North American Indian

In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardships and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the teepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution, but anger won the day. Forced to either lead his warriors in a war he knew they could not win or leave them to their fates, he declared "[Little Crow] is not a coward: he will die with you." Learn More

"The definition of a warrior for Native Americans has basically remained the same since pre-Columbian times. A warrior is the protector of his people. Strength, honor, pride, devotion, wisdom and spiritual toughness are required to fulfill that duty. Coincidentally, the Native American warrior code is similar to the code of the U.S. Army."
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The history of masking horses in North America is more than five centuries old, introduced with the Spanish horse of Columbus and Cortes. Surviving rock paintings document the Indians use of armored horses, wearing full head coverings, by the early 1700s. Learn More

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"An even-handed, elegantly presented and thoroughly researched example of the sort of work historical geographers need to be doing." ~Journal of Historical Geography Learn More

BOWMAN'S STORE traces the journey of writer Joseph Bruchac from a childhood filled with equal parts of love and secrecy to the beginning of his career as one of our best-known authors and storytellers of Native American history and lore. Learn More

The Navajo and the Southern Plains Indians loved the flash of silver to adorn their horses and themselves. This book traces the evolution and use of silver bridles as well as gorgets, pectorals, hairplates and concha belts, all of which were first obtained through trade networks and later the Indians learned to make themselves. Learn More

One of the Landmark History Books published in the twentieth century, BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE made an immediate and huge impact. It has sold nearly five million copies and has been translated into more than a dozen languages and now this remarkable book is available for the first time with rich and colorful illustrations. Learn More

Bury My Heart of Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's classic, panoramic account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian over the second half of the nineteenth century.
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