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The bestselling, award-winning author’s “fiercely freewheeling collection of stories and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from...

A drama about an Indian woman horse trader and trick rider who decides to go against tribal restrictions and ride in the Hell's Mountain Suicide Race. Shows how she must decide whether she has properly assessed her abilities and those of her horse.

The history, culture, and present state of Native America are revealed, explored, and explained in this, the most comprehensive reference work on the indigenous peoples of North America ever assembled. It systematically presents historical and modern data for all known Native American groups in Canada and the United States, listing the different groups alphabetically within 10 culture areas. Information categories for each group include: tribal name...

This Collection of More than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of story-telling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure,...