Product Description: In Building One Fire, Chad Smith and renowned Cherokee-Osage scholar and author Rennard Strickland present a unique look at Cherokee art through the lens of Cherokee philosophy. Since the time when Water Spider brought the gift offire to the Cherokee people, the One Fire, “the Ancient Lady,” has been at the center of Cherokee spiritual life...read more

Product Description: “When you mentioned to family or friends that you were considering becoming a lawyer, you probably faced skepticism, if not serious criticism… You are undoubtedly asking yourself if three or four years of a rigorous and costly legal education is really worth the candle...read more

Photographs of Americans celebrating their lives in the context of their view of history--Rennard Strickland.

From rock art in New Mexico to a recently uncovered shaman's cave in the Mojave, this loving tribute to Native American spirituality documents U.S. sites considered sacred by Indian people.

Product Description: Intended for the general public, the readings in this collection explore the roots of American law from pre-history to ancient Greece and Rome and the common law of England. America's legal development is traced from the drafting of the Constitution to the Rehnquist Court...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How do Native Americans maintain their identity and culture in a hostile society, and to what end? Tonto's Revenge is a passionate attempt by a leading Native American scholar to reassess the Indian world view and its importance to all Americans...read more

Product Description: This is a lively effort to pierce the thick fog of Falsehood, calumny, ignorance, and legend surrounding the four years Sam Houston spent among the Cherokees in what is now northeastern Oklahoma, the broken years in Tennessee, and his advent in Texas on the eve of the War for Independence...read more

Catalogs the 1991 exhibition

Discusses the production and uses of traditional American Indian clothing, sculpture, and bowls

Product Description: This book traces the emergency of the Cherokee system of laws from the ancient spirit decrees to the fusion of tribal law ways with Anglo-American law.The Cherokees enacted their first written law in 1808 in Georgia. In succeeding years the leaders and tribal councils of the southeastern and Oklahoma groups wrote a constitution, established courts, and enacted laws that were in accord with the old tribal values but reflected and accommodated to the whites’ legal system...read more

In addition to practical data and advice on law school admissions and pitfalls the author includes guidelines on adjusting to life in law school