Return of the Thunderbeings: A New Paradigm of Ancient Shamanism
Bear & Company, 1990. Trade Paperback. 285 pages. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Native American Studies
Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862
St. Martin's Griffin, June 1993. Trade Paperback. December 26, 1862. On the day after Christmas, in Mankato, Minnesota, thirty-eight Sioux Indians were hanged on the order of President Lincoln. It stands today as the greatest mass execution in the history of the United States. In Over the Earth I Come.....
A Dictionary of the Kalispel or Flat-head Indian Language, Compiled by the Missionaries of the Society of Jesus. Part II: English- Kalispel
St. Ignatius Print. Bound by Geo. E. Boos, Bookbinder, Helena, Montana, 1877-8-9. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 453 pages. Schoenberg Jesuit Mission Presses 5; McMurtrie 112. First edition (first printing). Very good in unprinted paper wrappers (paperback). Pages uncut, covers with mild wear and scuffing. Wrinkling to pages from prior water.....
American Indian Life (color photographs)
H. H. Tammen Co., n.d., ca. 190? First Edition. Novelty. 20 color photographs printed on continuous folded strip tipped-in to the front cover of folder designed for mailing. Condescending and racist comments on Native Americans on inside of the cover titled 'American Indian Life.' First edition (first printing). A near.....
26th Annual Pow Wow, August 5, 6, & 7, 1994
Southern California Indian Center, Inc., 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 44 pages. B/W illustrations. Pamphlet includes staff with photographs, program of events, past princesses, past executive officers, and '3 pages 'Pow Wow and its Meaning.' First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated color wrappers (paperback).
Indian Art & Culture of the Northwest Coast
Hancock House Publishers, 1974. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 93 pages. Illustrations in B/W. Originally published in 1924 by P. E. Goddard. This edition edited by D. Kew with drawings and photographs that were not in the original edition. First edition thus. Very good copy in illustrated wappers (paperback). Art.....
Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing
Touchstone, August 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In this book, Lewis chronicles horrifying cases of misdiagnosis and malpractice, from the surgeons who compete to break the record of "Fastest Cesarean Section, " endangering the lives of mothers and babies, to the doctor who actually causes kidney failure in an.....
Navajo Indian Political Attitudes and Behavior Poll
The National Indian Youth Council, 1984. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 67 pages. Results were based on 448 personal interviews conducted in 18 Navajo communities in Arizona. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). With 4-page Press Release, November 02, 1984; 1-page Memo to National Indian Youth.....
The Other San Francisco
Seabury Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 167 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white from drawings by Joseph Papin. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with wear to the spine ends.
Sorrow of the Earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business
Pushkin Press, October 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the tragic fate of its Native American participants. Buffalo Bill was the prince of show business. His spectacular.....
Creator's Code: Planetary Survival & Beyond
Four Directions Pub, December 2007. Trade Paperback. 260 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
From the Deep Woods to Civilization (Native American)
Dover Publications, August 2003. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). "Has a many-sided appeal .... This stimulating book is one of the few that really deserve the over-worked term, a human document." -- Publishers Weekly. In the first of his memoirs, the popular Indian Boyhood, Charles Alexander Eastman.....
Crooked Beak of Heaven: Masks and Other Ceremonial Art of the Northwest Coast (Index of Art in the Pacific Northwest)
Washington State Museum and the Henry Art Gallery, 1972. Trade Paperback. 96 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Second printing. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
The Pueblo Children of the Earth Mother, Volume II
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 534 pages. 9-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. This volume 'describes the history, customs, and accomplishments of the Hopi, Zuni, Acoma, Laguna, and Rio Grande Pueblo Indians from their beginnings to the present' -- from the preface. Illustrated. First edition (first printing). A fine.....
In Sacramento Matrimonii Celbrando (headings in Latin, responses in Kalispel) (broadside)
St. Ignatius Print, ca. 1891. Trade Paperback. Broadside 3.6 x 6.25 inches. A Kalispel translation of the questions asked by the priest during the ceremony of the Sacrament of Matrimony. Attributed to Canestrelli by Wilfred F. Schoenberg, 'Jesuit Mission Presses in the Pacific Northwest,' 1957. First edition (first printing). A......
For Holy Communion (Kalispel language) (broadside)
St. Ignatius Print, ca. 1891. Broadside. Broadside 6 x 9 inches. Printed in black. A communion hymn of five 4-line stanzas in Kalispel language. cf Callaghan, Philip, 'A Bibliography of Jesuit Mission Imprints' for Canistrelli attribution. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.
Prayers Ordered by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII to be Recited After Low Mass
St. Ignatius Print, [1891]. Broadside. Broadside 6 x 9.25 inches. Printed in black with ruled border. Prayers are 'Three 'Hail Marys,' text printed below, and 'Let Us Pray,' text printed below. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy. Slight tanning to sheet.
Szmimeie-S Jesus Christ (Part I)
Missionaries of the Society of Jesus. St. Ignatius Print, 1880. Trade Paperback. 8 pp. Text in Kalispel. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Separate printing of 8 pages with front and back cover. Text pages uncut.
Nunim Miogatum Jesus-Christnim ziekin, kakunki peyeuze,keipnim Jesusna timnepe pettimineze (Nez Perce prayer to the Sacred Heart in honor of St. Marg. Mary Alacoque)
P. A. Kemper, ca. 1900. Trade Paperback. Printed card 2.8 x 4.25 inches. Recto with brilliantly printed bleeding heart shaped as a rimmed vessel spouting flames and a cross, encircled by a wreath of thorns, bordered by red roses, golden wheat, grapes, lily-like white and green flowers and green leaves.....
The Universal Papal Hymn. Uataskitg kunku nunin Pope (Numipu or Nez-Perces version) (broadside)
J. Fletcher & Bro. 1908. Broadside. Single sheet 4.5 x 6.25 inches. Printed in black. Text in Numipu or Nez Perces. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.
Lu Skuskuests lu t St. Marie and Oratio Leonis P. P. XIII ad S. Joseph (in Kalispel) (Litany of the Blessed Virgin and Prayer of Pope Leo XIII) (single sheet)
St. Ignatius Print, ca. 1891. Trade Paperback. Single sheet 8.5 x 11 inches to be folded to create 4 pages. Printed in black. Cover with decorated oval with Blessed Virgin and child Jesus. Prayers on inside. Last leaf blank. Translation attributed to Canestrelli and dated by J. C. Pilling in.....
The Teachings of Jesus Christ (Szmineies Jesus Christ): The Making of the Sign of the Cross (Lu Staketakenzut L Es Eimeus); An Offering to God (Lu Sguizeshemist L Kolinzuten); Prayer of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Nchaumis Kae Ilimigum J. C.); and The Greeting of the Angel (Lu Sinkoitistis lu Ange)
Missionaries of the Society of Jesus, 1879. Trade Paperback. Single sheet, 8.5 x 11 inches. Printed in black on white, on recto only, pages 1 and 2 of 'Some Narratives, from the Holy Bible.' Single sheet, pages 1 and 2, of Some Narratives, from the Holy Bible (Lu Tel Kaimintis.....
Prayer Before We Recive Holy Communion (Nchaumen Ziuzi Kae Kkaezin) and Prayer After We Receive Holy Communion, pp. 13, 16, 17, 19 of Lu Tel Kaimintis Kolinzuter Kuitlt in English and Kalispel (Flathead) Language
Missionaries of the Society of Jesus, 1879. Trade Paperback. Single sheet 8.5 x 11 inches. Printed in black on both sides. From Lu Tel Kaimintis Kolinzuter Kuitlt (in Kalispel), Some Narratives, from the Holy Bible. First edition. A near fine copy. Single sheet fragment from a larger work.
Prayers Catechism Hymns in the Nunipu Language (Nez Perce) for the use of the St. Joseph's Missions, S.J. in Oregon and Washington (1 sheet fragment only)
St. Joseph's Missions. Pendleton Printery, 1909. Trade Paperback. One sheet 8.5 x 11 inches with title page and page 3, 'The Sign of the Cross (and) Morning Prayers' printed in Nunipu (Nez Perce) language. Part of 48 pp. pamphlet, never folded or bound. First edition (first printing). A near fine.....
In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers
Robinson Books, October 2002. Trade Paperback.