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Bestsellers
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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Finally, Words
- By Donovan P Malley on 06-30-19
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Empire of the Summer Moon
- Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads....
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Difficult to endure narrator
- By fowler on 12-21-19
By: S. C. Gwynne
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Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe....
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An outstanding story, highly recommended
- By S. Blakely on 06-22-17
By: David Grann
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Native American Mythology Collection
- The Legends & Myths of the Achomawi, Atsugewi, Sioux, Tejas & Ojibwe Tribes. Captivating Indian Why stories & Legendary Tales of Thunder Bird Tootooch
- By: Roland B. Dixon, Marie L. Mclaughlin, William Lewis Webber, and others
- Narrated by: James Francis Markert
- Length: 22 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Embark on a journey through the rich tapestry of Native American legends with this extensive collection of Native American Myths. This meticulously curated collection brings together seven revered texts, each offering a unique window into the vibrant storytelling traditions....
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Audiobook for younger audience (8 to 12 years old)
- By Michael W. Wanzie on 02-04-24
By: Roland B. Dixon, and others
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Blood and Thunder
- An Epic of the American West
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....
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Publisher's summary does not do it justice
- By Eric on 02-07-11
By: Hampton Sides
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Comanches
- The History of a People
- By: T. R. Fehrenbach
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 24 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power....
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In Depth
- By Anonymous User on 02-07-24
By: T. R. Fehrenbach
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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Finally, Words
- By Donovan P Malley on 06-30-19
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Empire of the Summer Moon
- Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads....
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Difficult to endure narrator
- By fowler on 12-21-19
By: S. C. Gwynne
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Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe....
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An outstanding story, highly recommended
- By S. Blakely on 06-22-17
By: David Grann
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Native American Mythology Collection
- The Legends & Myths of the Achomawi, Atsugewi, Sioux, Tejas & Ojibwe Tribes. Captivating Indian Why stories & Legendary Tales of Thunder Bird Tootooch
- By: Roland B. Dixon, Marie L. Mclaughlin, William Lewis Webber, and others
- Narrated by: James Francis Markert
- Length: 22 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Embark on a journey through the rich tapestry of Native American legends with this extensive collection of Native American Myths. This meticulously curated collection brings together seven revered texts, each offering a unique window into the vibrant storytelling traditions....
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Audiobook for younger audience (8 to 12 years old)
- By Michael W. Wanzie on 02-04-24
By: Roland B. Dixon, and others
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Blood and Thunder
- An Epic of the American West
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....
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Publisher's summary does not do it justice
- By Eric on 02-07-11
By: Hampton Sides
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Comanches
- The History of a People
- By: T. R. Fehrenbach
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 24 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power....
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In Depth
- By Anonymous User on 02-07-24
By: T. R. Fehrenbach
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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- By: Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492....
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- By Christopher on 01-19-17
By: Charles C. Mann
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- An Indian History of the American West
- By: Dee Brown
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Dee Brown's account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century uses council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions....
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Easy to Listen To, Difficult to Hear About
- By J.B. on 04-12-16
By: Dee Brown
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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879
- The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
- By: Herman Lehmann
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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As a young child, Herman Lehmann was captured by a band of plundering Apache Indians and remained with them for nine years. This is his dramatic and unique story....
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What a wild life!!
- By Wesley Christensen on 11-12-20
By: Herman Lehmann
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
- Revisioning American History
- By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories....
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Useful information, not quite listenable
- By endlessemma on 08-03-15
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Killing Crazy Horse
- The Merciless Indian Wars in America
- By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It’s 1811, and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior Chief Tecumseh’s alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region....
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Not the Best in the Killing... Series
- By Sandy McMahon on 10-16-20
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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By the Fire We Carry
- The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
- By: Rebecca Nagle
- Narrated by: Rebecca Nagle
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation’s earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later.
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Amazing book
- By Annie H on 11-22-24
By: Rebecca Nagle
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The Cosmic Serpent
- DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
- By: Jeremy Narby
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cosmic Serpent reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it....
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Very Good Religious Text
- By Blair K. Hartman on 08-09-17
By: Jeremy Narby
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The Heart of Everything That Is
- The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
- By: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The great Oglala Sioux chief Red Cloud was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the American government to sue for peace in a conflict named for him....
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The Irresistable Force Paradox: Manifest Destiny
- By Mel on 11-10-13
By: Bob Drury, and others
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The Wisdom of the Native Americans
- By: Kent Nerburn
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning....
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True insightful sacred wisdom to last a lifetime..
- By Prometheus Worley on 02-20-18
By: Kent Nerburn
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The Rediscovery of America
- Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
- By: Ned Blackhawk
- Narrated by: Jason Grasl
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants....
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Interesting book marred by poor reading
- By Nathaniel Sterling on 03-04-24
By: Ned Blackhawk
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Black Elk Speaks
- Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, The Premier Edition
- By: John G. Neihardt
- Narrated by: Robin Neihardt
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Widely hailed as a spiritual classic, this inspirational and unfailingly powerful story reveals the life and visions of the Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk....
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Tale of tears
- By William Sanders on 01-25-15
By: John G. Neihardt
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
- By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history.
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Native Nations
- A Millennium in North America
- By: Kathleen DuVal
- Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant....
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It’s sad
- By Fred on 06-10-24
By: Kathleen DuVal
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Beyond Fear
- A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy: The Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz
- By: Miguel Angel Ruiz, Mary Carroll Nelson
- Narrated by: Francis Rico, Jessica Varga McKay
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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A comprehensive guide to the foundations of Toltec wisdom, Beyond Fear is essential reading for fans of Don Miguel Ruiz’s New York Times best-selling book, The Four Agreements, which has sold over 8 million copies and has been translated into 46 languages worldwide....
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very strange
- By Stubbegubbe on 07-29-20
By: Miguel Angel Ruiz, and others
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Code Talker
- The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
- By: Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII....
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Wrong narrator!
- By Kindle Customer on 06-26-20
By: Chester Nez, and others
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The Last Stand
- Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat....
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A filtered rehash for these more enlightened times
- By Isaac Newtonium on 05-16-17
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Wounded Knee
- Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
- By: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux....
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sad but important history
- By Margaret Bowser on 04-08-23
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The Indian Card
- Who Gets to Be Native in America
- By: Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
- Narrated by: Amy Hall
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States.
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A passionate author
- By Gunny on 11-18-24
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- By: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it....
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Modest history primer, wished for more substance
- By Buretto on 10-21-21
By: Joseph J. Ellis
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Becoming Kin
- An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
- By: Patty Krawec, Nick Estes - foreword
- Narrated by: Patty Krawec
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home"....
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Relearning History
- By Bo Buxton on 02-05-23
By: Patty Krawec, and others
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Bill Mumy
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....
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Still Lost...
- By Mel on 01-12-17
By: Douglas Preston
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Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
- By: John G. Neihardt
- Narrated by: DeLorean Casher
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers listeners much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time.
By: John G. Neihardt
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Spirits of the Earth
- A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
- By: Bobby Lake-Thom
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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An extraordinary compilation of legends and rituals about nature's ever-present signs. From the birds that soar above us to the insects beneath our feet, Native American healer Bobby Lake-Thom shows how the creatures of the earth can aid us in healing and self-knowledge....
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Insightful information
- By Amazon Customer on 06-25-21
By: Bobby Lake-Thom
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The Lakota Way
- Stories and Lessons for Living
- By: Joseph M. Marshall
- Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Compelling and profound, The Lakota Way gives a fresh outlook to those searching for a new perspective on spiritual and ethical living....
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You feel like you're at the camp
- By Cathy on 03-29-06