Native Dance

A Zuni Indian boy dies in a bizarre ritual slaying - and his best friend, a Navajo youth, is missing. Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn tracks the friend from Zuni village to Navajo hogan, from anthropological dig to hippie commune, across the desert of New Mexico and Arizona.

In a world often too noisy to hear our own thoughts, the "Journey of the Heyoka Empath" offers a soulful reprieve. This tale, rooted in age-old tribal wisdom and intertwined with the challenges of the modern world, is both enlightening and grounding. Why this book? A Bridge Across Time: Traverse between the traditions of tribal ancestors and the present-day, discovering the lessons each realm has to offer. Nature's Whisper: Unravel the mysterious connection the Heyoka shares with the Thunder Beings and what it means to be truly in tune with nature. Love and Learning: Explore the depths of ...

A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face...

Luther Standing Bear was seemingly everywhere in the course of his extraordinary life. He met Chief Crazy Horse on the eve of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, was enrolled in the first class at the government-run Carlisle Indian Industrial School, witnessed the Ghost Dance movement, toured the US and Europe with showman Buffalo Bill, and devoted his later years to Indian rights. His firsthand accounts of those experiences—and his reflections on Sioux culture, customs, and traditions—combine to make this narrative a landmark of Native American literature. 

A bird's-eye look at the Ghost Dance, the first instance of modern, collective racial self-consciousness for Native peoples in the United States From the Sand Creek Massacre (1864) to the Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890), Indigenous religious practices―legally banned after 1883―took on new...

In 1890, the United States government outlawed the Ghost Dance. The ceremony remained illegal until 1978. Why? Did the authorities fear the Native American Revival Movement that it ignited or did they also recognize that the dance itself awakened a power all its own?

A flaming love story. Action. Adventure. An FBI thriller. Adam is a wildly beautiful man. Beyond sexy. A real 21st century warrior. Raven is a gorgeous woman. Sensual. A dancer. A nurse. And she's starting over because her betrayer is behind prison walls. Forever. ◆◆◆ Raven Macawi is fabulous. Long red hair. Filled with fire. And a dancer with a body to kill for. But she's private. Secretive. Hesitant. Which is understandable since she's only been in Lake Charles for four months. And why Louisiana? Because she is starting over with her son in the land of her ancestors. The Atakapa. ...

65 Million years ago, Dinosaurs walked the Earth . . . People think that a meteor or some super volcano wiped them all out, or that aliens saved them like a holy arc coming from the sky. Some think that they had their time and were selected for extinction. The thing is, fossils only show those that died. . . Dinosaurs still walk among us, hidden in human form, bidding their time until they’re able to reveal who they are. Humans are always placed at the top of the food chain. Nothing could be further from the truth. . . The next matriarch has been chosen. . . Sage has never wanted ...

Original tales inspired by Native American and Norwegian folklore that highlight the wisdom of the divine natural world Shares unique stories about Earth Medicine and animal magic, inspired by the author’s unusual Native American (Hopi) and Norwegian upbringing Interwoven with ancient...

He never signed a treaty, never sold an acre, and never lost to the United States Army. He was killed at dawn by policemen from his own reservation — Lakota men, sent to arrest him at his cabin. Everyone knows the middle of Sitting Bull's story, and most of what they know is wrong. He did not command at Little Bighorn. While Custer's regiment came apart on the ridge, the Hunkpapa holy man was moving the women, children and old people out of the path of Reno's attack. The image of Sitting Bull the battlefield general is a newspaper invention that began within days of the fight and followed...

In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the Democratic National Committee unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977—his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen’s best-selling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse—and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. A wise and unsettling book, Prison Writings is both memoir and manifesto, chronicling Peltier’s life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.

Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are...

In her debut picture book, adapted for audio, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true story of her path to dance and how it helped her take pride in her Native American heritage. At four years old, Ria Thundercloud was brought into the powwow circle, ready to dance in the...

At the reservation to make final arrangements for her upcoming wedding, potter Shandra Higheagle gets caught up in the murder of a young woman about to turn her life around. Having no jurisdiction on the reservation, Detective Ryan Greer pulls in favors from friends in the FBI to make sure there is no delay in their wedding.

This beautiful story is set next to Ute Mountain in Towaoc, Colorado (United States. Clancy, a young Ute Mountain (Native American) boy, lives in a home filled with alcoholism and abuse; but not for long, because dad's behavior forces mom to throw him out of the house. Clancy is all in an uproar, his world is completely shattered, and all the rules are beginning to also change as his family comes in contact with a group of 'helping people' at Social Services. Clancy will do so many things for your own children and family, but one of the greatest gifts Clancy has to offer is the honest ...

Life was hard in the wilderness of 18th century America. But there was always hope. Three strangers from diverse times and cultures overcome adversity and come together for survival, finding new versions of family and happiness in this gritty and sometimes humorous time travel story. Fed up with her domineering brother, Rachel and her infant son leave to find happiness with the Cherokee. Two more white folks unexpectedly join her new clan, causing confusion but also providing a novel solution to the one of tribe’s biggest problems: no food. 20th century-born Lord Martin Melbourne had ...

This book restores a little-known advocate of Indian rights to her place in history. In June 1889 a widowed Brooklyn artist named Catherine Weldon traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull hold on to land that the government was trying to wrest from his people. Her efforts were counterproductive; she was ordered to leave the reservation, and the Standing Rock Sioux were bullied into signing away their land. But she returned with her teenage son, settling at Sitting Bull's camp on the Grand River.

Wovoka (1867-1932), the Ghost Dance Prophet, was a member of the Walker River band of Paiutes in Western Nevada. The Walker River Reservation was established in 1859, and was Wokova’s home off and on for years. Wovoka was also known as Jack Wilson, a name he acquired while he was, for some years, employed on the David Wilson family ranch in the Mason Valley.

After four women disappear from the Taos Pueblo reservation, Deputy Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran dives into the case. For her, it’s personal. Among the missing is her best friend, Paloma, a heroin addict who left behind an eighteen-year-old son. Eva senses a lack of interest from the department as she embarks on the investigation. But their reluctance only fuels her fire. Eva teams up with tribal police officer and longtime friend Cruz “Wolf Song” Romero to tackle a mystery that could both ruin her reputation and threaten her standing in the tribe.

Lillian is a girl of mixed Indigenous and white ancestry who is in the process of being shuffled to her seventh foster home. At school, she doesn’t fit in with the white kids and she doesn’t fit in with the Indigenous kids either. Lillian is a complex and not-always-lovable hero but she eventually finds a sense of peace and belonging from a surprising spirit that returns her to traditional ways.