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"The Native American story is as diverse and unique as each individual and as powerful as a common community connected by adversity, wisdom, spirituality, and destiny. Indigenous people are working to connect to their roots, counter stereotypes, and highlight the important contributions made by the nation's original inhabitants"-- Provided by publisher.

If you want to know why American Indians, have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are, two and a half times more, likely to be raped than the national average and why gang, violence affects American Indian youth more, than any other group, do not look to history. There is no doubt, that white settlers, devastated Indian communities in the 19th, and early 20th...

"The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Last Free Lakotas is the story of how Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life-a nomadic life based on the buffalo--sacred to him and to his people"--

Prior to the onslaught of the Europeans, the Puget Sound Native Americans who lived there enjoyed a bounty of seafood, waterfowl, and berries, which they expertly collected and preserved. Detailing the associated culture, technologies, and techniques, Vine Deloria Jr. explains in depth this veritable paradise and its ultimate demise.

"In I Will, Sheron Wyant-Leonard weaves the personal recollections of four members of the American Indian Movement--Leonard Peltier, Dennis Banks, Dorothy Ninham, and her husband Herb Powless--into a unique narrative to expose their trials and tribulations over the course of two decades." -- inside front jacket flap. "A unique portrayal of four members of the American Indian Movement--with ... photos and ... full-color images created by Leonard Peltier....

The author speaks for his people in this witty confutation of almost everything the white man "knows" about Native Americans. In Custer Died for your Sins, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria's Manifesto for some time to come,...