Search Results: .Aboriginal Native Peoples - Native Americans from Turtle Creek Books

Canada: Unknown, 1915. EXCEEDINGLY RARE facsimile copy 19 pp - based on Tyrrell's work as a staff geologist during 1883 and 1898 while with the Geological Survey of Canada. This booklet provides a pronunciation guide, the Indian location names, their meanings, present (as of 1915) place names, latitude and longitutude, and various remarks. Staple bound card covers. Soft Cover. New. Facsimile.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1977. Rescued from a library cull, this copy is quite good with only a little edgewear and the usual library stamps and stickers. Otherwise clean and sturdy. Soft Cover. Very Good. Ex-Library.

U. S. A.: National Park Services, 1977. Edgewear and creasing of spine and covers,as well some age toning, otherwise still a good reading copy. Soft Cover. Good to Fair. Illus. by Illlustrated.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Newmarket Pr, 1991. Edgewear and creasing of spine and covers,as well some age toning,& some tears on the front cover, otherwise still a faireading copy. Soft Cover. Fair. Illus. by Illlustrated.

Vancouver: UBC Press, 1992. Hardcover 1st edition, this particular printing from Vancouver UBC. From the publisher:"The field of Native American art history, and our idea of what comprises Indian art itself, were molded largely by policies of the museums and institutions that established their ethnological collections in the second half of the nineteenth century. Objects housed in the great natural history museums?collected and seen first as natural history specimens and later as "primitive art"?have long been considered to be normative Native American art, rather than as representative of a long and changing history, and collectors' biases against Euro-American influenced work, tourist items, and contemporary art have further distorted our understanding of the field. Such attitudes and practices have led to accusations that an imperialistic Native American art history not only developed but maintains, the fictions of a colonizer/colonized relationship. This collection of essays… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Trophy Pr, 1995. Some edgewear and creasing of covers and spine, light age toning of pages otherwise fine. Soft Cover. Good.

USA: Signet, 1971. Some edgewear and creasing of spine, age toning of pages otherwise still a good reading copy. Mass Market Paperback. Fair to Good.

Canada: Carleton University Press, 1987. Resuced from a high school library cull, presents some stamps and sticker along with some wear to the cover, otherwise still a good reference and reading copy. Soft Cover. Fair to Good. Ex-Library.

Toronto: W J Gage , 1973. Hardcover, minor shelfwear and a bit of bowing of front cover, otherwise a fine clean bright copy. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Nain, Labrador : Torngasok Cultural Centre, 1984. Copyright date given as 1983, but all catalogue data indicates that this 1984 priting is the first edition. Minor edgewear and light rubbing of covers, interior fine. Almost impossible to find, this book is written in English and Inuktitut and is brightly illustrated with the author's vibrant art. According to Wikipedia:"In 1984, 45 of Kalleo's drawings were published in the book Taipsumane: A Collection of Labrador Stories.[4] Taipsumane is an Inuktitut word meaning "Them Days," and the book includes Kalleo's descriptions of her childhood life in the 1920s and 30s. With titles such as Festive Dress, Traditional Foods, The Spring Camp, Unequal Trading, and Women as Trappers, the carefully labelled drawings illustrate traditional ways of gathering food and seasonal activities. Reviewer Roberta Buchanan noted that "Kalleo's vision is essentially elegiac, mourning for a past way of life and past values."[4] The… Read More

U. S. A.: Pocket Books, 1999. Slight edgewear and faint creasing of spine and covers,as well a tear on the spine, otherwise a fine clean tight and bright copy. Soft Cover. Good.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Perennial, 1992. Some edgewear and creasing of spine and covers,as well age toning, otherwise still a good reading copy. Soft Cover. Good.