Boston: Emerson College, 1994. SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories on poems on the theme of "tribe" edited ad with an introduction by James Welch. SIGNED by TWO authors: by Sherman Alexie at his short story "Flight" and by Alberto Alvaro Rios at his story "Outside Magdalena, Sonora." Also includes contributions from Diane Glancy, Simon Oritz, Scott Momaday, Debra Earling, Charles H. Webb, Thylias Moss, Ophelia Navarro and many others. A profile of James Welch by Don Lee. Book reviews. 220 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Albuquerque: Creative Writing Center at the University of New Mexico, 1992. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by TWO contributors - Luis Urrea at "Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses" (an early publication, preceding his first book) and by Floyd Salas as his poem "Wedo." Also includes works by Paula Gunn Allen, Sherman Alexie, Peter Wild, Gerald Burns, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Ray Gonzalez, Reuben Sanchez, Rebecca Seiferle, Joy Harjo. Leslie Marmon Silko and many others. Notes on contributors. 221 pp.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1993). First edition - An anthology including writers ranging from D. H. Lawrence and Georgia O'Keefe to Larry McMurty, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sandra Cisneros and Barry Gifford, Introduction by Barbara Kingsolver. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-02167.

New York: Da Capo Press - Perseus Books, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology that includes work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience. Includes contributions from both well-know writers like Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Russell Banks, and Zora Neale Hurston to newly discovered writers of all races, genders, and backgrounds. Among the 60 authors are Chester Himes, Robert Coover, Bharati Mukherjee, Benjamin Franklin, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ntozake Shange, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mark Twain, Grace Paley, Russell Charles Leong, Charles Wright, James Alan McPherson, and many more. SIGNED by Lucha Corpi and Cecil Brown at their contributions. Foreword by Reed, notes on contributors. xxvii, 505 pp. ISBN: 9781568583426.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1994. SIGNED - SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: by Sherman Alexie at 'This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona.' and by Jim Shepard at "Batting for Castro" Among the other contributors are Robert Olen Butler, Carol Anshaw, Barry Hannah, Thom Jones, Tony Early, Barry Hannah, John Keeble, Chris Offutt and more. Included are notes on each contributor and a brief commentary by each one on the genesis of that particular short story. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-395-681022.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Two journalists who came back from an assignment in Indian Country with a powerful message for humankind share the intensely personal story surrounding their time with the Wisdomkeepers, and continue to extoll the Native American approach to humanity and life." Photographs. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-684800942.

1908. First edition - Includes a foreword by John Winslow, a brief history of King Philip's War and of Michael Pierce of Scituate by Edwin C. Pierce, a poem by Hezekiah Butterworth and a list of the slain members of the Plymouth Colony Company. Glossy frontispiece. 41 pp.

Studio City, California: Rattle Foundation, 2022. First edition - A Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner, a slim collection of poems by Afro-Indigenous writer and member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe. 36 pp. Cover art by John Isaiah Pepion. ISBN: 978-1931307529.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Double page map, historical note, glossary of Lakota words, phrases and Lakota place names, selected reading. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-312-855672.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1928.) dj. Hardcover - The first title in the "Children of All Lands Stories" series. Illustrated with photographs of children taken by the author. Red and white illustrated endpapers. Bound in light blue illustrated boards with a royal blue cloth spine. 134pp.

Kansas City: University of Missouri, 1976. SIGNED first edition - "A magazine of fine writing." Includes fiction, essays, poetry, and book reviews. SIGNED by Joseph Bruchac at his contribution of five poems. Also includes contributions by Heather Wilde, Taiko Hirabayashi, Kelly Cherry, Christopher Howell, David Ignatow, Ralph Salisbury, William Stafford, Illustrated. 126 pp plus notes on contributors We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Boulder, CO: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Focuses primarily on plants as they were used by Native Americans in North America. "Useful as a reference book and inspires the reader to look again at the plant world as a source of life and healing." INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- in the spirit of the plants" and dated in 1997. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Includes 19 full color botanical plates by Cyncie Marini. Foreword by Brooke Medicine Eagle. Appendices, index. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-570980853.

New York: Freedomways Associates, 1969. First edition - Includes A Selected Bibliography on Mexican Americans and Native Americans by Ernest Kaiser; Chief Joseph and His People by John Henrik Clarke; a selection of cartoons by Brumsic Brandon, Jr; poetry by Mari Evans, Eric Burroughs and others, book reviews and more. pp 295-384. Cover art by Elizabeth Catlett.

New York: Harper & Row, (1959). SIGNED hardcover - Set in Wyoming, where a young Arapaho boy witnesses a plane roundup of wild horses, and helps the herd to escape the canyon they had been driven into, but then finds a newborn colt lying on the ground next to its dead mother, and he determines to save it. Written and illustrated by Phoebe Erickson. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 180 pp.

Omaha, Nebraska: Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Catalogue for an exhibition organized by Joslyn Art Museum's Center for Western Studies based on the written accounts of the 1832-1834 North American experiences of Maximilian, Prince of Wied. Includes more than 100 of Karl Bodmer's orginal watercolors and sketches Inclides list of illustrations,and checklist of the exhibition. Large format. 103 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-936364-122.

Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, (1994). First edition - Essays, memoirs and poetry - contributors include Saundra Sharp, Sapphire, Rita Arditti, Genny Lim, Rita Williams, Maria E. Barron, Nellie Wong and many others. Each selection is preceded by a photograph of the writer. Reading list, list of resources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-895947080.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1980. First edition - Includes detailed information on the pottery and ethnobotanical remains found in the cliff dwellings of the area, illustrated with photographs, line drawings, charts and maps. Number 36 of the Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology, which publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.
References, index. Large format. xii, 218 pp. ISBN: 0-816503605.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An authorative book on this battle - one which uses a totally different focus to interpret the events: "Starting with the shadowy Mitch Boyer, a mixed-blood heretofore known only as the sole army scout to follow Custer into battle and die with him, Gray devotes Part I of the book to filling in the details of Boyer's thirty-nine years preceding the Sioux campaign of 1876 . . . Part II cover the two weeks (June 11-25) during which Boyer served as Custer's key guide and scount." Foreword by Robert M. Utley. Illustrated with photographs, charts and maps. Bibliography, index. xvii, 446 pp. ISBN: 0-80322138X.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Oklahoma and featuring Mitch Bushyhead, half-Cherokee, single father, and Buckskin chief of police. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-566-5.

Berkeley, CA: Poltroon Press, 2002. First edition - One of 150 copies printed in letter press for the Environmental Poetry Festival, Berkeley, 7 September 2002 by Poltroon Press (an innovative small press founded in 1975 by Frances Butler and Alastair Johnson) A lovely production, consisting of a single poem, printed in black on cream colored stock with a pale aqua seascape woodcut, 13 inches tall by 10 inches wide. Broadside, single sheet.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2013). First edition - A collection of poetry by an Inupiaq writer with family from King Island and Marys Igloo, Alaska. King Island was the ancestral home of the author's family until the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and permanently relocated its residents. Winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, selected by Arthur Sze. A title in the Pitt Poetry Series. 63 pp.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1927. First edition - A monograph by this noted and early anthropologist, of interest because of the information it includes on the pull used by the Yahi of Northern California, information learned from Ishi, the last of his tribe, who spent the last 5 years of his life living at the Museum of Anthropology at UC San Francisco. Pages 283-296

Santa Fe, New Mexico Twin Palms Publishers, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful and striking book containing 73 tritone photographs and text by Lyon, and an introduction by Larry McMurtry who states "Danny Lyon has found his way to the great places on the plains and in the desert--the places where the glory lived: Heart Butte, Little Bighorn, Rosebud, White River, Gila River, San Carlos, Standing Rock, Lame Deer, Pine Ridge. He has photographed Sioux and Cheyenne, Apache, Tphono O'odham. In fidelity to, and in the context of their ancient places, his subjects preserve a hard-worn dignity. Clear your eyes and look." One of 2500 copies. Large square format, printed on heavy glossy text. 108 pp plus a final photograph, acknowledgements and colophon. ISBN: 0-944092926.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1997). A study of woman writers and artists who found their voices and images in the desert of the Southwest - well known figures such as Willa Cather, Georgia O'Keefe Leslie Marmon Silko, Nancy Holt, photographer Laura Gilpin, but also less well known figures of varying ethnicity. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps. List of illustrations, notes, index. xii1, 281 pp. ISBN: 0-816516499.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of woman writers and artists who found their voices and images in the desert of the Southwest - well known figures such as Willa Cather, Georgia O'Keefe Leslie Marmon Silko, Nancy Holt, photographer Laura Gilpin, but also less well known figures of varying ethnicity. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps. List of illustrations, notes, index. xii1, 291 pp. ISBN: 0-300-036884.

New York, NY: Atria Books, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young girl who must find her place in two cultures - the reservation on which she spent her first years, and the white suburban foster family with whom she was placed when her mother succumbs to schizophrenia, INSCRIBED on the title page by the author, "For ... Best Wishes..." Dust jacket praise from Sherman Alexie and Janet Fitch among others. 217 pp. ISBN: 978-0743292078.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2006). First edition - The first book devoted to any Native American filmmaker. "In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured in cinema and television." Illustrated with black and white photographs.Includes filmography, list of Native American documentaries, notes, bibliography, index. xxvi, 260 pp. ISBN: 0-803280459.