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 speaker, 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. An important California book. "A valuable and scarce book dealing with the settlement of the northwest coast counties of California, and treating in detail the many Indian uprisings of Trinity, Humboldt, and Del Norte counties during the first fifteen years of California's statehood. In this book a full.....

First Edition. "A picture narrative about Cynthia Ann Parker, her twenty-five year captivity among the Comanche Indians—and her son, Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comaches"—the title page. A graphic novel of Texas history. This is one of 1000 copies signed by the author-artist on a bookplate mounted to.....

First Edition. A novel featuring Downing's recurring character, the US Customs Service inspector Hugh Rennert. This one is set in Mexico and Rennert sets out to solve the cunning murder of a bullfighter seemingly gored during a bullfight. This was Downing's sixth mystery published in four years. Downing was a......

First Edition. Nine stories about women retold from California Native American folklore. This collection remains in print more than 60 years after its original publication and has proven to be an enduring work of comparative literature. Kroeber was the wife of Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist known for his work on.....

An image of two tepees in a forested setting, presumably outside of Spokane, Washington. The tepees are assembled from wooden poles wrapped with a variety of blankets and other large pieces of cloth. This image probably depicts a camp of members of the Spokane tribe. Charles Libby opened a photography.....

First Edition. A nicely-bound volume, collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1856–57. Each journal—the message of Governor James E. Broome to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies—are followed by the same appendix of reports, perhaps of most interest is the extended.....

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 striking gelatin silver print of an Alaskan Inuit woman looking directly into the camera and wearing a hooded fur parka. Two elements make this an unusual Nowell portrait. First, it is a studio image and the vast majority of his pictures of Inuits are taken on location. Second, this image.....

First Edition. An omnibus poetry collection combining three previous volumes (Going for the Rain; A Good Journey; and Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land). With a substantial introduction by Ortiz. Ortiz is a native of the Acoma Pueblo. xiv, 365 pages. This is.....

A stereoview showing three Native women in a lean-to made of tree branches and blankets. In the center is a very old woman wearing a fabric shift and an ornately decorated belt. Most stereoviews by Norman A. Forsyth (1869–1949) are described as depicting the Blackfeet tribe, but these women may.....

First Edition. A plea from a Cherokee leader, the son of the assassinated tribal leader and Cherokee Phoenix editor of the same name, to have Congress intervene in support of dropping criminal charges against him lodged in a dispute over tobacco taxes and Native sovereignty. In this statement to Congress.....