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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...

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.

Collection of poems revealing the spirit of North American Indian attitudes on life, love, and other experiences.

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,...

Describes the daily life of the Indians, their clothing, food, games, and customs before and after the coming of the white man.

The chronology of the bestselling first edition, which ended in 1986, has now been brought current to 2000, featuring information on the history, culture, tribal locations, languages and lifeways of Native American groups across the United States, Canada, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. 158 photos. Maps.