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• Author(s): Peter S. Ogden • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Native American StudiesThis curious book, first published in 1853, offers "sketches and anecdotes illustrative of l...

• Author(s): Stephen Return Riggs • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Native American"Man's heart away from nature becomes hard."-Luther Standing Bear, Chief, Dakota (Sioux) Native Americans (late 19th Centu...

• Author(s): Roger Williams • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralWritten in 1643 at a time of great turmoil between Native Americans and the English settlers, A Key into the Language of America is a st...

• Author(s): Zitkala-Sa • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyPart autobiographical and part folkloric, these essays and stories by the Lakota Zitkala-Sa, or "Re...

• Author(s): Stephen Return Riggs • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Native American"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave."-Dakota Indian ProverbDakota Grammar, Texts and Ethnography (1852) is th...

• Author(s): Zitkala-Sa • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Classics"I beg of you make me into a bird with green and purple feathers like yours!" implored Iktomi, tired now of playing the brave in beaded buc...

• Author(s): John Long • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralHis birthdate unknown, English clerk and opportunist JOHN LONG adjoined himself to a merchant traveling by sea to the Americas in 1768, for t...

• Author(s): Albert Samuel Gatschet • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Native American"The fact that languages of rude and more primitive people are built up more regularly and often show a closer observanc...

• Author(s): Stephen Powers • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Native American"[Tribes of California] is one of the most remarkable documents ever printed by any government."-Alfred L. Krober, Handbook of t...

• Author(s): James Owen Dorsey • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Native American"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children."-Crazy Horse, Chief La...

• Author(s): Albert Samuel Gatschet • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Native American"There is probably no language spoken in North America possessed of a nominal inflection more developed than the Klamath...

• Author(s): Charles Rau | Robert Fletcher | Cyrus Thomas • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Native American"Their (cupstones) occurrence in different countries make distribution a basis for drawing inferen...

• Author(s): George Bird Grinnell • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Native American Studies"A half-century spent in rubbing shoulders with the Cheyennes... forbids me to think of them except as acquaintanc...

• Author(s): W. H. Dall | George Gibbs • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Native American"Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."-...

• Author(s): Adriaen Van Der Donck | Jeremiah Johnson • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralDescription of the New Netherlands was written in 1653 by Adriaen van der Donck, just two years before his dea...

• Author(s): Jr. Parkman Francis • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: United States - West - GeneralThe firsthand account of a personal journey through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas in the 1840s, th...