The author worked with American Indian people for over thirty years.  His sensitive and unique book provides a narrative spoken directly by Native Americans themselves about their lives, rituals and perspectives of the past and present and their hopes for the future.  Photographs of native people, rituals, art and landscapes make for an interesting read.

Written by a former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller allows the reader an intimate glimpse into the lives of Native American women.  The suffering, humiliation, and years of inequality are transcended by wise women's voices from various Native communities across the country.

An original and imaginative account of the history, legends, and ceremonialism of the Navaho and Pueblo Indians of the Southwest.

Retold and annotated by Evan Pritchard.

An intriguing collection of the best of Native American quotations and sayings from Chief Joseph, Red Cloud and Sitting Bull along with many other lesser known native people.  Taken from oral memories, first-person testimonials and recorded observations of life and social affairs in Indian communities around the country, this book is a beautiful and loving remembrance of timeless spiritual wisdom taught by past generations applicable to 21st Century life.

A representative collection of the major spiritual texts from Native American Indians of the East Coast. Readers have access to the original works of the Indians themselves rather than filtered by interpreters. Chapters include myths, speeches made by shamans, parental teachings, rites of passage, songs and healing rituals conducted by native practitioners.

Recorded and edited by Joseph Brown.

A helpful guide to ancient knowledge passed down from Native American medicine men and shamans in the words of Bobby Lake- Thom, a healer known as Medicine Grizzly Bear. He writes to preserve his heritage, legends and rituals attached to nature's ever-present signs complied from Native American oral traditions.  He shares how creatures all around us can aid in making us aware of ourselves and act as spiritual messengers sent to heal, warn and/or protect.