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HENRY STARR: Last of the Real Badmen
by Glenn Shirley. B&W photo section. Condition: Good only, 1965David McKay hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. This is an EX-LIBRARY book with all mrkings. Content: Starr boasted that he had robbed more banks than any man in America - and then swear he had been forced into a life of crime by society. He could rob two banks in the same time; then spend his spare time reading the classics, a supply of which he carried in his saddlebags. Twice he was sentenced to die on the gallows, but was saved by presidental commutation. Three times he turned "respectable" only to backslide into the dangerous life he really enjoyed. During one of his relapses into respectability, he produced a motion picture - A Debtor to the Law - his testament to the world that crime did not pay - and then prompty ignored his own advice. Only once did he kill a man. Starr was part Cherokee, part white, and the most unusual train- and bank-robbing outlaw ever to run loose in America. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE INDIAN IN CONNECTICUT
by Chandler Whipple. B&W illustrations by Janice Lindstrom. Wonderful maps & illustrations. Condition: Gently pre-read, IF at all, c. 1972 Berkshire Travellers Trade Paperback, no printing given. While most of the book is unread, it appears that the fist map in the book has been placed flat on a scanner thus a slight "break." Content: This book begins with a description of the New England Indian and how he lived for centuries before the arrival of the white man. It then goes on to pinpoint the fate of specific Connecticut tribes, after the Dutch and English arrived, a fate which reduced their numbers until only 123 pure-blooded Indians remain in the state today. [1 copy available]
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THE LONG, BITTER TRAIL: Andrew Jackson and the Indians
by Anthony F. C. Wallace. B&W map. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1995 Hill and Wang Trade Paperback, sixth printing. Problem: Pale diagonal top front cover. Tiny edgewear. Content: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 summarily dismissed the rights of Native Americans to their homelands east of the Mississippi and mandated their relocation to the wilds of the Oklahoma plains. The infamous Trail of Tears is indeed a riveting tale of political expediency, greed, and sorrow. In this book, Wallace recounts in a balanced and clear manner the influences that gave rise to a governmental policy that regulated the disenfranchisement of Native peoples within American boundaries. The author carefully traces the movement and activities of the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles through the Trail of Tears to their eventual destinations and fortunes. While almost scholarly in tone, the calm and precise narrative remains arresting because of the strength of its subject matter. [1 copy available]
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SACRED REVOLT: The Muskogee's Struggle For A New World
by Joel W. Martin. Condition: UNREAD 1991 Beacon Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. DJ has been price-clipped & has tiny edgewear. Maps. Content: In 1814, nine thousand unarmed Muskogees revolted against the United States at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. In the history of warfare against Native Americans, no battle cost more native lives. The author shows that the revolt was not simply a desperate attempt to regain lost lands, but was fueled by a profound religious and cultural vision through which the Muskogees hoped to redefine their place in a world peopled with strangers. [1 copy available]
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THE SEMINOLE: Patchworkers of the Everglades (America's First Peoples series)
by Rachel A. Koestler-Grack. Wonderful color and era B&W illustrations and photos. Condition: NEW 2006 Blue Earth soft cover, second printing. Content: This is a wonderful series on Native America for youngsters. This book takes a look at the Seminole Indians, focusing on their tradition of creating patchwork. Includes a recipe for a grape juice and dumpling dessert. Excellent. (1 copy available)
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THE SKULKING WAY OF WAR: Technology and Tactics Among the New England Indians
by Patrick M. Malone. Loads of graet B&W era & contemporary drawings. Condition: UNREAD 1993 Johns Hopkins Univ. Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Reviewer: "Malone surveys the weaponry and tactics among the Native Americans of New England and how they changed after the arrival of the European settlers and the introduction of gunpowder. Borrowing and modifying the flintlock musket for their own use, Native American fighters developed superior tactics and became a deadly force in forest warfare. During King Philip's War (1675-1677), Native American groups wrought intense destruction upon European (largely British) settler's colonies, f orcing the whites to adopt the same mode of forest combat. These new tactics would re-emerge during the Revolutionary War against Britain and in subsequent American wars down to this very day, altering combat throughout the world. This book is very highly recommended reading for students of American history, military history, and Native American studies." [1 copy available]
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THE TRAIL OF TEARS: The Story of the American Indian Removals 1813 - 1855
by Gloria Jahoda. B&W illustrations. Condition: NEW 1996 Wings Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), 6th printing. Content: Insightful, rarely told history of Indian courage in the face of White expansionism in the 19th century. Truth-telling tale of the ruthless brutality that forced the Native American population into resettlement camps and reservations, with a look at the few white Americans who fought to help them. Jahoda makes use of hitherto unpublished sources to relate in unprecedented depth and detail the history of Indian courage in the face of white expansion during the first half of the nineteenth century. She describes the violence, the wars, the meaningless treaties and political double-dealing that spread from Washington to the frontier. She portrays the suffering as thousands of Creeks, Choctaws, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Shawnees, Delawares, Senecas and members of other proud Native American nations perished from cold, hunger and white men's diseases. Here too are the monumental figures of the age, men of greed, hatred, honor and inspiration, including: Andrew Jackson, who created the policy and presided over its ruthless execution. [Americas are accustomed to the idea that along with slavery, the treatment of the American Indian (Native American) is the most shameful episode in our history. If Americans really believe this, why has the collective treatment of (and attitudes about) the Native American improved so little over the last century?] [2 copies available]
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THE TUSCARORAS
by Shirley Hill Witt. Condition: Good only 1972 Crowell-Collier hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. This is a former library book with all library marks blacked out with magic marker (why, oh why, do librarians do this?). Content: The Tuscaroras were the sixth Nation to join the Iroquois Confederacy. Witt tells their story - beginning with their forced migration from North Carolina to upstate New York - and that of the original Five Nations, the Mohawk, Onodaga, Seneca, Cayuga, and Oneida. Weaving together legends and tribal history, Dr. Hill's tale ranges from the formation of the Confederacy to today's Border Crossing Ceremonies. She also describes the clans, the choosing of the chiefs by the women, the Long House religion, and contact with Christianity. Written for younger readers. [1 copy available]
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THE UNREDEEMED CAPTIVE: A Family Story from Early America
by John Demos. Condition: NEW 1995 Knopf Trade Paperback, 7th printing. Perfect condition. Content: From an obscure and isolated event, Demos, a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, explodes the easy oppositions between Christian and savage, Indian and white, nature and civilization--oppositions on which the narrative of colonial American history has traditionally been built. In 1704, Mohawk Indians, converted to Catholicism by Jesuit missionaries, allied with the French settlers in Canada, attacked the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 50 of the very young and old and kidnapping 112 more. They then marched the prisoners to Canada, killing 20 more women and several children along the way as acts of mercy, including the wife and infant son of John Williams, a Puritan minister and a prize hostage. While he and his surviving sons were ultimately released, his daughter, Eunice, who was seven at the time of her capture, remained with her captors, converted to Catholicism, and at the age of 16 married an Indian, with whose people she chose to spend the rest of her life (she died at age 96). Among Demos's narrative achievements is his representation of the religious, cultural, political, economic, and psychological orientations that collided in this episode, the web of fears, justifications, and powers revealed in the process of encounter: the Puritan fear of the wilderness, the English fear of the French, the Jesuit missionary fever, the French-Canadian greed, the Indian interpretation of Christianity, and the arrogance with which Puritans interpreted a massacre as an expression of God's will, of redemption and resurrection. This thought-provoking study explores the multiple communities to which apparently simple people belonged and how their domestic lives were overtaken by political events. Fascinating, lively, and especially timely to an age struggling to understand the implications of its own cross-cultural encounters. [1 copy available]
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