University of New Mexico Press, May 1987. Trade Paperback. This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own.....
Heyday Books, July 1998. Trade Paperback. Nonfiction. " THE MORNING THE SUN WENT DOWN is one of the most unique and memorable autobiographies I've ever read. With the heart of a poet, the tongue of a storyteller, and a good bit of that wisdom of spirit that his elders used.....
University of Arkansas Press, April 2005. Trade Paperback. Bringing together the work of prominent scholars and rising stars in southern, western, and Indian history, A Whole Country in Commotion explores lesser-known aspects of one of the better-known episodes in U.S. history. While the purchase has been seen as a great.....
American Geographical Society, 1945. First Edition Thus. Pamphlet. Offprint from the Geographical Review, volume XXV, no. 3, pages 424-443. With many illustrations of totem poles from the Pacific Northwest. First edition thus. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback). Slight darkening along spine edge. Inscribed by the author on.....
N/A, May 1991. Hardcover.
Council Oak Books, October 1997. Trade Paperback. To the Plains Indians, the Sun Dance has traditionally been a profound religious ceremony, the highest form of worship of the Most Holy One. Thomas E. Mails was invited to attend and record in detail the Sioux Sun Dances at Rosebud and Pine.....
Destiny Books, November 1994. Trade Paperback. Island of the Sun recounts the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo's return to Peru in search of the Quechua Indian shaman Don Jicaram. The authors' earlier book, Dance of the Four Winds, described Villoldo's first initiation, under Don Jicaram, into the secrets of the Inca.....
The American Folk-Lore Society, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. 185 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in blue cloth with edge wear. Some fraying beginning at corners and spine edges. Spine lettering partially worn away. No dust jacket. Former owner signature on front pastedown.
United States Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 14. 51st Congress, 1st Session. Folding map. Detailed and historically significant account of negotiations between the U.S. government and the representatives of the Coeur d'Alene tribe of northern Idaho over the purchase of a portion of.....
Smithsonian Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 126 pages. About 9-1/2 by 12 inches. An 'extended description of the structure of words in the Seneca language,' from the introduction. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket. Errata slip laid in. Former owner's stamp on front free endpaper.....
University of Utah Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 312 pages. 'It presents a convincing case for the fundamental influence of ancestral American Indian languages and cultures on spoken and written expression in different Indian English codes.'--dust jacket. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small sticker-removal scar on.....
Libraries Unlimited, June 1994. Hardcover. What is a babiche? A cradleboard? Who are the Athapascans and the Black Indians? What was the Battle of Little Big Horn? This compendium of vocabulary, people, places, and events is designed to assist the reader in understanding a variety of terms and important events.....
Pajarito Publications, 1978. Hardcover. 182 pages. The Onas or foot Indians inhabit the interior of Tierra del Fuego. First edition thus. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Drain Enterprise, 1954. First Edition. Pamphlet. 71 pages. Illustrated from photographs. First edition (first printing). Very good in stapled wrappers (paperback).
Oxford University Press, 1959. Hardcover. 272 pages.
Vicar-Apostolic of Alaska, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 292 pages. Text in Inuit with lesson headings in English. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in black cloth with mild surface scuffing.
University of Nebraska Press, January 1994. Hardcover. In 1876 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalry on the Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of.....
Univ of Oklahoma Pr, November 1982. Hardcover. Looks at the way Indians are portrayed in books, films, cartoons, and advertising, pokes fun at stereotypes, and corrects misconceptions about the American Indian.
Franklin Watts, March 1991. Trade Paperback. The books in the highly praised First Book series provide basic facts on subjects in the social studies, the sciences, sports, and practical and fine arts. An inviting format, lively text, and interesting illustrations make these books especially popular with young readers. Each book.....
Horace F. McCann, 1882. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 31 pages. The pamphlet recounts the author's visit to several Episcopal missions and schools operating on Sioux reservation lands in South Dakota and Nebraska. Welsh was an earnest advocate for the rights of the American Indian. He founded the Indian Rights Association.....
Grabhorn Press, 1955. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 35 [1] pages, 5 plates (3 colored). Cover title: The Corn Maidens Dance and its Greek Analogies. Beautifully printed study in comparative religion, contasting the Zuni corn ritual with various ancient Greek fertility rites. Includes selections from the writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing.....
Otto Springer, 1921. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 98 pages with 5 map pages and 14 black-and-white illustrated plates. Text in German. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen.....
Harry N Abrams, October 1989. Hardcover. Compares actual Indian artifacts with the portrayal of Indians in American paintings, and looks at the changing attitudes of whites towards Indians.
Lost Moose, May 2005. Trade Paperback. No aspect of this harrowing journey was more difficult--or deadly--than the trek over the Chilkoot Trail: a fifty-three kilometre journey over the coastal mountains from the tidewaters of Alaska, through British Columbia to the headwaters of the Yukon River. But even before the gold.....
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1952. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 164 pages. Culbertson explored the Bad Lands and ascended several hundred miles up the Missouri. Contains two folded maps. First edition thus. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Covers are mildly faded. Maps are fine...