First Edition. The scarcest of the Northwestern California native language books. It is based on field work with Isaac Duncan, one of the few remaining native speakers, then living near Petrolia, in Humboldt County, near the mouth of the Mattole River in far northwestern California. The author of the book.....

First Edition. "A.C. Greene considered The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement an instant choice to be included in his book, The Fifty Best Books on Texas. The book details both sides of the tragic Council House Fight of 1840, the Battle of Adobe Walls, and the reluctance of the.....

First Edition. The first edition of the mystery writer's memoir, with a color portrait drawing of Hillerman by the Navajo artist Ernest Franklin added to the half-title page. These special copies (often called remarqued by collectors) were commissioned by Hillerman's friend, Ernie Bulow of Buffalo Medicine books. Franklin, who often.....

First Edition. A signed first edition of the Harpercrest issue of this chapter book based on Zuni mythology. 86 pages. Illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a near fine, double-price-clipped dust jacket, with the HarperCrest sticker on the front panel, as issued. The jacket has.....

A short, 100-word review of Simon Ortiz's collection of short stories about Navajos and Okies in the Southwest, in both the original, handwritten version and a carbon-copy typescript. Both are signed by Clark. Clark (1941–2018) was the poetry editor of The Paris Review for most of the 1960s; he later.....

First Edition. A collection of tales from the Heiltsuk people, a First Nations group on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. xiii, 178 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy bound in the publisher's dark plum colored cloth.

First Edition. A well-meaning and self-serving account of the Modoc War, one of the last major battles between the US military and a Native American tribe. The Modocs, who holed up in the lava beds in far northeastern California and southeastern Oregon were finally defeated and forced to relocate to.....

First Edition. Fritz Scholder (1937–2005), an important American figurative painter, is best known for his expressionistic portraits of Native Americans (he was an enrolled member of the Luiseño tribe). But his artistic practice was not limited to the visual arts. For a brief period, following a collaborative project with Leonard.....

First Edition. Two short excerpts from The Things They Carried printed letterpress and issued in an edition of 125 copies—99 in paper wrappers and 26 bound in boards, all signed by O'Brien and the illustrator, Fritz Scholder. Scholder, part Luseño, was an acclaimed Native American artist who incorporated Pop Art.....

Portrait of an Inuit woman, Kow-ear-nuk, standing at a slight angle to the camera, with a rack of split, drying salmon behind her. A similar image, captioned "Kow-ear-nuk and his (sic) drying salmon", appeared in many editions of Ella Higginson's Alaska: The Great Country, first published in 1908, and has.....

Portrait of Wy-ung-ena, an Inuit (possibly Alutiiq) woman, smoking a pipe and surrounded by metal pots, probably taken in Port Douglas, Alaska. Wy-ung-ena was a frequent subject for Nowell. One of his most widely reproduced images is a picture of Wy-ung-ena and her husband A-pa-look, and their child (neg. 4089).....

A gelatin silver print photograph showing a Pima (probably) woman kneeling on the ground with a basket on her lap. Behind her sits a young child, with the door of a wickiup dwelling in the background. She is surrounded by basket-making supplies, laying on cloth blankets, in finished baskets, and.....

An exceptional group of three stereoviews documenting early 20th century Native American rituals performed in Montana, most likely at the 4th of July (Arlee) Pow Wow. The Independence Day event was a subversive effort to keep Native dance traditions alive during a time when the Bureau of Indian Affairs discouraged.....