American Indian crisis
Naylor Co, January 1971. Hardcover.
Native American Studies
Concise Encyclopedia of the American Indian
Gramercy, March 1990. Hardcover. "By Bruce Grant. 200 B&W Line drawings." With over 800 entries this copiously illustrated reference work is a fascinating history of the American Indian from the discovery of America to the present. Covers legends, lore, weapons and wars, beliefs, tools, more of every known Indian tribe.....
Encyclopedia of North American Indians: Native American History, Culture, and Life From Paleo-Indians to the Present
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 1996. Trade Paperback. Even as interest in the powerful, often tragic history of Native America grows, many books continue to perpetuate long-standing misconceptions of the past as well as the romantic steretypes often popularized today. Readers can now rely on Encyclopedia of North American Indians for.....
The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Folklife of the West, Vol. 2) (Folklife of the West, V. 2)
Utah State University Press, June 2003. Trade Paperback. After a career working and living with American Indians and studying their traditions, Barre Toelken has written this sweeping study of Native American folklore in the West. Within a framework of performance theory, cultural worldview, and collaborative research, he examines Native American.....
AFTER COLUMBUS - The Smithsonian Chronicle of the North American Indians
Smithsonian, August 1992. Trade Paperback.
American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
University of Oklahoma Press, January 1990. Trade Paperback. This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America and prospered in the.....
Pieces of White Shell
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.....
The Morning the Sun Went Down
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.....
A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest
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.....
The Aleutian Route of Migration into America
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.....
Sundancing: The Great Sioux Piercing Ceremony
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.....
Island of the Sun: Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel
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.....
Taos Tales
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.
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting A Letter of the Secretary of the Interior relative to the purchase of a part of the Coeur d'Alene Reservation
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.....
Seneca Morphology and Dictionary (Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Volume 4)
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.....
American Indian English
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.....
Indian Terms of the Americas (North & South America)
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.....
Only the Wind: Legends of the Onas of Tierra del Fuego
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).
The Halo Trail: The Story of the Yoncalla Indians
Drain Enterprise, 1954. First Edition. Pamphlet. 71 pages. Illustrated from photographs. First edition (first printing). Very good in stapled wrappers (paperback).
The Graded Catechism in Innuit
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.
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux
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.....
Shadows of the Indian: Stereotypes in American Culture
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.
The Totem Pole Indians of the Northwest (First Book)
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.....
Four Weeks Among Some of the Sioux Tribes of Dakota and Nebraska, Together with a Brief Description of the Indian Problem
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.....
Pai Ya Tu Ma: God of all Dance and His Customs of the Flute, Zuni Pueblo, 1932
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.....