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"I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others,
this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust."
— Geronimo [1829-1909]
"What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one."
— Sitting Bull [circa 1831-1890]
"The white men are like locusts."
— ad for DreamWorks mini-series, 2005
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General Links
Native Americans in the United States entry at Wikipedia
Native Peoples of Canada entry at Wikipedia
Native Peoples of Alaska entry at Wikipedia
Native Peoples of Hawai'i entry at Wikipedia
History > Native American > General books catalog at Amazon
Children's Literature > Folk Tales & Myths > Native American books catalog at Amazon
search DVDs at Amazon on keywords 'american indians'
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona [est. 1952]
California Tribal Alliance
Indigenous Language Institute
Native American Language Center at UC Davis
National Indian Youth Council [est. 1961] of Albuquerque, NM
First Nations website index
Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial [Aug 2004 = #83] in Gallup, NM
Indigenous Peoples Literature
Kiva Indian Art Gallery in Santa Fe, NM
Ndakinna Cultural Center (Non-Profit Native American Center) in Central Vermont
Red Nation Society social networking site [est. 2009]
Native American Culture
browse Native American Music category at Amazon
Native American Music Awards
![Wind Speaker: Canada's National Aboriginal News Source [est. 1982]](images/windspeaker.gif)
![Cowboys & Indians Magazine [est. July 1993], published by U.S.F.R. Media Group of Houston, Texas (and AmericaOne TV Network}](covers/mCowboys&Indians.jpg) Cowboys & Indians Magazine [est. July 1993] subscribe: 8 issues/year for $19.95 via Amazon |
![Native Peoples magazine [est. 1987]](covers/mNativePeoplesMag.jpg) Native Peoples Magazine [est. 1987] subscribe at publisher 6 issues/year for $19.95 12 issues for $36.00 |
Tribes & Nations, A to Z
"Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes" by Carl Waldman
"Atlas of North American Indians" by Carl Waldman
Indian Country of Arizona
Indian Country of New Mexico
"Book of The Hopi" [] by Frank Waters
recommended by Tony Hillerman [1925-2008]
Navajo Nation Official Website
Steve Getzwiller's Navajo Rug Website
"One Nation, One Year" [2010] by Navajo photographer Don James
 | "Yellow Dirt: An American Story of A Poisoned Land  and A People Betrayed" [2010] by Judy Pasternak Free Press hardcover [9/2010] for $17.16 author profile on LinkedIn |
Historical Native American
Leaders & Scholars
Lakota Sioux medicine man Black Elk [1863-1950]
C-SPAN American Writers TV special •
Wikipedia
"Black Elk In Paris" novel by Kate Horsley
classic "Black Elk Speaks"
Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise [1815-1874]: Wikipedia
Lakota Sioux war leader Crazy Horse [1840-1877]: Wikipedia
"The Authorized Biography of Crazy Horse and His Family"
Part One [2006]: "Creation, Spirituality & The Family Tree" /tt1533753/
Part Two [2007]: "Defending The Homeland Prior To The 1868 Treaty" /tt1533754/
"The Killing of Crazy Horse" [] by Thomas Powers
photographer Edward S. Curtis [1868-1952]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Curtis
Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman [1858-1939]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eastman
"The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation" [Houghton 1911] 9780486430898 9781582186412
Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo [1829-1909]:
Wikipedia
Barrett's book of interviews w/Geronimo publd 190x
Ishi, Last of The Yani [1860?-1916]: Wikipedia
"Ishi: The Last of His Tribe" [NBC-TV Dec 1978] /tt0077750/
"The Last of His Tribe" TV movie [H.B.O. March 1992] /tt0104690/ starring Graham Greene
Jed Riffe's award-winning documentary film "Ishi: The Last Yahi" [1992] /tt0104531/
Chief Joseph [1840-1904] of the Nez Perce Tribe: Wikipedia
"One Sky Above Us" bio
journalist & photographer Charles F. Lummis [1859-1928]
Navajo war chief Manuelito [1818-1893]: Wikipedia
photographer Lee Moorhouse [1850-1926]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Moorhouse
"Peoples of The Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915" []
Edited by Steven L. Grafe 0806137428
Comanche leader Quanah Parker [1840?-1911]:
Wikipedia
biog 0806127724/
Chief Powhatan [c.1547-c.1618]: Wikipedia
Lakota Sioux war leader Red Cloud [1822-1909]: Wikipedia
Chief Seattle
Sacajawea + Questar DVD
Cherokee intellect Sequoyah [1767?-1843]: Wikipedia
Lakota Sioux leader Sitting Bull [c. 1831 - 1890]: Wikipedia
Shawnee leader Tecumseh [1768?-1813]:
Wikipedia
"Tecumseh" Signet pb [3/82] 0451-11410-8 by Paul Joseph Lederer
Tecumsah's brother Tenskwatawa, known as 'The Prophet' [1775-1836]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenskwatawa
Apache leader Victorio [c.1825-1880]:
Wikipedia
bio by Kathleen P Chamberlian
"Avenging Victorio" by Dave De Witt
Northern Paiute religious leader Wovoka [c.1856-1932]:
Wikipedia
Modern Native American
Leaders & Artists
Native American Authors Project at Internet Public Library
Actors Section on the Native American Film Festival Page
Native American Actors Directory
A.I.M. activist Anna Mae Aquash [1945-75]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Mae_Aquash
"The Unquiet Grave" [2006] by Steve Hendricks about Aquash's unsolved murder
author Sherman Alexie lives in Spokane, WA
Dr. Vine Deloria, Jr. [1933-2005]: browse books
author Louise Erdrich
Native American Renaissance man Gary Farmer
gallery in Santa Fe • movie credits • official website
Navajo painter R.C. Gorman [1931-2005]
gallery [est. 1968] •
posters • Artcyclopedia page •
all books
RCGorman video "Mystique" on Earth VideoWorks
Chiracahua Apache sculptor Allan Houser [1914-1994]
Native American comedy team James & Ernie
musician Robert Mirabal of Taos Pueblo, NM
Mud Ponies band recordings
flutes website
Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday
imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier
California Luiseño artist Fritz Scholder of Arizona
folk singer Buffy St. Marie
Jim Thorpe
Books - Non-Fiction
History > Native American > General books catalog at Amazon
Children's Literature > Folk Tales & Myths > Native American books catalog at Amazon
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"Do All Indians Live in Tipis?: Questions and Answers From The National Museum of The American Indian" [2007]
HarperCollins 8¾x6 pb [9/2007] for $10.54 |
 | "The Jicarilla Apache: A Portrait" [2006] by Veronica E. Velarde Tiller, photography by Nancy Hunter Warren Univ NM Press 10x8 pb [10/2006] for $19.77 Univ NM Press 10¼x8¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $29.70 author's website |
 | "In The Hands of The Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians" [2003] by Jake Page
Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [4/2004] for $12.24 Free Press pb [2003] out of print/used Free Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [3/2003] out of print/many used |
 | "American Bison: A Natural History" [2002] by Dale F. Lott Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2002] for $20.97 |
 | "Tiller's Guide To Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations" [1996] Compiled by Veronica E. Velarde Tiller BowArrow Publng 11x9 hardcover [1/2006] out of print/used BowArrow Publng 11½x9 hardcover [8/96] out of print/used author's website |
 | "Indians of The Northwest" [1998] by Rochelle Cashdan
Discovery Enterprises 7¼x5¼ pb [9/98] for $7.95 "Indians of The Great Plains" [1998] by Kevin P. Supples Discovery Enterprises 7¼x5¼ pb [9/98] for $7.95 "Indians of the Northeast" [1997] by Karin Luisa Badt Discovery Enterprises 7¾x5¼ pb [3/97] out of print/used "Indians of The Southwest" [1997] by Karin Luisa Badt Discovery Enterprises 7¾x5½ pb [3/97] out of print/used |
 | "Indi'n Humor: Bicultural Play In Native America" [1993] by Kenneth Lincoln Oxford Univ Press 9x5¾ hardcover [5/93] for $125.00 |
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"The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History" [1992] by Veronica E. Velarde Tiller BowArrow Publng 9x6 pb [1/2001] for $24.95 author's website |
http://www.amazon.com/Through-Indian-Eyes-American-Peoples/dp/089577819X/
http://www.amazon.com/Facing-East-Indian-Country-History/dp/0674011171/
"Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong" book by Paul Chaat Smith
new "Navajo Nation Visitor's Guide" by Patrck & Joan Lavin
http://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Generation-Anthology-Native-American/dp/1559361476/
"American Indian Stories, Legends & Other Writings' {Penguin Classics 3/2003} by Zitkala-Sa
"Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations" [hb Feb 2005] by Charles F. Wilkinson
TimeLife Books "The American Indians" series
http://www.amazon.com/North-American-Indian-Eyewitness-Books/dp/0756610818/
Books - Fiction
Southwest USA & Native American
Mysteries Page at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Readers of The Purple Sage Bookstore's Tony Hillerman [1925-2008] Page
"The Vanishing American" [1925 novel] by Zane Grey [1872-1939]
Harper pb [10/91] for $5.49
"Laughing Boy" [1929] by Oliver La Farge [1901-63]
"The Last Frontier" [1941] by Howard Fast
M.E. Sharpe/North Castle 9x6 pb [2/97] for $23.95
"The Light In The Forest" [1953] by Conrad Richter
 | "Cheyenne Autumn" [McGraw-Hill 1953] by Mari Sandoz [1896-1966]
A proud band of relocated Northern Cheyenne leaves the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1878 to return to their ancestral homeland in Yellowstone, a trek of 1500 miles. Bison Books 8x5 2nd edition pb [10/2005] for $13.22 Bison Books 8x5¼ pb [2/92] for $12.71 Tandem Library 8¼x5½ hardcover [10/99] for $24.55 |
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"When The Legends Die" [1963 novel] by Hal Borland Bantam Starfire pb [8/84] for $5.99 |
 | "Little Big Man" [1964 novel] by Thomas Berger
Delacorte 8x5¼ pb [10/89] for $11.96 Isis UNABR audio [1/2000] for $99.95 "Return of Little Big Man" by Thomas Berger [1999] Back Bay 8¼x5½ pb [2/2000] for $11.16 Isis UNABR audio [1/2001] for $104.95 |
 | "Old Fish Hawk" [1970] by Mitchell F. Jayne [1928-2010]
Osage Indian Fish Hawk was raised in the wild; he discovers that he has outlived his Biblical three score and ten years allotment, and decides to return to his people's land to die. But first, he must avenge a death by tracking and killing an ancient & deadly wild boar. Pocket mass pb [6/71] out of print/used Lippincott 8¼x6 hardcover [1/70] out of print/used |
"Hanta Yo: An American Saga" [1979 NYT bestseller] by Ruth Beebe Hill
http://www.amazon.com/Hanta-Yo-Ruth-Beebe-Hill/dp/0446321443/
 | "A Yellow Raft In Blue Water: A Novel" [1987 bestseller] by Michael Dorris Mentioned as being read by Navajo cop Jim Chee in "Talking God" mystery novel [1989] by Tony Hillerman; narrative by a teenager, her mother, and her grandmother; the girl runs away from her Montana reservation and becomes a rodeo star. Picador 8¼x5½ pb [5/2003] for $10.20 Warner Books 7¾x5 pb [1/98] out of print/hundreds used Perfection Learning 8x5½ library hardcover [3/2003] for $18.60 |
 | "Dances With Wolves" [1988 novel] by Michael Blake Fawcett movie tie-in pb [11/90] for $6.99 Econo-Clad hardcover [10/99] for $13.35 Random House UNABR audio [10/96] out of print/used |
 | "Echoes of A Silent River: A Fictional Poetry-Prose Narrative of The True Largest Massacre of Native Americans In The History of The United States" [2003] by Rebekah Fawn Cochran A fictional look at the 1863 Bear River Massacre. BookLocker 8¾x5½ pb [9/2003] for $14.95 publisher bookpage {also ebook} |
 | "I Am Apache: A Novel" aka "Apache: Girl Warrior" [2007] by Tanya Landman Candlewick Press 7¾x5 pb [7/2009] for $7.77 Walker Books 7½x5 pb [7/2007] out of print/used Candlewick Press 7¾x5 hardcover [8/2008] for $11.92 author's official website |
Native American Film Festival
search DVDs at Amazon on keywords 'american indians'
search on keyword 'indians' at Internet Movie Database
American Indian Film Institute [est. 1979] of San Francisco, CA
'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Native American Film Festival Page
Western Movie Film Festival Pages
Books About Western Movies
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