Native Peoples

Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.: Museum of Northern Arizona, 1990. 32 pages, color photos, map. Book is clean inside & out, sun fade. Contents include: Pleistocene Environment; Philosophical and Historical Perspective; Early Paleo-Indian Cultures; Hunters and Gatherers, the Archaic Peoples; Environmental Change.. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A: Self Published, 1998 148 pages, Index, Bibliography, Glossary, Line Drawings, author's inscription on reverse of front cover, tables. Clean, crisp copy. Contents include: Solstice Journey; Triangularity; Azimuths; Cracking the Code; Rock Art Lessons; Geometric Proof; Stonehenge Lessons; Mesoamerican Expeditions; The Puebloans; Horizon Calendars; Polaris Possibility; Mountain Marker; Designing the Petroglyph Calendar; etc.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.: Arizona Archaeological Society, 1999 229 pp., References, Tables, B/W Photos & Illustrations, Maps. Clean, crisp copy. Contents include: Excavation; Ceramics, Pottery; Ceremaics, Reworked, Modeled, Unusual Vessel Forms; Lithics; Shell Artifacts; Copper Bells; Animal Bone and Bone Tools; Human Burials; Pollen; Radiocarbon Dating; etc.. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Self Published, 1981. 216 pages, duo-tone photos, author's inscription on 3rd page. Few faint smudges to covers, light crease at hinge, light edge & corner wear. 78 stories in all. Contents include: Old Coyote and the Stars; White Brother; Prayer Stick; Circle of Life; Number "Four"; Prayers to Different Directions; Healing Prayers; Comanche Way; Advice to a Grandson; Crazy Mis-Placed Person; Our Brother, the Eagle; The Wast Wars; Thoughts on Dying; Thunder Maker; Our Friend, the Turtle; Lone Lightning; Indian Stew; Kindred Spirits; Mothers People; Buffalo Medicine; Looking into the Past; Indian Humor; Corn Maiden; Cloud Eater; Rainbow Spirit; How Turtle Helped Form Earth; How the Bear Lost His Tail; Snow Birds; Heritage; Kinship Chart; etc.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good - Minus. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Vashon, WA, USA: Merryant Pub Inc, 1992 56 pages, staple bound, Glossary, B/W Illustrations. Clean inside & out but for old price sticker on front cover. Contents include: Trade; Baskets & Pottery; Hunting & Fishing; Food; Religion, Clothing; Village Life; History; Villages; Tools & Utinsils; etc.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Daniel Liddell. Used. more information

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San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.: Naylor Company, 1974 219 pages, 4 pages of full Color Photos, 64 photos in B/W, endpapers are maps. Book is clean inside & out, no flaws of mention. Dustjacket is bright & clean, light scuff, small tears, price clipped. Book recounts the Cassel familys three month Odyssey with the Lacandons of southern Mexico. They found startling parallels between the religious beliefs of the Lacandons and their Mayan progenitors. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Used. more information

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Chicago, IL, USA: Dorsey Press, 1989 337 pages, bibliography, maps, b/w photos. Bright clean covers, name written on first page, one page has margin marks, light corner wear. Contents include: Alternate Identities and Cultural Frontiers; Simon Girty; Joseph Renville and the Ethos of Biculturism; Ottawa Identity and Politics of Ottawa Persistence; Eleazer Williams - Elitism and Multiple Identity on Two Frontiers; Susette and Susan LaFlesch - Reformer and Missionary; Mourning Dove - The Quthor as Cultural Mediator; From Sylvester Long to Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance; Keeping Our Indian Way; Maud Clairmont-Artist, Entrepreneur, Cultural Mediator; Oopeeleeka and Mina; etc.. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Australia: Rigby Limited, 1979 298 pages, Index, Bibliography, B/W Photos, endpapers are maps. Clean but for name written in pencil in two places and address label, light scuff at bottom edge, tiny faint spot on top edge. Dustjacket has light scuff. Author spent 10 years working with the Aborigines and lets them speak for themselves. Along with Reverend Lazarus Lamilami he looked at their tribal laws, sexual behaviour, totem worship, customs, their first contact with foreigners, the Macassan trepangers in the seventeenth century.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Used. more information

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Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.: Arizona State University, 1980 281 pages, Bibliography, Graphs, Map, Fold-out Charts. Few faint smudges to covers, light edgewear, some corner wear. Contents include: Hohokam social organization and the sedentary to classic transition; Mesoamerica and the Hohokam; Exchange and the Hohokam Archaeobotanical record; Modelling Hohokam interaction and exchange; Subsistence and interaction; Hohokam regional diversity as seen from the lower Salt River Valley; Hohokam and the Nothern periphery; The Hohokam in the North; Colonizationof the Northeastern Hohokam periphery; Hohokam of the lower San Pedro valley and the Northern Papagueria; etc.. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.: Museum of Northern Arizona Press, 1990. 32 pages, staple bound, color & b/w photos, suggested reading. Clean inside & out. Contents include: Brief History; Tewa; Towa; Tiwa; Keres; Zuni.. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.: Museum of New Mexico Pr, 1979 unpaginated, approx. 12 pages, staple bound. Clean but for tiny ink mark on front cover, wear to spine, small split at top of spine. Booklet deals with the mythological origins, archaeological history, and everyday use of metate and mano.. Soft Cover. Good. Used. more information

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Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.: Arizona Archaeological Society, 1990 202 pp., Maps, Line Drawings, References. Clean, crisp copy. Contents include: Site Structure; Establishment of a Chronology; Architecture; Artifact Analysis Methodologies; Stratigraphy; Architectural Features; Artifact Assemblages From Structures; Subsistence Patterns; Evidence From Macrobotanical Remains; Cremation Burials from Los Hornos; etc.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.: Arizona Archaeological Society, 2004 58 pp., References, B/W Photos & Illustrations. Clean, crisp copy. Contents include: Southern Athapaskan Ceramics; Chiricahua Apache Pottery; John Spring's 1867 "Cards"; Mescalero Apache Pottery; Radiocarbon Dating of Pitch on Pots; New Pots; Where Does Chinati Pottery Fit?; Who are the Defenders in Segesser I?; etc.. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.: University of Nebraska Press, 1972 pages 313 thru 660, Index, B/W Photos, Music scores. Clean, cisp copy, light scuff to covers, light edge & corner wear. Contents include: Social Life; Music; Warfare; Weapons; Societies; Disease and Its Treatment; Death and Burial Customs; Religion and Ethics; Language; Secret Societies; Treaties with the U.S.; Survey of the Reservation; etc.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, Limited, 1990. 129 pages, clean, crisp copy. Tales of courage and cowardice, wisdom and foolishness, kindness and cruelty; their characters are women and men, birds, animals, stars and ghost-riders. Tales include: A Song for Lone Warrior; How the Thunder Made Horses; The Old Man and the Ducks; How the Old Man Made People; The Snake with the Big Feet; Moon Woman; Ghost Stallion; Ghost Pipe; Wood Cree's Story; Calf Looking's Wife; Wives of the Wolverine; People of the Many Chiefs; Blue End of the World; Red Head; Dancing People; etc.. ISBN: 0-88894-685-6. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Wheaton, IL, U.S.A.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1991. 217 pages, B/W photos & illustrations. Bright covers, tight wrap, clean but for small ink marks on side edge (not remainder marks). Book traces the dramatic revival of the Plains Ceremonial Pipe as a tool of self-realization and unity. Contents include: Invoking the Invisible through Ceremony; The Sacred Sweat; The Vision Quest; Medicine Wheel; Sorcery or Medicine?; Native Indian Healing; A Hopi Healer's Power; The Jesus Road; Centuries of Pipe-Making; etc.. ISBN: 0-8356-0611-2. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Wheaton, IL, U.S.A.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1986. 217 pages, B/W photos & illustrations. Bright covers, tight wraps, clean inside & out. Book traces the dramatic revival of the Plains Ceremonial Pipe as a tool of self-realization and unity. Contents include: Invoking the Invisible through Ceremony; The Sacred Sweat; Vision Quest; Medicine Wheel; Sorcery or Medicine?; Native Indian Healing; A Hopi Healer's Power; The Jesus Road; Centuries of Pipe-Making; etc.. ISBN: 0-8356-0611-2. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Prospect Heights, IL, USA: Waveland Press, 1988 564 pages, Index, Glossary, Bibliography, B/W Illustrations. Book is clean inside & out but for owners name in pencil on first page, front cover has ceased corners, creased spine. Contents include: First Settlers in the New World; Cultivation and American Cultures; Culture Areas of North America; Artic and the Subarctic; Plateau and the Northwest Coast; California; Great Basin and the Southwest; The Plains; The East; Technology, Art, and Religion; Social and Political Systems; Conflict Between Cultures; Indian-White Relations; Contemporary Indians; . Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Tennessee, USA: Self Published, 1988. 184 pages, staple bound, line drawings. One tiny speck on front cover. Book will enlighten you on the traditional Eastern Cherokee ways. The ways of the Etowah Cherokee. Ways and practices born of those old mountains: the Appalachians. Contents include: Did You Know; Cherokee Sayings; Notable Cherokee Cherokee; Cherokee Religion; Trail of Tears; Etowah; The Trail Ahead.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Rochester, VT, USA: Inner Traditions, 1994 333 pages, Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Color & B/W Photos. Clean, crisp copy, light edge wear to rear cover. Contents include: Tibetan & Navajo Sacred World; Spirit in the Sacred World; Wind of Life, Light of Mind; Cosmic Mother; Spiritual Hero; Ultimate Union; At the Center of the Sacred World; Manda;a Universals; Journey to the Primordial Ground; Rite of Treansformation; Night Way Rite; Wheel of Time Initiation; Sacred Way of Life; Beyond Time and Form; . Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Academic Press, 1983 516 pp, Index, References, endpapers are maps, B/W Photos, green cloth boards, index card with note to Hames' Mother is signed & enclosed in the book. Three scratches to boards, small ink marks on both covers, very light scuff on corners & edges, text free of marks. Contents include: Machiguenga Gardens; The Cultivation of Manioc among the the Kuikuru of the Upper Xingu; Adaptive Strategies of Wakuenai Peoples; Neotropical Hunting among the Ache; Shotguns, Blowguns, and Spears; Why Do the Mekranoti Trek; Cocamilla Fishing; Diet of the Aguaruna and Huambisa; The Settlement Pattern of a Yanomamo Population Bloc; Siona-Secoya and Encabellado Adaptation; etc.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good - Minus/No Jacket. Used. more information

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Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1980. 271 pages, color & B/W photos & illustrations throughout, Index, References, Appendix, Maps. Tight wraps, slant, very minor edgewear, small faint spot on rear cover, owners name on 1st page. This volume surveys how Indians defined tribelet territories, shows how cultural areas related to bioregional boundaries, and describes the patterns of village life. It explains the nature and uses of Indian tools and artifacts in procuring and preparing food and other necessities. And it summarizes the destruction of Indian ways, and the decimation of the Indian population, throught the impact of the whites.. ISBN: 0-520-03896-7. First Printing. Soft Cover. Good +. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Sydney, Australia: Self Published, 1993 Unpaginated, approx. 84 pages, staple bound, B/W photos throughout, Hogarth's signature under his name on title page. One small faint spot on rear cover, very light corner wear, light crease on front cover. Book is a personal look at Native America. "The confidence, pride and joy in the photographs of young Native America is a tribute to these men and many others who will ensure Native America continues to survive, grow and contribute much to the world's increasingly self-centered societies.". Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Rochester, VT, USA: Inner Traditions, 1991 412pp, Index, Bibliography, 150+ color & duotone illustrations. Clean inside & out, very light edge & corner wear, rub. Walk with our most ancient human ancestors into the First Day and discover: A people who rejected agriculture, architecture, writing, clothing, and the subjugation of animals; A lifestyle of hunting and gathering; Initiatic and ritual practices that hold the origins of all esoteric, yogic, magical, and shamanistic traditions; A sexual and emotional life that afforded diversity and fluidity as well as marital and social stability; A people who valued kinship, community, and the law of the Dreamtime as their greatest "possessions"; A people balanced between the Dreaming and the perceivable world, in harmony with all.. First Printing. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: New American Library, 1972 128 pages, Index, Line Drawings. Bright covers, clean inside & out but for name on first page, light edge & corner wear, dents, yellowing of pages. A compelling study of the sacramental use of the Native American hallucinogen. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Used. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Perennial Library, 1975 310 pages. Clean inside & out, light edge & corner wear, dents. Compressed in one volume is the whole story of the American Indians' twenty-five thousand years of life in the new world. McNickle's object is to interpret and explain.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Used. more information

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New York, NY, USA: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 150 pages, Bibliography, Glossary, B/W Photos. Book is clean inside & out, sun fade to spine, light scuff. Contents include: History of the Region; Early Childhood; Middle and Later Childhood; The Schools; Effectiveness of the Schools.. ISBN: 0-03-084237-9. Trade Paper. Very Good. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Rochester, VT, USA: Inner Traditions, 1993 226 pages, Index, Glossary, more than 120 color plates. Book is clean inside & out, both covers have faint crease (stiff covers). Work tells of the Wandjina creation spirits and their "crossing over" into ancestor entities (personae) and eventually into human form. Yorro Yorro signifies the continual creation and renewal of nature. Contents include; Towards the Little Lights; Snakes; Derby; The Wunnan; Kalumburu; Cloud Dreaming; Dreamig of Daylight and Darkness; Track Wandjinas; Mowaljarlai - Young Days, Mission Training, War, Great Changes, US Marine; Lalai - Creation in the Kimberley, Earth Serpent, Law, Dulugun, Songs, Healing, Flood, Bandaiyan, Wandjina Died.. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.: Univ of Nebraska Press, 1994 114 pages, Bibliography. Clean, crisp copy, light edge wear. Contents include: When the Earth Was New; Contest for Daylight; Coyote Cycle and Other Animal, Bird, and Insect Tales; Stories of Supernatural Beings and Encounters with Supernaturals; etc.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.: Northland Publishing, 1989 121 pages, Color photos throughout, oblong format. Clean inside & out, corners lightly bumped, dents, rub. Forward by Robert Redford. Contents include: Children of the Sun; Mother Corn; Sheep and Weaving; Heavy Duty; At Home; Ceremony; The Most Beautiful People; etc.. First Edition. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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Kendall Park, NJ, USa: Lakota Books, 1994 Unpaginated, approx. 50 pages, staple bound, B/W Photos. Front cover, has small faint spot, rear cover has several light spots, light edge & corner wear, text clean & unmarked, old price sticker on front cover. Contents include: The Language; Social Dances; War Dance Songs; Contemporary Music and Dance of the Western Sioux; Sioux Omaha Dance; Rabbit Dance; Sneak-Up Dance; Drum Dance; Flag Dance.. Soft Cover. Good. Used. more information

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Zanesfield, OH, USA: Self Published, 2003 279 pages, Index, Selected Bibliography, author's inscription on first page. Book is clean inside & out, very slight curl to front cover, very light corner wear. Contents include: Ancient Texts are Becoming Available; American Indian Spirituality; Ancient Native American Peace Shield Teachings; Indigenous Peoples Prophecies; Mother Earth Speaks To Earth Walkers - Her Spiritual Lessons; Preparing for Cosmic Relationships; Steps Toward Personal Healing. . Signed by Author. Trade Paper. Very Good. Used. more information

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Sedona, AZ, U.S.A.: Thorne Enterprises Publications, Inc., 1995 88 pages, staple bound, B/W photos, map, bibliography, index, author's inscription on title page. Clean & bright copy. The Yavapai, Sedona's Native People. Contents include: Wipukapaya-the people of the Red Rocks; Civilization's insatiable monsters-hate and greed; Death March to San Carlos; San Carlos to the Present; General George Crook; Indian Scouts versus Indian Outlaws; Cibicue Mutiny-August 30, 1881; The Demise of Geronimo; etc.. Signed by Author. Pamphlet. Very Good. Illus. by Marie, Sue (illustrator). Used. more information

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Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.: Univ of Nebraska Press, 1978. 172 pages. Book is clean inside & out but for owners name on first page, some scuff to covers, light edge & corner wear. Slim Curly's origin myths of ajilee and Mothway were recorded by Father Berard during the winter of 1930-31. Contents include: The Scrap-picker Boy; Puberty Initiation at Riverward Knoll; Hopi Virgins Seduced and Antelope Hunted; Coyote Skin and Hoops; Home Made of Down and Beyond; White Butterfly and the Hero's Retirement; Prostitutionway Performed; Mothway Myth; Navajo Text; 1944 Revised Version; 1941 Version. . ISBN: 0-89734-026-4. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Asheville, NC, U.S.A.: Lark Books, 1995 128pp, author's signature on ffep, Index, Color & B/W Photos throughout, Line Drawings, Bibliography, Sources, Suggested Reading, tan cloth boards. Book is clean, has light scuff at corners. Dustjacket has dents, dampness wrinkle on rear cover (no stains), slight age discoloring. Contents include:Materials and Tools; Site Selection; History and Traditions; Sewing the Tipi Cover; Pitching a Tipi; Building the Frame; Sewing the Yurt Canvas; Assembling a Yurt; Heating, Cooling and Ventilation; Kitchens and Bathrooms; Decks and Other Structures; Metric Conversion Table; etc. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Used. more information

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Grand Forks, ND, USA: INMED Program, 1985 118 pages, line drawings, b/w photos. Both covers have few faint spots, small tear at base of front cover/spine, text clean. Contents include: Comments on the Role of Indian Women in History; Indians Into Medicine; Reflections of An Indian Woman Physician; Indian Women Pioneers in the Field of Medicine; Understanding and Resisting Stereotypes; Definition of a Good Indian Woman; Stresses Encounted by American Indian Women; How Families Cope; My Mother Was One of the First Indian Nurses; Indian Nurses; Pathways. . Oversized Soft Cover. Good. Used. more information

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Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.: Univ of Utah Press, 1984. 209 pages, B/W Photos, Map. Clean copy, dents, light edge & corner wear. Contents include: Ute Peyotism; Washo-Northern Paiute Peyotism; Navaho and Ute Peyotism; Friend to the Ute; History of Peyotism in Nevada.. ISBN: 0-87480-235-0. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.: Northland Publishing, 1988 165 pages, color & B/W photos throughout, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Book is clean inside & out, no flaws of mention. Dustjacket in Brodart, with edge & corner wear. Words by the Indian Peoples of the Southwest based on an audio-visual show created for the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. Seven thematic sections tell the story: The Land, Sustenance, Family, Community, Ceremony, Artists, and Continuity.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good - Minus. Used. more information

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Summertown, TN, U.S.A.: Book Pub Co, 1987. 59 pages, color illustrations. Clean inside & out, light scuff, corner wear. Seven stories inspired by Native American tradition tell how the Creator gave us the herbs, and why we are to be thankful for these gifts. . ISBN: 0-913990-56-6. First Edition. Oversized Soft Cover. Very Good - Minus. Used. Native Peoples. more information

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Muskogee, OK, USA: Muscogee Publishing, 1983 72 pages, B/W Illustrations, author's signature on title page. Light edge & corner wear, few faint smudges to covers, deep dent in front cover, date & old price sticker on reverse of front cover. Contents include: How the Earth was Made; How the Sun Came; What the Stars are Like; The Milky Way; Wahnenauhi Manuscript; Prophecy Concerning White Men; Cherokee Marriage Customs; Lesson From Nature; Cure for Snake Bite; Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine; Indian Proverbs; Plant Lore; etc.. Signed. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Matt West. Used. more information

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Norman OK., U.S.A: University of Oklahoma, 1965 359 pages, Index, Maps, Bibliography, B/W Photos, author's signature on first page. Book is clean inside & out but for small faint ink smudge on front cover, light scuff. History of the Cherokee nation from the initial contact with the Spanish to their status in the United States in 1988. It covers the Cherokee's relations with the colonies, federalization, the Cherokee-Georgia controversy, treaties, the Civil War, and the "Trail of Tears." Contents include: Savages & Spaniards in 1540; Appraisal of the Cherokees by the Colonists; War and Peace with the Colonists; Federalization of the Cherokees; Treaty of New Echota; Discord in the West; White Man's Civil War; Progress; Oft-inked Treaty Pen; Reconstruction and Statehood.. Signed by Author. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used. more information

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