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Lies My Teacher Told Me:
"Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen / Hardcover / Published 1995
Synopsis: "Based on careful research at the Smithsonian Institution, here is a bold, direct challenge to the errors, misrepresentations, and ommissions of the leading American history textbooks. In fascinating detail, James W. Loewen offers a wonderful retelling of American history as Loewen believes it should--and could--be taught to American students." New Press; ISBN: 156584100X

Lies My Teacher Told Me:
"Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen / Paperback / Published 1996
Synopsis: "Why do so many Americans have little grasp of the ideas that shaped their nation? In this groundbreaking book, Loewen not only exposes the villain--textbooks that are embarrassing combinations of blind patriotism and outright lies--but reinstates suppressed information in a fascinating chronology. 26 photos." Touchstone Books; ISBN: 0684818868

The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians
(Critical Issue)
Anthony F. C. Wallace, Eric Foner (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1993
Hill & Wang Pub; ISBN: 0809015528

The Corporation and the Indian: Tribal Sovereignty
And Industrial Civilization in Indian Territory, 1865-1907
H. Craig Miner / Paperback / Published 1989
Booknews, Inc., 06/01/89: A reprint of the 1976 U. of Missouri Press edition now reprinted by Oklahoma with a new preface by Miner (business history, Wichita State U.). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. (NAI Studies)

Counseling American Indians
Laurence Armand French / Hardcover / Published 1997
University Press of America; ASIN: 0761806350 (NAI Studies)

Counseling American Indians
Laurence Armand French / Paperback / Published 1997
University Press of America; ASIN: 0761806369 (NAI Studies)

Coyote Medicine
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Andrew Weil / Hardcover / Published 1997
Synopsis: A Stanford-trained physician, who gave up the promise of a lucrative private practice to embrace the Native American healing arts of his ancestors, describes his continuing efforts to integrate both ancient and modern medicine. (NAI - Medical/Non-Fiction)

Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Andrew Weil/ Papterback / To Be Published August 1998
Fireside Books; Paperback - 304 pages (August 1998)
ASIN: 0684839970 (NAI - Medical/Non-Fiction)

Medicine of the Cherokee: The Way of Right Relationship
J. T. Garrett, Michael Tlanusta Garrett / Paperback / Published 1996
Midwest Book Review: Medicine Of The Cherokee: The Way Of Right Relationship is the story of the physical, mental, spiritual, and natural aspects of humans as told through many generations of elder teaches of Native American medicine. With stories that tell about the "four directions" and the "universal circle", these ancient Cherokee teachings also offer wisdom on circle gatherings, herbs, healing, and ways to reduce stress and find harmony and balance in all our relationships. The way of our modern world can separate us from nature and make us prone to disease, signs of being on the wrong path. (Medicine/NAI Religion)

A Coyote Reader
William Bright / Paperback / Published 1993
Nature and Ecology Editor's Recommended Book, 08/01/97: Coyote, the great North American trickster figure, is the star of linguist William Bright's fine collection of traditional Native American stories and modern poems and meditations. Bright has been studying Coyote's role in California Indian societies for four decades. Their stories tell of Coyote as a perennial loser and a figure who plays by no rules: he impregnates his own daughter, steals from his friends, and causes the world endless trouble. Bright links the biological to the cultural Coyote, and he introduces some fascinating ecological arcana, such as the fact that "Old Man Coyote"--as he's often called in traditional stories--hasn't changed much over the last 4 million years. Evolving alongside the saber-toothed tiger and the giant cave bear, Coyote somehow resisted specialization; Canis latrans eats almost anything and lives almost anywhere from southern Mexico to the Canadian sub-Arctic. No generation understands Coyote fully, the anthropologist Paul Radin once remarked, but no generation can live without him. Bright's affection for Coyote has yielded a necessary book about a necessary creature. Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520080629 (Non-Fiction/NAI Studies)

Creation's Journey: Native American Identity and Belief
Tom Hill, Richard W., Sr. Hill (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1994
Synopsis: Drawing on the vast collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, Creation's Journey retells the story of native life from the Arctic to the Tierra del Fuego, and from childhood to old age. Using objects, historical photographs, and the voices of Native Americans past and present, the book reawakens our senses to values and traditions that once prevailed. 220 color and 120 duotone photos. (Non-Fiction/NAI Studies)

Creators of the Plains (Library of Native Peoples)
Thomas E. Mails / Paperback / Published 1997
Council Oak Distribution; ASIN: 1571780475 (History)

The Crow (Indians of North America)
Frederick E. Hoxie, Frank W., III Porter (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1989
Card catalog description: Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Crow Indians. (History)

Crow Dog's Case: American Indian Sovereignty,
Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century
(Cambridge Studies in North American India)
Sidney L. Harring, Naih Harring / Paperback / Published 1994
Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521467152
(Non-Fiction/Legal History)

The Crow Indians
Robert Harry Lowie / Paperback / Published 1983
University of Nebraska Press; ISBN: 0803279094
(History/Crow Indians)

A Cry from the Earth: Music of North American Indians
John Bierhorst / Paperback / Published 1992
Card catalog description: An overview of American Indian music and dance which includes a discussion of their instruments, the structure of their music, and the uses of music in Indian life. (NAI Music)

Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960
Edward Holland Spicer / Paperback / Published 1982
University of Arizona Press; ISBN: 0816500215 (History/Cultural assimilation)

Cycles of Life (American Indians)
Time-Life Books (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1994
Time Life; ISBN: 080949583X (Non-Fiction)

Daily Life of the Aztecs, on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest
Jacques Soustelle / Paperback / Published 1970
Stanford University Press; ISBN: 0804707219 (History)

The Dancing Healers:
A Doctor's Journey of Healing With Native Americans
Carl A. Hammerschlag / Paperback / Published 1989
Synopsis: Interweaving autobiography with stories of the Native Americans who challenged his medical school assumptions, Dr. Hammerschlag recounts his 22 years of working with the Indian Health Service in the Southwest.
From the Publisher: The remarkable account of a Yale-trained psychiatrist's transforming encounter with Native American healing. (NAI Studies/Medical)

Dancing Moons: Poems
Nancy C. Wood, Frank Howell (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published 1995
Doubleday Books; ISBN: 0385321694 (Poetry/Taos Indians)

Dancing on Common Ground:
Tribal Cultures and Alliances on the Southern Plains
Howard Meredith / Hardcover / Published 1995
University Press of Kansas; ISBN: 0700606947 (History)

Dancing on the Rim of the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Northwest Native American Writing (Sun Tracks, Vol 19)
Andrea Lerner (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1990
University Press of Kansas; ISBN: 0700606947 (History)

The Day Before America Changing the Nature of a Continent
William H. MacLeish / Paperback / Published 1995
Houghton Mifflin Company; ISBN: 0395740142 (History)

Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America
Peter C. Mancall / Hardcover / Published 1995
Booknews, Inc., 12/01/95: Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the 17th century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs. Mancall (history, U. of Kansas) probes the origins of this ongoing social crisis, following the trail of rum from the West Indian producers to the Native American consumers and recounting how the traffic in liquor became a prominent source of income for the British Empire. To discover why Indians participated in the trade, he addresses current medical views on alcoholism and re-examines the colonial era as a time when Indians were trying to form new strategies for survival in a world that had been radically changed. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. (History)

Dee Brown's Folktales of the Native American: Retold for Our Times
Dee Alexander Brown, Louis Mofsie (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published 1993
Booknews, Inc., 02/01/94: Reprint of the 1979 collection of Native American folklore that draws on the oral traditions of a variety of different tribes. The 36 stories, as interpreted by the author, communicate a mythology and spiritual sensitivity that our society is just beginning to appreciate. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. (NAI Studies/Folklore) (Non-Fiction)

Defending Mother Earth:
Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice
Jace Weaver (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1996
Midwest Book Review: Defending Mother Earth brings together important Native voices to address urgent issues of environmental devastation as they affect the indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. The essays document a range of ecological disasters, including the devastating effects of mining, water pollution, nuclear power facilities, and toxic waste dumps. In an expression of "environmental racism", such hazards are commonly located on or near Indian lands. Many of the authors included in Defending Mother Earth are engaged in struggles to resist these dangers. As their essays consistently demonstrate, these struggles are intimately tied to the assertion of Indian sovereignty and the affirmation of Native culture: the Earth is, indeed, Mother to these nations. In his concluding theological reflection, George Tinker argues that the affirmation of Indian spiritual values, especially the attitude toward the Earth, may hold out a key to the survival of the planet and all its peoples. Contributors included representative voices from the Oglala Lakota, Shawnee/Sac, Fox, Muscogee, Seminole, Cherokee, Gwich'in, Standing Rock Sioux, Cree, Blood, Osage, and Seneca. Defending Mother Earth is a very valuable addition to the growing body of discussion on the pressing needs for conservation and the wise stewardship of a living resource -- and the home of all life as we know it. (Environmental Studies)

Defiant Chiefs (American Story)
Editors of Time-Life Books / Hardcover / Published 1997
Time Life Education; ISBN: 0783562543 (NAI Government relations)

The Delaware Indians: A History
C. A. Weslager / Paperback / Published 1990
Rutgers University Press; ISBN: 0813514940 (History)

The Destruction of California Indians:
A Collection of Documents from the Period 1847 to 1865 in Which Are Described Some of the Things That Happened
Robert Fleming Heizer (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1993
University of Nebraska Press; ISBN: 0803272626 (History)

Dictionary of the American Indian
John Stoutenburgh / Hardcover / Published 1990
Bonanza Books; ISBN: 0517694166 (Reference)

Digger: The Tragic Fate of the California Indians from the Missions to the Gold Rush
Jerry Stanley / Hardcover / Published 1997
Synopsis: Chronicles the lives of the Native Americans of California from 1769 through the Gold Rush of the 1850s, recounting poignant stories of violence, destruction, hunger, disease, rebellion, and death." --This text refers to the library edition of this title. (History)

Digger: The Tragic Fate of the California Indians from the Missions to the Gold Rush
Jerry Stanley / Library Binding / Published 1997
Synopsis: Chronicles the lives of the Native Americans of California from 1769 through the Gold Rush of the 1850s, recounting poignant stories of violence, destruction, hunger, disease, rebellion, and death." (History)

Diplomats in Buckskins:
A History of Indian Delegations in Washington City
Herman J. Viola / Paperback / Published 1995
University of Oklahoma Press; ISBN: 0806199350

Discover the World of North American Indians
(Adventures in Art - Kit and Pop-Up Book Series)
Hardcover / Published 1996
Synopsis: The history of Eskimos and plains and woodland Indians are introduced in this interactive pop-up book. Their customs and way of life are explored, and the package includes the materials to create and decorate an Indian pot and totem pole. (Non-Fiction) (Reading level: Ages 9-12)

Dispossession of the American Indian, 1887-1934
Janet A. McDonnell / Hardcover / Published 1991
Indiana University Press; ISBN: 0253336287 (Non-Fiction)

Documents of United States Indian Policy
Francis Paul, Comp. Prucha / Paperback / Published 1990
University of Nebraska Press; ISBN: 0803287267 (Government/Law)

Drawing the Boderline: Artist-Explorers of the U.S.- Mexico Boundary Survey (Historians of the Frontier and American West)
Dawn Hall (Editor), John MacK Faragher / Paperback / Published 1996
University of New Mexico Press; ISBN: 0826317529 (History)

Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians
(Civilization of the American Series, Vol 140)
Ronald Peter Koch, Ronald P. Kock / Paperback / Published 1990
University of Oklahoma Press; ISBN: 0806121378 (Non-Fiction)

Earth Medicine-Earth Food:
Plant Remedies, Drugs, and Natural Foods of the North American Indians
Michael A. Weiner / Paperback / Published 1991
Synopsis: Long before there was pharmacology as we know it, the North American Indians cured illness and maintained health by natural means, using healing plants of the forest, desert and seashore. Renowned nutritionist Michael Weiner has created an authoritative A-to-Z reference guide to the plant remedies and wild foods used by the Indians. (Non-Fiction)

Ecocide of Native America:
Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples
Donald A. Grinde, et al / Hardcover / Published 1995
Midwest Book Review: The environmental destruction of Indian lands is charted in a hard-hitting account tracing five hundred years of atrocities. From strip-mining and uranium mining to contamination of lands with toxic materials, this continues the ongoing saga of white exploitation of Indian communities, presenting a grim and revealing portrait of the politics involved on all sides. (NAI Studies)

Exiled in the Land of the Free:
Democracy, Indian Nations & the U.S. Constitution
Oren Lyons, Daniel K. Inouye (Preface), Vine Deloria / Paperback / Published 1998 Clear Light Pub; ISBN: 0940666502

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen / Paperback / Published 1995
Synopsis: Kept off the shelves for eight years by legal battles, this is the comprehensive history of the desperate Indian efforts to maintain their traditions and preserve the sacredness of the earth. Matthiessen reveals the Lakota Indians' long struggle with the U.S. Government, from Red Cloud's War and Little Big Horn to the Indian wars of the 1970s. 3 maps. (Non-Fiction)
(A must read!!!) [**Note: Jim Messerschmidt is the author of
'The Trial of Leonard Peltier'.]

Indian Country
Peter Matthiessen / Paperback / Published 1992
Synopsis: "After winning an eight year legal battle, here is the controversial book that powerfully sheds new light on the plight of Native Americans. Matthiessen's urgent accounts and absorbing journalistic details make it impossible to ignore the message they so eloquently proclaim. An exploration of the encroachment of whites on the sacred grounds of the native Americans discusses such tribes as the Miccosukee, Hopi, Cherokee, Mohawk, Urok, Karuk, Lakota, Chumsah, Paiute, Shoshone, Ute, and Navajo. Reprint. NYT." Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0140130233

Sun Circles and Human Hands
Emma L. Fundaburke / Hardcover / Published 1984
A comprehensive book on Southeastern Indian art & culture. ISBN: 091064201X

Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida,
the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas
by Kevin Mulroy / Hardcover / 1993
Booknews, Inc., August 1, 1993 "Describes how escaped slaves formed communities as part of the Seminole confederation in Spanish Florida; removed to Indian Territory, and then to Mexico to escape slave traders; and returned to Texas, when slavery was abolished, to fight their former native allies and establish communities that still survive. Emphasizes the Maroons' relations with the Indians and governments, and their military prowess, to the neglect of internal organization. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or." Texas Tech Univ Pr; ISBN: 0896722503