By Michael Kabotie (Lomawywesa), 1987. Michael Kabotie or Lomawywesa, son of the artist Fred Kabotie, was born in 1942 at Shungopavi. He is of the Hopi Sinnum, Water/Snow clan, and he is a painter, lithographer, serigrapher, goldsmith and silversmith. In this book of poetry he recreates Hopi traditions for modern Indians in bold, traditional strokes. … Read more
By Charles Brashear, 2000. Brashear`s collection of short stories addresses American Indian-white contact throughout the history of North America. Several of the stories involve mixed bloods, products of Indian-white marriages, a situation that nearly always generates divided loyalties and identity crises. Each story highlights an individual`s quandary—and often alienation—in negotiating and adapting to a face-to-face … Read more
By Norla Chee, 2001. This collection of thirty-seven poems seamlessly weaves the spiritual with the daily and the present with the past. Chee`s poetry as song and story is a mix of Navajo, which is her cultural heritage, and the “Other,” as indicated by non-Navajo customs, ideas, and experiences. She utilizes this comparison to bring … Read more
Edited by Charlotte Heth, assisted by Michael Swarm, 1991. This collection of essays grew out of a 1982 conference organized around the theme of “sharing” in historical (or traditional) and contemporary arts. Contributors include scholars and practicing American Indian artists. The essays in this book address the issue of cultural development for individual and community … Read more
Edited by Robert Griffin and Donald A. Grinde Jr., 1997. Said to have been written by an Iroquois prophet in 1305, and revealed to a French emissary in 1776, this text has languished in French book repositories since 1777. An evaluation of the original text, said to be of an Iroquois prophet Chiokoyhikoy, comes from … Read more
By Jean Chaudhuri and Joyotpaul Chaudhuri, 2001. A Sacred Path explains and documents Creek persistence as a people despite having been defrauded and dispossessed of their ancient homelands. The book connects the Muscogee sacred history with the land, the spirit world, the confederacy`s sociopolitical organization, and its ceremonial cycle in a carefully researched and well-written single … Read more
By G. Edward Evans and Jeffrey Clark, 1980. This annotated bibliography provides a listing of Indian language sources intended to supplement James Pilling`s nine American linguistic bibliographies for the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology. 153 pp. $5 paper 10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-15-8 13-digit ISBN: 978-0-935626-15-5 Individual’s Price: $5.00 Stock: In Stock
By James R. Young, Dennis Moristo, and G. David Tanenbaum, 1976. This short but historically valuable book provides an inventory of unpublished records of the creation and administration of the Pala Indian agency. 66 pp. $5 papercover 10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-20-4 13-digit ISBN: 978-935626-20-9 Individual’s Price: $5.00 Stock: In Stock
By G. Edward Evans and Karin Abbey, 1979. This bibliography provides a list of language arts materials for 1975 to 1976 and earlier years to supplement the 1977 bibliography. 120 pp. $5 paper 10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-14-X 13-digit ISBN: 978-0-935626-14-8 Individual’s Price: $5.00 Stock: In Stock
By G. Edwards Evans and Karin Abbey, 1977 283 pp. $5 paper 10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-13-1 13-digit ISBN: 978-0-935626-13-1 Individual’s Price: $5.00 Stock: In Stock