Native Americana (20 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Program. A 4-sided flyer with a couple of black & white illustrations for this event, with the schedule, concerts, races, sporting contests. Giving some history of the occasion and of the indigenous community of the area; many of these people are named in the concert program as performers. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8" size; a little light wear & soiling, old fold-line crease; in good condition.…

Condition: Near Fine. Philadelphia 1953 first edition. American Philosophical Society. 4to wraps. Native Americana bibliography articles on pp. 578-644 written by William Nelson Fenton, George S Snyderman, Martha Chamion Randle and C F Voegelin with D H Hymes. Other articles in issue as well. Near Fine. no owner marks.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Program. 15 pages; a souvenir program for this event. With a Pageant, music by the band of the 13th U.S. Cavalry, speeches by Indian Chiefs, troop maneuvers along with the addresses of the governors of Oklahoma & Kansas. Native dances, songs & music, boxing matches, a football game; with the names of participants and committee members and the Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty Association officers. Back cover with image of a chief's profile and Index Print imprint. ".The Fetterman disaster and other military setbacks led the government to devise a peace movement. Treaties established reservations that promised rations and other goods, attracting many Indians to surrender and accept government handouts. The Fort Laramie and Medicine Lodge Treaties of 1867-1868 bound Plains Indians to settle on reservations. Most of the remaining Indian wars were fought to force Indians onto reservations or to return to reservations from which they had fled." (Robert M. Utley in the ANB) Approx. 6" x 9" size; illustrated stapled paper wrappers. Some wear & darkening, old fold-line crease; back cover crinkled some; in good condition.…

First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover); 120pp; illus. Mild external dusting, else a tight, clean, and unmarked copy, Very Good or better. Includes 49 reproductions of works in the collection.

First American Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's decorated sand colored card wraps. 276pp. Clean and sharp, very light wear, a little toning to the spine panel; internally clean and fresh. A very good, clean copy indeed. An academic and scholarly analysis of the Navajo Red Ant chant, and the complexities, ritualised processes and branches of Native American healing rituals.…

8vo. vii, 357, [1] pp. Illustrated title in red & black. Brick-red cloth, blue & gilt lettering on spine, gilt lozenge at lower right corner, w/ d.j. pictorial map cover art, cactus on spine (price-clipped), still NF/VG copy. First edition, stated, of this first title in the American Folkways series, published the same year Haniel Long's Pinon Country. This volume explores the myths and legends of the Mojave Desert, and the American southwest which stretches form the Mexican border to Nevada ghost towns, and over to the Grand Canyon. Incorporated are the struggles and stories of the Yuma, Apache, Paiute, Hopi, Papago, Havasupai Indigenous Peoples, and other Western stories.…

First Thus. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's red faux leather titled and decorated in orange, pink and green foil to spine and front board. 412pp. Lightly bumped to spne ends and extremities, clean and striking; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to verso front flyleaf, with some neat pencil marginalia. A very good, handsome copy. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, bibliophile and anthropologist, with his bookplate and discrete academic notes. A reprinting of the 1935 edition into accessible form, something Rio Grande excelled at in the 1970's, seeking out forgotten or neglected works on Native American history and culture and re-presenting them to the public.…

First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in red and maroon to the spine. Dustjacket. [xx]; 340pp. Very light wear, some minor bumping at spine ends, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh; in a bright dustjacket with some slight toning and shallow cosmetic wear to the upper edge. A very good, handsome copy. A scholarly examination of contemporary new discoveries regarding the Pueblo peoples viewed not just through the traditional archeological and anthropological lens, but also from the perspectives of ecological data, ethnolinguistics, ethnomusicology, and the importance of oral traditions in past cultures.…

First Thus. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's cream colored rexine titled and decorated in red and green to spine and front board. [xxv]; 411pp. Very light wear and scuffing to sorners and spine ends, tight and strong; internally clean and fresh. A very good, handsome copy indeed. A reprint of the 1912 first edition in a new, more accessible format, very much in keeping with what Rio Grande was producing throughout the 1970's and early-80's. An accessible edition of Lumholtz's early anthropological studies around the Sonoran Desert. Illustrated throughout with folding maps tipped in at the rear of the volume.…

Thick 8vo. xxv, [1], 508 pp. Lithograph frontisp., 15 lithograph and woodcut-engraved plates. Pictorial red publisher's cloth, cover art image of author being named "Timus, White Chief of the Palouses," gilt decorative lettering on spine, decorated endpapers (minor shelfwear, rubbing, soiling to back cover, inner front hinge starting), still VG- copy. Fourth edition of this expanded edition of the author's memoir detailing his life emigrating across the Oregon & California Trail in 1852 to Shasta City, gold mining, the 1853 Rogue River Indian War, including the Takelma, Shasta, and Applegate River People (Athabascan); details on the events leading to the Whitman Massacre, defending the Northwest against Confederate sympathizers, mail carrier, and later gold mining in the Okanagan/Kootenay Valley, and later as scout and translator for General O.O. Howard during the Nez Perce Indian War. Of particular interest in this later edition, is the inclusion of the detailed biographical supplement, and addresses for Oregon, Idaho, & Washington Territory Pioneers gathered together by Hubert Howe Bancroft, including occupations, and genealogical information. Howes, H811; Smith, 4891; Graff, 2018.…

8vo. xxi, [1], [23]-602 pp., plus 4 pp. publisher's ads. Steel-engraved frontisp., with numerous woodcut engravings & illustrations. Plum-coloured publisher's cloth, gilt bear stamped on front cover, title lettering embossed in blind on spine (minor foxing to frontisp., minor sunning & wear to spine, edgewear, slight uniform interior toning), still a VG- copy. Second printing, of this informative work gathered from the author's first-hand interviews with early settlers and mountain men of the Pacific Northwest, including Joe Meek, William Henry Gray, and others. Much of the work was actually written in the house of noted Oregon pioneer & author, Belle W. Cooke who describes how she was "often reading the manuscript to my father and mother for comment." Victor herself notes after publication that some of the historical facts regarding Marcus Whitman, his efforts in the Oregon Country, and the massacre, orally related to her by Gray, needed to have been checked more carefully. Victor (d. 1902), was the primary author for the Bancroft histories of Oregon, Washington, and the Northwest Coast, as well as a noted author of poetry and literature. See Powers, History of Oregon Literature, pp. 282, 305-309, Graff, 4477 (1870 ed.).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 127 pages. The illustration listing page 'Note' states that "The above named views, portraits, and inscriptions, are careful representations of the originals. They were drawn by H.B. Mollhausen, artist to the expedition." These 42 numbered illustrations are collated complete and include small maps and tinted view plates, portraits of Native peoples and artifact remains. Civilian author Thomas Ewbank (1792 - 1870) was a commissioner of patents, inventor, and historian of technology; whose ".concern with the arts of the earliest occupants of the New World was an attempt to demonstrate through historical investigation the laws of progress that governed the "miracles of the workshop, uniting the past, present and future." The writings and public career of Ewbank are important for an understanding of how an important segment of mid-nineteenth-century public intellectuals viewed technology and its place in an expanding industrial society." (William A. Bate in the ANB) The third-named author and friend of Ewbank in this work, Prof. William Wadden Turner (1810 - 1859) a philologist and librarian ".was "pre-eminently distinguished at Washington as the highest authority in all matters appertaining to the knowledge of the languages of the aborigines of America." He "mastered easily and rapidly the principles of comparative philology which have become in the present period the surest guides in tracing the histories and affinities of different races." When Turner died prematurely in Washington, D.C., Joseph Henry, then secretary of the Smithsonian, mourned "a ripe scholar, a profound philosopher, and an honest man." (Martin J. Manning, also in the ANB) The report was part of the explorations and surveys for a railroad route across the U.S., which had been conducted during the years 1853 and 1854. Contents include chapter material on the ".localities, numbers, modes of subsistence, &c. of various tribes upon the route"; Indian residences, portraits and dress; traditions, superstitions, pictographs; Indian antiquities and arts; vocabularies of North American languages; condition of the aborigines of New Mexico upon its discovery by Spaniards; history of the Apache nation and other tribes. Approx. 9" x 11 3/4" size, bound in full heavily-textured sober dark brown cloth; small spine title-label gilt, rubbed. Covers with a little edge, tips wear; front and back endpapers scraped, chewed some; boards very good; title page with a few small holes & spotty; contents darkened some; in good condition.…

First American Edition. Quarto. 21cm. Publisher's pale grey heavy grain cloth titled in dark grey to spine. Dustjacket. [9]; [10-212 paginated]; [12]. Some minor bumping and scuffing to corners and spine ends, and a little discoloration of the pale cloth around the extreme edges, tight and strong; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to front pastedown, lavishly illustrated throughout; in a strong, complete example of the white embossed dustjacket with some soiling and thumbing, and some visible toning of the spine panel and extremities. A very good copy of a book that falls prey to its design aesthetic. A cultural celebration of Inuit and Yupik peoples and the manner in which their almost constant struggles for survival and cultural security have shaped their societies, art, and cultures. …

Printed card, 4 x 6 ½ inches, verso printing "Sounds Represented by Vowels" (six lines) and "Consonant Sounds" (seven lines) and the publisher's stamp ("John W. Shleppey / 1911 E 17th Place / Tulsa 4, Okla." Shleppey (1901-1975) owned an advertising business in Tulsa before moving to Seattle where he opened a bookstore. OCLC locates one copy (SMU). Very good.…

First Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titld and decorated in yellow and dark grey to spine and front board. [xi]; 348pp. Light wear and bumping to spine ends, a little scuffing to the corners; internally clean and fresh. A very good, clean copy. A dense catalog of various land and territory claims being made by the Alaskan native American population after decades of mistreatment and exploitation by various governments and institutions. A set of maps detailing the various claim locations is present in a pocket to the rear of the volume. Not merely a list of grievances presented by the now defunct Alaskan Native Foundation, but also an analysis of the community and national benefits that would come from a more equitable and respectful territorial arrangement in the state. Of particular interest is the information that when Russia ceded Alaska to the US it did so after claiming the territory "By Right of Discovery" which meant that the land had the status of being largely unoccupied and with no significant culture present; the upshot of this piece of semantic colonialism being that neither Russia nor the US was under any obligation to support or protect the natives of the region, making the entire territory a ripe field for unchecked exploitation.…

First Thus. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's pale toffee colored boards titled and decorated to spine and front board in black and metallic red. 213pp. Some very light scuffing and soiling to the boards, with a little bumping to the extremities. Strong and solid, a very good copy. Internally clean. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. An invaluable repository of design and technique, reprinted from a virtually unobtainable 1927 work. 81361. …

First Edition. First Printing. Two Volumes. Large Quarto. 22.5cm. Publisher's oatmeal colored heavy grain cloth titled in gilt to spines. Housed in a slipcase, as issued. [xl]; 683pp. [5].; [xiii]; 758pp. [pagination contiguous across both vols]. Both bindings bright and strong, with some light toning to the spines; internally clean, lavishly produced; in a clean strong slipcase with some loose threads in places and a little shelf soiling. A very good, clean copy indeed in its original slipcase. Father Powell is considered one of the leading historians of Native American peoples, founder of the St. Augustine Center for American Indians in Chicago, a researcher at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library, and an Honorary Chief of the Northern Cheyenne Peoples. This mammoth work is essentially an historical biography of the Cheyenne over a critical 40 year period in the 19th century.…

182 x 120 mm. (7 1/8 x 4 3/4"). 24 pp. Original tan printed wrappers (with several small, expert repairs to back), stitched as issued. Housed in a tan paper-covered chemise with black morocco label and gilt lettering and matching slipcase. With eight wood-engraved plates by Porret after George Catlin. Sabin 47467; Howes 500. Some harmless fraying along bottom edge of wrapper, covers just a little soiled, text a bit toned and lightly foxed, two small open tears to last two leaves, but the important illustrations (printed on a better quality of paper) bright and pleasing. With some inevitable defects, given what it is, but still an excellent copy of a fragile pamphlet. This is a well-preserved copy of the fragile and uncommonly seen brochure recording the famous mid-19th century Paris performances of Ioway Indians and George Catlin's celebrated Native American portraits, a visit that caused a sensation among Parisians. Catlin (1796-1872) walked away from a Pennsylvania law practice at age 25 in order to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. He achieved some success as a portrait painter but found the work dull. After seeing a delegation of Native American leaders from the Western states in Philadelphia (and perhaps being influenced by the fact that his mother had been captured for a time by the Indians in 1778), he decided to dedicate himself to memorializing those tribes whose traditional way of life was being destroyed. He travelled throughout the American interior, where he met and painted people from many indigenous groups, making an effort to depict realistically their traditional ways of life. ANB says that his paintings "show people, not romantic stereotypes, and the ethnographic value of his work has only appreciated with the passage of time." He staged exhibitions of his work in the United States, then worked with promoter George H. C. Melody to take his exhibition across the Atlantic to tour Europe. They were accompanied by Chief Francis White Cloud (d. 1859) and 11 other members of the Iowa (or Ioway) tribe, along with translator Jeffrey Deroine (also Doraway, 1806-59), a formerly enslaved African American who had been raised near the Iowa and leveraged his language skills into a successful career as a diplomat and interpreter. Arriving in Paris in 1845, the exotic entourage, which featured Catlin's paintings alongside performances by the Iowa contingent, was an enormous success, impressing a great many visitors, including, among the famous, Charles Baudelaire, Benjamin Disraeli, Victor Hugo, and George Sand. The present pamphlet, produced as a record of the visit, includes eight reproductions of Catlin's paintings, along with a description of the Native American visitors, an account of their meeting with King Louis-Phillipe, and ethnographic excerpts from the Office of Indian Affairs. This work infrequently appears on the market: we could trace only two copies at auction since 1966. Our copy, with the delicate wrappers largely intact and retaining its original stitching, is especially desirable.…

Condition: Fine. The formation of the California Native Cavalry in 1863 marked a significant chapter in the state's history. Comprising primarily Mexican-American individuals, colloquially referred to as "native" Californians, the California Native Cavalry unit was formed 1863. Initially commanded by Maj. Andreas Pico, a distinguished hero from the Mexican-American War, and later under Salvador Vallejo, the regiment drew its ranks from diverse backgrounds. Recruitment efforts began with vaqueros from southern California, expanding to include individuals from San José and San Francisco. The unit boasted a varied composition, encompassing not only Mexican-Americans but also Chilenos, California and Yaqui Indians, and even French legionnaires. Company "B," a contingent largely recruited from the northern part of the state, is reflected in the existing muster roll. The company assembled at Camp Low near San Juan Bautista in 1865, making a striking entrance into the town. Described as "gay and gallant Spanish lancaroes," the cavalrymen presented a formidable sight with lances in hand and flags flying, leaving a lasting impression on the townspeople who had never before encountered soldiers."The gay and gallant Spanish lancaroes [sic] came dashing through the town with the lances in their hand, a flag flying from each of them. I assure you that they presented a war like appearance, the people here had never seen a soldier in their lives Yes Sir." (letter, Maj. Michael O'Brien to Gov. Frederick Low, January 1865; quoted in Prezelski, "Lives of the Californio Lancers: the First Battalion of Native California Cavalry" in Journal of Arizona History, v.40, no.1 (Spring 1999). Under the command of Capt. Porfirio Jimeno, Company B swiftly engaged in a critical mission: dismantling the notorious Mason-Henry Gang that had terrorized the San Juan region in the preceding months. Despite successfully wounding John Mason in early April 1865, the gang persisted for another month until Mason met his demise at the hands of a miner he sought to kidnap. However, Company B faced challenges, including low morale and a high rate of desertions, with over 40 men leaving the company in 1865 alone. Transferred to Tubac, Arizona Territory, to confront the Apaches, the company encountered further desertions along the way. The muster roll, listing only twelve soldiers alongside Capt. Porfirio Jimeno, reflects this tumultuous period. Overall the muster roll provides scarce documentation of the role of Mexican-Americans in the Civil War, with few other examples in the trade or institutionally. Original partially printed document, 26cm x 77cm. Printed on both sides of the sheet, completed in manuscript. Darkening at folds from old tape repairs; partial splits to folds and extremities; complete and quite Good. Docketed verso, signed in ink by Lieutenant M[organ?] Owen. Lists twelve enlisted soldiers, most with Spanish surnames (two with French surnames).…

Condition: Good. Boston May 28, 1735. J Draper. paginated 551-558. Appears to have been removed from larger binding but still bound together. Narrow tall 4to. wraps. Full title: "An act for the more effectual regulating the private Trade with the Eastern and Western Indians, and the preventing Abuses therein." Lightly toned and slight stains. Good plus. Guaranteed original. Pictures available on request.…