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Tapestries in Sand: The Spirit of Indian Sandpainting

Product Description: A part Otomi Indian from Mexico was adopted into the Navajo tribe at sixteen. He learned sandpainting from the medicine men who painted loosely on the ground, to be destroyed within a twelve hour period. He explains the inner meaning of some 30 sandpaintings such as Whirling Rainbows and Big Thunder...read more

By David Villasenor

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9780911010237 | Naturegraph Pub, June 1, 1966, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A part Otomi Indian from Mexico was adopted into the Navajo tribe at sixteen.

Paperback:

9780911010220 | Naturegraph Pub, June 1, 1966, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A part Otomi Indian from Mexico was adopted into the Navajo tribe at sixteen.

North American Indian Mythology

Describes and illustrates religious art, customs, beliefs, and legends prevalent in the Indian cultures of the United States and Canada

By Cottie Arthur Burland

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9780814803882 | Lla Intl Ltd, June 1, 1968, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Describes and illustrates religious art, customs, beliefs, and legends prevalent in the Indian cultures of the United States and Canada

Paperback:

9780872262485 | Revised edition (Peter Bedrick Books, October 1, 1991), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes and illustrates religious art, customs, beliefs, and legends prevalent in the Indian cultures of the United States and Canada

School and Library:

9780872260160 | Rev sub edition (Peter Bedrick Books, October 1, 1985), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes and illustrates religious art, customs, beliefs, and legends prevalent in the Indian cultures of the United States and Canada

Myths and Legends of the North American Indians

Reset with fresh illustrations together with an extensive index and glossary.

By Lewis Spence

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Hardcover:

9781904919087 | New edition (Crw Pub Ltd, June 30, 2005), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Reset with fresh illustrations together with an extensive index and glossary.

Paperback:

9780766101197 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 1, 1997, cover price $37.95

9780833417459 | Garber Communications, June 1, 1975, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge Sources of Life

Product Description: 'The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life' offers an uncommonly wide-ranging consideration of the ways in which Native Americans view the world, their place in it, and their responsibilities to it. This world is not only physical, but spiritual, and 'The Sacred' describes the 'meaning, role and function of sacred traditional practices and observances in the lives of The People, individually and collectively...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Peggy V. Beck and Anna Walters

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9780912586243 | Dine College Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 'The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life' offers an uncommonly wide-ranging consideration of the ways in which Native Americans view the world, their place in it, and their responsibilities to it.

Where Is the Eagle?

Presents the folk tales, traditional beliefs, customs, and religious attitudes of various tribes of North American Indians

By William E. Coffer

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9780442261634 | Van Nostrand Reinhold, March 1, 1981, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents the folk tales, traditional beliefs, customs, and religious attitudes of various tribes of North American Indians

Cuchama and Sacred Mountains

Product Description: W. Y. EvansâWentz, great Buddhist scholar and translator of such now familiar works as the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, spent his final years in California. There, in the shadow of Cuchama, one of the Earthâs holiest mountains, he began to explore the astonishing parallels between the spiritual teaching of Americaâs native peoples and that of the deeply mystical Hindus and Tibetans...read more

By W. Y. Evans-Wentz

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9780804004114 | Swallow Pr, March 1, 1982, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: W.

Paperback:

9780804009089 | Reprint edition (Swallow Pr, March 1, 1989), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: W.

Native American Traditions: Sources and Interpretations

Product Description: Book by Gill, Sam D.

By Sam D. Gill

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9780534013745 | Wadsworth Pub Co, February 1, 1983, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Book by Gill, Sam D.

Indian Country

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.

By Peter Matthiessen

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9780844666778 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1984, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: 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.

9780670397877 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The author talks to Indian spiritual leaders across America and examines the ways in which the white man's 'progress' threatens the Indians' land and way of life

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9780140130232 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: 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

American Indian Myths and Legends

Product Description: Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups, this collection offers a panorama of Native American mythic heritage. There are tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, and the end of the world. The authors have added a selection of contemporary voices to 19th-century tales...read more

By Richard Erdoes (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780844669267 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, July 1, 1997, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups, this collection offers a panorama of Native American mythic heritage.

Paperback:

9780394740188 | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1985, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Combines a bounty of unpublished tales related to the authors by living storytellers with the best of folklore sources to provide 160 myths and legends of more than 80 tribal groups across the continent

9780712673686 | Pimlico, August 1, 1984, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups, this collection offers a panorama of Native American mythic heritage.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781564310118 | Unabridged edition (Sunset Productions, July 1, 1992), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Combines unpublished tales related by living storytellers with the best of folklore sources to provide a collection of myths and legends representing native American tribal groups across the country.

9781564310293 | Sunset Productions, September 1, 1991, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Kiowa Indian Jill Momaday reads each of the tales in this anthology of native American myths and legends accompanied by authentic music.

Reinforced:

9780606037112 | Demco Media, September 1, 1985, cover price $26.80 | About this edition: Combines a bounty of unpublished tales related to the authors by living storytellers with the best of folklore sources to provide 160 myths and legends of more than 80 tribal groups across the continent

American Indian Myths and Legends

Product Description: This magnificent collection gathers 160 tales from 80 tribal gathers to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters, and the end of the world...read more

By Alfonso Ortiz

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9789990061031 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1985, cover price $0.02

Prebinding:

9781435277366 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 16, 2008), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This magnificent collection gathers 160 tales from 80 tribal gathers to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage.

Native Americans

Product Description: 190 page firm or flexible back book on the American Indian.

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Hardcover:

9780717293988 | Grolier Academic Reference, August 1, 1999, cover price $55.01

9780717294008 | Grolier Academic Reference, August 1, 1999, cover price $55.01

9780717294053 | Grolier Academic Reference, August 1, 1999, cover price $55.01

9780717293964 | Grolier Academic Reference, August 1, 1999, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Book by

9780717293971 | Grolier Academic Reference, August 1, 1999, cover price $55.01

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9783822855089 | Taschen America Llc, March 1, 2002, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: 190 page firm or flexible back book on the American Indian.

9781928816010 | Ncr spi cr edition (Turtle Island Inc, June 1, 2000), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An unusual set of blank greeting/ all occasion featuring Native Americans in various poses.

9780874743470 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $2.95

Library:

9780836826449, titled "The Native Americans" | Gareth Stevens Pub, January 1, 2000, cover price $106.40

9780516017198 | Childrens Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $473.00

Meditations With Animals: A Native American Bestiary

Product Description: Published in 1986, Meditations with Animals was the first bestiary ever compiled from Native Americans showing the guiding roles animals have played in their spiritual history. These stories and poems contain the rites and rituals of a variety of tribes, depicting a world unified by the belief that the animal spirit dwells within each of us...read more

By Gerald Hausman

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9780939680269 | Bear & Co, June 1, 1986, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Published in 1986, Meditations with Animals was the first bestiary ever compiled from Native Americans showing the guiding roles animals have played in their spiritual history.

Mythology of North America

Introduces readers to the most important native myths and legends of eleven North American regions, from the Southwest to the Arctic

By John Bierhorst

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9780688066666, titled "The Mythology of North America" | Reprint edition (William Morrow & Co, August 1, 1986), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Describes the background of the myths of the Indian cultures of the North American continent, some of which have the same themes as myths of other world cultures.

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9780833501516 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.70 | About this edition: Describes the background of the myths of the Indian cultures of the North American continent, some of which have the same themes as myths of other world cultures.

Native Land: Sagas of the Indian Americas

Traces the rise and decline of the Olmecs, Maya, Incas, Aztecs, and the major tribes of North America and discusses the culture of each tribe. (view table of contents)

By Jamake Highwater

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9780735104969 | Replica Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Traces the rise and decline of the Olmecs, Maya, Incas, Aztecs, and the major tribes of North America and discusses the culture of each tribe.

9780316360876 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1986, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Traces the rise and decline of the Olmecs, Maya, Incas, Aztecs, and the major tribes of North America and discusses the culture of each tribe

Paperback:

9780735104976 | Replica Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the rise and decline of the Olmecs, Maya, Incas, Aztecs, and the major tribes of North America and discusses the culture of each tribe.

They Dance in the Sky: Native American Star Myths

The authors combine factual information on both astronomy and native American culture with authentic tales and myths about constellations told by many American Indian tribes

By Jean Guard Monroe and Ray A. Williamson

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9780395399705 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1987, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of legends about the stars from various North American Indian cultures, including explanations of the Milky Way and constellations such as the Big Dipper.

Imagine Ourselves Richly: Mythic Narratives of the North American Indians

Studies the major mythological traditions of Native Americans, including Hopis, Ojibwas, Iroquois, Navajos, Creeks, and peyote religion, using myth analysis to understand the identities, survival methods, and spirituality of Native American people

By Christopher Vecsey

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9780824508784 | Crossroad Pub Co, October 1, 1988, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Studies the major mythological traditions of Native Americans, including Hopis, Ojibwas, Iroquois, Navajos, Creeks, and peyote religion, using myth analysis to understand the identities, survival methods, and spirituality of Native American people

The Myths of the North American Indians

Product Description: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Lewis Spence

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9780517101582, titled "Myths of the North American Indians" | Gramercy, April 1, 1994, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: A collection of myths and legends from the native American cultures becomes a cultural history of these peoples and includes such tales as 'Great Head and the Ten Brothers,' 'Hiawatha,' 'The Sacred Bear-Spear,' and others.

Paperback:

9780486259673 | Dover Pubns, May 1, 1989, cover price $15.95

Prebinding:

9780833534859 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.25 | About this edition: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Legends Told by the Old People

An inspired collection of special stories recorded from the Old People who heard them as children and passed them down. (view table of contents)

By Adolf Hungrywolf

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9781570671166 | Revised edition (Book Pub Co, July 1, 2001), cover price $12.95

9780913990711 | Book Pub Co, August 1, 1990, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: An inspired collection of special stories recorded from the Old People who heard them as children and passed them down.

Native American Stories

A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature

By Joseph Bruchac

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9781555910945 | Fulcrum Pub, March 1, 1991, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature

Reinforced:

9780606066112 | Demco Media, March 1, 1991, cover price $21.17 | About this edition: A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature

Imagine Ourselves Richly: Mythic Narratives of North American Indians

By Christopher Vecsey

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9780062508911 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 1991), cover price $10.95

Mother Earth: An American Story

Product Description: "The earth is my mother, and on her bosom I shall repose."Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Mother Earth is an ancient and central Native American figure...read more

By Sam D. Gill

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9780226293721 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: "The earth is my mother, and on her bosom I shall repose.

Storytelling Stone: Traditional Native American Myths and Tales

Offers more than fifty selections--including tribal myths, animal folklore, and tales of the supernatural--representing the oral traditions of tribes from Nova Scotia to California

By Susan Feldmann (editor)

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9780385334020, titled "The Storytelling Stone: Traditional Native American Myths and Tales" | Delta, February 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Offers more than fifty selections--including tribal myths, animal folklore, and tales of the supernatural--representing the oral traditions of tribes from Nova Scotia to California

9780440383147 | Dell Pub Co, October 1, 1991, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Creation and death, the wily trickster, wolves,Â Â magic, and passion -- these are part of a richÂ Â heritage of Native American mythology and folktales.

Spirits, Heroes & Hunters from North American Indian Mythology

A retelling of traditional North American Indian tales recounts the stories that native Americans passed along orally from generation to generation before and after the European invasion.

By Bill Donohoe, John Sibbick and Marion Wood

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School and Library:

9780872269033 | Reissue edition (Peter Bedrick Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of American Indian myths and legends illustrating the customs and values of the traditional Indian way of life.

Turtle Island Alphabet: A Lexicon of Native American Symbols and Culture

In a collection of symbols and images representing the themes of native American culture, one hundred photographs help recapture the glory of the native American past. Reprint. QPB. AB. PW.

By Gerald Hausman

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Hardcover:

9780312071035 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents symbols and images central to Native American culture and urges readers to use the legacy of Native American history to interpret the future

Paperback:

9780312094065 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, May 1, 1993), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents symbols and images central to Native American culture and urges readers to use the legacy of Native American history to interpret the future

Center of the World: Native American Spirituality

Book by Robinson, Rita, Rutledge, Don

By Rita Robinson and Don Rutledge

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Hardcover:

9780809561728 | Borgo Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9780878771721 | Newcastle Pub Co Inc, April 1, 1992, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Robinson, Rita, Rutledge, Don

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