Just an ordinary boy with the usual likes and dislikes, Billy Bean’s favorite food is baked beans. One special day, Billy unknowingly eats a magic bean, and it changes his life forever. This first illustrated book in an exciting new children’s series introduces Billy, explains his story, and introduces all his new-found friends. The Adventures of Billy the Bean presents a new hero for children to follow and each story provides a challenge for Billy. It contains four separate stories with more to come.

Published in 2014 with a new preface by the author. Originally published in hardcover in 2003 by Marlowe & Company.

This invaluable resource provides a comprehensive historical and demographic overview of American Indians along with more than 100 cross-referenced entries on American Indian culture, exploring everything from arts, literature, music, and dance to food, family, housing, and spirituality. American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum is organized by cultural form (Arts; Family, Education, and Community; Food; Language and Literature; Media and Popular Culture; Music and Dance; Spirituality; and Transportation and Housing). Examples of topics covered include icons of Native culture, such as pow wows, Indian dancing, and tipi dwellings; Native art forms such as pottery, rock art, sandpainting, silverwork, tattooing, and totem poles; foods such as corn, frybread, and wild rice; and Native Americans in popular culture. The extensive introductory section, breadth of topics, accessibly written text, and range of perspectives from the many contributors make this work a must-have resource for high school and undergraduate audiences.

Meet Fred the Donkey the only donkey in Costa Rica to wear glasses. In this the second book about Fred's advantages Fred meets some animals he had never seen before and works with two other donkeys on the Coco bean farm in Costa Rica. Travel with Fred and his friends Billy and Pedro as they must take coco beans to the nearby Factory, however during their travel the trail is blocked by several down trees from a big storm the night before. So the farmer's son must have them travel a different trail that requires them to cross a very old wooden bridge. It's at this bridge that the donkey's run into trouble. Working as a team with the farmer's son none of the donkey's get hurt when the old wooden bridge starts to fall apart. Through all of this advantage Fred still never gives up on his dream to one day work with children at the Grand Canyon, where he hopes to have them ride on him as they travel up and down the trails of the Canyon even though he knows It will take him some time to see his dream come true.

Bean're is one of the last American Nomads. He makes his own rules and travels to and from on his own schedule. His mode of travel is a very well worn Harley with over 200,000 miles on the odometer. With his long ponytail and tall top hat, Bean're looks like the original drug fiend. It turns out, however, that Bean're is straight and sober, and has been for over 23 years. This is a non-fiction story of a life-long adventure, and an inspirational tale. If anyone in this world is free, truly free, that someone is Bean're. Free from the 40 hour grind, and free from the credit card bills and mortgage payments that dog the rest of us.

This book highlights the contributions and careers of Native Americans who have carved impressive careers in Hollywood, from the silent film era of the early 1900s to the present, becoming advocates for their heritage. This book explores how the heritage and behind-the-scenes activities of Native American actors and filmmakers helped shape their own movie images. Native artists have impacted movies for more than a century, but until recently their presence had passed largely unrecognized. From the silent era to contemporary movies, this book features leading Native American actors whose voices have reached a broad audience and are part of the larger conversation about the exploitation of underrepresented people in Hollywood. Each chapter highlights Native actors in lead or supporting roles as well as filmmakers whose movies were financed and distributed by Hollywood studios. The text further explores how a "pan-Indian heritage" that applies to all tribes in terms of spirituality, historical trauma, and a version of ceremony and storytelling have shaped these performers' movie identities. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, including fans of Westerns, history buffs of American popular cinema, and students and scholars of Native American studies. A note from the author: Since the publication of this book, the CBC news magazine "The Fifth Estate" released an investigative documentary on October 27, 2023, alleging that Buffy Sainte-Marie had been fraudulently posing as a Native Canadian throughout her career.

This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history. Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans. Such treatments are rare, as most Native American biographies are historical (pre-1900) and cover familiar figures. Profiles collected here are written to be enjoyable as well as instructive, presented as examples of personal storytelling that should be savored not only for their factual content, but also for the humanity they evoke. The book spotlights Native American lives in the United States and Canada, mainly after 1900, though a few older figures are included because their lives evoke strikingly modern themes. The author, an expert on all things Native American, knows (or knew) several of the people in the entries, adding a special vibrancy to the writing. Among those profiled are former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, activist Eloise Cobell, and controversial political prisoner Leonard Peltier, as well as writers, artists, and musicians. The compilation also includes non-Native Americans whose lives and careers impacted Indian life.