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  • Ethnology and Empire

    Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands

    by Robert Lawrence Gunn ...
    Series Book 6 - America and the Long 19th Century
    Winner, The Early American Literature Book PrizeEthnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas aboutwords that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoplesand western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing theemergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized researchdiscipline and as popular literary concern of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    A Narrative of 1757

    by James Fenimore Cooper ...
    The Last of the Mohicans is a classic of American literature set during the French and Indian wars of the Eighteenth Century. The action centers on the the scout Hawkeye and his companion Chingachgook as they strive to save the Munro sisters from Magua, a Huron renegade. The novel was one of the most popular in English in its time and remains widely read in American literature courses. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • The Sacred Hoop

    Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

    by Paula Gunn Allen ...
    Almost thirty years after its initial publication, Paula Gunn Allen's celebrated study of women's roles in Native American culture, history, and traditions continues to influence writers and scholars in Native American studies, women's studies, queer studies, religion and spirituality, and beyondThis groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays investigates and celebrates Native American ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where the Truth Lies

    Selected Essays

    by Rudy Wiebe ...
    Series Book 14 - Writer as Critic
    “The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully.”Where the Truth Lies collects forty years of essays and speeches that award-winning author Rudy Wiebe has crafted throughout his career. In this illuminating and wide-ranging selection, Wiebe provides a look behind the curtain, revealing his thought processes as he worked on many of his great books. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • We Share Our Matters

    Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River

    by Rick Monture ...
    The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to understand its enduring intellectual traditions.Rick Monture’s We Share Our Matters offers the first comprehensive portrait of how the Haudenosaunee ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • First Grade Us History: The First Americans

    First Grade Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's American History Books
    First graders use their imaginations a lot so it's best to introduce visual learning. This book is a complement to your child's traditional school textbook. Since it is composed of bold images laid out in an easy-to-understand format, it will definitely attract and keep the attention. Don't forget to grab a copy of this book today! ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Troubling Tricksters

    Revisioning Critical Conversations

    Edited by Deanna Reder, Linda M. Morra ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing of academic fashion have resulted in few new studies on the trickster. For example, The ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Native American Fiction

    A User's Manual

    by David Treuer ...
    An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fictionThis book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought that has been poured out onto Native American literature has puddled, for the most part, on how the texts are positioned ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • "That the People Might Live"

    Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy

    by Arnold Krupat ...
    The word "elegy" comes from the Ancient Greek elogos, meaning a mournful poem or song, in particular, a song of grief in response to loss. Because mourning and memorialization are so deeply embedded in the human condition, all human societies have developed means for lamenting the dead, and, in "That the People Might Live," Arnold Krupat surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature

    Edited by Deborah L. Madsen ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension — historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic — that constitutes a problematic legacy in terms of community identity, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, language, and sovereignty in the study of Native American literature. This important and timely addition to the field provides context for issues that ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Killers of the Flower Moon - Summarized for Busy People: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI: Based on the Book by David Grann

    by Goldmine Reads ...
    During the 1920s, the world's wealthiest people per capita were the Osage Indians of Oklahoma. Upon the discovery of oil underneath their lands, they built their own mansions, were driven around by chauffeurs in their own automobiles, and enrolled their children to expensive European schools. That is, until the richest of them were killed off one by one. Killers of the Flower Moon sheds light on ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Soul of an Indian

    And Other Writings from Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman)

    Edited by Kent Nerburn ...
    Ohiyesa, a Dakota Indian also known as Charles Alexander Eastman, is one of America's most fascinating and overlooked individuals. Born in Minnesota in 1858, he obtained postgraduate degrees and advised U.S. presidents before returning to traditional living in native forests. This reissue contains Ohiyesa's insights on spirit, the human experience, and white culture's impact on Native American ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus