For the entire month of May, the Minnesota Historical Society Press is offering the following ebooks at the special price of $3.99 each from participating ebook vendors.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

by Anton Treuer

More than one hundred stereotype-debunking questions—thoughtful, awkward, and searching—answered with solid information, humor, and compassion.

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Assassination of Hole in the Day cover

The Assassination of Hole in the Day

by Anton Treuer

“The Assassination of Hole in the Day is a masterful history, and more. Anton Treuer illuminates the character of a controversial and charismatic Ojibwe leader from within Ojibwe culture, and tells a powerful story of loss that reverberates in the present.” —Louise Erdrich

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Beloved ChildBeloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life

by Diane Wilson

Sustained by rich traditions, ceremonies, advocacy, and education, Dakota families are transforming the legacy of colonization and assimilation into a better way of life for their children.

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phpIc5uKySpirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past

by Diane Wilson

A child of a typical 1950s suburb unearths her mother’s hidden heritage, launching a rich and magical exploration of her own identity and her family’s powerful Native American past.

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Anishinaabe SyndicatedAnishinaabe Syndicated: A View from the Rez

by Jim Northrup

Between 1989 and 2001, Indian Country saw enormous changes in treaty rights, casino gambling, language renewal, and tribal sovereignty. Jim Northrup witnessed it all.

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Honor the GrandmothersHonor the Grandmothers: Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories

Compiled and edited by Sarah Penman

“The four oral histories presented in this attractive volume pay homage to elder women who quietly serve as community and political activists within the Lakota-Dakota Nation. . . Recommended.”—Library Journal

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While the Locust SleptWhile the Locust Slept: A Memoir

By Peter Razor

Through transcendent prose, an Ojibwe man chronicles his survival of abuse and bigotry at a state orphanage in the 1930s and the brutal farm indenture that followed.

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Dakota PhilospherDakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought

by David Martinez

Reclaims a place for Charles Eastman in the canon of American Indian intellectual thought.

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My Mother Is Now EarthMy Mother Is Now Earth

by Mark Anthony Rolo

An isolated northern farm provides the backdrop to a child’s searching, empathetic view of his conflicted mother during the last three years of her life.

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Night Flying WomanNight Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative

by Ignatia Broker

With the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change, uprootings, and loss for the Minnesota Ojibway. But this story also tells of her people’s great strength and continuity.

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