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  • BLUE JACKET: Warrior of the Shawnees. by Sugden, John.
    Sugden, John.
    BLUE JACKET: Warrior of the Shawnees.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, (2000). First edition - "Blue Jacket (ca. 1743-ca. 1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled scope that fought a long and bloody war against white encroachments into the Shawnees' homeland in the Ohio River Valley. Blue Jacket was an astute strategist and diplomat who, though courted by American and British leaders, remained a staunch defender of the Shawnees' independence and territory. In this arresting and controversial account, John Sugden depicts the most influential Native American leader of his time." A title in "American Indian Lives" series. Illustrated. Extensive notes, bibliography. 335 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy red and blue wrappers.

    Book ID: 63344
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  • Sun Bear, Wabun and Barry Weinstock.
    PATH OF POWER.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Prentice Hall Press, (1987.). Teachings from the medicine chief of the Bear Tribe, located near Spokane, Washington. Photographs, drawings. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-136534031.

    Condition: Very near fine.

    Book ID: 38443
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  • Swann, Brian, editor.
    COMING TO LIGHT: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - An extensive compilation of the stories, songs, legends, ceremonies and prayers gathered from Native American literatures, and arranged by tribe and in seven geographical sections. Peter Matthiessen calls this "a fine anthology and an essential introduction to American Indian oral literature." Each selection includes an introduction - sometimes extensive - by the translator placing the work in its historical and cultural context. A beautiful book. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Index. xlvi, 801 pp. Dust jacket painting 'Sing to Emerge' by David Montana (Papago). ISBN: 0-679-418164.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 37220
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  • Thomasma, Kenneth
    NAYA NUKI: Shoshoni Girl Who Ran

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1994. SIGNED first edition - Story for older children based on research into the lives of the Shoshoni Indians before the arrival of the white man. INSCRIBED by the author. Illustrated by Eunice Hundley. ISBN: 0-8010-88682.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 8267
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  • KUNU: Winnebago Boy Escapes. by Thomasma, Kenneth
    Thomasma, Kenneth
    KUNU: Winnebago Boy Escapes.

    Edition: 5th printing, a trade paperback..

    Jackson, WY: Grandview Publishing Co., (2003, c 1989). SIGNED - Story for older children based on the story of the forced relocation of 2000 Winnebago Indians in 1862 after a Sioux uprising. Many died from the inhumane conditions on their journey from Minnesota to the Crow Creek reservation in South Dakota, and more died there. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated by Jack Brouwer. A title in the Amazing Indian Children Series. 183 pp. ISBN: 1-880114-038.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 67860
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  • INDIAN SINGING IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA. by Tremblay, Gail.
    Tremblay, Gail.
    INDIAN SINGING IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Corvallis, Oregon: Calyx Books, (1990.). First edition - A collection of poems illustrated with photographs of the author's mixed media fiber sculptures. Foreword by Colleen McElroy. 71 pp. ISBN: 0-934971-137.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 56730
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  • LITTLE. by Treuer, David.
    Treuer, David.
    LITTLE.

    Edition: First printing.

    St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this talented young author, an Ojibwe, who grew up at Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. Moving back in forth in time from 1980 to the 1960's this begins The grave we with dug for my brother Little remainded empty even after we filled it back in. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Louise Erdrich and Toni Morrison who described this as 'a wonder. Out of the seasons and landscapes of a Minnesota reservation David Treuer has forged a strong intricate narrative complete with the intimate voices of fully realized characters.' 248 pp. Dust jacket art by Jim Denomie, also of the Ojibwe Nation. ISBN: 1-55597-2314.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a remainder dot.)

    Book ID: 31942
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  • THE LIGHTNING WITHIN: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction by Velie, Alan R., editor..
    Velie, Alan R., editor..
    THE LIGHTNING WITHIN: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction

    Edition: First printing.

    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology collecting nine excerpts and short stories by N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, and Michael Dorris. Introduction by Velie. x, 161 pp. ISBN: 0-803246595.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (bookstore stamp on front endpaper)

    Book ID: 68969
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  • THE LIGHTNING WITHIN: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction by Velie, Alan R., editor. Leslie Marmon Silko, signed.
    Velie, Alan R., editor. Leslie Marmon Silko, signed.
    THE LIGHTNING WITHIN: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    Lincoln: Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press, (1993). SIGNED - An anthology collecting nine excerpts and short stories by N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, and Michael Dorris. SIGNED by Silko at her contribution. Introduction by Velie. x, 161 pp. ISBN: 0-803246595.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (remainder line) Uncommon signed.

    Book ID: 72258
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  • Vizenor, Gerald
    INTERIOR LANDSCAPES, Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors

    Edition: First printing.

    Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Vizenor, a journalist, college teacher, novelist and community activist, writes here about his experiences as a tribal mixed blood. SIGNED by author. ISBN: 0-8166-18488.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small "received" stamp on ffep)

    Book ID: 3415
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  • Vizenor, Gerald
    BEARHEART: Darkness in Saint Louis

    Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    St. Paul, MN: Truck Press, 1978. First edition - A fairly uncommon early comic novel by this Native American poet and writer.

    Condition: Near very good in wrappers (slight dampstain to edge of rear cover.)

    Book ID: 7810
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  • Vizenor, Gerald.
    THE HEIRS OF COLUMBUS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Hanover & London: University Press of New England / Wesleyan University Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Crossblood trickster Stone Columbus, born on a remote reservation, wins a fortune at bingo and founds a new tribal nation where "humor reigns and tricksters heal" and spreads his trickster wisdom on talk show radio. Among the characters are a devious artifact dealer, a romantic book collector, a laser shaman, two tribal detectives and more. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-819552410.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 35890
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  • Vizenor, Gerald.
    THE HEIRS OF COLUMBUS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Hanover & London: University Press of New England / Wesleyan University Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Crossblood trickster Stone Columbus, born on a remote reservation, wins a fortune at bingo and founds a new tribal nation where "humor reigns and tricksters heal" and spreads his trickster wisdom on talk show radio. Among the characters are a devious artifact dealer, a romantic book collector, a laser shaman, two tribal dectectives and more. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-819552410.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj.)

    Book ID: 35891
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  • Vizenor, Gerald.
    DEAD VOICES, Natural Agonies in the New World.

    Edition: First printing.

    Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Native American writer Vizenor uses tales drawn from traditional tribal stories - those of the trickster, and of fleas, squirrels and other animals - to illuminate the centuries of conflict between the Europeans and the American Indians. volume 2 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Study series. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-8061-2427x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 35896
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  • Vizenor, Gerald.
    THE TRICKSTER OF LIBERTY: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (1988.). Satirical tales by this 'mixed-blood member of the Minnesota Chippewa tribe' - a title in the Emergent Literatures series. Illustration by Karen Lohmann. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-816616302.

    Condition: Very good overall - some underlining, few marginal notations, mostly in the prologue.

    Book ID: 38186
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  • LANDFILL MEDITATION: Crossblood Stories. by Vizenor, Gerald.
    Vizenor, Gerald.
    LANDFILL MEDITATION: Crossblood Stories.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.

    Hanover: Wesleyan University Press (1991). First edition - Fourteen stories of tricksters, feral lasers, and urban ceremonies by this author whom N. Scott Momaday called the "supreme ironist among Native American writers." 201 pp. ISBN: 0-8195-6253X.

    Condition: Near fine (crease to lower corner of front cover.)

    Book ID: 43358
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  • HIROSHIMA BUGI: ATOMU 57. by Vizenor, Gerald.
    Vizenor, Gerald.
    HIROSHIMA BUGI: ATOMU 57.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2003). First edition - "An ingenious kabuki novel that begins in the ruins of the Atomic Bomb Dome, a new Rashomon Gate. Ronin Browne, the humane peace contender, is the hafu orphan son of Okichi, a Japanese boogie-woogie dancer, and Nightbreaker, an Anishinaabe from the White Earth Reservation who served as an interpreter for General Douglas MacArthur during the first year of the American occupation in Japan." A title in "Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives." 208 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped).

    Book ID: 88664
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  • LANDFILL MEDITATION: Crossblood Stories. by Vizenor, Gerald.
    Vizenor, Gerald.
    LANDFILL MEDITATION: Crossblood Stories.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.

    Hanover: Wesleyan University Press (1991). First edition - Fourteen stories of tricksters, feral lasers, and urban ceremonies by this author whom N. Scott Momaday called the "supreme ironist among Native American writers." 201 pp. ISBN: 0-8195-6253X.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 53750
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  • CHAIR OF TEARS. by Vizenor, Gerald.
    Vizenor, Gerald.
    CHAIR OF TEARS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2012). First edition - A novel which is "a marvellous conjunction of trickster stories and literary ingenuity. . . funny, fierce, ironic, and deadly serious, a send-up of sacred poses, cultural pretensions, and familiar places from reservations to universities." 138 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 66270
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  • BLUE RAVENS: Historical Novel. by Vizenor, Gerald.
    Vizenor, Gerald.
    BLUE RAVENS: Historical Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set the early twentieth century in the days leading up to the Great War in France, and continues in combat scenes at the battles of Chteau-Thierry, Montbrhain, and Bois de Fays in France. After serving in the American Expeditionary Forces, two brothers from the Anishinaabe culture return to the White Earth Reservation where they grew up, but leave for a second time to live in Paris. 285 pp. ISBN: 978-0819574169.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76541
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  • EMPTY SWINGS: Haiku in English Series. by Vizenor, Gerald Early..
    Vizenor, Gerald Early..
    EMPTY SWINGS: Haiku in English Series.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Minneapolis: The Nodin Press, (1967). First edition - An early and uncommon book by this enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Japanese calligraphy by Haruko Isobe. Unpaginated.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers - previous owner's name stamped in book, and a handwritten note about finding this treasure and letting it go, because treasures are meant to be shared.

    Book ID: 86946
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  • AMERICAN INDIAN MEDICINE. by Vogel, Virgil J.
    Vogel, Virgil J.
    AMERICAN INDIAN MEDICINE.

    Edition: Large trade paperback.

    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (ca 1990, c 1970). Pioneering work on the use of botanical drugs by Native Americans, originally published in 1970. Includes a very substantial appendix on the contributions to pharmacology. A title in The Civilization of the American Indian series. Includes a new preface to the paperback edition, dated in 1990. Footnotes appear at end of book, index of botanical names, index. bibliography. xiv, 578 pp. ISBN: 0-806122935.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated black wrappers.

    Book ID: 65359
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  • Welch, James.
    WINTER IN THE BLOOD.

    Edition: First printing. (Note: for this title, the book must state 'first edition' on the copyright page, a

    New York: Harper & Row, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly acclaimed first novel, and the third title to be published in Harper & Row's Native American Publishing Program. ISBN: 0-06-4525007.

    Condition: A somewhat flawed copy with water damage to the back cover of the dj, and slightly affecting the back cover of the book itself - but still a reasonably attractive, and nice straight copy of a hard to find and important first novel.

    Book ID: 16547
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  • Welch, James
    THE DEATH OF JIM LONEY

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Native American author's second novel, the story of a half-breed in a small Montana town, alienated from all around him, drinking and slowly going mad. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0145889.

    Condition: Very good in a good only dustjacket. (edgewear and closed tears to dj, chips at corners.)

    Book ID: 22988
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  • Welch, James
    THE INDIAN LAWYER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this award-winning Native American writer, a suspenseful story of a man who seems to have found success and left behind the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. - as Welch himself did. Among those praising his work on the dustjacket are Michael Dorris, Wallace Stegner, Dee Brown and others. ISBN: 0-393-028968.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (creasing to front flap.)

    Book ID: 26620
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  • Welch, James
    THE INDIAN LAWYER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this award-winning Native American writer, a suspenseful story of a man who seems to have found success and left behind the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. - as Welch himself did. Among those praising his work on the dustjacket are Michael Dorris, Wallace Stegner, Dee Brown and others. ISBN: 0-393-028968.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription, price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 30875
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  • Welch, James
    THE INDIAN LAWYER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this award-winning Native American writer, a suspenseful story of a man who seems to have found success and left behind the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. - as Welch himself did. Among those praising his work on the dustjacket are Michael Dorris, Wallace Stegner, Dee Brown and others. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-393-028968.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 36642
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  • Welch, James
    THE INDIAN LAWYER.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Norton, 1990. dj. Hardcover - The fourth novel by this award-winning Native American writer, a suspenseful story of a man who seems to have found success and left behind the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. - as Welch himself did. Among those praising his work on the dustjacket are Michael Dorris, Wallace Stegner, Dee Brown and others. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-393-028968.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 38641
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  • THE DEATH OF JIM LONEY by Welch, James (1940-2003)
    Welch, James (1940-2003)
    THE DEATH OF JIM LONEY

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Native American author's second novel, the story of a man half Indian, half white, in a small Montana town, alienated from all around him, drinking and slowly going mad. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0145889.

    Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket. (short tear to bottom edge of front cover of dj and top edge of rear cover)

    Book ID: 88388
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  • Welch, James and Stekler, Paul
    KILLING CUSTER: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Native American author's first non-fiction work, the story of the Battle of Little Bighorn and the disastrous consequences for the Plains Indians (the "victors."). Photographs, notes, index. 320 pp. Map endpapers of the Indian wars, 1866-1890. ISBN: 0-393-03657x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 38638
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