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Garden City NY.: Curtis, Modern Library Editions by arr. w/ Doubleday., 1967. Presumed 1st Curtis. No print line. "Complete and Unabridged".. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Spine creasing; spine tilt. Age-toning. Unmarked interior.. 1 First edition. Mass-market (rack) paperback. Cover sepia photo, Smithsonian archives photo. 237 p. Historical account of the 9-day siege at Beecher Island, Colorado Territory, 1868, by Plains Indians, of Major George Forsyth's Scouts. Author Dee Brown based this account on interviews of survivors of both sides, and official war department records. There were hostile bands of Cheyennes and Sioux in the region of Fort Wallace and the 7th Cavalry.

Chicago.: Childrens Press / Grosset & Dunlap., 1962. First edition. No print line.. Hard cover. Very good in fair dust jacket. Near fine. Jacket single front end flap neatly taped inside cover. A few pages have minimal edge wear. 1st end paper. Glaubke, Robert (Illustrated by).. 1 Color cover illustrated cloth over boards. 220 p. 28 cm. Color art plates plus numerous B&W Pen&Ink illustrations. Native Nations; Contents: Before the White Man; Indians of the Northwest Coast; of Californ; of the Eastern Woodlandsia; of the Southwest; of the Plains; The Indian Today. Tribal descriptions, locations. Author Leavitt

New York.: Golden Press / Western Publishing Company Inc., 1972. Special edition for young readers.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Pencilled notes, title page. Underlining, p.46. Corner and spine end wear.. 1 213 p. 29 cm. Color and B&W Illustrations. Index. Audience: Children/juvenile. "Based on A pictorial history of the American Indian, published...1956, Crown Publishers."--T.p. verso. End paper maps show North America and where tribal groups lived.

North Dighton MA.: JG Press / Brompton Books., 1997. First edition. No print line.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Light jacket surface wear.. 1 Pictorial sepia full cover photo (repeated on jacket) glossy paper over boards. 128 p. Horizontal format. Bibliography. Picture Credits. Index. Audience: General/trade. Lavishly illustrated with sepia-toned archival photos, and some color, this volume offers an overview of the importance of the spirit world, natural cycles, symbolism, and ceremony to peoples of Native American Nations.

New York.: American Heritage Publishing / Bonanza Books., 1982. "a" in print line. 1st Bonanza print. 1977 American Heritage.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Minor blemishing to jacket surface.. 1 First edition. Light textured paper over boards. Gold spine titles. Illustrated jacket. 29 cm. Maps. Color, B&W art. Index. Audience: General/trade. Native Nations. Sections: A Very Real Nightmare introduction; The East; The West. Vintage artwork is graphic, violent. The written and artwork depictions are likely from the colonial and white perspective.

Garden City NY.: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1972. First edition.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Author's personal copy with message, "File Copy-please return." Jacket protected but does have light soiling.. Palacios (Map by).. 1 Forest green and olive cloth over boards. End paper maps: Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina. 306 p. Historical fiction: The Cherokee Indians attempted to establish their own nation within and as part of the United States. The story begins with hope. And there is adventure as a pioneer fights alongside Cherokees against the Creek Indians, and then finds romance. Historical appearances: Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, Sequoyah, John Ross; and the warrior Whale.

[Harmondsworth, Eng. ]: A Pelican Book / Penguin Books., 1965. A 200. 6th printing 1950 Pelican.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Darkened top page block.. 1 Slightly larger than mass-market paperback. 333 p. Maps, tables. 64 pages B&W photo plates. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Index. The Aztecs arrived from the north into Mexico during the 11th century. They developed their remarkable civilization over nearly a century; then rapidly declined when Spain's Cortes (Cortez) arrived to dominate. Historian Dr George Vaillant was curator of Mexican archeology at the American Museum of Natural History.

New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1967. 1st Scholastic printing. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Binding crease and small chip at bottom front, otherwise tight and clean for its age. Former owner's name in ink at top front.. 1 256 p 16 cm. Stories about Hiawatha, Little Turtle, Sequoyah, Petalasharo, Osceola, Little Crow, Chief Joseph, Wovoka, Ishi, and "selected folklore".

Crawfordsville IN.: R.R. Donnelley's & Sons Lakeside Press, 1988. First edition.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed by author "To Dorothy with sincere regards".. 1 Red leatherette over boards. Blue titles, cover portrait line art. 186 p. 25 cm. B&W photo portrait, Dedication page: Jeff Belyea of Warren NH, descendant of the first NH natives. Historical novel featuring people of the Native Nations in the land that became New Hampshire, to which early white settlers began to migrate, explore, and inhabit during the 18th century, individually, then with families, then those who would build towns, often on the lands that for generations had been the wilderness home shared among the Natives. The traditions, lands, mountains, lore, observations, and legends are learned through the eyes of Acteon, a boy growing into a man, son of Chief Jacoba. The setting centers in what became Warren NH, with Mt. Moosilauke, Owl's Head, Sentinel Mountain, and Blueberry… Read More

New York.: William Morrow & Company., 1973. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Clean interior. Minor spine tilt.. 1 Off-white cloth and mustard color paper over boards. 213 p. 22 cm. Autobiographical journal of white woman who lived among Navajos in the late 1960s, early 1970s, and passed as a Native American among whites. Author Grace Halsell went to a Navaho family and presented herself as wanting to live as they lived to understand. She had previously authored "Soul Sister", having "turned herself black" to learn what being black in America meant. She has been described as "warm and understanding" by those with whom she has lived.

Garden City, N. Y: Doubleday & Co., 1957. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Light sun-fade to jacket spine. End paper and jacket flap foxing. Jacket had been protected, nice front cover.. 1 Tan cloth over boards, sealed. Jacket illustrated with Frederic Remington's "Buffalo Hunt". 336 p.; 22 cm. Autobiographical U.S. pioneering history: subtitled, "The unique and vivid memoirs of a pioneer, scout, hunter and friend of the Indians, from his youth in Bleeding Kansas in 1856, to the Battle of Wounded Knee". Not yet 16, the author (b.1840-d.1928) was an abolitionist soldier in Kansas. He was captured by the pro-slavery Border Ruffians, sentenced to death by hanging. Well, 50 years later, then a newspaper editor and a recognized authority on Native Nations, he wrote of the years in between, beginning with not being hung.

New York.: Bantam Books by arr. w/ Holt, Rinehart & Winston., 1972. 7th printing 1972 Bantam.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Spine end short damge, repaired w/ clear tape. Cover creasing. Clean interior.. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. Pebbled paper illustrated covers. xiii, 458 p. B&W Portraits, Plates. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Index. udience: General/trade, and American History students. American Studies / U.S. History / Native Nations' Biographies: This history re-introduces Native American chiefs and other leaders with oral histories, voices from the variety of colonized peoples commonly called or grouped as "Indians" or "Savages" in earlier history references. Wounded Knee Creek is a Christmas week, year 1890, massacre site akin to contemporary "ethnic cleansing" events, in which nearly 300 of the 350 men, women, and children were killed after being disarmed. The story is told near the end of the volume. Author Dee Brown had authored and co-authored… Read More

Gray cloth over boards, illustrated w/ Pen&Ink; scenes from engravings; Gold stylish titles. This history illustrates the misguided policies of the missionaries who supervised schools for youth who were separated from Native Nations' Reservation families to be "educated" in attempts to erase language, heritage and traditions among 19th century Canada territories. While missionary zeal is open to critique; there are some chapters that preserve that which the colonists tried to wipe out; for instance, the Cree syllabic alphabet. Book condition: Soiling to covers; deterioration of thin brown end papers, and more. Repair needed to maintain stitching. Several small fronds of delicate ferns tucked within pages. Numerous drawings. Setting: Northern Canada.

New York.: A Dell Yearling Book by arr. w/ Houghton Mifflin., 1975. 2nd Dell printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light spine creasing, minor lower spine wear.. Mars, W.T. (Illustrated by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Newbery Award-winning author Elizabeth George Speare adapted the true account by Charlestown NH colonial settlers for this youth historical fiction. The lead character was developed from the imagined adventures of Miriam Willard, younger sister to Susanna Johnson. Set on the brink of the French & Indian War, the Johnson family was captured and marched to the French enclave in Montreal, where they were sold. Susanna wrote her account when she was 70. A living history replica of the Fort at No. 4 exists in Charlestown NH, with tales told on visiting.

Boston.: Dodd, Mead, and Company., 1886. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. VG-; Sun-faded binding w/ still readable titles. Weaker folio at center, otherwise tightly bound. Bumped corners. Lower edges, old moisture stain, from inside corner.. Peters, Clinton (pictures by).. 1 161 p. B&W Pen&Ink illustrations. 8x10.5in; Bold, dark green cloth covered boards w/Gilt cranes (3) in flight across wraparound cover; gilt titles in white box. Sturdy vellum pages. Lovely illustrations. Contents illustrated by girl whose bowling ball heads toward 9 pins; at end page, 9 pins are down. Many other well-executed b&w illustrations. For its age, a beautiful book.

A Signet Book / New American Library., 1965. First edition. 1st Signet printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Coiver surface soiling. Front lower creasing. Binding tight. Slight blemishing to red page block edges. Spine bubbly crease.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Buckskin Man. Audience: General/trade. Native Nations fiction set among the Yankton Sioux when great legends and great deeds were a way of life. At 17 winters, No Name, a young would-be chieftain is introduced to the reader as he makes his way to his sweetheart's tepee. He would later test his manhood, awaiting a sacred vision that will give him a warrior's name. Told realistically, this story does not portray the Sioux as splendid primitive savages nor as "red devils" common to American westerns and histories written in earlier eras. No Name is part of a proud, tradition-honoring society. Frederick Manfred also authored "Lord Grizzly".

New York.: Crown Publishers., 1972. 2nd printing, 1971 American edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Some chipping on DJ, repaired from inside w/ clear tape. Extensive foxing on right edges; less on top edge. Clean inside. Slight spotting discolorations to blue cloth covered boards.. 1 277 p. 28 cm. Maps, B&W and color photos. Bibliography. Index. Dedicated to the future of Greenlanders, this discusses history, language, arctic conditions, food gathering, interaction with whites over the centuries, the environment, culture, traditions, and view of life among Eskimo populations. The author first studied Eskimo culture 35 years before writing this work. Denmark had been first to explore and colonize Greenland, to its west. Here he compiles his own observations, those studies by numerous others, and a great photos and other illustrations edifying the polar region and those who make their homes there.

Lincoln NE.: iUniverse / Authors Choice Press, 2001. No print line.. Trade paperback. Fine.. 1 Trade paperback. 225p. Cove art not credited. Audience: General/trade. Set in Georgia, U.S.A., 19th century. Gold is discovered by settlers. Folklore says the Cherokees have been hoarding it, and it is secreted away. Pres. Andrew Jackson and Sen. Calhoun have a plan: force the Cherokees to relocate west of the Mississippi, begin land lotteries for white settlers to own Cherokee lands when they are gone. Greed drives some of the characters in this tale. Honor drives others, including the Cherokees. Survival events drive the story. Self-published by George A Montgomery, errors in word choice, formatting, and unedited writing exist. The story line is more accomplished.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. First edition. Stated first.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Cover soiling, wear to extremities. Minor binding wiggle. Clean interior w/ a few blemishes; very good 1930s text paper, rough-cut page blocks, side and lower; yellow top page block.. Moon, Carl (Illustrated by).. 1 261 p. Turquoise cloth over boards. Color plate frontispiece; 8 Pen&Ink full-page illustrations and chapter heading artwork. RARE Youth Literature, Native Nations setting, American Southwest. Grace and Carl Moon had frequently collaborated in publishing similarly themed tales. Far-Away Desert is their 10th. Little Pah-Chee and her parents, her Pueblo mother and Navajo father, are visited by her mission teacher. They are told that because she is clever and quick, Pah-Chee should go to a school far away from her desert home. This is strange for her, and the story of what follows is told from Pah-Chee's viewpoint.

Ballantine Books., 1975. First edition. 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Single spine crease. Lower front cover, spine side, damp stain.. Cellini, Eva (Cover art by).. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback (US). Glued binding. 248 p. Audience: General/trade. Native Nations: Over 120 photographs, sketches, and paintings in grayscale enhance these 13 chapters by Illinois librarian-author of acclaimed "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee".