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  • Utes

    by Jan Pettit ...
    The heart of Ute history lies in the oral tradition and is slowly fading away. This book presents the rich panorama of Ute history, from the archaeological features of prehistoric Ute cultures to elements of present-day Ute culture. A wealth of rare and historic photographs of early Utes and important leaders, and an abundance of information on tepee culture, Ute artwork, stories, songs, dances ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans

    An A to Z of Tribes, Culture, and History

    by Adele Nozedar ...
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  • Last Stand

    George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West

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    The dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The RevenantMichael Punke's The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West through the lens of the American bison and the man who saved these icons of the Western landscape.Over the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million ... Read more

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  • Blood Memory

    The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

    by Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan ...
    The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today—a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history inspired by the PBS series "American Buffalo"The American buffalo—our nation’s official mammal—is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western ... Read more

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  • The Wisconsin Frontier

    by Mark Wyman ...
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  • North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes

    by Michael G Johnson ...
    Series Book 467 - Men-at-Arms
    A detailed look at the warriors of the Native Americans who lived around the Great Lakes.This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars.During the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the ... Read more

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  • Fools Crow

    by Thomas E. Mails ...
    Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright in denouncing them. When he died in 1989 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, he was widely loved and respected.Fools Crow is based on ... Read more

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  • Tribes of the Sioux Nation

    by Michael G Johnson ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The horse culture of the tribes of the High Plains of North America lasted only some 170 years.In that time the sub-tribes of the Teton or Western Sioux people imprinted a vivid image on the world's imagination by their fearless but doomed fight to protect their land from the increasing spread of the white man.This text outlines the history, social organization, religion and material culture of ... Read more

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    by Grace Lee Nute ...
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    John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West

    by David Weston Marshall ...
    Series series American Grit
    “If you seek vicarious adventure, these pages await the armchair explorer.” —Providence JournalIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier. But when the journey was over, Colter stayed ... Read more

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  • The Blackfeet

    Raiders on the Northwestern Plains

    by John C. Ewers ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to the tribe, forcing them to rely in part on the U.S. government for sustenance. In this history of the Blackfeet, historian John C. Ewers relied on his own experience living among the Blackfeet as well ... Read more

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