Great Plains

At the end of a fierce battle, the boy who was once called “Slow” gained the name Tatan’ka Iyota’ke, a name which is now known well, for Tatan’ka means Sitting Bull.

Daniel Long Soldier’s illustrations give power to the words of this exceptional book.

Imparts the traditional Crow philosophy of healing and detailed practical advice for turning garden plants into remedies.

This volume of poems comes from a winter during which Ortiz lived and worked on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota.

A collection of childhood stories, traditional stories and an essay, many of which were written in the very early 1900s.

A tour into Indian Country and beyond: from Santa Monica, CA to Washington D.C., the Osage Nation and Oklahoma then Oxford and the Isle of Skye.

Mandy Smoker is a consummate storyteller whose writing is a blessing, an antidote to the poison force-fed to Indian young people.

In Bead on an Anthill, there is birth and death, loss and tragedy—and healing.

Fife’s words are so fierce and strong that readers will see her, standing with her fists clenched, defiantly spitting out an answer to Webster’s definition of the word “savage.”

While researching his own roots, a Washington Post journalist opens old family wounds and exposes a widespread murder conspiracy.

Each spring, a water monster comes out of the lake to steal Thunderbird’s chicks. So Thunderbird snatches up a human hunter to help her foil the monster.

Three complex and multi-layered contemporary short stories, each primarily focused on two characters who are brothers.

Tim Giago, who spent his childhood at one of these schools, examines the unholy alliance between church and state that tried to destroy generations of Indian children.

Chuck and his mom go to visit Kookum (Grandmother in Cree) in the city, where he encounters many new things.

Medicine Crow tells of a childhood lived mainly outdoors: bathing in icy rivers, mud fights, listening to stories about family and community, and counting coup.

Without polemic, without romanticism, Bruchac tells the story of Crazy Horse's childhood and the vision that was to direct his adult life.

Each of these sets of maps offers an in-depth view of one of Montana's five regions.

Flute songs and chants of the Northern Plains.

Floyd Red Crow Westerman is an important Native American protest singer and actor.

The record that Bob Dylan called 'Best Album of the Year,' in Rolling Stone.