The Wind Is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman

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

Black Elk, John G. Neihardt · 298 pages

This is the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. It is at once a tale of Lakota life, a history of a Native nation, and an enduring spiritual testament, wherein the author conveys Black Elk's searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth. Black Elk met the author, a distinguishe

The Savage My Kinsman

Elisabeth Elliot · 155 pages

In January of 1956, the world recoiled in shock with the news. Five American missionaries had been speared to death in the Equadorian jungles by Auca Indians, reportedly the most savage tribe on earth. Years later, it became clear that what had seemed to be the tragic ending of those missionaries' dreams was only the first chapter of one of the most breathtaking missionary stories of the twentieth

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Doris Pilkington, Nugi Garimara · 136 pages

Author's 'real' name: Nugi Garimara From Google books: "In Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Pilkington recalls with a searing irony one of the more farcical projects of land management in the newly federated states of Australia. In 1907 a fence 1,834 kms in length was built from the Great Southern Ocean to the coast of the top end for the purpose of preventing rabbits invading Western Australia f

End of the Spear

Steve Saint

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

David Grann · 339 pages

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker wr

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.

The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

David Brainerd · 376 pages

David Brainerd's life and thought influenced not only his own generation but have also exerted influence on the generations that have lived after him. His life was characterized by an unusual devotion to God and an agonizing examination of personal motives and aspirations. Unswerving in his purpose after being converted to Christ, Brainerd endured many disappointments and hardships in order to tak

Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World

Ed McGaa · 230 pages

John Paul The Great: Remembering A Spiritual Father

Peggy Noonan

Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing

Robert Wolff · 208 pages

The Life of Frederick Denison Maurice

Frederick Denison Maurice · 580 pages

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism

Gregory A. Prince, William Robert Wright · 520 pages

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism is an insightful and detailed account of the exemplary life and remarkable influence of the 1st 'modern' Mormon prophet, David Oman McKay. Significantly enhanced by access to the private journals, office records and prolific correspondences kept by President McKay's long-time secretary, Claire Middlemiss; this book is a more intimate and personalized

The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

Joseph Auguste Merasty, David Carpenter · 120 pages

From publisher: Now a retired fisherman and trapper, Merasty was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government-funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of 'aggressive assimiliation.' As Merasty recounts, these schools did more than attempt to mold children in the ways of white society. They we

The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo

Kent Nerburn

God Is Red: A Native View of Religion

Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko · 325 pages

Deloria, a prominent Native American educator, lawyer, and philosopher, has updated his classic work on native religion. In God is Red Deloria argues convincingly that Christianity has failed today's society, and describes basic tenets that underlie Native religions. His other works include Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties and Custer Died for Your Sins.

Jonathan Edwards

George M. Marsden · 640 pages

"Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century." "In this biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George M. Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in

Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

David Chadwick · 448 pages

Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To create his intimate and engrossing narrative, David Chadwick draws on Suzuki's own words and the memories of his students, friends, a

Spurgeon: A New Biography

Arnold A. Dallimore · 252 pages

Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding

Billy Mills, Nicholas Sparks · 176 pages

Joseph Smith the Prophet

Truman G. Madsen · 202 pages

The Reason You Walk

Wab Kinew · 273 pages

When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief, and an urban activist. Kinew writes af

Rees Howells, Intercessor

Norman P. Grubb · 309 pages

They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

Bev Sellars · 256 pages

Like Native children forced by law to attend schools across Canada and the United States, Sellars and other students of St. Joseph's Mission were allowed home only for two months in the summer and for two weeks at Christmas. The rest of the year they lived, worked, and studied at the school. St. Joseph's mission is the site of the controversial and well-publicized sex-related offences of Bishop Hu

Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History

Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo · 316 pages

In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northernn Ontario, is an institution now notorious for the range of punishments that staff and teachers inflicted on students. Years later, in seeking healing, Metatawabin participated in native cultural training workshops that emphasize the holistic app