Spanish Peaks Library District

"This book is to encourage the truth for our children's birth right to protect thier [sic] sacred walk. Water is our first medicine and is what sustains us. We must listen to our hearts before we speak, as our heart is our firs communicator. We then are in sacred alignment with our Creator, Mother Earth, Unci Maka. Our ancestors will guide us!" Dr. Cahuilla M. Red Elk, American Indian Movement Veteran.--Back cover.

Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopeless of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the sixties and seventies. Mary eventually married Leonard Crow Dog, the American...

"What have you always wanted to know about Indians? Do you feel like you should already know the answers--or are concerned that your questions may be offensive? For more than a decade, Anton Treuer's clear, candid, and informative book has answered questions for tens of thousands of readers. This revised edition both revisits old questions from a new perspective and expands on topics that have become increasingly relevant over the past decade, including...

"Walter Littlemoon, a Lakota author and public speaker, attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota 60 years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950 was to 'kill the Indian and save the man.' The children were not allowed to speak their language or express their culture or Native identity in any way. This is the story of how Littlemoon confronted his past so that he could renew himself and his community"--Container.

This is Who We Were: Post Civil War 1880-1900 provides a deeper understanding of day-to-day life in America in the late 1800s, serving as both a serious research tool for students of American history and an intriguing climb up America's family tree. This brand-new addition to the This is Who We Were series features nearly 30 in-depth Personal Profiles that examine the home, work, and social lives of individuals and families living in the U.S. between...