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Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end, Denise Low says, as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths.... The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible. Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native ancestry as she recovers the life story of her Kansas grandfather, Frank Bruner (1889-1963).

John Milton Oskison, born in the Indian Territory to a Cherokee mother and an immigrant English father, and was brought up engaging in his Cherokee heritage. Oskison left Indian Territory to attend college and went on to have a long career in New York City journalism. This is the first comprehensive collection of Oskison's writings.

Born into a legendary family of Paiute leaders in western Nevada, Sarah dedicated much of her life to working for her people. This book tells the story of Sarah Winnemucca (1844-91), one of the influential and charismatic Native women in American history.

The author stood in the light - in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. This book describes the origins and varieties of Lakota song and dance. Severt Young Bear performed with the Porcupine Singers throughout North America, taught at Oglala Lakota College, and served on the Oglala Sioux tribal council.

Presents an anthology of autobiographical accounts, by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features an introduction by the editors and biographical sketches for each writer.

Presents the story of Alma Hogan Snell, a Crow woman brought up by her grandmother, the famous medicine woman Pretty Shield.

Presents a story of several generations of Lakota women who grew up on the open plains of northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota. This book reveals Turtle Lung Woman's relationship with her husband, her healing practice as a medicine woman, Lone Woman's hardships, and celebrations growing up in the early twentieth century.

Rita Joe is celebrated as a poet, an educator, and an ambassador. In 1989, she accepted the Order of Canada 'on behalf of native people across the nation'. This title tells her story: her education in an Indian residential school, her turbulent marriage, and the daily struggles within her family and community.

A memoir by an American Indian, this title presents the recollections of a Seneca chief, also known as Governor Blacksnake. A fighter in the American Revolution, Chainbreaker told his story as an old man in the 1840s to a fellow Seneca, Benjamin Williams, who translated it and committed it to paper. His account is available in this edition.

It was at Wounded Knee, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had become the enemy, the Viet Cong, to a country that he had defended with his life. This memoir tells the story of the long trail that led Kipp from the Blackfeet Reservation of his birth to a terrible moment of reckoning on the plains of South Dakota.

A memoir that describes an Omaha Indian, Hollis Dorion Stabler's experiences during World War II - tours of duty in Tunisia and Morocco as well as Italy and France, and the loss of his brother in battle. It tells of growing up as an Omaha Indian in the small-town Midwest of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma in the 1920s and 1930s.

Born into the influential Ridge-Boudinot-Watie family, Elias Cornelius Boudinot was raised in the East after the assassination of his father, who helped found the first newspaper published by an Indian nation. This is a biography of Boudinot, a half-Cherokee, half-white man who lived on the cultural border of the two societies.

Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collaborated with Julie Cruikshank, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, to produce this unique autobiography.