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Native American Books
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THE GOOD
PATH
Ojibwe Learning and Activity Book for Kids
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Thomas Peacock and Marlene Wisuri |
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SOFTCOVER
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ISBN 1-890434-53-1
$17.95 |
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9" x 10",
128 pages
122 color and b/w illustrations |
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FROM THE AUTHORS of Ojibwe: We Look in
All Directions! Ideally suited for classroom use or home reading,
this illustrated history of the Ojibwe culture for young people focuses
on the teachings of the Good Path, nine core values that are the
fundamental basis of Ojibwe philosophy:
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Honor the Creator
Honor Elders
Honor Women
Honor Our Elder Brothers (the plant and animal beings)
Be Peaceful
Be Kind to Everyone
Be Moderate in Our Thoughts, Words, and Deeds
Be Courageous
Keep Our Promises |
Kids of all cultures journey through time with the
Ojibwe people as their guide to the Good Path and its universal lessons
of courage, cooperation, and honor. Through traditional native tales,
hear about Grandmother Moon, the mysterious Megis shell, and the souls
of plants and animals.
Through Ojibwe history, learn how trading posts, treaties, and warfare
affected Native Americans. Through activities designed especially for
kids, discover fun ways to follow the Good Path’s timeless wisdom
every day.
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OJIBWE
Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look In All Directions |
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Thomas Peacock and Marlene Wisuri |
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1/4" x 8", 160 Pages
225 duotone and color photographs |
HARDCOVER
EDITION
Casebound in linen with
dustjacket
ISBN 1-890434-33-7 $39.00
SOFTCOVER
EDITION
ISBN 1-890434-27-2 $29.95 |
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OJIBWE: Waasa
Inaabidaa (which
translates “we look in all directions”) is a uniquely personal history
of the Ojibwe nation by Ojibwe educator Thomas Peacock. Illustrated with
color and historic black-and-white photographs, artwork, and maps, it is
the story of how the Ojibwe people and their ways have continued to
survive, and even thrive, from pre-contact times to the present.
The story visits contemporary Ojibwe and non-Indian issues,
including tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, casino gambling, and
education.
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the story of humankind, different cultures tell parallel stories about the
making of this universe. It
may never be known if these similarities are a result of a more recent
melding of cultures or if the stories have a common beginning in a story
that has been passed down in the ancestral memory of many peoples. One example: the ancient Ojibwe story of creation parallels
the account in the Book of Genesis. |
from OJIBWE: Waasa inaabidaa
"An
amazing and wondrous set of stories told by those who dearly love their
history and peoples—a great gift to us all: the scattered and dispersed
leaves of our stories brought together with this generation’s faces and
living words." —Winona
LaDuke
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PAINTING THE
DAKOTA: Seth Eastman at Fort
Snelling
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by Marybeth Lorbiecki
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SOFTCOVER
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9" x 10", 104 pages,
50 Color Illustrations,
bibliography, index
ISBN
1-890434-32-9
$14.95
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In Painting the Dakota, our new book for young people, we arrive
with career army officer and artist Seth Eastman at Fort Snelling in February
1830. Dakota villages lined the banks of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
Eastman came to know the Native people better than any other painter in America
and captured in his art the details of their everyday life. The Eastman
paintings in Painting the Dakota are recognized as the single most
important source of information concerning Native American life in
pre-territorial Minnesota.
"It is my hope that Painting the Dakota will inspire readers to learn
more about Native Americans. In understanding more about this country's Native
People, their successes, and struggles, perhaps we can eliminate the ignorance
that often leads to racism directed at Native Americans." —Lori K.
Crowchild, descendant of Seth Eastman and Wakaninajinwin
Photo Gallery
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SETH
EASTMAN: A Portfolio of North American Indians |
by Sarah E. Boehme, Christian F. Feest,
and Patricia Condon Johnston |
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HARDCOVER EDITION
Casebound in linen with dustjacket
100
illustrations, 85 in color including
56 color plates, notes,
12" x 12", 196
pages
ISBN 0-9639338-4-1
$39.00
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A LANDMARK PUBLICATION that showcases the foremost
collection of watercolors by the premier pictorial historian of the
American Indian in the nineteenth century. A career U. S. Army
officer assigned to frontier duty, including a seven-year stint at Fort
Snelling in the 1840s, Eastman preserved a visual record of Native
American life, which was then undergoing rapid change.
"One of the most important publishing accomplishments
of this or any other year."
—Minnesota Governor Elmer L.
Andersen in Princeton Union-Eagle
SETH EASTMAN: A
Portfolio of North American Indians
is the subject of an hour-long
Afton Historical Society Press/
Twin Cities Public Television documentary! |
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DAHCOTAH;
or, Life and Legends of the Sioux |
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by Mary Henderson Eastman
Illustrated by Seth Eastman |
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HARDCOVER
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Casebound in linen with dustjacket
7 1/2" x 9 1/2",
240 pages
20 color illustrations.
ISBN 0-9639338-5-X
$29.00
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First published in 1849, DAHCOTAH; or, Life and
Legends of the Sioux presents an unparalleled
glimpse into Sioux (Dakota) customs and manners by a writer who had the
advantage of long-term residency among the Indians. The wife of army
officer and illustrator Seth Eastman, Mary Eastman gathered the material
for this book during their seven years at Fort Snelling in what became the
Minnesota Territory. Illustrated with watercolor drawings from Seth
Eastman's frontier portfolio, this new edition of a celebrated classic is
a feast for the eyes.
"Mary Eastman was a gifted writer who sought to
understand the Sioux and to describe their life as accurately as
possible....There is much good descriptive ethnology in [her]
book....There is little doubt that the Eastmans made a remarkable
team." — John C. Ewers in Montana: The Magazine of Western
History
Book
Reviews
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PEOPLES
OF THE TWILIGHT:
European Views of Native Minnesota 1823-1862
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by Christian F. Feest, Sylvia S.
Kasprycki
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HARDCOVER
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Casebound in linen with dustjacket
97
illustrations, annotated catalog of illustrations, notes,
10 1/2" x 8 1/4", 316
pages
ISBN 1-890434-06-X
$125.00
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COLLECTOR EDITION
Limited to 100 signed and numbered copies, handbound in handmade English marbled paper-covered
boards with goatskin spine and fore-edges, and housed in silk-covered
slipcase.
ISBN 1-890434-10-8 $525.00
This is Really Special!
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BREAKING NEW GROUND, Peoples of the Twilight brings
together forty two little known drawings by European artists (Johann
Baptist Wengler, Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Hoeffler, and Franz Holzlhuber),
a daguerreotype, and forty artifacts collected by European travelers to
illustrate aspects of the lifeways of the Dakota, Chippewa, and Winnebago
peoples prior to the Indian Wars of 1862. The accompanying
commentary makes extensive use of the written accounts of better and
lesser known European observers (Fredrick Marryat, Joseph N. Nicollet,
Francesco Arese, F. V. Lamare-Picquot, Moritz Wagner and Karl Scherzer,
Aleksandr B. Lakier, Father Franz Pierz, and others). Almost all of
the artwork and artifacts pictured in this book's 97 plates are contained
in European collections, where they have remained undiscovered by most
people in this country.
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