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Picture of Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal (Revised 2nd Edition)

Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal (Revised 2nd Edition)

9780870205033
From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, this best-seller is indispensable to anyone interested in the region’s history and its Native peoples. Lavishly illustrated.
$26.95
Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of Wisconsin

Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of Wisconsin

9780870206740
Hardcover: $22.95
240 pages, 23 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870206740

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
Picture of Native People of Wisconsin: Revised and Expanded Edition

Native People of Wisconsin: Revised and Expanded Edition

9780870207488
An essential title for the upper elementary classroom, Native People of Wisconsin fills the need for accurate and authentic teaching materials about Wisconsin’s Indian Nations.
$18.95
Good Seeds book cover featuring image of point of view in a canoe

Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir

9780870207716
Hardcover: $19.95
96 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN:9780870207716

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$19.95
How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century

How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century

9780870208157
Warm, plainspoken, and wryly funny, Clark shares his own American Indian story, talking frankly about a culture’s struggle to maintain its heritage.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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$15.95
Picture of The Story of Act 31: How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms

The Story of Act 31: How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms

9780870208324
Paperback: $28.95
360 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-832-4

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$28.95
The Powwow Coloring and Activity Book cover with yellow and illustrated people

The Powwow Coloring and Activity Book

9780870208935
The Ojibwe Traditions Coloring and Activity book series offers children and their families the opportunity to learn about Ojibwe Indian lifeways and teachings in an engaging and accessible manner.
$5.99
The Storytelling Coloring Book cover featuring  illustrated tree in front of light green background

The Storytelling Coloring Book

9780870208942
The Ojibwe Traditions Coloring and Activity book series offers children and their families the opportunity to learn about Ojibwe Indian lifeways and teachings in an engaging and accessible manner.
$5.99
The Sugarbush Coloring Book cover featuring illustrated tree in front of light yellow background

The Sugarbush Coloring Book

9780870208959
The Ojibwe Traditions Coloring and Activity book series offers children and their families the opportunity to learn about Ojibwe Indian lifeways and teachings in an engaging and accessible manner.
$5.99
Wild Ricing Coloring Book cover featuring illustration of rowing boat

Wild Ricing Coloring Book

9780870208966
The Ojibwe Traditions Coloring and Activity book series offers children and their families the opportunity to learn about Ojibwe Indian lifeways and teachings in an engaging and accessible manner.
$5.99
Rebel Poet

Rebel Poet: More Stories from a 21st Century Indian

9780870209291
This blend of poetry and prose delves deeply into the themes of family, community, grief, and the struggle to make a place in the world when your very identity is considered suspect.
$15.95
The Dancers book cover featuring drawing graphic of young girl dressed in yellow and red

The Dancers

90000480
A heartwarming children's story about a young Native girl and her family.
$10.99
Book cover of "Little Hawk and Lone Wolf" with an illustration of a forest scene with a river running through it. A boy and wolf are on the left bank of the river.

Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir

9781976600029
Little Hawk shares his life journey—a story that is wise and irreverent, often funny, and deeply moving.
$20.00
Book cover of "Understanding and Teaching Native American History." A person sitting on a horse faces a row of law enforcement officers.

Understanding and Teaching Native American History

1000000301
Nearly a decade in the making, this is a groundbreaking source for both beginning and veteran instructors. Hard Cover. First Edition.
$39.95
Cover of "Rabbit and Otter Go Sugarbushing" with illustration of a white rabbit and brown otter sitting together on the bank of a stream. Grassy meadow in the background and blue sky above.

Rabbit and Otter Go Sugarbushing | Gii-iskigamizigewaad Waabooz miinawaa Nigig

90000593
Follow Rabbit and Otter as they go out to harvest maple sap and meet a new friend, Squirrel. Beautifully illustrated. In English and Ojibwemowin.
$10.00
Book cover of "The Little People and the Water of Life" showing a an illustration of a Native girl standing with a turtle and bird at her side and a "little person" on her shoulder. A maple tree is in the background, with a little person peeking around from behind the trunk.

The Little People and the Water of Life

9781736949375
A beautifully told and illustrated story of when the little people gave the Anishinabe people the gift of maple syrup.
$10.00
Book cover of "We Will Find Our Way" showing an illustration of a girl reaching up to a star. Background "sky" has wavy stripes and the teal foreground looks like water.

We Will Find Our Way

9798986298122
A story about a Lakota grandmother and her two grandchildren. Skateboards play a role in the author's life and appear through the story's illustrations.
$11.95
	A History in Indigenous Voices book cover featuring title and author's name in bold red text in front of a tan background with faint scripture.

A History in Indigenous Voices: Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown Interactions in the Removal Era

9781976600098
The nation-to-nation treaties and other documents discussed here testify to the complexity and sovereignty of Indigenous governance then and now. This volume is a vital resource for historians and an accessible introduction to Indigenous treatymaking in Wisconsin.
$49.95
Book cover of "Survival Food" by Thomas Pecore Weso with illustration of a black bear and book title in bold white font.

Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook

9781976600210
An intimate and engaging Native food memoir. These stories from the author’s teen and tween years—some serious, some laugh-out-loud funny—will take readers from Catholic schoolyards to Native foot trails to bowling alleys.
$24.95
Book cover of "Beginnings" by Thomas D. Peacock with color illustration of a landscape with lake, trees, and sky. Title in bold white font.

Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny

90000483
Heartfelt and bittersweet and layered with meaning, this book will resonate with anyone who longs to make the journey home, wherever that may be.
$15.95
Book cover of "Hummingbird and the Little People" with a color illustration of a girl sleeping at the base of  a tree in the woods. Two little people watch her.

Hummingbird and the Little People (and a VERY big person too)

9798985152784
A young girl, Hummingbird (Nenookass) chases a squirrel and becomes lost in the woods. Thankfully, she finds the helpful little people (memegwesiwag) who help her get back home with the assistance of the giant, Sabe. Beautifully illustrated.
$11.95
Book cover of Book cover of "To Be Free" by Thomas Peacock. Illustration of 4 children stretching upward, touching or almost touching a cluster of birds above their heads.

To Be Free: Understanding and Eliminating Racism

9798985893335
Readers of "To Be Free" are invited to learn about the history and many expressions of racism, to explore ways of combating it, and to dare imagining a society free of it. For middle school age through adult readers. Updated second edition.
$25.00
Book cover of Gaa-Izhi-Miinigoowizid-A'aw Anishinaabe with image of two baby booties on white background.

Gaa-izhi-miinigoowizid a’aw Anishinaabe

9781681342672
"What We Were Given as Anishinaabe" — A respected Ojibwe elder records many traditions and ceremonies, from birth customs and dream catchers to fasting and first-kill feasts, practiced by Ojibwe children and their parents.
$19.95 $14.96
Book cover of "In the Beginning the Sun" with color photo of man riding a galloping horse in grassy field. Trees in background.

In the Beginning, the Sun: The Dakota Legend of Creation

9781681342337
Native American author Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) recounts the stories of the Dakota creation cycle as they were told a century and a half ago.
$17.95 $13.46
Book cover of "Walking Softly" by Thomas Peacock. Color photo of trail through wooded fall foliage and title on lower third.

Walking Softly: A Novel

9780989047890
What goes into the making of a tribal elder? We find some answers in the story of Edward James Bainbridge. Written like a memoir in first person, his story provides rich lessons in resilience, hope, faith, and remaining, always, Ojibwe.
$16.95
"ABSENTEE INDIANS & Other Poems," is written on the top of the cover in yellow and blue. Below is a collage filled with Native American imagery that represent the motifs found in the book.

Absentee Indians & Other Poems

9780870136078
Anchored in the physical landscape, Blaeser’s poetry finds the sacred in those ordinary actions that bind a community together. Poems of exile, loss, and the celebration of that which remains.
$24.95 $6.24