Re-poh: Thresholds
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, September 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
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Re-poh: Thresholds
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, September 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Ka'm-t'em: A Journey Toward Healing
Great Oak Press, May 2019. Trade Paperback. Indigenous testimonials of resistance, renewal, advocacy, resilience, beauty and awakening. Kishan Lara-Cooper (Yurok/Hupa/Karuk) is a professor at Humboldt State University. Walt Lara Sr. is a respected spiritual leader and wisdom keeper of the Yurok tribal people. Very good paperback copy.
Karuk: The Upriver People
Naturegraph Publishers, September 1991. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Among the mountains that flank the Klamath River, the home of the legendary Sasquatch, there still lives a people that anthropologists believe to be descendants of the original inhabitants of California. The Karuk, in this northernmost wilderness, developed a culture known.....
A Bag of Bones: Legends of the Wintu Indians of Northern California (Legends of Wintu Indians of No California)
Naturegraph Publishers, June 1967. Trade Paperback. A new copy. These stories come from the Wintu Indians of California's northern Sacramento Valley where they resided for thousands of years. Grant Towendolly, son of the former headman of the tribe, a Wintu philosopher, mystic, and shaman, retells their legends. We learn that.....
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09, Second Edition
Bison Books, December 2011. Trade Paperback. In 1908 two New York women (who were also life partners) set off for the Karuk tribe acting as Federal Field Agents. Their mission to bring Native Americans into the 20th Century would forever change their lives. A new copy. In 1908 easterners Mary.....
XUS WE-YO: Tolowa (Tututni) Language Dictionary (Second edition)
Tolowa Language Committee, 1989. Hardcover. 488 pages. 8-3/4 by 11 inches. Corrects and expands the 1983 edition. Organized alphabetically in English with translation in Unifon punctuation and pronunciation. A near fine copy; no dust jacket. Former owner's gift inscription on front pastedown. A large, heavy book.
Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance
Heyday, June 2023. Trade Paperback. Includes essays by Cutcha Risling Baldy, 'The G-O Road: Thirty Years Later' and 'Water Is Life: The Flower Dance Ceremony.' A new copy. An essential look at the ways California's Native nations are resisting colonialism today, from education reform to protests against environmental injustice and.....
Re-poh: Thresholds
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, September 2011. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Walking in Beauty: Growing Up with the Yurok Indians
The Press at Trinidad Art, 2011. Trade Paperback. 85 pages. Roberts (1906-1981), the son of white settlers on the Klamath River in far northern California, grew up among the Yurok people. He felt a particular kinship with Yurok spiritual leader Robert Spott and as an adult practiced Zen influenced by.....
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
University of California Press, 2013. Trade Paperback. 558 pages. A new copy. A complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation. John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today--that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the.....
Walking in Beauty: Growing Up with the Yurok Indians
The Press at Trinidad Art, 2011. Trade Paperback. 85 pages. Roberts (1906-1981), the son of white settlers on the Klamath River in far northern California, grew up among the Yurok people. He felt a particular kinship with Yurok spiritual leader Robert Spott and as an adult practiced Zen influenced by.....
Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past
Heyday, November 2021. Trade Paperback. 'A fascinating look at the conflicts arising from reconstructing a native peoples past. Explores the relationship of archeology and the competing interests that color the recovery of Indian remains' -- from the publisher. Focused on the Yurok, Karuk and Hupa tribes of Humboldt County, CA.....
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09, Second Edition
Bison Books, December 2011. Trade Paperback. In 1908 two New York women (who were also life partners) set off for the Karuk tribe acting as Federal Field Agents. Their mission to bring Native Americans into the 20th Century would forever change their lives. A new copy. In 1908 easterners Mary.....
Southern Humboldt Indians
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022. Hardcover. The second volume in the History of Humboldt County [California] People and Places series. Mostly with a focus Southern Humboldt as it was in about 1850 '[b]ecause that was the last time the multi-millennial culture of the local Indians was fully intact.....
A Bag of Bones: Legends of the Wintu Indians of Northern California (Legends of Wintu Indians of No California)
Naturegraph Publishers, June 1967. Trade Paperback. A new copy. These stories come from the Wintu Indians of California's northern Sacramento Valley where they resided for thousands of years. Grant Towendolly, son of the former headman of the tribe, a Wintu philosopher, mystic, and shaman, retells their legends. We learn that.....
The Four Ages of Tsurai
Trinidad Museum Society, 1991. Trade Paperback. With new introductory material by the Trinidad Museum Society and Axel Lindgren. A new copy.
Yurok Language, Literature and Culture (Third edition)
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1974. Trade Paperback. 51 pages. 8-1/2 by 10-3/4 inches. 'This lexicon textbook is made from lessons at Trinidad, California from 1970 to 1974. This was only possible by the time gratefully given by our native language experts: Mr. Frank Douglas, Mrs. Eileen Figueroa, Mr. Milton.....
Soldiers Unknown
Great Oak Press, August 2019. Trade Paperback. A graphic novel. Based on the true experiences of Yurok Native American men called up to fight in WWI for a country that had horrifically mistreated their people, culture and land. With beautiful illustrations of life along the Klamath River in the Early.....
The Hover Collection
Clarke Historical Museum, 2015. Trade Paperback. 98 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Exhibition catalog documenting the museum's extensive collection of baskets by Karuk, Wiyot and Yurok women. The collection was acquired in two stages, in 1983 and in 1996. An earlier book, Hover Collection of Karuk Baskets (1985), focused on.....
The Hover Collection
Clarke Historical Museum, 2015. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 98 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Exhibition catalog documenting the museum's extensive collection of baskets by Karuk, Wiyot and Yurok women. The collection was acquired in two stages, in 1983 and in 1996. An earlier book, Hover Collection of Karuk Baskets (1985).....
Native American Jewelry and Adornment of Northwest California
Trinidad Museum, January 2010. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 147 pages. 11 by 8-1/2 inches. Catalog from the Trinidad Museum exhibition, November 19, 2010 to March 1, 2011. More than 100 full color photographs of historic and contemporary jewelry by Northern California Native Americans and the beads and other materials used.....
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