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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: University of the State of New York: 1929
Seller ID: 2259845
Condition: Very Good
Wrappers lightly toned. 1929 Stapled Binding. 63 pp. Pageants: Genesee Country, Leicester, September 14, 1929; Finger Lakes Area, Geneva, September, 21, 1929; Newtown Battlefield Area, Elmira, September 28, 1929. Includes black-and-white photographs. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: The H. Jay Smith Exploring Company: 1893
Seller ID: 2289197
Condition: Very Good
Quarter inch tear along bottom edge of all pages except front wrapper. 1893 Stapled Binding. 19 pp. An extinct race, leaving no history by which modern investigators may arrive at a definite knowledge of the age in which they lived, or their pursuits, the Cliff Dwellers form an interesting and puzzling subject of conjecture for ethnologists, fascinating for its very illusiveness. They are the earliest examples of civilizations on the American continent, contemporary with the ancient Cave Dwellers of Europe and Lake Dwellers of Switzerland, and are by far the most highly civilized representativ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: National Gallery of Art: 1992
Seller ID: 2298758
Condition: Near Fine
Includes plastic sleeve with Velcro flap. 1 inch closed tear to rear wrapper, otherwise an excellent copy. 1992 Stapled Binding. Includes plastic sleeve with Velcro flap. Includes 20 slides and 8 color plates. CONTENTS: Introduction; History of Nineteenth-Century American Indian Frontiers; Woodlands and Plains Indians; Stories and Oral Histories: The Wolf: A Seneca Story - Ahmik Nishgahdahzee: An Ojibwa Legend - The End of the World: A Sioux Story - Oral History from Night Flying Woman - Oral History from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions; Slide Annotations: Great Lakes Area - Prairies and Plains -... View more info
![Image for The History of Events Resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi. [from Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1906]](/assets/images/product/2187980.jpg)
Price: $125.00
Publisher: [American Historical Association]: 1908
Seller ID: 2187980
Condition: Very Good
Base of boards faintly stained, free endpapers removed. 1908 Hard Cover. 233-450 pp. 8vo. A separately bound edition of the Justin Winsor Prize winning essay originally published by the American Historical Association in 1906. The author, a Ph.D., was a Bulkley Fellow in History at Yale University, Associate Professor in History at Wells College, and Instructor in History at The Woman's College of Baltimore. She discusses the origins of the plan for Indian removal, unsuccessful attempts during the Jefferson administration, the War of 1812, and removal efforts afterwards, with a chapter focusin... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2301634
ISBN: 0399103376
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket spine lightly toned, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1971 Hard Cover. 381 pp. Illustrated endpapers. In the Apaches’ final campaign, Geronimo led 19 warriors against 5,000 U.S. troops. No Apaches were killed, and the U.S. suffered heavy casualties. For the Apaches could travel seventy miles a day on foot, lay a deadly ambush in country so open a white man could not find a hiding place, and elude pursuit by scattering in every direction, only to reassemble as soon as the force was gone. Probably the greatest foot soldiers ever known, they held the U.S. Army at bay ... View more info
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Publisher: Appleton-Century: 1946
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2260639
Condition: Very Good
Reprint. Quarter-size surface tear to jacket front, jacket edges rubbed, jacket lightly foxed (more so on reverse), front jacket flap price clipped, page ridges lightly foxed. 1946 Hard Cover. 310 pp. It is laid in the period of the French and Indian War, just after the colonists' first big victory at Lake George, and it pictures their subsequent struggles with Montcalm. The book ends with the massacre of Fort William Henry. Robert Lennox, a young American fighter, and his two friends--Tayoga, and Onondaga Indian, and David Willett, a hunter--fall in with Achille Gary, a crafty Frenchman, whom... View more info
By: American Sunday School Union
Price: $75.00
Publisher: American Sunday School Union: 1832
Seller ID: 2293124
Condition: Good
Colloquial spine label added, front joint splitting, edges rubbed, light stain to base of a few pages, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1832 Hard Cover. 153, [5] pp. 12mo. Black cloth spine, paper over boards. A history of the Delaware and Iroquois tribes. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations. View more info
By: Baker, Virginia
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Published by the Author: 1904
Seller ID: 2005865
Condition: Very Good
Paperback in gold slipcase and chemise. Minor loss from spine. 1904 Trade Paperback. 43 pp. Stapled binding, printed wrappers. A history of the town led by the sachem of the Wampanoag Confederacy, who helped prevent the failure of the Plymouth Colony and the starvation of its settlers. Sowams was a Native American village on the peninsula of Pokanoket (what is now known as Warren, Rhode Island), and site of an early trading post set up by the Plymouth Colony. View more info
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Editions Beauchemin: 1942
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276378
Condition: Very Good
Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf. Wrappers toned, crease on back corner. 1942 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 117, [3] pp. French text. The title translates to 'Hunter's Dreams'. Illustrated by Phoebe Thompson and Marjorie Borden. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: National Museum of Canada: 1961
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276393
Condition: Good
Inscribed to Hella Sachs, signed, and dated by author on title page, signed on front wrapper also. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges rubbed with minor loss from spine head and foot, pages toned. 1961 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. v, [1], 97, [1] pp. A collection of native folklore, illustrated with woodcuts. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info
By: Barbeau, Marius; Melvin, Grace
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. / The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276387
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed to 'Mme Hella Sachs', signed (in French), and dated (15 Mai 1943) by author on front flyleaf. This volume was acquired from the personal library of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Lacks jacket. Spine lightly toned, corners rubbed and slightly exposed. 117, [3] pp. 8vo. A collection of native folklore, illustrated with woodcuts. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York State Education Department: 1907
Seller ID: 2130087
Condition: Very Good
Binding repaired. 1907 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 333 pp. Wrappers. Comprehensive study of Native American place names in New York State by county, providing an interesting glimpse into the origins of current names for towns, state parks, rivers, etc. Also provides an interesting context for which tribes were settled in which areas of New York State, and their spheres of influence. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: University of the State of New York: 1900
Seller ID: 2278422
Condition: Good
Lacks maps. Spine and hinges previously mended with tape, stains along edges, pencil name on front wrapper. 1900 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 187 pp. Aboriginal Occupation of New York (Bulletin of the New York State Museum, No. 32. Vol. 7, February 1900). CONTENTS: List of Authorities Referred to with Abbreviations; Territories of Aboriginal Nations of New York; Aboriginal Occupation of New York; Geographic Distribution of Sites by Counties. View more info
By: Beauchamp, William M. [Martin]
Price: $95.00
Publisher: New York State Education Department: 1905
Seller ID: 2292856
Condition: Very Good
Includes map in front pocket. Boards lightly soiled, front pocket and opposite page toned. 1905 Hard Cover. [iii], 126-461, [7] pp. 8vo. A history of the Iroquois of New York, including 18 plates from historical maps, photographs, and illustrations, one of which is a large folding map of the territorial divisions of tribes in New York State. View more info
By: Beauchamp, William Martin; Cusick, David
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Forgotten Books: 2012
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2293104
Condition: Near Fine
2012 Trade Paperback. 154 pp. A facsimile of the 1892 history of the Iroquois and Six Nations, by the American ethnologist and Episcopal clergyman whose research focused on that tribe. View more info
By: Becker, Cynthia S.; Smith, P. David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Western Reflections Publishing Company: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2280246
ISBN: 1890437794
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Minor sticker adhesive on rear wrapper. 2003 Trade Paperback. ix, 270 pp. A well-documented account of Colorado's beloved Ute woman, who was the wife of famous Chief Ouray - from her early days, to her old age, to her legacy in Colorado. Chipeta or White Singing Bird (1843 or 1844 – August 1924) was a Native American woman, and the second wife of Chief Ouray of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe. Born a Kiowa Apache, she was raised by the Utes in what is now Conejos, Colorado. An advisor and confidant of her husband, Chipeta continued as a leader of her people af... View more info
By: Blakenship, Bob
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bob Blakenship: 1978
Seller ID: 2298354
ISBN: 9789998073340
Condition: Near Fine
A nice copy. 1978 Trade Paperback. 133 pp. Members of the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians before and after the removal in 1838. Official United States Government Census of the Cherokee Indian from 1817 through 1924 residing East of the Mississippi River. View more info
By: Branner, John C.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: .: 1888
Seller ID: 2289505
Condition: Very Good
Presentation copy. A few small chips to edges of rear wrappers. 1888 Stapled Binding. Read before the American Philosophical Society, November 16, 1888. These Indians live near the Rio Doce, about three hundred miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. They wear but little clothing; their hair is very black and coarse, and their color a light mulatto. The women do not allow their hair to grow upon any part of the body except the head, and in the illustrations it may be noticed that they have no eyebrows, the hairs all having been pulled out. One of the most striking habits of these people is shown in... View more info
By: Brown, Dee
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2301630
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 251 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ...beings with Carrington's assignment to the command of the Mountain District in 1866 with orders to build two forts on the Dakota Territory's Bozeman Trail which led to the Montana gold fields through lands forever guaranteed by treaty to the Indians. ...tells of how the Sioux reacted violently to the white man's invasion of their hunting grounds, making the fort Carrington erected in the heart of their territory their chief target. Based on army recor... View more info
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Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co.: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2279324
Condition: Very Good
First edition. No jacket, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pages very faintly toned. 1930 Hard Cover. 299 pp. Illustrated by David Thomas Vernon. As we follow the story of Tan-ta-quid-geon we see the picturesque daily life of the primitive Indians, not only of the Mohegans, but of other Algonquin tribes for, with some variations, their customs were similar. The historical parts are based on Winthrop's Journal, De Forest's History of the Indians of Connecticut and Caulkins' History of Norwich. View more info
By: Bruchac, Joseph
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Mongrel Empire Press: 2015
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2297703
ISBN: 0990320472
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author with inscription, For James, Keep Writing! Ink name on half-title page. 2015 Trade Paperback. 53 pp. In Joseph Bruchac's Four Directions, the Manitou tells the whale, I can change you / into an island of stone . . . you will not die / as the animals die / but wear slowly away / into waters / that love you. No transforming deity but one of our time's finest writers, Bruchac deeply and meaningfully renders the experience of bereavement and the experience of living our earthly destinies. The concluding poem, Season's End, beautifully evokes our human effort to come... View more info
By: Buel, J. W.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: International Publishing Company: 1899
Seller ID: 2302843
Condition: Very Good
Board edges lightly rubbed, first couple pages loose but included, ink names on front free endpaper, bookplate. 1899 Large Hardcover. ix,503 pp. Page ridges marbled. Presented in special chapters by Admiral Dewey, General Miles, Lieutenant Hobson, General Shafter, Admiral Schley, General Merritt, Colonel Roosevelt, Captain Sigsbee, Admiral Sampson, General Otis, Captain Evans, General Wheeler, Commodore Philip, Lieutenant Wainwright, and many other noted authorities; to which are added many interesteing chapters by soldiers and sailors who were in the thickest of the conflict. Containing also ... View more info
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Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1897
Seller ID: 2289136
Condition: Good
Front hinge loosening, rear hinge starting, front free endpaper loose but included. 1897 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 276 pp. 8vo. Illustrated by H. Winthrop Pierce. A collection of stories of colonial America, focusing on interactions between William Penn and Native Americans, by the author of The Zig-Zag Series. A Tale of William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Illustrated in drawings by H. Winthrop Peirce. Historical fiction based on incidents in the lives of the heroes. Story relates to the Wampum Belt, which was delivered by the Lenape Indians on the Del... View more info
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company: 1911
Seller ID: 2289138
Condition: Very Good
Spine edges very lightly rubbed, board corners lightly bumped, pencil mark on rear endpapers. 1911 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 281 pp. Illustrated by G.A. Harker. In the year 1774, fifteen-year-old Henry Cochrane is captured by a party of Seneca Indians near his home in central New York State. Adopted by the young Seneca, Hiokoto the Hawk, Henry grows to love the Indian ways and becomes Dundiswa - the White Seneca. When Henry is captured by an enemy tribe, he must rely on all the skills he has learned from the Indians, as well as his own courage and determina... View more info
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company: 1912
Seller ID: 2289139
Condition: Near Fine
Minor general wear. A very nice copy. 1912 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 274 pp. Illustrated by G.A. Harker. In this sequel to The White Seneca, Henry Cochrane, now eighteen, is entrusted with a message from the settlers of the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, to the Continental Army. They are suffering under the constant Indian raids instigated by the British and plead for protection. Because of Henry's knowledge of Indian ways, General George Washington requests his services as a scout for General Sullivan in the campaign to forever break the power of the Iroquois Co... View more info
By: Carter, Forrest; Strickland, Rennard (Foreword)
Price: $5.00
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press: 1986
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2292442
ISBN: 0826308791
Condition: Near Fine
Reprint. An exceptional copy. 1986 Trade Paperback. 216 pp. The Education of Little Tree is a memoir-style novel written by Asa Earl Carter under the pseudonym Forrest Carter. Since its first publication by Delacorte Press in 1976, the book has been the subject of acclaim. Many people have been drawn to its message of simple living, tradition, and love of nature. However, The Education of Little Tree has also been the subject of controversy after the publication of an article on October 4, 1991, by Dan T. Carter (a history professor and distant cousin of Asa Carter) called The Transformation o... View more info
By: Catlin, George; Humphreys, Mary Gay
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1910
Seller ID: 2291265
Condition: Very Good
Boards lightly soiled, ink name and address on front endpaper. 1910 Hard Cover. xx, 380, [4] pp. 8vo. From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. His two-volume set Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Cond... View more info
By: Catlin, George; Mooney, Michael M. (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter: 1988
Seller ID: 2292250
ISBN: 0517520168
Condition: Very Good
Lacks jacket. Faint edge wear. 1988 Large Hardcover. Originally published in 1844, this collection of letters and observations is here expanded with an extensive introduction and historical notes. View more info
By: Catlin, George; Truettner, William H.
Price: $115.00
Publisher: Gilcrease Museum: 2003
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2292793
ISBN: 0972565701
Condition: Near Fine
Small spot on rear jacket panel. 2003 Large Hardcover. xxvii, [3], 100, [6] pp. 2003 facsimile of 1849 handmade original, with detailed color illustrations reproduced from original watercolors. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: B.B. Russell & Co., Publishers: 1874
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2293116
Condition: Good
1875 printing. First gathering loose but included, corners a bit rubbed, ink initials on front endpaper. 1874 Hard Cover. 408 pp. 8vo. Original red-orange cloth, gilt titles and rules with Indian chief on spine, blind-stamped triple border. Frontispiece of author. A biography of Hannah Duston, along with an account of the Indian wars in New England. Hannah Duston's fame came as a result of events that occurred in 1697... King William's War had increased fear of Indian attack in this frontier area, and Thomas Duston had been appointed captain of the local garrison. On 15 March 1697 Thomas was w... View more info
