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In his Eulogy on King Philip, Pequot activist William Apes speaks on the legacy of King Philip, the Wampanoag sachem also known as Metacomet. Despite attempting to live peacefully with the Plymouth colonists, Philip found himself faced with impossible demands. Considered the deadliest conflict in Colonial American history, King Philip¿s War concluded with the devastation of the Wampanoag and Narragansett peoples.

"He was a poet of the first order, a humorist, a philosopher, a man of affairs. He achieved fame as an English-Indian dialect writer and journalist. He was the leading man of the Creeks and the one great man produced by the Confederacy known as the Five Civilized Tribes."Published posthumously in 1910, The Poems of Lawrence Alexander Posey is both a collection of poetry and a short memoir by one of the late nineteenth century's leading Native American voices, Alexander Posey. Born near Eufaula, Posey was the eldest of twelve children who were raised within the Creek Nation but incorporated into European culture. Being fluent in the Muscogee language, Posey would be encouraged by his father to learn English, ultimately leading to his love of the written word and his exposure to the Indian Journal where he would go on to submit his poetry. Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this edition of The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey is a classic of Native American literature reimagined for the modern reader.

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Combining personal experience with traditional storytelling, Zitkála-Šá reflects on her life as a young woman raised on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota and educated at a Quaker school in Indiana. Whether remembering her mother, reflecting on the importance of legends, or recalling her first time making coffee, Zitkála-Šá, in American Indian Stories, uses her voice to elevate her people.

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Old Indian Legends (1901) is a collection of traditional stories from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá. Published while Zitkála-Šá was just beginning her career as an artist and activist, Old Indian Legends collects fourteen traditional legends and stories passed down through Sioux oral tradition. Intending to keep the stories or her people alive, Zitkála-Šá popularized and protected these cultural treasures for generations to come.In ¿Iktomi and the Ducks,¿ spider-trickster spirit Iktomi befriends a group of ducks by playing them music to dance to. Gaining their trust, he sends them into a dancing frenzy causing them to break their necks, after which he takes them to his teepee to cook a meal. When a tree branch snaps outside, distracting Iktomi, a pack of wolves moves in for a feast of their own. In ¿Iktomi¿s Blanket,¿ a starving Iktomi prays to Inyan for a blessing of food. Stumbling across a deer carcass, he believes his prayers have been answered and prepares a fire to roast the deer meat over. Feeling a chill, however, he goes to his teepee for a blanket, leaving the fire unattended. Throughout her collection, Zitkála-Šá faithfully and respectfully retells the stories of her people. Old Indian Legends is a charming compilation from one of the leading American Indian writers of her generation, a committed activist and true voice for change who saw through her own eyes the lives and experiences of countless others.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Zitkála-Šá¿s Old Indian Legends is a classic of American Indian literature reimagined for modern readers.

A young Muscogee woman becomes a teacher at a local mission school. There, she befriends a white woman whose brother she eventually marries. The couple has a child, but they are soon struck by the horrors of the Wounded Knee Massacre, and adopt an orphaned Lakota girl. Wynema: A Child of the Forest is a novel by Sophia Alice Callahan.

Feeling as though the history of the America's indigenous people was being erased, Simon Pokagon took to pen to give voice to an increasingly forgotten race. Beginning with his famous speech, "The Red Man's Rebuke," The Birch Bark Books of Simon Pokagon collects six articles and legends from and about the Potawatomi tribe, originally published on the bark of the white birch tree.

Before treaties were made and broken, before the United States overtook the American West in the name of progress, Omaha City was known as Oo-Ma-Ha-Ta-Wa-Tah. In this collection of historical documents, letters, biographies, and folk tales, Susette La Flesche and Fannie Reed Griffen provide an invaluable record of the Omaha people, their history, culture, and traditions.

"We first saw light in Canada, the land beloved of God; / We are the pulse of Canada, its marrow and its blood." In her poetry collection Canadian Born, E. Pauline Johnson attempts to unify her mixed Mohawk and English ancestry while ensuring her readers that "White Race and Red are one if they are but Canadian born."

After a youth immersed in the traditions of the Dakota Sioux, Charles Eastman seeks to dispel the prejudice surrounding indigenous culture. Observing that much of the existing record was made by missionaries, those sent to erase centuries of tradition, Eastman provides a personal view of his people. The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation is a book by Charles Eastman.

¿My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence¿¿ When the United States was still a young nation, a Sauk leader named Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk, stood up for the rights of indigenous people to live on their ancestors¿ land.

Much like his contemporary, Alexander Lawrence Posey, Bertrand N.O. Walker was an exceptional literary voice in the early nineteenth century. Writing under his Wyandotte name, Hen-Toh, Walker would produce just two books in his lifetime, both of which would become important landmarks of Native American dialect literature.

At a time when the Abenaki had little to no written documentation of their language, Joseph Laurent, Chief of the Abenaki reserve of Odanak, came forth to produce New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues. Intended to aid the younger generation in learning English, as well as preserve the culture and language of their people, the dictionary is an extraordinary achievement in linguistic and language education.

The telling of stories has been a pastime of many cultures through the generations, but to the Native and Indigenous peoples, the sharing of folklore and legends specifically relayed the history and experiences of the tribes. In Coyote Stories, Mourning Dove recounts the history of the Animal People through the adventures of Sin-ka-lip¿ and his work for the Spirit Chief.

In the aftermath of the Mexican American War, a young orphan girl of Scottish-Native American ancestry is taken in by a relative of her dead foster mother. Due to her mixed background, she is treated harshly by Señora Gonzaga Moreno, who begrudgingly provides for her in accordance with her sister's final wish. Ramona is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson.