Buy Stickeen or The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area or The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs and Reminiscences.
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Stickeen$4.99An illustrated edition of the tale in which John Muir recounts how he and a dog named Stickeen struggled to cross an Alaskan glacier during an ice storm. An exhilarating story that has become an American classic.
The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco$9.37The culture of the Indian people who inhabited the Bay Area prior to the arrival of EuropeansTwo hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds ''with a sound like that of a hurricane.
Way We Lived, The: California Indian Stories, Songs$3.75Presenting a new and revised edition of this well-loved and popular classic. The Way We Lived is a rich and varied collection of stories, love songs, chants, and more from native people around the state. Sometimes poignant, often humorous, and always fascinating, these pieces show the remarkable perseverance of native culture and ways in modern times.
Native Ways: California Indian Stories and Memories$3.57California Indians vividly describe various aspects of traditional and contemporary Indian life, in a clear, easy-to-read style. With eighty photographs, index, map of Native California, and listing of California Indian resources.Native Ways has been approved by the California Department of Education and is listed in the Instructional Materials Approved for Legal Compliance Catalog.
Berkeley!: A Literary Tribute$4.96w/Ishmael Reed, Bobby Seale, Maxine H Kingston &c.
The Earth Manual: How to Work on Wild Land Without$29.95A well-loved guide for landowners, conservationists, and youth group leaders on how to plant trees, improve wildlife habitat, stop erosion and otherwise work with (rather than against) the wildness of the land.
Adopted by Indians: A True Story$5.98The children's version of our best-selling title Indian Summer, this book gives younger readers a close-up view of traditional California Indian life and early California. Thomas Jefferson Mayfield kept a wonderful secret for almost sixty years; the secret of his childhood among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley. For twelve years he played and slept alongside Choinmune children, he hunted and fished with them, ate their food and wore their clothes.