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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic, by Niven, Jennifer, Hyperion, New York, 2003. Stated First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 431 pp with maps and black and white plates. Maroon cloth boards with gilt spine titles; rough cut edges. Volume is in unread, pristine condition; dust jacket is price clipped with very slight top edge wear.

In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a seamstress for a top-secret Arctic expedition, her goal was simple: earn money and find a husband. But her terrifying experiences--both in the wild and back in civilization--comprise one of the most amazing untold adventures of the 20th century. Based on a wealth of unpublished materials, including Ada's never-before-seen diaries.

The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Captive of Maquinna, John R Jewitt, annotated and illustrated by Hilary Stewart. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, Canada, 1987. First Canadian Edition. 4to up to 12" tall; 192pp. Black cloth boards with silver spine titles. Two small and very light scratches to boards and otherwise volume is in fine condition. Unclipped jacket has light inside toning to top edge and an inside soil spot.
Held captive as a slave after his crew was killed, John R. Jewitt experienced adventure and hardship as he learned about the native life of Nootka Sound. This new edition contains nearly 300 annotations and 200 drawings for the book by Hilary Stewart. During three years of research, Stewart tracked down the English captive's descendants, John Rodgers Jewitt IV, V and VI, living in the United States, and Northwest Indians still bearing the name Maquinna. Jewitt's journal which was first published in 1815.
Hilary Stewart (1924-2014) was an award-winning author… Read More

The Arunta, A Study of a Stone Age People, Spencer, Sir Baldwin; F.J. Gillen Published by Macmillan and Co. Ltd., St. Martin's Street, London, 1927. First Edition. Two volumes. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Paged continuously: xxviii, 390; xvi, 391-646pp plus plates; bibliographical references and index. Paged continuously: xxviii, 390; xvi, 391-646pp plus plates. Hundreds of black and white plates, illustrations and diagrams in both volumes. Volume One has large folding map with title tissue overlay; Volume Two has double-paged colour plates and a fold out colour plate of Ceremonial Objects with title tissue overlay. Green cloth boards with gilt spine titles; top edge gilt. Contents of both volumes are in near mint condition with pages presenting as bright, white and unmarked. Small closed tear to gutter of fold out map Volume One not affecting map itself; tiny closed tear and fore edge ruffle page 273, Volume One; small chip edge of rear free endpaper Volume Two. Very light wear to boards; binding is… Read More

B C Studies No 6 7 Fall Winter 1970. Special Issue: Archaeology in British Columbia New Discoveries. Margaret Prang, Walter Young, Roy Carlson, (Editors) University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, BC. 1970. First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 152 pp. Illustrated with charts and photos; includes and extensive bibliography of archaeology in the province. Light wear to covers with original UBC bookstore price sticker; contents are in fine condition without markings, tears or folds.

BC Studies, Native Geographies No. 138 & 139 Summer-Autumn 2003. Robert A. J. McDonald (Editor). Published by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2003. The British Columbia Quarterly. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 224 pp. In mint, unread condition with the lightest of wear to front cover. This double issue honours one of North America's leading historical geographers, Cole Harris, and his award-winning book Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia. It explores the ways that colonial discourse and the Western World have impacted First Nations and their processes of making space in BC.

BC Studies Special Issue Anthropology and History in the Courts, No. 95 Autumn 1992. Guest Editor Bruce G. Miller. Published by University of British Columbia, 1992. (A Quarterly Journal of the Humanities and Social Services). First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 112 pp. Light wear to covers; contents in fine, unread condition. This issue contains seminal articles, including Julie Cruikshank on the Invention of Anthropology in the context of title cases.

BC Studies A Special Issue In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia No. 89, Spring 1991. Guest Editors Doreen Jensen & Cheryl Brooks. Published by University of British Columbia, 1991. First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 169pp. In mint, unread condition. Doreen Jensen (1933 – 2009), also known as Ha'hl Yee, was a Gitsxan elder, artist, carver, activist and educator. This issue contains essays, art work and poetry.

BC Studies, Ethnographic Eyes No. 125 & 126 – Spring/Summer 2000. Cole Harris and Jean Barman (Editors). Published by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 2000. The British Columbian Quarterly. First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 200 pp. In mint, unread condition. This double issue commemorates Douglas L. Cole, a noted British Columbian cultural historian, best known for his ground-breaking 1985 book Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts and for his documentation of the lives of collectors of ethnological artifacts.

BC Studies, Perspectives on Aboriginal Culture No. 135, Autumn 2002. Robert A. J. McDonald (Editor). Published by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2002. The British Columbia Quarterly. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 195 pp. In mint, unread condition. Dedicated issue to Aboriginal art and culture with articles, colour photoscapes, review essays, and an interview with Susan Point, Coast Salish Artist.

BC Studies: British Columbia - A Place for Aboriginal Peoples? No. 57 Spring 1983. Margaret Prang, Walter Young, (Editors). Published by BC Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 1983. First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 147 pp. Light wear to front cover; contents in mint, unread condition. Features: Native Claims and Self-Determination; An Historic Events in the Political Economy of the Tsimshian - information on the ownership of the Zimacord District; The Conversion of the Port Simpson Tsimshian - Indian control or Missionary Manipulation?; British Columbia Indian Languages - A crisis of silence; Taking the Minister to Court - Changes in public opinion about Forest Management and their expression in Haida Land Claims; Fish, Politics and Treaty Rights - who protects salmon resources in Washington State?; "Authenticity" and the contemporary Northwest Indian Art Market; Native Indian Political Activity in British Columbia, 1969-1983; Too Weak to win, Too Strong… Read More

BC Studies No. 125 Autumn 1999. Cole Harris and Jean Barman (Editors). Published by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 1999. The British Columbian Quarterly. First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 120 pp. Light wear to covers; contents in fine, unread condition. Main essay: Treaty 8: A British Columbian Anomaly by Arthur J. Ray.

The Beothuk Saga, Assiniwi, Bernard; Grady, Wayne. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 351 pp. with a Beothuk Lexicon, bibliography and map. Black boards, silver spine titles. Volume is in mint, unread condition; unclipped jacket in fine condition with lightest of top edge ruffling. In The Beothuk Saga, Cree author Bernard Assiniwi combines history, ethnology, and a multi-generational epic storyline to tell the story of Newfoundland's now-extinct Beothuk people. Assiniwi traces the rise and fall of the tribe that settled Newfoundland during the time of the Vikings. Dr. Assiniwi, was a member of the Cree nation and famed in Canada for studies of its native peoples and for the monumental Histoire des Indiens du Haut et du Bas Canada (1974).

British Columbia Place Names: Third Edition, Akrigg, G. P. V.; Akrigg, Helen B. Published by UBC Press, British Columbia, Canada 1997. Third Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 330 pp. Card covers have very light shelf wear and otherwise in unread condition. The authors, historians Philip and Helen Akrigg, spent more than forty years researching BC place names. This invaluable resource contains approximately 2400 place names. Filled with remarkable historical facts, interesting anecdotes, and brief biographical accounts of the characters for which the province's towns, cities, rivers, lakes, mountains, and islands have become namesakes.

Choctaw Kisses, Bullets & Blood, Trimble, Vance H. Published by Market Tech Books / Poets of America Press, Wilmington, DE, 2007. First Edition. Signed by Vance Trimble and, Francine Locke, Great Grand-daughter of Victor Moreau Locke. Includes illustrations and bibliography and extensive notes. 1/4 cloth black and red boards, gilt spine titles. Volume in mint condition, unclipped dustjacket in fine condition with the lightest of shelf wear. This a true story about the proud history of the Choctaw Nation and how a family established its presence during struggles between Washington, D.C., and Indian Territory as Oklahoma became a state. Trimble, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist provides detailed descriptions of the turmoil within the Choctaw tribe after the Civil War and until Oklahoma statehood are told through the development of the family of Victor Locke.

Degikup: Washoe Fancy Basketry 1895-1935, Cohodas, Marvin. University of British Columbia, Fine Arts Gallery, 1979. Card covers. 11" x 8.5", 114 pp. with 225 illustrations, 98 figures, 30 plates and bibliography. Catalogue to the Exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery Vancouver, BC., August 13-September 20, 1979. In pristine condition internally; light shelf wear to covers with one small mark to front and back. The definitive study of the history, techniques and descriptions of hundreds of Washoe baskets with particular focus on the work of nine noted weavers including Datsolalee (Louisa Keyser). A fine copy of an important title out of print and rarely found on the market.

The Expiring Continent: A Narrative of Travel In Senegambia, With Observations On Native Character, The Present Condition And Future Prospects of Africa And Colonisation by Mitchinson, Alexander, William. Published by London: Wm. H. Allen And Co., 1881. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. pp. viii, 469. Tipped in folding map of Senegambia backed on linen and 16 full page black and white illustrations including frontis. Brown boards with stylized titles and elaborate illustrations in black and gilt to front and spine. Brown endpapers. Label on pastedown indicating this volume donated to Saint Georges Library, by Wm. H. Allen Eng. October 23rd, 1882. Contents in near fine condition with Llibrary's rules to free endpaper; 'donated by publishers' in brown script to versus. Binding is tight with a light spine slant. Boards have rubbing to edges and corners with fraying and small splits to spine edges. A narrative of the author's travels up the River Senegal from St. Louis and up the Gambia from… Read More

Glooskap's Country: And Other Indian Tales, MacMillan, Cyrus; Illustrated By John A. Hall. Published by Oxford University Press, Toronto, New York, 1955. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 273pp. Emerald green cloth boards with gilt spine titles.Light page toning and outer edge spotting and otherwise contents without marks, tears or folds. Jacket has chips and age toning. The first eighteen tales, plus the twelve that follow them immediately, are Micmac legends from the eastern woodlands, while the final eight are Blackfoot legends from the prairies. The Blackfoot stories present a universe distinct from that of the Micmac legends.

Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History Of Yukon's Arctic Island, Burn, Christopher R. Published by University of Calgary Press, 2012. First Edition. Glossy card covers. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xiii, 242 pp., index; illustrated throughout. In as new condition without markings etc. Herschel Island is a remarkable place. For hundreds of years, it sustained aboriginal people who lived off the sea, and its shelter provided a base for the western Arctic whaling fleet in the 1890s. It was named by John Franklin during a voyage to establish sovereignty over arctic North America, and it was the location of the first police detachment in the Canadian Arctic. The rise of the fur trade in the 1910s and 1920s led to the Inuvialuit becoming the wealthiest aboriginal people in Canada at the time. Herschel Island was a logistical centre during the offshore oil boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, but it is now designated as a territorial park, a reserve established as a result of the Inuvialuit… Read More

Indian Art Traditions of the Northwest Coast, Roy L. Carlson. Published by Archeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, 1982. Card covers. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 214 pp. with black and white figures and photographs. "Based on papers of a symposium titled: The prehistory of northwest Coast Indian Art, held at Simon Fraser University in 1976." Light shelf wear to covers, contents are in fine, unread condition.

Indian Baskets of the Northwest Coast, Lobb, Allan. Published by Charles H. Belding / Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co., U.S.A., 1978. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 119pp. with illustrations. Quarter black over marbled beige boards, black titles. Volume is in fine condition with a hint of toning to edges; jacket is clipped with light toning.
This book discusses the techniques and materials employed in the baskets' creation, as well as the art form's history. Five examples of Northwest Coast Indian basketry are photographed in full colour against the natural scenery of their places of origin.