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Folklore

John Bierhorst, editor
• Latin American Folktales

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
• Old Indian Legends

Joseph Bruchac
• Heroes & Heroines, Monsters & Magic: Native American Legends & Folktales
• The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends

Ella E. Clark
• Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest

Harold Courlander
• People of the Short Blue Corn: Tales & Legends of the Hopi Indians

Jaime de Angulo
• Indian Tales: Indian Folklore, Rituals, Hunting Adventures, Allegories, Tall Tales, Blessings & Curses

Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz, editors
• American Indian Myths & Legends

Antonio R. Garcez
• American Indian Ghost Stories of the Southwest

Earnest Gouge
• Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales

Terri Hardin, editor
• Legends & Lore of the American Indians

Susan Hazen-Hammond
• Spider Woman's Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women's Power

Janet Ruth Heller
• How The Moon Regained Her Shape

Kay Hill
• Glooscap & His Magic: Legends of the Wabanaki Indians

Tony Hillerman
• The Boy Who Made Dragonfly

Thomas King
• The Truth About Stories

Theodora Kroeber
• The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends

Bobby Lake-Thom
• Call of the Great Spirit: The Shamanic Life & Teachings of Medicine Grizzly Bear

Frank B. Linderman
• Old Man Coyote

Hallie N. Love & Bonnie Larson
• Watakame's Journey: The Story of the Great Flood & the New World

Johanna R.M. Lyback
• Indian Legends

Malcolm Margolin, editor
• The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories & Songs

Tim McNeese
• Myths of Native America

Lawrence Millman
• A Kayak Full of Ghosts: Eskimo Folk Tales

James Mooney
• Cherokee Animal Tales
• Myths of the Cherokee

Darrell Norman & Ramon Kramer
• The Return of the Buffalo Horses

Teresa Pijoan
• White Wolf Woman & Other Native American Transformation Myths

Daniel Pinchbeck
• 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Rona Rustige
• Tyendinaga Tales

Leo Sawicki
• Anytime Stories
• Anywhere Stories

George F. Scheer, editor
• Cherokee Animal Tales

Joanne Shenandoah & Douglas M. George
• Skywoman: Legends of the Iroquois

C.J. Taylor
• All the Stars in the Sky: Native Stories from the Heavens
• Bones in the Basket: Native stories of the origin of people
• The Ghost & Lone Warrior
• How We Saw the World: Nine Native stories of the way things began
• The Secret of the White Buffalo: An Oglala Legend

Bertrand N.O. Walker (Hen-Toh)
• Tales of the Bark Lodges

Frank Waters
• Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

Maria Yraceburu
• Legends & Prophecies of the Quero Apache: Tales for Healing & Renewal

Zitkala-Sa
• Old Indian Legends

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History

Jean Afton, David Fridtjof & Andrew E. Masich
• Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups & Combat

Anthony Aveni
• The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012

Phil Bellfy
• Indians & Other Misnomers: A Cross-Referenced Dictionary of the People, Persons & Places of Native North America

Jules B. Billard, editor
• The World of the American Indian

D.L. Birchfield
• How Choctaws Invented Civilization & Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World

John Bird, Lorraine Land, Murray Macadam & Diane Engelstad
• Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty & the Future of Canada

Dee Brown
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Joseph Bruchac
• The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends

Philip J. Deloria
• Playing Indian

Vine Deloria Jr.
• Singing for a Spirit: A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux

Peter Edwards
• One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police & the Ipperwash Crisis

George Franklin Feldman
• Cannibalism, Headhunting & Human Sacrifice in North America

Jerome A. Greene
• Nez Perce Summer 1877: The U.S. Army & the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis

Aubrey L. Haines
• An Elusive Victory: The Battle of the Big Hole

James H. Howard
• Shawnee! The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe & Its Cultural Background

Malcolm Margolin, editor
• The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories & Songs

James A. Maxwell, editor
• America's Fascinating Indian Heritage

Alfonso Ortiz, editor
• New Perspectives on the Pueblos

Daniel N. Paul
• We Were Not the Savages: Collision between European & Native American Civilizations

William K. Powers
• Oglala Religion

Joe S. Sando
• Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History
• Pueblo Profiles: Cultural Identity through Centuries of Change

John Stands in Timber & Margot Liberty
• Cheyenne Memories

Omer C. Stewart
• Peyote Religion: A History

John Upton Terrell
• American Indian Almanac

John Van Balen
• Great Plains Indian Illustration Index

Mark Van De Logt
• War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army

Paul Wallace
• White Roots of Peace: The Iroquois Book of Life

Donald Ward
• The People: A Historical Guide to the First Nations of Alberta, Saskatchewan & Manitoba

Frank Waters
• Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

C. Keith Wilbur
• Woodland Indians: An Illustrated Account of the Lifestyles of America's 1st Inhabitants

Scott Zesch
• The Captured

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Current Affairs

Tom Bahti
• Southwestern Indian Tribes

D.L. Birchfield
• How Choctaws Invented Civilization & Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World

John Bird, Lorraine Land, Murray Macadam & Diane Engelstad
• Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty & the Future of Canada

Deborah Davis Jackson
• Our Elders Lived It: American Indian Identity in the City

Joy Mannette, editor
• Elusive Justice: Beyond the Marshall Inquiry

J.R. Miller
• Lethal Legacy: Current Native Controversies in Canada

Stephen L. Pevar
• The Rights of Indians & Tribes: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Indian & Tribal Rights

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Spirituality

Lynn Andrews
• Spirit Woman: The Teachings of the Shields

Sun Bear, Wabun Wind & Crysalis Mulligan
• Dancing with the Wheel: The Medicine Wheel Workbook

Joseph Bruchac
• The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends

Pete S. Catches Sr.
• Oceti Wakan (Sacred Fireplace): Life & Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man

Vine Deloria Jr.
• God is Red: A Native View of Religion

Raymond J. DeMallie & Douglas R. Parks, editors
• Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition & Innovation

J.T. Garrett
• The Cherokee Herbal: Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions
• Meditations With the Cherokee: Prayers, Songs & Stories of Healing & Harmony

Michael Garrett
• Walking on the Wind: Cherokee Teachings for Healing through Harmony & Balance

James H. Howard
• Shawnee! The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe & Its Cultural Background

Lee Irwin, editor
• Native American Spirituality

Bobby Lake-Thom
• Call of the Great Spirit: The Shamanic Life & Teachings of Medicine Grizzly Bear

Lewis Mehl-Madrona
• Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine

Nan Moss, with David Corbin
• Weather Shamanism: Harmonizing Our Connection with the Elements

Henry Niese
• The Man Who Knew the Medicine: The Teachings of Bill Eagle Feather

William K. Powers
• Oglala Religion

Joseph Rael
• Being & Vibration

Omer C. Stewart
• Peyote Religion: A History

Daniel C. Swan
• Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith & Belief

James Treat, editor
• Native & Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States & Canada

Frank Waters
• Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

TerryLee Whetstone
• Good Medicine Book

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Music

Our Native American music library can be found here.
Check out reviews of more than 100 traditional and contemporary Native American musicians, including:

Brule
Robert Tree Cody
Coyote Oldman
Joseph Fire Crow
R. Carlos Nakai
Joanne Shenandoah
TerryLee Whetstone
Johnny Whitehorse
Robert WindPony
Mary Youngblood