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AMERICAN BY BLOOD (Historical Fiction)
by Andrew Huebner. Condition: Very good + 2001 Black Swan (London) Trade Paperback with tiny edgewear and 2 thin glue wrinkles down spine (binding error). Interior clean & tight. Content: "This is Western a la Peckinpah, in which almost metaphysical violence erupts from the dust and sweep of the American plains." "With Larry McMurty endorsing [the book] and Huebner's ancestor as an anchor in this fiction, the credentials are auspicious. The book rattles through the year of retribution killings after the 7th was annihilated at the Little Big Horn massacre. The dirty realism of the army camps and the technicolour, slo-mo detail of the various skirmishes are set against Bierstadt-type landscapes and meteorological detail, the muddied, desperate consciousness of the three army scout protagonists, and the out-of-control command. The prose is just as powerful without recourse to pseudo-biblical phrasing. And that's appropriate given that this isn't about mythologising and aggrandising either the indigenous, the settler cultures, and least of all, the perfunctory role of enlisted men carrying out duties from above. Gradually, after successive skirmishes, the army boys question both the responsibility of these duties and the location of 'above'." NOT a book for everyone! [1 copy available]
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AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE & THE SOUTHWEST
by Eric Gary Anderson.. Condition: NEW 1999 University of Texas Press first edition Trade Paperback. B&W photos & drawings illustrate. Tiny edgewear front side edge. Content: Anderson explores aspects of the literature of the Southwestern United States. Special attention is paid to encounters between the many cultures of the area: various Native American tribes, Euro-American groups, and, in Roswell, NM, even extraterrestrials. Anderson analyzes a wide range of "cultural texts, " from George Herriman's Krazy Kat comic strip and Geronimo's autobiography to the novels of Leslie Marmon Silko, Willa Cather, and A.A. Carr. Anderson explores a range of conceptions of the Southwest in this thoughtful and complex work while incorporating myriad scholarly references into the text. [1 copy available]
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ARREST SITTING BULL & A CREEK CALLED WOUNDED KNEE (Historical Fiction)
by Douglas C. Jones. Condition and Content: Arrest Sitting Bull: UNREAD 1978 Charles Scribner's hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Light tanning to white cover edges but none to interior pages. In 1890, at the camps of the Teton Sioux, frenzied braves perform the Ghost Dance. The aged, venerated Sitting Bull is their leader in this, their last, most desperate attempt to oust the white man from their land. Panic-stricken white ranchers and farmers call upon the Indian Agent to maintain the peace he has patiently established. Relations have improved between the two races under his careful supervision — but will officials in the East let the trouble be settled peaceably? Or will their soldiers march in to enforce the power of the mighty against the vanquished? A Creek Called Wounded Knee: Gently pre-read 1978 Charles Scribner's hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Remainder. Custer is dead. Sitting Bull is dead. And the famous 7th Cavalry is on the march. Then came the Ghost Dance, a spiritual call of Indian resistance, that spread like a dry fire among the Lakota Sioux. When the army commanders sent the murderous orders through, it became a matter of Sioux defiance to oppose them. Although the tragic outcome was clear, not a man changed his mind. Both books are great historical fiction - well-researched. Questions welcome. [1 set available]
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BLUE DAWN, RED EARTH: New Native American Storytellers
by Clifford E. Trafzer. Linda Lomahaftewa cover art "New Moon of the Buffalo." Condition: NEW 1996 Anchor paperback original Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: This work presents 30 original short stories by Native American writers. Editor Trafzer sets the stage in his introduction, itself an imaginative short story?an account of a visit with Agnes Yellowknee, who runs the tribal library out of her home in a tree on the reservation. Agnes provides a colorful introduction to the stories in this collection and gives Native American literature great acclaim. Most of the writers here are unknown to general readers; they are mainly younger writers just finding their voices, with a few who have been around for a while without finding a huge audience. Some stories are comic, while others are quite serious. They tell of despair and triumph, of what it means to be Native American after 500 years of submission to another culture. [1 copy available]
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BONE GAME [American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series ] (Fiction, Sequel to The Sharpest Sight)
by Louis Owens. Condition: NEW 1996 University of Oklahoma Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: This book is a tense blend of fantasy and mystery centering on American Indian lore. Relying on his own Choctaw heritage, the author tells the story of Cole McCurtain, whose life is coming apart at the seams. Cole no longer enjoys teaching American Indian Studies at UC-Santa Cruz. He drinks a lot, eats little and sorely misses his daughter, who's living with his divorced wife (to whom he owes substantial alimony). To top it off, he can't sleep because his dreams are haunted by images of a mysterious, malevolent Indian gambler. Matters turn dramatically worse when someone starts murdering female students. Are the killings somehow related to Cole's nightmares? To his dismay, it appears that it is his destiny to face the gambler and to solve the slayings. At first he is aided by his only friend at Santa Cruz, a transvestite Navajo. But soon Cole's daughter arrives, then his Choctaw family, and together they confront a centuries-old evil force that was unleashed by Spanish missionaries' cruel treatment of Native Americans. Owens expertly mixes genres and blends in generous amounts of Native American history. To his credit, he also leavens his grim but gripping tale with substantial humor. [1 copy available]
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THE BOOK OF CEREMONIES: A Native Way of Honoring and Living the Sacred
by Gabriel Horn. B&W drawings by Carises Horn. Condition: NEW 2005 New World Library soft cover, first paperback edition. Remainder. Content: Gabriel Horn presents a tapestry of stories, poems, prayers, and love songs describing sacred Native American ways of life and what the varied Native traditions and practices can offer all spiritual seekers. Filled with striking original art, the book conveys through its narrative and through instruction how to prepare for and conduct a variety of ceremonies and practices, including greeting the day, marriage, birth, death, season changes, dreams, vision quests, healing, and many others. In the book, Horn covers an array of indigenous traditions rather than just one. Highlights include a Zuni creation account, an Aztec love song, and an Omaha prayer presenting a new infant. Reflecting the voice of someone who has walked the Native path for years, the book offers insight into the ways that Native American reverence and ritual can enrich all aspects of life. [2 copies available]
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BUFFALO WOMAN
by Dorothy M. Johnson. Beautiful Elbridge Ayer Burbank cover painting. Condition: NEW 1995 University of Nebraska Press Trade Paperback, first thus. Content: A fictionalized account, as seen through the eyes of a woman known as Whirlwind, of life with the Oglala Sioux from 1820 through the aftermath of the victory at the Little Bighorn in 1877. [1 copy available]
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BURNTWATER
by Scott Thybony. Map of 4 Corners. Condition: NEW 1997 University of Arizona Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: A combination of Native American history, American West history, and travel book, Thybony transports us to the magical, alluring, stark Four Corners area through stories, myths, and mini-biographies of the people who inhabit this wonderful area of our country. For your next vacation, please consider the Four Corners area where you can wonder at Mesa Verde, eat great food, attend an on-going archaeological dig (and work for a day), and marvel at Shiprock. [1 copy available]
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DEE BROWN'S FOLKTALES OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN
retold by Dee Brown. Cover art by Michael Cassidy. B&W illustrations by Louis Mofsie. Condition: NEW 1993 Henry Holt Owl Books Trade Paperback, 10th printing. Content: This charming collection of Native American folklore draws on the oral traditions of earlier times, illuminating for us the roots of American culture. Gathered from numerous tribes - Seneca, Hopi, Navajo, Creek, Cheyenne, Cherokee and Blackfoot - these 36 stories, passed down through generations, are narrated by Brown as they might be told around a campfire today. Although updated for the modern reader, these tales still capture the true spirit and flavor of Native American mythology. [1 copy available]
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THE EAGLE: A Historical Novel of the First Major American Gold Rush
by George A. Montgomery. Condition: Very Good 1996 Windsor House paperback, 1st thus, 2nd printing. Appears unread but has pale diagonal crease upper front cover, light shelfwear hinge crease. The interior clean & tight. Content: Gold and The Trail of Tears are historical reminders in which our nation cannot find pride. The Eye of the Eagle is a story of the first major gold rush in the Georgia mountains and the resulting tragedy suffered by the Cherokee Indians on whose land the gold was found. The beginning of the Trail of Tears. [1 copy available]
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EAGLE SONG: An Indian Saga Based on True Events
by James Houston. Condition: Good + (overall). 1982 Harcourt Brace hardcover & DJ, first edition, second printing. Book is an unread remainder with small shelfwear. The DJ (in mylar jacket) has problems: significant chipping and edgewear top edge and top spine. B&W drawings by the author are wonderful. Paul Bacon cover art. Content: Based on a true story from Inuit history. "In 1803, a New England trading ship put in at the Nootkan village of the Eagle House on the Canadian Pacific coast. Its purposes were to replenish provisions, barter for valuable sea otter pelts and, incidentally, to obtain sexual services of the young village women. A group of rebellious Indian youths, infuriated by the arrogance and disdain of the white men, carried out a violent plan to massacre the crew and plunder the ship. Surviving the slaughter were Jewitt, the appealing and skilful ironsmith, and Thompson, the dour sailmaker. Eagle Song is the turbulent tale of their two-year captivity, seen through the eyes of Siam, a Nootkan nobleman. " Based on a "brief memoir" by Jewitt. Insight into the history & traditions of probably the least-known of the North American Native American cultures. [1 copy available]
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FLYING WITH THE EAGLE, RACING THE GREAT BEAR: Stories From Native America
told by Joseph Bruchac. B&W illustrations by Murv Jacob. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1994 Troll Medallion Trade Paperback, first printing. Problem: shelf wear vertical crease back cover. Interior clean & tight. Content: Bruchac introduces his collection of male rites-of-passage stories by explaining that Native American cultures used stories both to instruct and to entertain. Because of the significance of the number four in many tribes, he's arranged the stories, which he's drawn from tales he shared with his sons, into four geographically organized sections, each containing four stories. Some are tales of courage, some are pourquoi tales, and some show the impact of disobedience or disrespect. The tales are easy to follow and to envision, but they can be understood and interpreted on many levels. Striking black-and-white illustrations, with decorated borders, introduce each of the sections, which begin with information about the significance of the tales to their tribes. Stories from the Iroquois, Cherokee, Caddo, Apache, Pueblo, Lakota, and others. [1 copy available]
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FOLKTALES OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
by Grammercy Publishing. B&W illustrations. Condition: Good+ 1997 Grammery Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Although the book has been gently pre-read, the problem is "moisture or humidity" - NOT liquid. Many of the pages show exposure to humidity (this IS Texas, after all). That, and the light tanning to page edges, haved put this book into the "good" category and not "very good." Content: Originally published in 1917 under the absolutely horrible title of The Indian Fairy Book - no wonder no one took credit for editing that book! There are 24 stories from the original legends. The stories are worth reading. The cover art is a painting by Thomas Moran: Cliffs of the Green River, 1874. [1 copy available]
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GERONIMO (War Chiefs series)
by Bill Dugan. Cover art by Jim Carson. Condition: NEW 1991 Harper Western paperback. No edition given. Content: Biographical novel which claims to be the basis for the movie "Geronimo." Geronimo knew how many white men wanted all Apaches--men, women, and children--dead. There was only one way to make sure that it didn't happen, and that was to strike first and to keep on striking until all the White Eyes were dead or had run for their lives. The mountains and deserts belonged to his people. The Mexicans had not been able to take them away, and the Americans were going to fall just as hard. That was why he had decided to leave the reservation. Now that he was out, he intended to stay out, until he had won or until he could breathe no more. [1 copy available]
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THE GREAT MYSTERY: Myths of Native America
by Neil Philip. B&W and sepia era photos by Edward Sheriff Curtis and other artists. Condition: NEW 2001 Clarion Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Content: This exhaustively researched book explores the similarities and differences among the tales told by various Native American cultural groups about the creation of the world, life, and death. Following an introductory chapter that describes the importance of lore and myths to our understanding of a cultural group, the text is organized by region. Within each area, the relationships among the tales of specific groups are discussed as well as the basic themes present in the stories of other peoples outside this area. Surprisingly, considering Philip's other work, the dry text reads more like a research report than an engaging narrative. Some of the retellings incorporated into it as illustrative examples reflect the work of an excellent storyteller while others lack this spark. Numerous sepia-toned archival photographs that loosely relate to the material discussed are found throughout the book. Their substantial captions contain a great deal of additional, explanatory material along with information on the source of the photograph, photographer, and date. The extensive bibliography is organized by geographical area. While not a title for students interested in leisure reading, it is a worthy book that will support research on Native American folklore. [1 copy available]
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GROWING UP NATIVE AMERICAN: An Anthology
edited by Patricia Riley. Foreword by Ines Hernandez. Condition: UNREAD 1993 William Morrow hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Tiny edgewear to DJ edges. Content: 22 Native American writers from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, write in fiction and essay about dhildhood. Authors include: Black Elk, Leslie Marmon Silko, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Linda Hogan, Basil Johnston, Luther Standing Bear, Ignatia Broker, Joseph Bruchac, Lame Deer, Ella Cara Deloria, Francis La Flesche, Eric Gansworth, Gery Hobson, Sara Winnemucca Hopkins, Lee Maracle, John Joseph Mathews, Simon Ortiz, Louis Owens, Vicki Sears, and Anna Lee Walters. [1 copy available]
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THE HEARTSONG OF CHARGING ELK
by James Welch. Condition: Gently pre-read 2000 Doubleday hard cover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: This book stands as another literary milestone for Welch. Here he illuminates the experience of an Oglala Sioux trapped in an alien culture, lacking the resources to emerge from a nightmare of dislocation, isolation and fear. When 23-year-old Charging Elk awakens in a French hospital in 1892, he has already witnessed the battle of Little Big Horn and the incarceration of his Lakota tribe in the Pine Ridge Reservation. Unable to bear the loss of his freedom, he joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, but debilitated by the flu in Marseilles, he fell from his horse and was injured. Unaccountably, the show has moved on without making provisions for Charging Elk to join them. The plight of this desperate young man, barely literate in English, unable to speak French or to read any language, confused by nearly every aspect of the white world and a visible outcast from its society, is the burden of this haunting novel, based on an actual incident. Fleeing the hospital, Charging Elk begins a painful emotional odyssey. He is arrested for vagabondage and, when released, a bureaucratic error forbids him to leave the country. The kindness of strangers rescues him several times, but his basic innocence of French culture and his instinctive reaction to what his tradition considers spiritual evil culminate in a tragic act. Welch's achievement here lies in his ability to convey the way a Lakota Indian would have interpreted the wasichu's world. Questions about the hallmarks of civilization and implicit observations about the ease of betrayal and the rarity of true Christian behavior are integral. This story has the potential of melodrama, but Welch tells it quietly, in clear, lucid prose suitable to the restraint of his hero. Redolently atmospheric of late-19th-century France, this is a stirring tale of a man's triumph over circumstances, a gripping story of solid literary merit and surprising emotional clout. [1 copy available]
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HEROES & HEROINES, MONSTERS & MAGIC: Native American Legends & Folktales
as told by Joseph Bruchac. Beautiful cover art by Tara Eoff. Interior illustrations by Daniel Burgevin. Condition: NEW 1998 Crossing Press Trade Paperback, 12th printing. Content: Bruchac (part Abenaki Indian) presents a melange of creation stories, "why" stories and stories of magic and monsters which offer something for almost any reader. Taken together, they give a picture of Indian life in the Eastern woodlands that provides an excellent complement to nonfiction works such as Sonia Bleeker's Indians of the Longhouse. The stories are well told and are enhanced by the full-page pencil drawings that precede each tale. The book fills a definite gap: there are several collections, such as Erdoes' Sound of Flutes and Other Indian Legends, which deal with Plains Indians' tales, but with the exception of the author's earlier Turkey Brothers and Other Tales; no other collection focuses on the Iroquois. This one is worth having both for entertainment and as a supplement to nonfiction for study on these tribes. [2 copies available]
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I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME
by Margaret Craven. B&W decorations. Condition: UNREAD 1976 Totem (Pan - London) paperback, second printing. Light shelf wear with light tanning to page edges. Content: A quiet, graceful testimonial to a vanishing way of life, this book was Margaret Craven's first book, written when she was sixty-nine. It tells of a young vicar named Mark, sent to a remote Kwakiutl village not knowing he has less than three years to live. In the village, Mark comes to understand the Kwakiutl Indians around him and sees how their traditions are being destroyed through the influence of white men. He watches the "English woman anthropologist" who comes to study the natives and insists upon calling the villagers "Quackadoodles;" he experiences the impact when the government declares it legal for Indians to buy liquor and when traders cheat the villagers out of their cultural treasures; he sees the children lose their ties with their families and heritage while living in residential schools among whites. In striking contrast to the avarice and arrogance of most whites is the selflessness of the Kwakiutls and the beauty of running salmon, tall trees, and tribal festivals. Mark becomes a part of the Kwakiutl world, learning its language and ways, until finally "Time had lost its contours. He seemed to see it as the raven or the bald eagle, flying high over the village, must see the part of the river that had passed the village, that had not yet reached the village, one and the same." Gentle, full of profound philosophy, this is a book that both calms and disquiets, saddens and exhilarates. A masterpiece! [1 copy available]
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INDIAN TALES
by Jaime de Angulo. B&W drawings and cover art by the Author. Condition: NEW 1997 North Point Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Originally read by the author over radio in California in 1949 (a year before his death), I am not sure when the stories were finally put into book form. Reviewer: "de Angulo was a truly Californian character -- wanderer, poet, wastrel, anthropologist, linguist, and wild man; and near the end of his life he started retelling to his children the stories he'd learned from years of field work (and just hanging around) with the Pit River Indians of northern California. Out of those stories came this enchanting book, a semi-novel for children and wise adults, a series of stories both hilarious and profound told and experienced during a family's journey to visit relatives by the ocean. De Angulo's luminous vision gives us as intimate a picture of a Native American vision of life." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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INDIAN STORIES FROM THE PUEBLOS
by Frank Applegate. B&W drawings from Pueblo paintings. Intro by Witter Bynner. Cover art is PuebloDwellings by Maxfield Parrish. Condition: NEW 1994 Applewood Books paperback, no printing given. Tiny edgewear. Content: This book is a combination of tales of early Pueblo days and stories from 1929, when the book was first published. Frank Applegate was a New Mexico artist who lived among the Pueblo Indians. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SUN: Stories and Poems
by N. Scott Momaday. 60 great B&W illustrations (line drawings) by Author. Condition: NEW 1993 St. Martin's Press Trade Paperback, third printing. Content: The Pulitzer Prize-winner presents a luminous collection that reflects the traditions of the Native American past. This work includes 56 poems, 16 legends about great tribal shields, a section on Billy the Kid - an area of intense interest for Momaday, evidently. See his The Ancient Child for more BTK. [1 copy available]
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IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SUN: Stories and Poems
by N. Scott Momaday. 60 great B&W illustrations (line drawings) by Author. Condition: NEW 1992 St. Martin's Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: The Pulitzer Prize-winner presents a luminous collection that reflects the traditions of the Native American past. This work includes 56 poems, 16 legends about great tribal shields, a section on Billy the Kid - an area of intense interest for Momaday, evidently. See his The Ancient Child for more BTK. [1 copy available]
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LIGHT A DISTANT FIRE
by Lucia St. Clair Robson (Ride the Wind). Beautiful wrap-around cover art by Judith York. Condition: UNREAD 1988 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edgewear with light tanning to page edges. Content: Robson powerfully recreates the mid-19th century Seminole Indian Wars and the life of Osceola, who courageously led his people against an unjust U.S. government. Robson draws the reader into her story gradually with a portrait of Osceola's youth and family, which includes a couple of wives and daughters and a feisty grandmother named Fighting in a Line. The characters are authentic and substantial, and the plot, though loosely woven and slow moving at times, supplies the requisite love, struggle, danger and betrayal. The novel picks up speed when Robson introduces Lt. John Goode, a young West Point graduate. She deftly builds a relationship between Goode and Osceola, demonstrating Goode's initial perception of the Indians as savages, his growing admiration for them and his falling in love with and marrying a Seminole woman. By volunteering for Indian raids, the Lieutenant manages to steer the militiamen away from Osceola and his family. Goode's divided loyalties ultimately bring tragedy to Osceola, but the personal bond triumphs over political enmity. Robson's clear sympathy for the Seminole Indians does not prevent her from creating fictional portraits that illuminate the complexities on both sides. [2 copies available]
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LINEAGE: A Trail of Shaman
by Annie Kochert. Sheila Somerville cover art.. Condition: NEW 2001 Spirits Talking Press Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Content: NEW 2001 Spirits Talking Press Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. CONTENT: An 'early man' narrative linked to the Kennewick Man, the 9,300 - 9,700 year old skeleton found in the Columbia River (WA State) in 1996. The foreward informs the reader of the connection between the Kennewick Man, the Ainu Peoples and the author's sequels...all based on archaeological and anthropological evidence. The clear-cut glossary also informs the reader of facts woven into the story. The book is entertaining as well as educational. Froom, the Kennewick Man, lived only 50 years, yet his bones lasted for thousands--long enough to reveal his ancestry to a world much different than his. Before setting foot on the American Continent, he belonged to a people with a life, a culture and a past. And his past proved dark and shady. Misled by the young shaman's spirit helper, Froom sets out to destroy the boy who he believes defiled the spirits and will soon cause the extinction of the clan. Neat historical fiction. (See Ancient Encounters in the North America Ancient History section.) [1 copy available]
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LITERATURE BY AND ABOUT THE AMERICAN INDIAN: An Annotated Bibliography for Junior and Senior High School Students
by Anna Lee Stensland. B&W drawings. Condition: Unread 1974 National Council of Teachers of English Trade Paperback, 3rd printing. Cover has small but ugly tag removal mark - see graphic. Content: The book is broken down into categories: Myth, Legend, Poetry, Fiction, History, Anthropology, Archaeology, etc. Each section's entries are alphabetical by author with a description of the work and a small review. There was a later printing, c. 1979, but this printing has its value. The entries range from the well-known & popular to the obscure and rare. Essential. [1 copy available]
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LONG LANCE
by Sylvester Long (Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance) Patti Henson Cover Art. Condition: NEW 1998 Banner Boons/Univ. Of Mississippi Press Trade Paperbck, first thus, first printing. Content: OK, so it turns out that Sylvester Long (this was originally published as an autobiography) was a fake. But that does not diminish the value of this book as very good historical fiction. "Originally published in 1928, and was ascribed to be an autobiographical story of the Blackfoot Indians' last days of freedom, But the story was a fabrication and Chief Long Lance was a hoax. These tales came from the imagination of a mixed race writer and actor (part white, part black, part Cherokee) from North Carolina. His fame as an author eventually brought him exposure as a fraud and he committed suicide in California. The book, however, remains a classic." [2 copies available]
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MOUNTAIN WINDSONG: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
by Robert J. Conley. Nice cover art, but no credit given. Condition: Very Good 1992 University of Oklahoma Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Interior clean and tight. Although it appears unread, I believe it has been gently pre-read. Light edgewear to cover corners & 2 rubbings along front hinge. Nice but not crisp. Content: Review by Principal Chief, Wilma Mankiller: "At last a Cherokee love story about two ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary period of time. In telling the love story of Oconeechee, Conley takes the reader on a journey that allows one to feel the effects of the Trail of Tears on individual people and their families while weaving in solid historical information about all the external forces which forever changed the Cherokee Nation. [the book] evokes deep feelings and thoughtful relfection. It is a poignant story, powerful and disturbing." [1 copy available]
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THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BLACKFOOT INDIANS
compiled and translated by Clark Wissler and D. C. Duvall. Introduction by Alice Beck Kehoe. B&W photos. Condition: NEW 1995 University of Nebraska Trade Paperback, third printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Originally published in 1908 by the American Museum of Natural History, this book introduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. Included are tales with ritualistic origins emphasizing the prototypical Beaver-Medicine and the roles played by Elk-Woman and Otter-Woman, and a presentation of Star Myths, which reveal the astronomical knowledge of the Blackfoot Indians. Narratives about Raven, Grasshopper, and Whirlwind-Boy account for conditions in humanity and nature. Many of the stories in the concluding group-like "The Lost Children" and "The Ghost-Woman"-were tales told to Blackfoot children. Clark Wissler notes that these narratives were collected very early in the twentieth century from the Piegans in Montana and from the North Piegans, Bloods, and Northern Blackfoot in Canada. Most were translated by D. C. Duvall and revised for this book by Wissler. Clark Wissler (1870-1947) was curator at the American Museum of Natural History and chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. [2 copies available]
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THE MYTHOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA
by John Bierhorst. B&W photos, maps, and drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW updated 2001 Oxford University Press Tade Paperback, first printing. Perfect condition. Content: In this wide-ranging volume, John Bierhorst carefully delineates eleven mythological regions--from the Arctic to the Southwest and from California to the East Coast--presenting the gods, heroes, and primary myths of each area. First published in 1985, this indispensable guide has been updated to reflect the latest scholarship in Native studies. In a new Afterword, Bierhorst describes the recent impact of ancient myths in the arena of American Indian affairs and shows how Native Americans have successfully used mythology as oral evidence to reclaim land rights and to repatriate grave goods. Citing specific cases, he shows how new legislation and changing attitudes "have provided a basis for bringing myth to the negotiating table and into the courtroom." Detailed maps show tribal locations and the distribution of key stories. Indian artworks illustrate the texts and samples of differing narrative styles add enrichment, as some of the world's purest and most powerful myths are made more accessible--and more meaningful--than ever before. New Afterword by author. [2 copies available]
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THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA
by George A. Dorsey. Bert Seabourn cover art. Condition: NEW 1995 University of Oklahoma Press Trade Paperback, first thus, first printing. Content: First published in 1904, George A. Dorsey's Mythology of the Wichita is a rich collection of American Indian folklore. With the help of a Wichita interpreter, Dorsey gathered sixty tales from the Wichitas living in Oklahoma and arranged them according to the first period, the creation; the second period, transformation; and the third period, the present. Included are tales of the First Creation, the Great-South-Star (Protector of Warriors), the Turtle's War Party, the Deluge and the Repeopling of the Earth, and numerous Coyote-trickster stories. For the Wichitas, tale-telling was of great instructional value for the young. The tales taught that bravery and greatness depended upon individual effort, no matter how low or mean might have been the individual's origin, and at the same time, that there might descend upon the child the same longevity and good fortune possessed by the hero of the tale. [1 copy available]
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MYTHS & LEGENDS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
by Lewis Spence. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read, if at all, 2004 CRW Publishing (London) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Shelf wear in the form of edgewear to DJ with small "repaired" cut and wrinkle bottom front DJ panel. Interior clean & tight. Gilt edges top. Content: This book has been reprinted many times since the first publication c. 1914. This edition contains 20 new B&W photos and a new introduction by Ned Halley. Chapters: Divisions, Customs, and History of the Race; The Mythologies of the North American Indians; Algonquian Myths and Legends; Iroquois Myths and Legends; Sioux Myths and Legends; Myths and Legends of the Pawnees; Myths and Legends of the Northern and Northwestern Indians; Bibliography. [1 copy available]
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MYTHS & LEGENDS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
by Lewis Spence. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2004 CRW Publishing (London) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Gilt edges top. Content: This book has been reprinted many times since the first publication c. 1914. This edition contains 20 new B&W photos and a new introduction by Ned Halley. Chapters: Divisions, Customs, and History of the Race; The Mythologies of the North American Indians; Algonquian Myths and Legends; Iroquois Myths and Legends; Sioux Myths and Legends; Myths and Legends of the Pawnees; Myths and Legends of the Northern and Northwestern Indians; Bibliography. [1 copy available]
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NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN DESIGNS for Artists and Craftspeople
by Eva Wilson. B&W design patterns. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1984 Dover large coftcover. Problem: bottom edge has seen some moisture - no stain, just "wirnkled" - and only on the bottom edge. Content: 364 designs with notes on tribal affiliation and how the design was originally used. Neat book - wrinkle and all. [1 copy available]
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THE ONEIDA CREATION STORY (Bilingual)
by Demus Elm and Harvey Antone (Translated & Edited By Floyd G. Lounsbury & Bryan Gick). Beautful Ernest Smith (Seneca) painting - a rendition of the Iroquois creation titled "Sky Woman." Condition: NEW 2000 University of Nebraska Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: First told to Lounsbury in 1971 by Demus Elm. This is the first time that the Oneida Creation Story, perhaps the most completely documented representation of human and world origins in North America, has been simultaneously reproduced in English and the Oneida language. This account is one of a number of versions in which the basic ancient and traditional elements of this tale are preserved. Key elements of Iroquoian cosmology include the Sky-World, the fall of Sky-Woman and her landing on Turtle's back, the origins of humankind and society, and the moral battles between the brother Twins. The book's history of the research on the Oneida Creation Story, which documents temporal changes in format and plot, is highly useful, and the editors include three lexicons organized by phrase, word, and stem. An appendix provides two additional early English versions of the Oneida text. Lounsbury and Gick (linguistics, Univ. of British Columbia) have done a great service to Oneida linguistic studies, the discipline of linguistics, and, most importantly, the efforts to preserve the Oneida language. [1 copy available]
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THE PAWENEE MYTHOLOGY (Sources of American Indian Oral Literature series)
by George Dorsey. Beautiful cover art by Paul Pletka - "Star Lookers." Condition: NEW 1997 Univ. of Nebraska Bison Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: The Pawnee Mythology, originally published in 1906, preserves 148 tales of the Pawnee Indians, who farmed and hunted and lived in earth-covered lodges along the Platte River in Nebraska. The stories, collected from surviving members of four bands—Skidi, Pitahauirat, Kitkehahki, and Chaui— were generally told during intermissions of sacred ceremonies. Many were accompanied by music. George A. Dorsey (1868 - 1931) recorded these Pawnee myths early in the twentieth century after the tribe’s traumatic removal from their ancestral homeland to Oklahoma. He included stories of instruction concerning supernatural beings, the importance of revering such gifts as the buffalo and corn, and the results of violating nature. Hero tales, forming another group, usually centered on a poor boy who overcame all odds to benefit the tribe. Other tales invited good fortune, recognized wonderful beings like the witch women and spider women, and explained the origin of medicine powers. Coyote tales were meant to amuse while teaching ethics. [2 copies available]
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PLAINS INDIAN MYTHOLOGY
by Alice Marriott & Carol K. Rachlin. Condition: NEW 1985 Meridian Trade Paperback editoin, 5th printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Comanche, Pawnee, Kiowa, Osage, Wichita, Cheyenne, Nez Perce, Crow, Arapaho, Apache, Shoshoni, Assinibone - together they repesent the major tribes of the Plains Indians, a hunter-warrior society of nomads who prospered and expanded their territory from the 1700s through the great buffalo slaughtr of the late 1800s. Collected here in print for the firt time, their legends and folk tales - from cration myths to the personal story of a Vietnam veteran - are as fascinting and importnat as those of any native culture ever recorded. Great selection, but if ou are interested in Comanche folklore, don't bother - there's only 1 Comanche story here. [1 copy available]
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PLAINS INDIAN MYTHOLOGY
by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin. Condition: UNREAD 1977 Mentor paperback, first thus, first printing. Interior clean & tight with light tanning to page edges and white cover edges. Tiny edgewear. Pale diagonal crease top back cover corner. Content: This collection is divided into 4 major parts: the great myths (stories of Creation); "little stories" (teach manners, behavior and ethics); invasion and horseback days (18th and early 19th century); and "today's stories" (personal folklore and the tale of a long-lost sacred hymn given back to a Vietnam vet in a dresm). [1 copy available]
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THE RETURN OF PAHANA: A Hopi Myth
by Robert Boissiere. Suzanne de Veuve (cover art) & Angela Werneke (interior illustrations). Condition: UNREAD 1990 Bear & Company (Santa Fe) Trade Paperback first printing. Tiny peeling top spine. Great B&W drawings illustrate. Content: Boissiere explores the myth of a supernatural archetype who returns to help humanity and restore harmony to Earth in times of crisis. Focusing on the Hopi Indians of Arizona, who believe that Pahana's return is imminent, he also traces the idea of the return in Mayan, Sumerian, Egyptian, and Christian religion and teachings. [1 copy available]
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SCARLET FEATHER (Historical Fiction)
by Joan Grant. Condition: Very Good, gently pre-read 1990 Ariel Trade Paperback, first printing. Very pale spine crease with no loss of interior tightness. Nice copy. Content: I'm not sure what to make of this historical novel, so I'll give you the facts and let you decide. Joan Grant authored a set of 7 remarkable novels, in which she recaptures the drama and setting of one of her own previous lives. Called "far memory" novels, these 7 books offer tremendous insight into the nature of reincarnation, spiritual development, and psychic talents. This book: Piyanah is a girl born into an American Indian tribe that has lost its true heritage and become the prey of prejudice and superstition. She grows up with her cousin Raki as outsiders to the tribe, because her mother refuses to accept the restrictions of tradition. But, in truth, she is the daughter of the chief, and once her mother dies, Piyamah and Raki are named to succeed her father and lead the tribe to a new future. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SMOKE SIGNALS: A Screenplay
by Sherman Alexie. Movie still cover & B&W movie stills throughout. Condition: NEW 1998 Hyperion Trade Paperback, 6th printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: Set in Arizona, this is the story of two Coeur d"Alene Indian boys on a journey. Victor is the stoic, handsome son of an alcoholic father who has abandoned his family. Thomas is a gregarious, goofy young man who lost both his parents in a fire at a very young age. Through storytelling, Thomas makes every effort to connect with the people around him; Victor, in contrast, uses his quiet countenance to gain strength and confidence. When Victor's estranged father dies, the two men embark on an adventure to Phoenix to collect the ashes. Along the way, Smoke Signals illustrates the ties that bind these two very different young men and embraces the lessons they learn from each other. Reviewer: "For screenwriters, it reveals how a screenplay is transformed in the process of making a movie, in this case by the director, the performers, Miramax's Harvey Weinstein, preview audiences, and in particular the editor. Scenes were shifted or eliminated, and dialogue has been added to patch over some of these structural changes. The result is arguably a very different film from the one Alexie originally wrote. The 1998 movie won the Audience Award and the Filmmaker's Tropy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival - but most importantly, it brought us Adam Beach. The screen play was written by Alexie and was directed by Chris Eyre. It starred Adam Beach, of course, the under-appreciated Evan Adams, Irene Beddard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal, Michelle St. John, and Elaine Miles. The screenplay is taken from Alexie's book of short stories, The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. [1 copy available]
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SUN DANCER: A Novel
by David London. Condition: NEW 1998 Bison Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Taking an actual historical event--the 1971 occupation of Mount Rushmore by 20 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM)--and moving it to the present day, David London has created a bleak and mystical first novel. The AIM members were protesting the U.S. Government's violations of the 1868 Laramie Treaty, which granted the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Sioux, but their brave, foolhardy protest was quickly suppressed by the federal government. Narrator Joey Moves Camp has doubts about the old ways, although he speaks Lakota and pierced his flesh and did the sun dance before leaving for his tour in Vietnam. When Joey's mother dies, Joey watches his half-brother, Clement Blue Chest, begin a spiritual transformation from bitter, self-pitying drunk to tribal holy man. Joey clarifies his own beliefs as well, as he helps Clem lead their neighbors to reclaim the "sacred" Black Hills by force, including an occupation of Mt. Rushmore, and to reveal their history of betrayal and injustice to the American people. London writes with authority and vividness of various Lakota Sioux ceremonies and rituals. He's not shy about taking sides, but if his portrayals of the novel's villains - FBI agents, meddling missionaries and racist cattlemen - tend toward caricature, his look at the assortment of characters, factions and philosophies on the local reservation is convincingly nuanced. Despite occasional preachiness, this is an intelligent, sure-handed debut, told with passion and skill. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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TECUMSEH! (A Play)
by Alan W. Eckert.Illustrations by Stage Setup Drawing. Condition: Very Good +. 1974 Little, Brown & Co. Trade Paperback. UNREAD, however there is a pale spine crease but not all the way down the spine, diagonal crease upper back cover. Interior very clean & tight. Content: Tecumseh! is a play in two acts of the life of the famous Shawnee warrior, Tecumseh and depicts his nearly successful efforts to draw all the tribes into a union to oppose and oust encroaching whites, his betrayal by his brother, which thwarted the plan and finally his death in the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812. Interesting! [1 copy available]
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TOUCHING THE FIRE; Buffalo Dancers, The Sky Bundle, And Other Tales
by Roger Welsch. B&W decorations. Cover photo by Chester Peterson, Jr. Condition: NEW 1997 Bison Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Although folklorist Welsch is not Native American, he is an adopted member of the Omaha tribe, and here relates the saga of the Turtle Creek band of the fictional Nehawkas and their most sacred object: the Sky Bundle, a medicine pouch containing powerful talismans. The interlinked stories appear in reverse chronological order, beginning in 2001, the year the Sky Bundle was returned to the Nehawkas from a Boston museum, and moving back to the tribe's origins somewhere in the mists of history. The hand of Coyote, the old trickster, can be seen at work in the narrative. [1 copy available]
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TOUCHWOOD: A Collection of Ojibway Prose
edited by Gerald Vizenor. Cover art by David Bradley. B&W interior illustrations from the Ojibway Sacred Scrolls. Condition: UNREAD 1994 New Rivers Press Trade Paperback, no printing given. Short crease bottom front cover edge & tiny edge wear. Interior perfect. Content: Vizenor presents works by Ojibway (also known as Chippewa) writers past and present. William Warren's dull 19th century "History of the Ojibway Nation" is followed by George Copway's writings of the same period, also influenced by a Christian outlook, but Copway's contribution is much livelier and conveys a sense of traditional Ojibway tales and culture. John Rogers's account of returning to his mother's wigwam after six years in a mission school, though warm and loving, exposes a callous federal government policy that often resulted in severed ties in Indian families. An excerpt from Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine comes as a shock after the sedate prose of a century ago. In her story about a young man's attempt to bring his senile grandfather back to his senses, we have a glimpse of contemporary Ojibway conditions. Vizenor's own two stories juxtapose Ojibway life in the 19th century with today. Jim Northrup's 14 tales are mostly about Luke Warmwater's escapades at a mission school, at an Indian conference, on a drunk and in jail. B. Wallace's "Maybe," which describes a bogus department founded by Indian university students, highlights the chasm between white academia and Ojibway "tricksterism." [1 copy available]
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THE VILLAGE OF THE BLUE STONE (Story of the Anasazi)
by Stephen Trimble. Illustrations by Jennifer Owings Dewey and Deborah Reade. Condition: UNREAD 1990 Macmillan hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), third printing. Tiny edgewear to DJ top edge. Interior perfect. Beautiful wrap-around cover art and the B&W interior drawings remind one of dig drawings. Content: Drawing from customs observed in modern Indian pueblos as well as from information discovered in archaeological finds, Trimble creates a fictionalized account of life in an imaginary Anasazi Indian village of B.C.E. 1100. The book begins with a short report of a 1892 discovery in Mesa Verde, Colorado, of the ruins of an Anasazi stone village under the rim of a cliff. The main section of the book, illustrated with softly shaded black-and-white pencil drawings, deals with the lives of the 25 tribal members who might have lived in such a village. Readers observe weaving, storytelling, pottery making, harvesting, hunting, and religious ceremonies. In the afterword, a fictitious team of modern archaeologists examine the remains of the village. This is a great little book, BUT, I don't think it is for ages 9 - 12 (as recommended by the publisher) as I believe it requires some knowledge of the subject matter to be thoroughly appreciated. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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VOICES OF THE WINDS: Native American Legends
by Margot Edmonds and Ella E. Clark. B&W illustrations by Molly Braun. Condition: Very Good +, gently pre-read 1989 Facts On File (NY) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). Content: 130 Native American legends and lore presented by region: Northwest, Southwest, the Southeast, etc. Comprehensive. [1 copy available]
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WHEN LEGENDS DIE
by Hal Borland. Condition: NEW 2001 paperback, reprint. Content: When his father killed another brave, Thomas Black Bull and his parents sought refuge in the wilderness. There they took up life as it had been in the old days, hunting and fishing, battling for survival. But an accident claimed the father's life and the grieving mother died shortly afterward. Left alone, the young Indian boy vowed never to retum to the white man's world, to the alien laws that had condemned his father. This is a beautiful story geared to Young Adults. [1 copy available]
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WHY THE NORTH STAR STANDS STILL And Other Indian Legends
by William R. Palmer. B&W Illustrations by Eugene Palmer and Ursula Koerig. Condition: Very Good 1978 Zion Natural History Assn. (Zion National Park) Trade Paperback, no edition given. Interior clean & tight with warm & appropriate illustrations; however, there is a diagonal crease bottom front cover tip and upper back cover corner. Nice copy. Content: These are the ancient legends of the Pahute (Piaute or Paiute) Indians of Utah - creation tales to trickster stories. Great selection. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ZUNI FOLK TALES
by Frank Hamilton Cushing. Foreword by John Wesley Powell. Introduction by Mary Austin. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 1988 University of Arizona Trade Paperback, second printing. Tiny edgewear but has a shelfwear diagonal crease bottom front cover. Name inside front cover. B&W photo section. Content: Originally published in 1901 after Cushing's death in 1900. This book contains the most complete folklore and religious stories of the Zuni ever published. A true American West classic. [2 copies available]
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