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Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian/GPO, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth, gilt lettering on spine faded. 490 pages, 3 fold-out plates include 2 maps. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 99 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Gennady Spirin. Pages without illustrations are decorated with elegant and delicate borders. Faux marbled endpapers. Translator Brodmann has been celebrated in her native Germany for her work with juvenile literature. Stated first printing. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Includes appendixes, glossary of Ojibwa terms, key to abbreviated sources, notes & bibliography. Ojibwa cultural use and drum construction. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Author's fourth novel, set in the steamy bayou town of St. Bruno. Woodrell reunites the three Shade brothers with their dissolute father. Aged rake and reprobate John X. Shade returns to his native Louisiana bayous, where he reviews his checkered past. Vengeful sociopath Lunch Pumphrey is hot on his trail, bent on recovering $47,000 stored in John X.'s safe, but Shade's young wife has absconded with the money in order to launch her singing career, leaving their daughter, toughly precocious Etta, in her father's care. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 94 pages, color illustrations by Peggy Turley. In this delightful children's tale, an American boy, Kenny Strange, moves to the quiet Mexican town of Taxco with his parents and strikes up a friendship with young Juanito Perez, a Taxco native. The two boys are brought together by an enchanting toy, the pasteboard bandit Tito. Chosen by Juanito at a town fair from among the other pasteboard toys, Tito, with his colorful clothes and bright eyes, becomes Juanito's and Kenny's constant companion, and the threesome share many adventures in and around the town's rolling green hills. The boys' growing friendship, Kenny's introduction to a culture unlike his own, and Tito's witty reflections on being a toy will be recognized instantly by anyone young or old who has ever made a friend or imagined that a toy might be real. Originally written in 1935, but never before published, The Pasteboard Bandit grew out of several trips Langston Hughes made to Mexico during his lifetime. Hughes first went to the town of Toluca at age 5 to visit his father, and again when he was older. During these visits, Hughes met many writers and artists, and it is their influence that informs the story of The Pasteboard Bandit--a story of two cultures meeting. When Hughes left Mexico for the last time, at age 32, he was carrying the first draft for The Pasteboard Bandit. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped with dark blue design, 124 pages, sepia tone photos throughout. This work is Gilpin's photographic love letter to the Pueblos of the southwest. Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) attained international recognition as photographer and her images of the Navajo and Pueblo peoples of the four corners area offer an important record of these cultures. She excelled in a field that up to the point, had largely been the purview of men. Cloth covers with edgewear, light soil. Inscription on inside front cover. Covers fair, interior good+.

Softcover. Wellesley MA, Branden Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, several b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY POTVIN on title page. Clean copy.

Softcover. Toronto CA, McClelland and Stewart, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages, 125 color, 135 black & white. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. "A major study of the artistic traditions of Canada's Native peoples and of their place in the cultures and belief systems in which they originated. Here, for the first time, is Native Canadian work from museums and private collections around the world. The works, and the essays that describe their contexts, bring to life the spiritual and aesthetic identity of the craftspeople and their societies. From richly ornamented costumes displaying the wealth of their owners to practical techologies that enabled the peoples to thrive in their environments, these treasures reflect Native life at the time of contact with Europeans." Clean copy.

Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 361 pages, b&w illustrations. The Stonemans is an eye-opening slice of Americana---a trip through nearly twenty years of country music history following a single family from their native Blue Ridge Mountains to the slums of Washington, D.C., and the glitter of Nashville. As early as 1924 Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman realized the potential of what is now known as country music, and he tried to carve a career from it. Successful as a recording artist from 1925 through 1929, Stoneman foundered during the Great Depression. He, his wife, and their nine children went to Washington in 1932, struggling through a decade of hardship and working to revive the musical career Pop still believed in. The Stoneman Family won the Country Music Association's Vocal Group of the Year Award in 1967. After Pop's death a year later, some of the children scattered to pursue their own careers. Ivan Tribe relies on extensive interviews with the Stonemans and their friends in this chronicle of a family whose members have clung to their musical heritage through good times and bad.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 238 pages. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With the sticker on cover stating" "Selected By The New Yorker As one of the best American fiction writers under 40". A collection of stories about young Native Americans introduces a surprising cast of characters who live and love in two worlds, balancing their Indian heritage and traditions against the realities of the modern world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with red and dark blue lettering on the spine and cover, 302 pages. A moving novel of the beginning of the American trek to the west. Toward the close of the eighteenth century, the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River was an unbroken sea of trees. Beneath them the forest trails were dark, silent, and lonely, brightened only by a few lost beams of sunlight. Here, in the first novel of Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy, the Lucketts, a wild, woods-faring family, lived their roaming life, pushing ever westward as the frontier advanced and as new settlements threatened their isolation. This novel gives an excellent feel for America's lost woods culture, which was created when most of the eastern midwest was a vast hardwood forest---virtually a jungle. The Trees conveys settler life, including conflicts with Native Americans, illness, hunting, family dynamics, and marriage. INSCRIBED BY RICHTER on the front fly leaf. A bright, sharp copy missing the dust jacket. Related ephemera laid in.

Hardcover. Chicago, Childrens Press, revised ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Describes in simple text how the Indians of the sea coast, plains, deserts, swamps, and woodlands lived and how their way of life was influenced by the environment. Clean copy.

Softcover. self-published, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 335 pages, b&w illustrations. Brenda Negri begins by discussing the ancestral uses of guardian dogs to protect flocks and herds since earliest times, setting forth descriptions of how the dogs are used on open range situations as they accompany their masters' herds through the mountains and valleys of their native lands. She debunks the original theory that these dogs should not be socialized by human contact. Instead she gives evidence not only that these dogs respond to socialization with their human owners and families, but they require it for a healthy mind and psychological development. In fact, she shows the reader that these dogs historically were never alone with herds but have always been equal partners with the shepherd in protecting the flocks.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 376 pages. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the "Big Easy" of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and power. A first printing of the winner of the 2019 National Book Award in nonfiction. Clean copy.

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Craftsbury Common Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. In 1964 Ethan Hubbard began photographing and tape-recording the most unique and intriguing rural Vermonters he could find, believing that they were a vanishing race. B&w photos.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 336 pages, b&w illustrations. Author Larry Hamberlin guides us through this large but oft-forgotten repertoire of operatic novelties, and brings to life the rich humor and keen social criticism of the era. In the early twentieth-century, when new social forces were undermining the view that our European heritage was intrinsically superior to our native vernacular culture, opera-that great inheritance from our European forebearers-functioned in popular discourse as a signifier for elite culture. Tin Pan Opera shows that these operatic novelty songs availed this connection to a humorous and critical end. Combining traditional, European operatic melodies with the new and American rhythmic verve of ragtime, these songs painted vivid images of immigrant Americans, liberated women, and upwardly striving African Americans, striking emblems of the profound transformations that shook the United States at the beginning of the American century. Clean copy.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, b&w plates. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Kraushar Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black lettering, 163 pages, b&w photos. Inspired by a visit to Stoney Reservation in Alberta, Canada, the author spent 15 years visiting & living among 47 tribes, and developed a touring show of pictures, songs, dances, stories & sign language. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. The story of westering Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been told most notably through photographs of American Indians. Unlike this vast archive, produced primarily by male photographers, which depicted American Indians as either vanishing or domesticated, the lesser-known images by the women featured in Trading Gazes provide new ways of seeing the intersecting histories of colonial expansion and indigenous resistance. Four unconventional women-Jane Gay, who documented land allotment to the Nez Perces; Kate Cory, an artist who lived for years in a Hopi community; Grace Nicholson, who purchased cultural items from the Karuk and other northern California tribes; and Mary Schaffer, who traveled among the Stoney and Metis of Alberta, Canada-used cameras to document their cross-cultural encounters. Trading Gazes reconstructs the rich biographical and historical contexts explaining these women's presence in different Native communities of the North American West. Their photographs not only record the unprecedented opportunities available for Euro-American women eager to shed gender restrictions, but also reveal how women's newfound mobility depended on the increasing restrictions placed on Native Americans in this era.

Hardcover. Paterson NJ, St. Anthony Guild Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth stamped in brown, 113 pages. Illustrated in 2-colors by Robert Bradbury. A tale of an orphaned American Indian girl who was worthy of sainthood in the eyes of her admirers. Remnants of color dust jacket and related article laid in. Clean copy.

Softcover. Lincoln NE, Bison Books, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 368 pages. Documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region now known as Maine. Arriving first to this area were Paleo-Indian peoples, followed by maritime hunters, more immigrants, then a revival of maritime cultures. Beginning in the sixteenth century, Native peoples in northern New England became tangled in the far-reaching affairs of European explorers and colonists. Twelve Thousand Years reveals how Penobscots, Abenakis, Passamaquoddies, Maliseets, Micmacs, and other Native communities both strategically accommodated and overtly resisted European and American encroachments. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Vermont People Project, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY MILLER on the title page. Photographs and text about native Vermonters discussing their life and the change they have seen in Vermont during the latter part of the 20th Century as the state turns from a rural, agriculture society. They are a disappearing culture. Clean copy.

Softcover. Burlington VT, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Six pages with light pencil marking otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Center for American Places, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. Professor and photographer John Willis is well aware of the exploitation that sometimes occurs when photographers enter impoverished communities for a project. So, in 1992, when he first traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the southwest corner of South Dakota, he assured the elders of the Oglala Lakota Sioux that he would not be exhibiting any of the images he took while there. Over time, however, Willis earned the respect and trust of the community, and the elders--hoping that the photographs might bring aid to their community--urged him to show his work. The product of several visits to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Views from the Reservation is meant to open our eyes, minds, and hearts to the life, culture, and conditions of the Oglala Lakota people.