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...

"Matthew has grown up in hell. His father is gone, and his mother drinks and hooks up with men--men who abuse Matthew and his sister, until he finally decides to hit the streets of Farmington to get away from this--and to drink himself to death, in the way that he feels he's destined to. But something happens. A man, Chris, saves him. Takes him home and cleans him up. Gets him sober. And initiates Matthew into one of Albuquerque's Native American...

A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boardingschool mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood....

A new collection of warm, wise and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native Life. Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese's One Native Life.

Almighty Voice and His Wife shakes up a familiar story from the Saskatchewan frontier, reimagining it from the postmodern late twentieth century. The "renegade Indian story" transforms into both an eloquent tale of tragic love and an often hilarious, fully theatrical exorcism of the hurts of history. A modern classic about the place of First Nations people in Canada.

"I build this story like my lair. One willow, / a rib at a time" - "The Crooked Good" Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe's work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences within the ongoing history of colonialism and the resilience of Indigenous storytellers. Sôhkêyihta includes searing poems, written across the expanse of Halfe's career, aimed at helping readers move forward from the darkness into a place of healing. Halfe's...

To recreate a whole and sacred America, it is important to piece together the forgotten fragments of history that are currently keeping the country divided. Just as a traditional Native American potter begins a new pot with shards of old pots-honoring the ancestors, bringing the energies of the past into the present-Original Politics re-constellates the nation as a whole out of the seemingly disparate shards from our origins. The most significant...

A collection of plays by American Indian playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr. Restless Spirits is a collection of previously unpublished plays by contemporary Assiniboine playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr. Including one full-length and seven one-act plays, this book reflects one of the author's most creative and productive periods in his career. Selected by Yellow Robe, in consultation with editor Jace Weaver, the plays reveal the range of Yellow...

This companion to Guns, Germs, & Steel includes: • Overview of the book • Important People • Key Takeaways • Analysis of Key Takeaways • and much more!

Le présent ouvrage propose une réflexion sur les formes contemporaines d'intervention sociale par des Autochtones dans un milieu autochtone. Grâce à l'exploration de sept récits de pratique recueillis auprès d'intervenants sociaux innus de la communauté d'Uashat mak Mani-Utenam, sur la Cte-Nord, l'auteure jette un éclairage singulier sur le sens, la nature et la portée des modes d'intervention des intervenants sociaux de la nation innue. ...