Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains

7 best books like Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (Charles Alexander Eastman): Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, Zen in the Art of Archery, American Indian Myths and Legends, Fools Crow, Geronimo: My Life, The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, Touch the Earth

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Author	Black Elk
ISBN	0803283857

This is a haunting and moving transcription of interviews with the revered medicine man Black Elk of the Oglala band of the Lakota Sioux in 1930 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The editor, John Neihart, was a poet who was writing an epic poem about Messiah movement in the 1880’s among diverse...

Zen in the Art of Archery

Author	Eugen Herrigel
ISBN	0375705090

The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this timeless account.

This book is the result of the author’s six year quest to learn archery in the hands of Japanese Zen masters. It is an honest account of one man’s...

American Indian Myths and Legends

Author

Richard Erdoes

This magnificent collection gathers 160 tales from 80 tribal gathers to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. Alfonso Ortiz, an eminent...

Fools Crow

Author	Thomas E. Mails
ISBN	0803281749

Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright in denouncing them. When he died in 1989 at the Pine...

Geronimo: My Life

Author	Geronimo
ISBN	0486443639

In this, one of Native American history's most extraordinary documents, a legendary warrior and shaman recounts the beliefs and customs of his people. Completely and utterly authentic, its captivating narrator is the most famous member of the Apache tribe: Geronimo.
The spiritual and intellectual...

The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux

Author	Black Elk
ISBN	0806121246

Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and through this book in which...

Touch the Earth

Author

T.C. McLuhan

Read borrowed copy after was suggested to me, published in 1971. Has stories and memories and essays from various Native Americans. Organized by those of Nature, of the white man, their losses and their desire to keep going. The first chapter is my favorite, beautifully written, quite spiritual. A...