The Yup’ik people of southwest Alaska were among the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives, and as a result, Yup’ik language and many traditions remain vital into
His admirers called him the “Barnum of Books” and the “Voltaire of Kansas” because of his ability to bring culture and education to the people. R. Alton Lee brings to life Eman
Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown chose her to become California’s first female supreme court chief justice. Appointed to a court with a stellar rep
Sovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North America have struggled to preserve their religious practice
In May 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their Corps of Discovery set out on a journey of a lifetime to explore and interpret the American West. The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Fisherman Mark Spitzer takes readers on an action-packed investigation of the most fierce and fearsome freshwater grotesques of the American West ever to inspire both hatred and fascination. Through t
American poet and writer John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) possessed an inquiring and spiritual mind. Both talents came to the fore inBlack Elk Speaks, the story of the Lakota holy man Black Elk, for which
