Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1897. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. Beige illustrated cloth. No jacket. 139 pp., plus ads in the rear. A collection of Native American folk tales and legends, gathered from the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac tribes. This includes creation myths, the fight of the witches, the spirit of... More
No Place: National Museum of Canada, Publisher. Wraps. No place or date. Yellow orange wraps. 51 pp. Black and white photos, with a color frontis, throughout. A history and study of sashes and other woven articles traded among early Canadian settlers and trappers and Native American Indians in the area... More
Media, PA: Printed for Private Distribution, 1898. Wraps. Printed wraps. 24 pp. A survey of the author's own writings and research into the field of Native American linguistics, with a list of articles previously written and some discussion of his findings etc. Daniel Brinton was an American archaeologist and ethnologist... More
Berkeley, CA: Indigena, Publisher, 1976. Tabloid. Side folding newspaper format. 24 pp. Black and white photos throughout. An issue of this newspaper devoted to topics and issues relating to various indigenous Native American Indian tribes and peoples in North and South America. This includes tribes in the United States and... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Cloth. 631 pp. A few black and white photos present. A detailed and exhaustive account of Native American Indians from Appalachia to the Pacific, charting their history from their arrival thousands of years ago to the beginning of the 19th century, focusing on conflict... More
New York: The Macmillan Company/Collier Macmillan, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Stated first printing. Yellow/beige cloth in unclipped jacket. London given as place on the title page, although dust jacket and copyright page give New York as location place for the publisher. 279 pages. The author's first book, depicting both the... More
No Place: No Publisher. Pamphlet. No publisher or place. 1872. Presumed published by the US government in Washington, DC. Pamphlet, disbound from a larger work. 20, 10 pp. Two parts of this report chronicling a gunfight and minor uprising of Cherokee Indians in western Arkansas, surrounding the arrest and subsequent... More
No Place: No Publisher. Pamphlet. No publisher or place, presumed the Government Printing Office in Washington DC, in 1864. Four page pamphlet, disbound from a large volume. A short collection of letters regarding land sales conducted by the Stockbridge Indians of Wisconsin, considering treaty obligations and whether any sales were... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Stated first edition. Light green cloth. No jacket. 286 pp. Black and white illustrations, as well as a color frontis, by Carl Moon. A work for a juvenile audience following the adventures of two Native American Indian children and their... More
Brantford, Ontario: Woodland Cultural Centre, 1989. Soft Cover. 51 pp. With black and white photos throughout. A guide to an exhibition of eleven wampum belts that had been repatriated to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy in 1988. Using this event, this work provides a history of the belts, their significance... More
Philadelphia: Office of the Indian Rights Association, Publisher, 1896. Hard Cover. Printed wraps mounted on card stock covers. 97 pp. A report discussing the opinions and actions of the Indian Rights Association, including discussion of two scandals in which congress sought to steal money from Native American tribes. Also present... More
Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen, Printer, 1851. Pamphlet. Pamphlet, lacking any wraps that may have been issued. 146 pp, with a few illustrations. A report detailing items in the state of New York's natural history, historical and antiquarian collection, listing and briefly describing new items added (including plants, animals, minerals, and... More
Washington DC: No Publisher, 1883. Disbound. Full title: . Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting A letter of the 16th instant from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, respecting the large sums annually expended for attorneys' fees by different Indian tribes, recommending the appointment of an officer for that... More
No Place: No Publisher. Disbound. No publisher, place or date. Presumed US government, Washington DC: 1868. Pamphlet, single sheet (2 pp.). Disbound from a larger work. A brief letter recommending that the 400 Native American Indians living on Smith River farm in California on land rented by the government as... More
Washington DC: No Publisher, 1883. Disbound. Full title: Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting A communication from the Secretary of War in relation to the subject of invasion of Indian Territory, urging an amendment to section 2148 Revised Statutes of imprisonment for unlawful entry upon Indian lands... More
No Place: No Publisher, 1807. Pamphlet. No publisher, place or date. (Perhaps Amherst or Portsmouth, NH): 1807. Pamphlet, single stitched in the center left margin. Lacking any wraps that were issued. Pagination runs 161-196. A single issue of this magazine devoted primarily to religious items. This number features several letters... More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Trade Paperback. 268 pages including index. An interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old, studying pre-Enlightenment methods used by Europeans to describe the American Indians and their society, as found in four groups of writers on Indian culture. GOOD+ condition... More
No Place: Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians, Publisher. Pamphlet. No place or date, perhaps circa 1915. Side stapled pamphlet. Pagination runs 38-49. Offprint from an issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians. Parker argues for equal rights and treatment for Native American Indians... More
Chicago: Jameson and Morse, 1879. Wraps. Printed wraps. With a few illustrations within. A single issue of this journal, featuring several articles on Native Americans. Included are: The Emblematic mounds of Wisconsin; early Indian migration in Ohio; a short article on the Utes of Colorado; Indian music, with a page... More
No Place: No Publisher, 1977. Wraps. No publisher or place. 1977. Wraps, with a black plastic comb binding. 104 pp. A few maps and illustrations throughout. A history of Native American Indians in New Hampshire and in the region around the city of Manchester. This includes sections on the Smyth-Neville... More
Angel Fire, NM: Rainbow Light and Company, Publisher, 1998. Trade Paperback. Third printing. Trade paperback. Signed, with a dedication/inscription, by the author on the title page. 289 pp. A few illustrations present. A work relating Native American Indian teachings and wisdom based around the Peace Shield, reflecting on traditional Native... More
Dansville, NY: F.A. Owens Publishing Company, 1909. Original Wraps. Original wraps. 31pp. With 4 black and white photos within, depicting the Native American Thundercloud, as well as a photo of several Native American children and one of three unidentified Native American men. Front cover depicts a Native American in front... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Company, 1851. Cloth. Folio. Blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind. Folio. 568 pp. 76 illustrated plates, including many in color. All present as called for. Appears SIGNED with an inscription, by Henry Schoolcraft on the inside front cover, although no provenance can be established (it... More
Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1954. Wraps. 175 pages plus ads. A look at judicial procedures and case law as practiced by the Zuni tribe of Native Americans, conducted primarily during the year 1952. VERY GOOD condition. Light fading and creasing to the covers. Very minor soiling. Interior clean and solid. More
Philadelphia: Indian Rights Association, 1914. Pamphlet. Pamphlet. 4 pages. A short work taking to task the investigation into Indian affairs by a Dr. J.K. Dixon, hired by a Senate commission. This pamphlet refutes his findings, citing his brief and cursory visits to various reservations and noting the lack of any... More
