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A masterful analysis of the most significant American political trend in the past forty years.

Banks, founder of the American Indian Movement, tells his story for the first time and presents an insider's look the group and its protest events--including the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee--enhanced by dramatic photographs.

Inventive, provocative, and ultimately affirmative, "The Trickster of Liberty" has become a classic in the repertoire of celebrated author Gerald Vizenor. A series of related stories, the novel follows the lives of seven mixedblood trickster siblings who began their lives on a reservation in northern Minnesota. Behaving in unpredictable ways, these siblings defy any attempt to fit them within stereotypical notions of the Indian. ""

Relates how the Nez Perce and the Dakota Indians became Presbyterians yet incorporated Native culture and tradition into their new Christian identities. Bonnie Sue Lewis focuses on the rise of Native clergy and their forging of Christian communities based on American Indian values and notions of kinship and leadership.

Presents the oral history of Ray Holmes, a Wyoming cowboy born in 1911. Holmes has spent his life on horseback, herding cattle and doing other work with livestock. Since the time he rode his first horse, Holmes wanted nothing more than to be a cowboy.

In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the environment as depicted in literature and film and as embodied in his own mixedblood roots in family and land.

Melding past and present into a moving narrative, Mary Clearman Blew imaginatively recreates the dry, dusty, sparsely populated Montana of the early homesteaders and of her aunt Imogene's young womanhood. This is a rich and unforgettable blend of intimate reflection, diaries, history, and local legend.

Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What really happened at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? Now, because a grass fire in 1983 cleared the terrain of brush and grass and made possible thorough archaeological examinations of the battlefield, we have many answers to important questions.

Using primary sources, this book tells the stories of the white, black and Native American women who settled on the Oklahoma frontier, and who crossed racial and cultural barriers to work together, first in domestic concerns and later in community and national affairs.

This texts collects together 44 stories covering Kiowa history from the 1700s through the 1940s, all gleaned from interviews with Kiowas (who actually took part in the events or recalled them from the accounts of their elders), and the notes of Captain Hugh L. Scott at Fort Sill.

In this historical novel, the US cavalry rolls into Texas in the 1870s with orders to keep the peace and move the fierce Comanches quietly onto the reservation. It is a tale of adventure, hardship and defeat.

This text surveys the formative development of northwest Texas. Despite the unfamiliar and often hostile environment, the first pioneers persisted through problems such as conflicts with Indians, the Civil War, Reconstruction and outlawry to form a ranching-based social and economic way of life.

In 1841, US government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering by various contractors. This study explains the politics behind Hitchcock's mission and his accomplishments in advancing ethnographic knowledge.

"The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to the subject and has brought to view - if not to life -eighty-six Texas ghost towns for the reader''s pleasure. Baker lists three criteria for inclusion: tangible remains, public access, and statewide coverage. In each case Baker comments about the town''s founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. There are maps and instructions for reaching each site and numerous photographs showing the past and present status of each. The contemporary photos were taken, in most instances, by Baker himself, who proves as adept a photographer as he is researcher and writer....Baker has done his work thoroughly and well, within limits imposed by necessity. He obviously had fun in the process and it shows in his prose."---New Mexico Historical Review

This Second Edition, updated from the 1980 census, reflects the new county boundaries, the continuing Hopi-Navajo land dispute, the changes in Indian populations and congressional districts, the growth in population in Arizona''s counties and cities, and the decline of the copper mining industry. An addition to the Bibliography lists new books about Arizona and its history.

In 1832, Washington Irving, recently returned from seventeen years'' residence abroad and eager to explore his own country, embarked on an expedition to the country west of Arkansas set aside for the Indians. A Tour on the Prairies is his absorbing account of that journey, which extended from Fort Gibson to the Cross Timbers in what is now Oklahoma. First published in 1835, it has remained a perennial favorite, retaining its original freshness, vigor, and vividness to this day.

A portrait of this American Indian warrior, which reassesses his distorted image as a bloodthirsty savage and offers an insight into his energy and drive, independence, business acumen and interest in a wide range of subjects.

As American Indian communities face the new century, they look forward armed with confidence in the indigenous perspectives that have kept them together. Five scholars in American Indian history, and a tribal leader who has placed an indelible mark on the history of her people, show how understanding the past is the key to solving problems today.