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DOESN'T FALL OFF HIS HORSE (A Kiowa-Comanche Tale)
by Virginia A. Stroud. Full-page vivid color illustrations by the Author. Condition: NEW 1994 Dial Books for Young Readers hardcover (pictorial boards) and DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: This is a true story. Saygee visits her great-grandfather, who shows her one of his treasures, a leopard-skin quiver, and tells her of an adventure when the lucky quiver didn't help him "make a coup." (The concept of counting coup is explained). He and his young friends in his Kiowa band sneak out of camp and steal ponies from a nearby Comanche camp. The raid is successful, but the narrator is badly wounded from a rifle shot. Clinging to his pony and to the leads of two others, he makes it back home and unexpectedly recovers. Although the elders criticize the boys' bad judgment and foolishness, they praise their bravery and bestow an adult warrior name on the narrator-Doesn't Fall Off His Horse. The artist, a Cherokee, retells this incident from her adoptive Kiowa grandfather's childhood. Her paintings are slightly reminiscent of Paul Goble's linear, stylized, brightly colored art, but they are denser and more naturalistic, with less patterning, than his work. Stroud's palette is especially rich in blues. Although Native American picture books are proliferating, this one is notable for depicting children within their culture as both independent and accountable. All ages will appreciate this book. [1 copy available]
$ 18.79 + $ 3.39 media shipping.

FIGHTING INDIANS OF THE WEST
by Dee Brown with Martin F. Schmitt. 120+ B&W photos, sketches and paintings. Condition: Very good 1976 Ballantine paperback first printing. Pale hinge crease with tiny tear top spine at hinge. Interior clean & tight with light tanning to page edges. Content: "A portrait of courage in the struggle that dishonored a nation." Vivid text and a unique pictorial presentation, Dee Brown introduces the men and the battles that changed an entire continent and the destiny of a nation, including: Red Cloud, The Conquest of Cochise, The Vision of Sittinig Bull, and The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee. Here are the faces of the chiefs and the warrios, and the story of their long but futile struggle to save their bison and their elk, their earth and their sky. Note: The photos in this book are stunning and, in some cases, frightening. [1 copy available]
$ 7.59 + shipping.

THE HEARTLAND CHRONICLES
by Douglas Foley. Condition: Gently pre-read 1996 Univ. of Pennsylvania Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Light edgewear with some markings to about page 55. Unread from that point on. Content: This is the story of Indians and whites living together in a small Iowa community. Foley's multi-layered historical account incorporates the perspectives of both the white and Mesquaki Indian groups. Using his own memories and those of his Indian and white informants, Foley takes the Mesquakis from the earliest contact through the AIM period to today's tribal-owned casino and economic independence. Worth the read! [1 copy available]
$ 4.29 + $ 3.19 media shipping.

INDIAN HEROES & GREAT CHIEFTAINS
by Charles A. Eastman (AKA Ohiyesa). Condition: NEW 1991 University of Nebraska Press Trade Paperback . Beautiful wrap-around cover art by Paul Goble. B&W photos of Native Americans profiled. Content: Originally published in 1918, this book contains biographical vignettes of fifteen great Indian leaders, most of them Sioux and some of them, like Red Cloud and Rain-in-the-Face, friends and acquaintances of Eastman. He pays tribute to Little Wolf, the Cheyenne chief whom he knew well, and described the noble career of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, who received his assistance in drawing up a document of grievances presented to the government in 1897. In finely honed prose Eastman cuts to the essence of his subjects, including Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, Little Crow, Gall, Two Strike, American Horse, Dull Knife, Roman Nose, Hole-in-the-Day, and Tamahay. [1 copy available]
$ 11.25 + shipping.