve the fur - trade elite. To escape his masters' beatings and abuse, he sought refuge in his teens among the Dakota people he'd befriended as a child slave. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • They Called Me Number One

    by Bev Sellars ...
    BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school.These ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Gall: Lakota War Chief

    Lakota War Chief

    by Robert W. Larson ...
    Called the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex the Black Hills. It was Gall, enraged by the slaughter of his family, who led the charge across Medicine Tail Ford to attack Custer’s main forces on the other side of the Little Bighorn.Robert W. ... Read more

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  • Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

    Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

    by Michael F. Steltenkamp ...
    Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Indian Boyhood

    by Charles A. Eastman ...
    The Memoirs of an Indian Boyhood is an autobiography by Charles Eastman. Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths and founded 32 Native American chapters of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer

    by Wooden Leg, thomas B. Marquis ...
    Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer is a book by Thomas Bailey Marquis about the life of a Northern Cheyenne Indian, Wooden Leg, who fought in several historic battles between United States forces and the Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where he faced the troops of George Armstrong Custer. The book is of great value to historians, not only for its eye-witness ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Redemption Of Black Elk: An Ancient Path To Inner Strength Following The Footprints Of The Lakota Holy Man

    by Linda L. Stampoulos ...
    As a young child of the Oglala Lakota Sioux, Black Elk had been given a mighty vision which would lead him on a personal journey that lasted his entire life. Although Black Elk's vision was a prophetic message telling the terrible future of his tribe, it also held positive aspects that must be reclaimed. It is through this reclamation that the guiding beacons given to him reveal an ancient pathway ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • American Legends: The Life of Crazy Horse

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes pictures of important people and places in Crazy Horse's life.*Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and several Lakota oral legends, including the origins of Crazy Horse's name. *Includes a Table of Contents"Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Sitting Bull

    The Life and Times of an American Patriot

    by Robert M. Utley ...
    "Gripping. . . . transforms Sitting Bull, the abstract, romanticized icon and symbol, into a flesh-and-blood person with a down-to-earth story." — The New York Times Book ReviewWinner, Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction Historical BookA New York Times Notable BookReviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as a great warrior chief, Sitting Bull ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • American Legends: The Life of Sitting Bull

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Includes pictures of Sitting Bull and important people and places in his life.Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and several Lakota oral legends.Includes a Table of Contents"When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? Is it wrong for me ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Xwelíqwiya

    The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch

    by Rena Point Bolton, Richard Daly ...
    Series series Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
    Xwelíqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lō matriarch, artist, and craftswoman. Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters recount Point Bolton's early years on the banks of the Fraser River during the Depression. While at the time the Stó:lō, or Xwélmexw, as they call themselves today, kept secret their ways of life to avoid persecution by the Canadian ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD