American Indian Family Field Guide, from
Fandex.
$9.95/8.95 members
Find full color knowledge at your fingertips.
Fifty die-cut cards represent American Indians from Crazy Horse
to Sitting Bull, and covers America from coast to coast. Filled
with historical facts, photographs, artwork, and lithographs.
American Indians in U.S. History, by
Roger L. Nichols.
$17.95/$16.15 members (paper)
A brief survey for students and general
readers that charts the histories of tribes throughout the United
States.
An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, by David J. Wishart.
$23.95/$21.55 members (paper)
The dispossession of Indians, their loss
of lands and traditional lifestyles during the nineteenth century
in what is now Nebraska.
Autobiography
of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas, edited by R. Eli Paul
$15.95/ $14.36 members (paper)
As Red Cloud told his story to a white
friend in the 1890s, this manuscript brings us closer than ever
before to understanding the life of the Lakota's greatest war
leader until the rise of Crazy Horse.
Becoming Brave: The Path to Native American Manhood, compiled by Laine Thom.
$18.95/$17.05 members (paper)
Photographic collection of objects that
were part of daily life for Native American men.
Bison Lamp Finial.
$15.99/$14.35 members
Handcrafted with verdigris finish, the
finial adds the finishing touch to an ordinary lamp.
2 in. high, 3 in. wide (easily twists onto your lamp).
Black Elk Speaks, by John G.
Neihardt
$14.95/ $13.45 members (paper)
The story of Black Elk and his vision.
Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux
War, 1854-1856, by R. Eli Paul.
$34.95/$31.45 members (cloth)
A study of the significance in Lakota and
U.S. History of the army's punitive campaign and defeat of the
Brulés at Blue Water Creek in 1855.
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas, by Mari Sandoz
$15.95/ $14.35 members (paper)
Being both imaginative and factual, Sandoz
writes of Crazy Horse, his people, and his times.
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, by Kingsley M. Bray.
$34.95/$31.45 members (cloth)
This new biography of the famed Lakota
leader is based on a broad range of archival sources (many from
the Nebraska State Historical Society), and interviews with his
contemporaries and modern Lakotas. It reveals the modest, reflective
man that lay beneath his reputation as a war leader and offers
a fuller understanding of Crazy Horse's place in American Indian
and U. S. history.
The
Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger,
edited by Thomas R. Buecker and R. Eli Paul
$44.95/ $40.45 members (cloth)
Reproduction of a ledger containing an
1877 census of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians at Red Cloud
Agency, including Crazy Horse's band.
Dance Lodges of the Omaha People: Building
from Memory, by Mark Awakuni-Swetland.
$19.95/$17.95 members (paper)
Dance lodges were prevalent on the Omaha
Reservation landscape from the late 1890s through the late 1930s.
Find out about the secret societies and tribal customs that existed
in these unique structures. Forty Omaha elders have given oral
history insights. Archival photos are included.
The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge, A Lakota Odyssey, by Joe Starita
$17.95/ $16.15 members (paper)
True story of the Dull Knife family.
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians, edited by David J. Wishart.
$24.95/$22.45 members (paper)
Focusing on the peoples, places, and events
that have shaped the lives of the Great Plains Indians. Includes
wars, treaties, and traditions, as well as contemporary topics.
The Fetterman Fight, by Paul Goble.
$9.95/$8.95 members (paper)
Captures the spirit of the published Indian
accounts and draws on the material of white historians. It also
draws from the words spoken by Chief Red Cloud from his recorded
speeches.
From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West That Was, by Charles W. Allen, edited by Richard E. Jensen
$22.00/ $19.80 members (paper)
The varied and colorful career of Charles Wesley Allen (1851-1942)
took him throughout the northern Plains during an exceptionally
turbulent era in its history.
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, by
Paul Goble.
$6.99/$6.29 members (paper)
The story of a young Native American girl
and her devotion to the care of her tribe's horses. Eventually
she becomes one of them, to forever run free. (Ages 5-8)
I Am A Man: Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice, by Joe Starita.
$26.95/$24.25 members (cloth)
The Ponca tribe of Chief Standing Bear
was forced away from their Nebraska homeland and marched 600
miles to Indian Territory. This is the tale of Standing Bear's
quest to return the body of his only son to the Poncas' burial
ground. Standing Bear's long journey and his landmark legal case
then followed raises questions about whether constitutional rights,
tribal-based societies, and American democracy can co-exist in
harmony.
Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the
Overland Trails, by Michael L.
Tate.
$29.95/$26.95 members (cloth)
Tate explains the unexpected relations
of cooperation as well as incidents of conflict between the Indians
and emigrants on the Overland Trails.
Iktomi and the Ducks & Other Sioux Stories, retold
by Zitkala-Sa, foreword by Agnes M. Picotte and introduction
by P. Jane Hafen.
$11.95/$10.75 members (paper)
A collection of Native stories, as told
for generations.
Iron
Eye's Family: The Children of Joseph LaFlesche, by Norma
Kidd Green
$2.00/ $1.80 members (cloth)
The story of the famous offspring of an Omaha Indian chief, whose
children included Indian rights advocate Susette LaFlesche Tibbles,
physician Susan LaFlesche Picotte, and ethnologist Francis LaFlesche.
Love Flute, by Paul Goble
$6.99/ $6.29 members (paper)
Winner of the Aesop Prize from the Children's Folklore Section,
American Folklore Society.
Mystic Horse, by Paul Goble
$16.99/ $15.29 members (cloth)
A children's book based on an old Pawnee story.
Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte, by Jeri Ferris.
$8.95/$8.05 members (paper)
This book is a biography of Susan LaFlesche
Picotte. (Reading level: Grade 6)
The
Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877, edited by R. Eli Paul
$19.95/ $17.95 members (paper)
An anthology of eyewitness accounts, this
book provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian wars
in this state.
Nebraska Native Americans, by
Carole Marsh.
$7.95/$7.15 members (paper)
An outstanding teaching tool for educating
children about the Native Americans from our state. The information
is from the past to the present and looks at chiefs, tribes,
reservations, powwows, lore and more.
No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha
Indian Soldier, by Hollis D. Stabler, edited by Victoria
Smith.
$24.95/$22.45 members (cloth)
Stabler's story of life as a soldier, going
to war, and returing to the American plains.
Voices of the American West, Volume 1: The Indian Interviews
of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919,
by Eli S. Ricker, edited and with an introduction by Richard
E. Jensen.
$55/$49.50 members (cloth)
Indian eyewitnesses to the death of Crazy
Horse, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee
Massacre tell their stories of these and many related episodes
in interviews recorded by a Chadron, Nebraska, judge and newspaperman.
The Ricker interviews are preserved in the Nebraska State Historical
Society Archives.
Voices of the American West, Volume 2: The Settler and Soldier
Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919,
by Eli S. Ricker, edited by Richard E. Jensen.
$55/$49.50 members (cloth)
White participants in the occupation and
settlement of the American West offer commentary on various topics,
including warfare, government Indian policy, reservation life,
and cattle drives as recorded by Ricker in the early twentieth
century.
Washita: The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869, by Jerome A. Greene.
$29.95/$26.95 members (cloth)
Both Indian and U.S. Army sources are used
to examine George Armstrong Custer's victorious attack on Black
Kettle's village and its implications.
