The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir
10 best books like The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir (Leslie Marmon Silko): Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Land, Wolf Willow, Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America, People of the Whale, The Heartsong of Charging Elk, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, Not Vanishing, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Land
| Author | Lauret Savoy |
| ISBN | 1619025736 |
Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics...
| Author | Wallace Stegner |
| ISBN | 0141185015 |
Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow: A History,...
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America
| Author | Joy Harjo |
| ISBN | 0393318281 |
This long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect poetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir from Native American women. Over...
| Author | Linda Hogan |
| ISBN | 0393064573 |
A powerful story of a Vietnam veteran torn between his war experience and his Native American community.
Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native...
The Heartsong of Charging Elk
| Author | James Welch |
| ISBN | 0385496753 |
From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow, a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination.
Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South...
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
| Author | Paula Gunn Allen |
| ISBN | 0807046175 |
First off, I miss her. Dearly. Anyone who knew Paula (at UCLA, UC Berkeley) knew what a wonderful
scholar she was. You don't stay at UCB or UCLA for long with under-performance.
She did plenty of research for this text and it held up fairly well in its category. I'm somewhat disappointed that...
| Author | Chrystos |
| ISBN | 0889740151 |
essentially the english language fails me sometimes when i want to capture the depth of importance of experience, and i can't find words for what i want to say here about gratitude and reverence. this collection is full of love and strength and rage that all are incredibly deep and powerful. her form is...
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
| Author | Deborah A. Miranda |
| ISBN | 1597142018 |
There were many things I liked about this book, including Ms. Miranda's poetry. Her cultural reclamation and correction of the historical narrative of the settling of California and the treatment of the Native tribes by these settlers is both necessary and important.
But I think I have OD'd...
| Author | Susan Wittig Albert |
| ISBN | 0292719701 |
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully...
| Author | William Hjortsberg |
| ISBN | 1582437904 |
Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists...
| Author | Ilchi Lee |
| ISBN | 1935127489 |
Several million visitors arrive in Sedona, Arizona, each year, captivated by her remarkable scenery, and majestic sunsets. They are also enticed by a hidden quality-the uplifting healing energy and sacred vibrations of Sedona's spiritual vortexes. Here Ilchi Lee shares his Sedona experiences...
| Author | Tai Moses |
| ISBN | 1937006670 |
To be alienated from animals is to live a life that is not quite whole, contends nature writer Tai Moses in Zooburbia. Urban and suburban residents share our environments with many types of wildlife: squirrels, birds, spiders, and increasingly lizards, deer, and coyote. Many of us crave more contact...
| Author | Bill Buford |
| ISBN | 0547333358 |
Hit and miss... I definitely enjoyed some stories quite a bit, but skimmed or skipped others. I'm always afraid reading travel books is going to further stoke my wanderlust (more out of control than it already is, anyway) but amusingly it often has the opposite effect, especially when I read stories...
| Author | Candace Savage |
| ISBN | 1553652347 |
When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the...
| Author | Ceiridwen Terrill |
| ISBN | 1451634811 |
Part Wild is the unforgettable story of Ceiridwen Terrill's journey with a creature whose heart is divided between her bond to one woman and her need to roam free. When Terrill adopts a wolfdog—part husky, part gray wolf—named Inyo to be her protector and fellow traveler, she is drawn to Inyo’s...
| Author | Sloane Crosley |
| ISBN | 0547333366 |
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special...
| Author | Lorraine Anderson |
| ISBN | 1400033217 |
Sisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of women’s writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the...
| Author | N. Scott Momaday |
| ISBN | 0312187424 |
In The Man Made of Words Momaday chronicles his own pilgrimage as an author, retelling, through thirty-eight essays, allegorical stories, and autobiographical reminiscences, how he became one of the first recognized Native American writers of this century. By exploring such themes as land, language,...
| Author | Michael Kinch |
| ISBN | 1681777517 |
If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing—cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuse to vaccinate their children.
Between...
| Author | Scott W. Berg |
| ISBN | 0307377245 |
In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution,...
| Author | Hugh Thomson |
| ISBN | 0753822075 |
Imagine that all the great discoveries of Ancient Egypt had happened in the last few years...and you will have some conception of the great excitement over recent finds in Peru.
Many of the extraordinary cultures of Ancient Peru, from the lines of Nasca to the temple-cult of Chavín, buried...
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
| Author | Louise Erdrich |
| ISBN | 0792257197 |
For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply poetic novels which have won her a place among today's finest writers. Her nonfiction is equally eloquent, and this lovely memoir offers a vivid glimpse of the landscape, the people, and the long tradition...
| Author | William T. Vollmann |
| ISBN | 0670020613 |
From the author of Europe Central, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border.
For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves...
