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On the Rez
Ian Frazier / Hardcover / Published 2000
Farrar Straus & Giroux; ISBN: 0374226385 Book Description: "A great writer's journey of exploration in an American place that is both strange and deeply familiar." From Kirkus Reviews: "Humorist and chronicler Frazier (Coyote v. Acme, 1996, etc.) returns to Indian country for an astute, personal, and disarmingly frank assessment of life and conflict among the Oglala Sioux on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. Reintroducing a figure from Great Plains (1989)Le War Lance, with whom the author has been friends for 20 yearsFrazier explores his own affinity for the Sioux by relating the curious twists and turns of their friendship..."

Wild Indians & Other Creatures
(Werstern Literature Series)
Adrian C. Louis / Paperback / Published 1997
Univ of Nevada Pr; ISBN: 0874173035

Wild Indians & Other Creatures
(Western Literature Series)
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Adrian C. Louis / Hardcover / Published 1996
Univ of Nevada Pr; ISBN: 0874172799

Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse: The World of an Indian Orphanage
by Sharon Skolnick, Manny Skolnick (Contributor) / Hardcover / Published 1997
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803242638 Synopsis: "The dreams of a courageous Apache girl illuminate the hidden world of an Indian orphanage. Over 40 years ago, Sharon Skolnick and her sisters were removed from their Apache parents and became wards of the state of Oklahoma. Skolnick paints an absorbing portrait of the world of an Indian orphanage, a world both bright and dark, vividly rendered through a child's eyes but tempered by the adult who became an Apache artist."

Wild Justice: The People of Geronimo Vs. the United States
Michael Lieder, Jake Page / Paperback / Published 1999
Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806131330 Amazon.com Review: "This well-crafted history chronicles the lives and fortunes of the Chiricahua Apache, an Arizona warrior band removed from its lands in 1886 after Geronimo's famous uprising. Treated as prisoners of war, even though most were noncombatants, the Chiricahuas were forcibly moved to Florida and later to Oklahoma. They were then officially merged with the Mescalero Apache band and given a small reservation in New Mexico. Seemingly consigned to oblivion as a distinct people, the Chiricahua were restored in some measure in the late 1940s, when President Harry Truman ordered the creation of a commission to consider Native American claims to lost lands..."

In Search of the Wild Indian
Photographs and Life Works by Carl and Grace Moon
Carl Moon (Photographer), Grace Moon (Photographer),
Tom Driebe, gr Moon / Paperback / Published 1997
Maurose Pub Co; ISBN: 0965269108 Reviewer: cworth@execpc.com from Wisconsin, U.S.A. November 6, 1997 "A beautiful book and great addition to a home library. This book is about Carl and Grace Moon who had a special connection to the Indians of the southwest, however it is also about the wonderful Native people who inspired them. Many beautiful photos and very in-depth text! These people are still there, I have visited with them often. I hope this book will serve as a wonderful tribute to them."

Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933
L. G. Moses / Hardcover / 1999
University of New Mexico Press; ISBN: 0826320899 Amazon.com Review: "Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, begun in 1883, was a classic example of American show business: a cowboy-and-Indian spectacular starring 36 real Pawnees, a bunch of rodeo cowboys, 180 horses, and 18 buffalo. Cody treated his mostly eastern audiences to thrilling displays of shooting and riding, exotic Indian ceremonial dances, and blood-curdling reenactments of famous western battles. The show, a huge success, helped perpetuate the Wild West myth for the millions who saw it; in London, even Queen Victoria was impressed. Imagining the lives of Cody's Indians, one might predict a level of exploitation. Not so, Moses argues in this historical study. He provides first-hand narratives and fascinating photos that venture behind the curtain of Cody's show to suggest that as Cody's Indians traveled the world, they preserved their cultural heritage and had a good time doing it."