A collection of books of Native American Interest. If we still have a copy of these books in our store inventory we will be glad to hold one for you at our front desk. Just email us or give us a call. Or of course you can always order them online and have them conveniently shipped to your front door.

	The Trial of Standing Bear by Keating, Frank Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $16.95 Published: Oklahoma Heritage, 2008 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability In The Trial of Standing Bear, award-winning author and former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating tells of the anguish and resolve of Ponca Chief Standing Bear and his people as they are forced from their homeland and their subsequent fight to be treated like human beings. Through the historically-accurate illustrations of Oklahoma artist Mike Wimmer, you will follow Chief Standing Bear, his family, and members of his tribe from their forced removal from the banks of the Niobrara River in northeast Nebraska to Indian Territory, and the ultimate victory that began the long struggle for civil rights for Native Americans.
	Standing Bear Is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice by Dando-Collins, Stephen Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $18.00 Published: Da Capo Press, 2005 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. In a federal courtroom in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1879, Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court demanding the same basic right that white Americans enjoyed-the right to be recognized legally as a human being. The compelling, behind-the-scenes story of that landmark court case, and the subsequent reverberations of the judge's ruling across nineteenth-century America is told in Stephen Dando-Collin's "brisk and evocative account" ("Kirkus"). It is a story of memorable Old West characters who joined to fight for Standing Bear and paved his way to the courthouse-the former Indian-fighting Army general who changed sides to stand with Standing Bear, the crusading Midwestern newspaper editor who had once been a gun-toting frontier preacher, and the "most beautiful Indian maiden of her time," Bright Eyes. Full of colorful characters, battles of legal wits, and the twists and turns of a cause in search of an audience, "Standing Bear Is a Person" is a captivating read.
	Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Mankiller, Wilma Pearl, Wallis, Michael, Wallis, Michael Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $15.95 Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle, and her book becomes a quest to reclaim and preserve the great Native American values that form the foundation of our nation. Now featuring a new Afterword to the 2000 paperback reissue, this edition of "Mankiller "completely updates the author's private and public life after 1994 and explores the recent political struggles of the Cherokee Nation.
	The Indians of Oklahoma (Newcomers to a New Land) by Strickland, Rennard Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $19.95 Published: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
	Blood of Our Earth: Poetic History of the American Indian by Jones, Dan C., Hood, Rance Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $9.95 Published: University of New Mexico Press, 2005 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days A collaboration between Ponca poet Dan C. Jones and Comanche artist Rance Hood, this book focuses on American Indian life on the Great Plains. Written while Jones lived with tribes all over the United States, the poems are grounded in American Indian history, mythology, and religion. Nostalgia for the vanished past and anger at the destruction of the environment shape his work, a perfect complement to the dramatic imagery of Rance Hood, one of the best known American Indian painters. From "Blood of our Earth" When a Warrior Feels Weak When a warrior feels weak I think of the strength in a bee when he chases a bear from his home. When a warrior feels weak, I feel no loss of strength when I think of the sparrow that attacks the eagle. When a warrior feels weak I become aware of my strength.
	A Pipe for February (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) by Red Corn, Charles H. Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $19.95 Published: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. At the turn of the century, the Osage Indians were traditional tribal people who owned Oklahoma's most valuable oil reserves. Enjoying lives of leisure, they also found themselves targets of opportunists, swindlers, and murderers bent on taking their wealth from them. Tracing the experiences of young John Grayeagle, Red Corn describes events in the 1920s from the perspective of a traditional Osage.
	They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School by Lomawaima, K. Tsianina Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $14.95 Published: University of Nebraska Press, 1995 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. Critics have characterized the schools as destroyers of Indian communities and cultures, but the reality that K. Tsianina Lomawaima discloses was much more complex. Lomawaima allows the Chilocco students to speak for themselves. In recollections juxtaposed against the official records of racist ideology and repressive practice, students from the 1920s and 1930s recall their loneliness and demoralization but also remember with pride the love and mutual support binding them together--the forging of new pan-Indian identities and reinforcement of old tribal ones.
	The Ponca Tribe by Howard, James H., Brown, Donald N. Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $22.94 Published: University of Nebraska Press, 1995 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days The culture of the Ponca Indians is less well known than their misfortunes. A model of research and clarity, "The Ponca Tribe" is still the most complete account of these Indians who inhabited the upper central plains. Peaceably inclined and never numerous, they built earth-lodge villages, cultivated gardens, and hunted buffalo. James H. Howard considers their historic situation in present-day South Dakota and Nebraska, their trade with Europeans and relations with the U.S. government and, finally, their loss of land along the Niobrara River and forced removal to Indian Territory. The tragic events surrounding the 1877 removal, culminating in the arrest and trial of Chief Standing Bear, are only part of the Ponca story. Howard, a respected ethnologist, traces the tribe's origins and early history. Aided by Ponca informants, he presents their way of life in his descriptions of Ponca lodgings, arts and crafts (pottery was made from blue clay found on the Missouri River), clothing and ornaments, food, tools and weapons, dogs and horses, kinship system, governance, sexual practices, and religious ceremonies and dances. He tells what is known about a proud (and ultimately divided) tribe that was led down a "trail of tears." "The Ponca Tribe" was originally published in 1965 as a bulletin of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. Introducing this edition is Donald N. Brown, a professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, and a Ponca authority.
	Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs by Tibbles, Thomas Henry, Graber, Kay Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $16.04 Published: University of Nebraska Press, 1995 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Standing Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1878 the Poncas were forced by the federal government to move to Indian Territory. During the year they were driven out, 158 out of 730 died, including Standing Bear's young son, who had begged to be buried on the Niobrara. Early in 1879 the chief, accompanied by a small band, defied the federal government by returning to the ancestral home with the boy's body. At the end of ten weeks of walking through winter cold, they were arrested. However, General George Crook, touched by their "pitiable condition," turned for help to Thomas H. Tibbles, a crusading newspaperman on the "Omaha Daily Herald," who rallied public support. Citing the Fourteenth Amendment, Standing Bear brought suit against the federal government. The resulting trial first established Indians as persons within the meaning of the law. At the end of his testimony, Standing Bear held out his hand to the judge and pleaded for recognition of his humanity: "My hand is not the color of yours, but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain. If you pierce your hand, you also feel pain. The blood that will flow from mine will be of the same color as yours. I am a man. The same God made us both.
	The Osage Indian Murders: The True Story of a Multiple Murder Plot to Acquire the Estates of Wealthy Osage Tribe Members by Hogan, Lawrence J. Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $16.95 Published: Amlex, 1998 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability
The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Works of Francis La Flesche (Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback), #217) by Bailey, Garrick, Bailey, Garrick