Books like Jaguar woman and the wisdom of the butterfly tree by Lynn V. Andrews

A biographical account of Carlos Castaneda, exploring his encounters with Yaqui Indian shamanism, the use of hallucinogenic drugs in religious practice, and the cultural and spiritual heritage of Mexican Indians.

Black Elk’s life and the history of the Oglala Sioux through the Little Big Horn, the Ghost Dance, and the Wounded Knee massacre.

An intimate biography detailing Lynn V. Andrews’ apprenticeship with a Cree medicine woman in Manitoba, exploring traditional healing, shamanic practices, and Indigenous spirituality.

A biographical exploration of a Cree woman's journey toward spiritual unity and enlightenment, blending indigenous shamanic traditions with broader religious and mythological themes.

For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured La Barre’s fascinating original study, which began when the author, at age twenty-four, studied the rites of fifteen American Indian tribes using Lophophora williamsii, the small, spineless, carrot-shaped peyote cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward. Continuing his research from the 1930s through the 1980s, Weston La Barre reviews topics such as the Timothy Leary-Richard Alpert “experiments” with peyote and other psychotropic substances, the Carlos Castaneda phenomenon, the progress of the Native American Church toward acceptance as a religious denomination, the presumptions of the Neo-American Church, the legal ramifications of ritual drug use, and the spread of peyotism from the Southwest to other North American tribes. This new edition of La Barre’s classic study includes 334 new entries in the latest of his highly valued bibliographical essays on works relating to peyote, not just in anthropology but in a variety of fields including archeology, economics, botany, chemistry, and pharmacology. The bibliography lists important contributions in popular media such as newspapers, audiotapes, and films, as well as in scholarly journals.

A collection of Native American goddess stories drawn from oral tradition, celebrating personal freedom, communal harmony, and the balanced dialogue between people, animals, and spirits through magic and sacred practice.

Elissa Washuta confronts bipolar disorder, sexual trauma, and her American Indian identity in a candid memoir that explores the clash between psychiatric medication, cultural heritage, and the pressures of adult life.