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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1998). First Edition.
Seller ID: vas5271
Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. wrappers), 343 pp. Fine. From lower cover: Beyond the Four Corners of the World is the story of Ella Bedonie, a remarkable Navajo woman struggling to find her place in the world. We follow her from her childhood tending sheep in the high desert canyons of the Navajo reservation to the long, frightening ride to boarding school, and on into the white man's world and a college degree. We meet her parents and grandparents, who live and worship their gods much as their ancestors have done for centuries. We meet her husband and her children, whose liv... View More...
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Los Angeles, CA: Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc., 1949. First Edition.
Seller ID: ess4915
Signed by the Author. Octavo, red leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, 87 pp. Fine; in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From Introduction: The Inside Story of the dastardly murder at old Fort Robinson, Nebraska, September 5, 1877, of Crazy Horse, the great fighting chief of the Sioux nation, is here given in full detail by military men who were present on that tragic occasion. It adds one more blot to the outrageous treatment of the American Indian at the hands of the political parasites who composed the Indian ring at Washington. General Jesse M. Lee... View More...
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Morrisania, N.Y.: [By the Author], 1870. First Edition.
Seller ID: 7430fd
Presentation copy, signed by the author. Quarto, original wrappers, double-columned, 13 pp. From the Prefatory Note: The following very interesting paper, on the National Legend of the Chahta-Muskokee tribe of Indians, was written for The Historical Magazine, and published in a number of that work, for February, 1870. A small edition, in this form, has been printed for private circulation among those friends of the Author and the Publisher who take an interest in the subject to which it relates. Worn, chipped along fore edge. View More...
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New York: N. D. C. Hodges, Publishers, 1891.
Seller ID: 9861gcs
Octavo, olive green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xvi + 392 pp. Good+, with speckling and light chipping to tip of spine. From Preface: So far as I know, this is the first attempt at a systematic classification of the whole American race on the basis of language. I do not overlook Dr. Latham's meritorious effort nearly forty years ago; but the deficiency of material at that time obliged him to depart from the linguistic scheme and accept other guides. While not depreciating the value of physical data, of culture and traditional history, I have constantly placed these subordinate to rel... View More...
Signed & Inscribed by the Author, ÒFor Don.Ó Octavo, grey cloth (hardcover), xiv, 317 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Abenaki storyteller Joseph Bruchac has fashioned a compelling novel from the authentic oral traditions of his people. He deftly blends historical facts and native myths to create a story that is as powerful as any ever told, perhaps even more so because it comes from the heart of the people whose history goes back to a time before memory... View More...
First Edition, First Printing, As Stated. Tall, square octavo, gold cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, blind-stamped decoration to covers, glossy pages, 256 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkening). B & w photos, plates. Contents: Introduction; The First Inhabitants; The Village Artists; The Enduring Villages; The Olmecs; Mezcala; The Formative Age; Teotihuacan; The Zapotecs; Veracruz: Remojadas; Veracruz: Yokes, Hachas and Palmas; The Maya; The Huaxtecs; The Fall of the Theocracies; The LAst Outposts; The Toltecs; The Post-Classic Maya; The Mixtec Renaissance; The Invaders; The Az... View More...
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Columbia, SC: South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, The U niversity of South Carolina, (1989).
Seller ID: els4793
First Edition, First Printing, Stated. Quarto, softbound (stiff, slick, white wrappers), xx + 275 pp. Former-owner signature and stamp; otherwise, Fine. Illustrated with figures and tables. Chapters include: South Carolina Human Remains as an Archaeological Resource: An Update; The Earliest South Carolinians; Pattern and Process in the Middle Archaic Period of South Carolina; An Archaeological Overview of the South Carolina Woodland Period: It's the Same Old Riddle; Sea Level Change, Estuarine Development and Temporal Variability in Woodland Period Subsistence-Settlement Patterning on t... View More...
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Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.
Seller ID: 8565bd
Octavo, tan cloth (hardcover), xvi, 399 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket; As New, in original shrinkwrap. From lower coveR: ÒAn extraordinary scholarly work... [that] will immediately make everything else written about the Timucua and the Spanish mission system in La Florida out-of-date. This will be the basic scholarly reference for students of Florida hsitory and historical archaeology.Ó -- Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Museum of Natural History. ÒAn intricate and detailed portrait of the Timucua Indians during the European colnial era... will undoubtedly stand as the principal source regar... View More...
Square quarto, softbound, full-color illus. wrappers, viii, 189 pp. Near-Fine, with slight edgewear. Illus. with full-color photos. Contents: Getting Started; Pottery Country; What to Look for in a Pot; Prehistoric Pottery; Modern Pottery; Collections; Afterword; Museums & Bibliography; Index. View More...
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Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1998. First Edition.
Seller ID: 335497qs
Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiii + 350 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing; in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: This newly researched and synthesized history of the Cherokees places special emphasis on the tribe's leaders and their agony in dealing with England, the Colonies, and the United States. Stanley W. hoig traces the demise of the Cherokees' historic homeland in the American South, their removal over the Trail of Tears to present-day Oklahoma, the great trauma they suffered from the Civil War, the final destruction of their tribal autonomy by the United States... View More...
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Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (2000). A Florida Sand Dollar Book.
Seller ID: 50415bd
Octavo, paperbound (slick, illustrated, red and gold wrappers), 166 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: Horn's moving essays afford a window on the way Native American spirituality looks as it is lived. A generous, searching writer, Horn never descends to polemic to make his nonetheless sharp points about the submersion of native or Ôprimal' values in ones called civilized. Horn poignantly shows how difficult but rewarding it is to live, moment by shining moment, ina primal relationship with the world. View More...
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Columbia, SC: Division of Advanced Studies and Research, Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, 1976.
Seller ID: els4794
Quarto, paperbound (stiff orange wrappers), xviii + 211 pp. Very Good, with former-owner stamp and wear to spine. From Management Summary: The projected Interstate 77 route between Columbia and Rock Hill, South Carolina is one of the last remaining Interstate routes to be built in South Carolina. In the fall and winter of 1975-76, John H. House and David L. Ballenger of the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina conducted a survey of the archeological resources in the portion of the I-77 corridor between Blythewood and Rock Hill. This portion of the route i... View More...
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San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, [1999].
Seller ID: 70634s
Octavo, black cloth & red boards, (hardcover), gilt letters, 272 pp. Fine (As New), in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. ÒRobert Hunter's courageous activism as a founder of the Greenpeace movement (and the man behind the rainbow warrior theme) often placed him shoulder-to-shoulder with Native peoples fighting the same good fight on behalf of Mother Earth. In Red Blood, this straight-talking storyteller takes readers along for a wild ride as he recounts some of his most dramatic escapades in the fight for social and environmental justice. View More...
Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. green wrappers), 457 pp. Fine. From lower cover: In The Founders of America, Mr. Jennings describes the experience of the first pioneers of the North American continent, who migrated from Siberia across what is now Beringia -- nomadic people who traveled over the continents and islands of the Americas, establishing networks of trails and trade and adapting the land to human purposes. He tells of the rise of imperial city states in Mexico and PEru, and of the extension of cultures from Mexico into North America; he describes the multitude of cultu... View More...
