Native American

Softcover. Chapel Nill NC, University of North Carolina Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 419 pages. This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and kinship met and meshed in the borderlands, forming a "slave system" in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence. Slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards provided labor resources, redistributed wealth, and fostered kin connections that integrated disparate and antagonistic groups even as these practices renewed cycles of violence and warfare. Always attentive to the corrosive effects of the "slave trade" on Indian and colonial societies, the book also explores slavery's centrality in intercultural trade, alliances, and "communities of interest" among groups often antagonistic to Spanish, Mexican, and American modernizing strategies. The extension of the moral and military campaigns of the American Civil War to the Southwest in a regional "war against slavery" brought differing forms of social stability but cost local communities much of their economic vitality. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 195 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Blue pictorial dust jacket. Light shelfwear to covers, else like new.Traces the life of the Navajo artist, including his experiences as a code talker for the Marines in World War II, and looks at his paintings and watercolors.

Hardcover. London, Merrell Publishers, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages, 200+ color illustrations. The first of a three-part series that explores the creativity and productivity of Native American artists. This volume "focuses on the work of nearly ninety of the most exciting and innovative artists of the region, working in a variety of media, from clay to glass, from fiber to jewelry, and from metal to wood, as well as mixed media." (flap).

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press (, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 415 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket, creases to front flap. Light soiling to edges. Else a clean, tight copy. The first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Cheyenne Indians took place on the south fork of the Solomon River in present-day northwest Kansas. In this stirring account, William Y. Chalfant recreates the human dimensions of what was probably the only large-unit sabre charge against the Plains tribes, in a battle that was as much a clash of cultures as of cavalry and Cheyenne warriors.

NY , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages, in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. Mystery involving the attempts of some long downtrodden Indians to obtain schools for their people. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages, b&w drawings by Ingrid Fetz. Dust jacket with minor edgewear. Clean copy.

NY, Clarion Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages. Color photos and illustrations. Illustrated end papers. More than 130 full-color photographs adorn this handsome re-creation of daily life in a Plains Indian village in 1868. Readers will meet Real Bird and his family, part of a Northern Cheyenne tribe in southeastern Montana. Each member has an important role: Men prepare to become warriors and hunters, while women learn to raise crops and build a home-a tipi-from poles and buffalo hides. The clothes the family wears, from elaborate ceremonial headdresses to colorful beaded moccasins; the foods they eat; the games they play; the crafts and jewelry they make; and the spiritual rituals they perform are among the many topics included. This large-format book, with clear text and informative sidebars, provides a detailed pictorial account of the Plains Indian life more than a century ago. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Wendy Watson. INSCRIBED BY BIERHORST on front fly leaf . SIGNED BY WENDY WATSON on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Bullfinch Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light abrasions on bottom corners. Light edgewaer to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 261 pages. Black & white illustrations by Carl Moon with one color plate in front. Rough cut edge. Turquoise cloth covers. Markings, soiling, to covers. Corners bumped. Spine and edgewear. Spine fade. Yellow top edge. Illustrated front endpapers. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Also extra library card on back of color plate.

Softcover. Waveland Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 221 pages, b&w illustrations. This work represents a reexamination, comparatively, of ethnographic data on six Northwest Coast societies, emphasizing underlying structures & the exchange systems of each. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page and Co. , 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 71 pages, illustrated end papers, copyright page and title page, color frontispiece. Color plates at pages 22 and 49. Light edge wear, small tears to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 90 pages. Black & white illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Edgewear, light rubbing to dust jacket. Clear plastic protective cover.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 263 pages. Color plates throughout. Five essays by contributors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st Thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in protective clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 693 pages with index, 16 pages of plates. A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau's journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description of the upper Missouri. This fully modern and magisterial edition of this essential journal surpasses all previous editions in assisting scholars and general readers in understanding Truteau's travels and encounters with the numerous Native peoples of the region, including the Arikaras, Cheyennes, Lakotas-Dakotas-Nakotas, Omahas, and Pawnees. Truteau's writings constitute the very foundation to our understanding of the late eighteenth-century fur trade in the region immediately preceding the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803. French and English text. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Norton/Smithsonian, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. From the foremost collection of the artist's work, a remarkable portrait of Native American life. In 1832, George Catlin-showman, entrepreneur, and artist-made the first of four trips into Indian country, painting as he went, in a wonderfully spontaneous, if somewhat naive style. His ambition was to paint every tribe. He fell short. But what he did achieve, and the subject of this splendid volume, is a remarkable look into the faces and daily activities of Native Americans before their lands and their numbers were so radically diminished. And while Catlin was clearly influenced by the idea that Indians were Noble Savages (rapidly acquiring the vices of the white man while losing their "savage" virtues), his passion for his work is evidence of a profound respect and affection for his subjects, clearly demonstrated in this magnificent book. 275 illustrations, 150 in color.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Hardcover, oblong salmon cloth-covered boards, illustrated paper label on front cover, wear to corners. Prose and poetry on eleven aspects of Pueblo Indian life, each passage accompanied by a beautiful color illustration after watercolors by Native American artists, including Allan Houser, an Apache who was the great-grandson of Geronimo and Gerald Nailor, a Navajo; both of whom studied at the Santa Fe School. Mild soil, shelfwear. No markings.

Barre, MA, Barre Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, photographs by Curtis. Introduction and commentary by Don D. Fowler. One hundred and eighteen superb representative photographs have been selected from Curtis's monumental work and reproduced in this book by The Meriden Gravure Company. Don Fowler describes Curtis the photographer and ethnographer, and the Indian groups depicted, commenting on the unique cultural characteristics of each tribe.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 5th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers stamped in blue, 56 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Herrera. Covers with some discoloration, interior clean, no markings.

Softcover. NY, Viking Press, Uncorr. proof, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers. Unrevised and unpublished proofs. Page numbers hand written, 562 pages. SIGNED BY MATTHIESSEN on half-title page: "With best wishes/Peter Matthiessen". The author's controversial and suppressed book about the confrontation between American Indian activists and the FBI in the early 1970s at Pine Ridge Reservation near Wounded Knee. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, First Thus, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 628 pages. Hardcover. Bright dust jacket with light sun fading to spine. Clean & unmarked text. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Portland, Or., C. H. Belding, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 119 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Co., reprint, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, 254 illustrations in color and b&w. First published in 1914, this is the 1934 reprint. Light yellow cloth with two-color design. Previous owner's signature, date on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.