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Navajo Code Talkers: America's Secret Weapon in World War II

By: Aaseng, Nathan

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Walker & Company: 2000

Seller ID: 2304126

ISBN: 0802775896

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by six Code Talkers (three on flyleaf, three on enclosed pamphlet from University of Rochester event), with photographs of signing laid in. Sticker on rear wrapper. 2000 Trade Paperback. v, 114 pp. On the Pacific front during World War II, strange messages were picked up by American and Japanese forces on land and at sea. The messages were totally unintelligible to everyone except a small select group within the Marine Corps: the Navajo code talkers-a group of Navajos communicating in a code based on the Navajo language. This code, the first unbreakable one in U.S. history, was a key re...
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The History of Events Resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi. [from Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1906]

By: Abel, Annie Heloise

Price: $125.00

Publisher: ., [American Historical Association]: 1908

Seller ID: 2187980

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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History of the Delaware and Iroquois Indians, Formerly Inhabiting the Middle States. with Various Anecdotes, Illustrating Their Manners and Customs.

By: American Sunday School Union

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union: 1832

Seller ID: 2293124

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Curtis' Western Indians

By: Andrews, Ralph W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books: 1962

Seller ID: 2307670

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

One inch tear along top edge of rear jacket panel, jacket edges lightly bumped, front jacket flap creased. Ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1962 Large Hardcover. 176 pp. Life and works of Edward S. Curtis.
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The Iroquois Restoration: Iroquois Diplomacy on the Colonial Frontier, 1701-1754

By: Aquila, Richard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Detroit, Wayne State University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 2303882

ISBN: 0814317170

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Two small closed tears to jacket edge. 1983 Hard Cover. 285 pp. Tells the story of power, politics, and relations with Indians and white on the colonial frontier. In part, it is a familiar story of Indian wars, scalping, the fur trade, exploitation, torture, disease, land-grabbing, and alcohol. In addition, it is a story about shrewd diplomats and wise statesmen.
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I Have Spoken: American History through the Voices of the Indians

By: Armstrong, Virginia Irving

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Athens, Swallow: 1971

Seller ID: 2306742

ISBN: 0804005303

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

6th printing. Lightly rubbed. 1971 Trade Paperback. Here, in their own words, is the Indians story told with integrity, with drama, with caustic wit, with statesmanship, with poetic impact; a story of proffered friendship, of broken promises, of hope, of disillusionment, of pride, of a whole land and life gone sour.
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Massasoit's Town, Sowams in Pokanoket: Its History, Legends, and Traditions

By: Baker, Virginia

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Warren, R.I., Published by the Author: 1904

Seller ID: 2005865

Binding: Trade Paperback

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.
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The Indians of the Great Plains (Echoes of the Ancient World Series)

By: Bancroft-Hunt, Norman

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press: 1992

Seller ID: 2305631

ISBN: 0806124652

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Remainder mark, pages very faintly toned. 1992 Large Softcover. 128 pp. The Cheyennes, Arapahos, Crows, Blackfoot, and Sioux are among the many tribes of the Great Plains of North America. ...this volume presents a vivid image of the lives of the Plains Indians.--rear wrapper
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Aboriginal Place Names of New York (New York State Museum Bulletin 108, Archeology 12)

By: Beauchamp, William M.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, New York State Education Department: 1907

Seller ID: 2130087

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Binding repaired. 1907 Trade Paperback. 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.
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A History of the New York Iroquois, Now Commonly Called the Six Nations (New York State Museum Bulletin 78, Archeology 9) (University of the State of New York Bulletin 329, February 1905)

By: Beauchamp, William M. [Martin]

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Albany, New York State Education Department: 1905

Seller ID: 2292856

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Iroquois Trail, or Foot-Prints of the Six Nations, in Customs, Traditions, and History, in which are included David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations

By: Beauchamp, William Martin; Cusick, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., Forgotten Books: 2012

Seller ID: 2293104

Binding: Trade Paperback

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.
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Waterways of War: The French and Indian War (Great Lakes Seaway Trail Guidebook Series)

By: Benson, Steve; Toelke, Ron

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Seaway Trail, Inc.: 2013

Seller ID: 2307548

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Wrapper edges lightly rubbed. 2013 Large Softcover. 56 pp. A traveler's guide to the French and Indian war forts, battlefields and historic sites along America's byways in New York and Pennsylvania.
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Sowams: With Ancient Records of Sowams and Parts Adjacent - Illustrated

By: Bicknell, Thomas W.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New Haven, Associated Publishers of American Records: 1908

Seller ID: 2005871

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, #302 of an unspecified limitation. 1908 Hard Cover. vi, 194, [10] pp. Original green cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. 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. Index follows text.
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Among the Indians: Eight Years in the Far West, 1858-1866 (The Lakeside Classics Vol. 57)

By: Boller, Henry A.; Quaife, Milo Milton

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company: 1959

Seller ID: 2306228

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus. Page ridges lightly foxed. 1959 Hard Cover. xxxix, 461 pp. Navy cloth boards. A firsthand account of encounters with Native Americans in the Old West, in the years before and during the American Civil War. Fold-out map precedes text.
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Coronado: Knight of Pueblos and Plains

By: Bolton, Herbert E.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York / New Mexico, Whittlesey House and The University of New Mexico Press: 1949

Seller ID: 2305785

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Second printing. No jacket. Stains on top page ridge, tape ghosting and surface tears on paste-down endpapers, pencil name on front free endpaper, front hinge starting. 1949 Hard Cover. xii, 491 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Herbert Eugene Boltons classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vsquez de Coronados sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire. Leaving Mexico City in 1540 with some three hundred Spaniards and a large body of Indian allies, Coronado and his menthe first Europeans to explore what are n...
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The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America

By: Borneman, Walter R.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, HarperPerennial: 2007

Seller ID: 2305488

ISBN: 0060761857

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First printing. A fine copy. 2007 Trade Paperback. xxiii, 360 pp. In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would decide the fate of the entire North American continentnot just between Great Britain and France, but for the Spanish and Native Americans as well. Fought across virgin wilderness, from Nova Scotia to the forks of the Ohio River, the French and Indian War is best remembered for dogged frontier c...
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Notes on the Botocudus and Their Ornaments (Read before the American Philosophical Society, November 16, 1888)

By: Branner, John C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: ., .: 1888

Seller ID: 2289505

Binding: Stapled Binding

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...
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The Story of the American Indian: His Origin, Development, Decline, and Destiny

By: Brooks, Elbridge S.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company / Press of Berwick and Smith: 1887

Seller ID: 2308537

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Binding splitting after first gathering (should be an easy repair, but we have left this to the discretion of the future owner), spine a bit faded. 1887 Hard Cover. xi, [1], 11-312, [2] pp. Dozens of engraved illustrations by various artists throughout text. Contents include: The Ancient American; The Red Man before Columbus; Race Divisions and Kinship Ties; Indian Faiths and Confederations; Culture and Communism; The Indian Home; The Indian Youth; Manners and Materials; The Coming of the White Man; Colonial Injustice; Placing the Responsibility; Pushed to the Wall; Indian Types...
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The Unknown Indian

By: Browne, Gertrude Bell

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co.: 1930

Seller ID: 2279324

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Indians of Berks County, PA., Being a Summary of All the Tangible Records of the Aborigines of Berks County, with Cuts and Descriptions of the Varieties of Relics Found Within the County

By: Brunner, D.B.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Reading, PA, Eagle Book Print: 1897

Seller ID: 2308476

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Second edition. Binding mostly pulling away but still holding, pages 15-16 loose but included. 1897 Hard Cover. 257 pp. A history of the Indians of Berks County, Pennsylvania with black-and-white plates featuring Native American artifacts.
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Behind the Guns with American Heroes: An Official Volume of Thrilling Stories, Daring Deeds, Personal Adventures, Humorous Anecdotes, and Pathetic Incidents... of the... Spanish-American War and Our Battles with the Philippine Insurgents

By: Buel, J. W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chicago and Philadelphia, International Publishing Company: 1899

Seller ID: 2302843

Binding: Large Hardcover

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 interesting chapters by soldiers and sailors who were in the thickest of the conflict. Containing also m...
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The Wampum Belt; or, The Fairest Page of History: A Tale of William Penn's Treaty with the Indians

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1896

Seller ID: 2132502

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor tears to top margin of two leaves, small bookplate on front endpaper. 1896 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 276 pp. 8vo. A collection of stories of colonial America, focusing on interactions between William Penn and Native Americans, by the author of The Zig-Zag Series.
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The Wampum Belt; or, The Fairest Page of History: A Tale of William Penn's Treaty with the Indians

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1897

Seller ID: 2289136

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The White Seneca

By: Canfield, William W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company: 1911

Seller ID: 2289138

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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At Seneca Castle

By: Canfield, William W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company: 1912

Seller ID: 2289139

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Our Life among the Iroquois Indians

By: Caswell, Harriet S.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Boston / Chicago, Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society: 1892

Seller ID: 2303895

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine toned and lightly foxed, one plate just beginning to loosen at binding, otherwise an excellent copy. 1892 Hard Cover. xiii, 321 pp. 8vo. Black-and-white plates, including a photograph of Mary Jemison, Mrs. Laura M. Wright, woodcuts of Cornplanter, Red Jacket, the mission house at Upper Station, etc. Several woodcuts of Native American items (baskets, canoes, etc.) in text.
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Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, in 2 Volumes

By: Catlin, George

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications, Inc.: 1973

Seller ID: 2305778

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Both volumes: spine creased, minor ink marginalia. 1973 Trade Paperback. xxiii, [3], 264; xvi, 266 pp. Two volume set. From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North Americafrom 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.
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O-kee-pa: A Religious Ceremony and Other Customs of the Mandans (Centennial Edition)

By: Catlin, George; Ewers, John C

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press: 1967

Seller ID: 2305958

ISBN: 0300004435

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped, front jacket flap clipped. Ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1967 Hard Cover. vi, 106 pp. Includes 13 color illustrations. Catlin visited the Mandan in 1832. His month-long, in-depth ethnographic study of the Mandans and their O-kee-pa ceremony is particularly valuable as only a few years after his visit in 1838 the group was decimated by a smallpox epidemic. Only 40 members of the group survived the disease and they were either enslaved, murdered or assimilated into other groups. Catlin was permitted to witness and document the O-kee-pa ceremony...
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The Boy's Catlin: My Life among the Indians

By: Catlin, George; Humphreys, Mary Gay

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1910

Seller ID: 2291265

Binding: Hard Cover

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 Americafrom 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 & Conditi...
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Letters and Notes on the North American Indians

By: Catlin, George; Mooney, Michael M. (editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Gramercy Books: 1975

Seller ID: 2305852

ISBN: 0517147440

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Fine

A fine copy in a fine jacket. 1975 Large Hardcover. xv, 366 pp. A collection of works by reporter and painter George Catlin presents a record of the last high afternoon of glory for the Native American nations west of the Mississippi and brings into sharp view his compassion for their plight.
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