Native American

New York: Harper & Brothers 1900. (Hardcover) 402pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Frontispiece, Illustrations, notes, maps, Index. Previous owner's bookplate, some pencil marks in the text. Locale: Canada; Lake Erie; United States. (Canada, Indians of North America).

Montreal: Fides 1945, 1947, 48. (Mass market paperback) 347, 372, 400pp. Very good. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Ex-library. The covers are remarkably bright. Vol. 1 Chez Les Mangeurs de Caribou. Vol. 2 Voyageur du Christ. Vol. 3 L' Eveque Volant. Text in French Language. Locale: North Pole. (Arctic/Polar, Eskimos, Inuit, Missionaries, Oblate Fathers).

New York: Pantheon Books [1957]. (4to) 218pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Black and white and color illustrations, map, charts, notes, bibliography, index, includes an 83-page supplement written in the Navaho language in a pocket at the back. There are previous owner stamps on the front endpaper, page 100, and on the cover and an inside page of the supplement. Contributors include Laura A. Armer, Franc J. Newcomb, Maud Oakes. Publisher series: Bollingen Series 53 . Translated by Berard Haile. Text in Navaho and English. (Indians of North America, Ceremonies, Indians of North America, Mythology, Navaho Indians, Sandpaintings).

New York: Historical Society of Rockland County. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean grey cloth embellished with gilt titles. Text block tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with B/W photographs, drawings and maps. Rear of dust jacket has a 1/2 inch spine head chip; a few small closed edge tears. Signed and inscribed by author. Native Americans ; B/W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 94 pages; Signed by Author .

Education Division, United States Indian Service, 1943. Hardcover. Good. brown boards with black lettering, no pub date - possibly 1943, bumped corners, minor wear and yellowing, name on first page

Yellowknife: Northwest Territories. Department of Education 1974. (Oblong 4to staplebound) 13, 16,16, 12, 8, 13, 29, 21, 19pp. Very good. A scuff on the front cover of Vol.6. Ex-library. Illustrations by B. Abraham, Wallace F. Murphy & Andrew Jackson Steen. Vol. 1 Johnny. Vol. 2 A Day with Johnny. Vol. 3 Johnny in School. Vol. 4 Johnny at the 'bay'. Vol. 5 Johnny's Present. Vol. 6 Friday Night. Vol. 7 Johnny Goes Hunting. Vol. 8 Johnny Goes to Yellowknife. Vol. 9 Ki-Ella. Main character: Johnny. (Indians of North America, Dogrib Indians, Indians of North America, Juvenile).

Near Fine, unread book with slight edge wear, soft at spine ends, and with a touch of dusting to top page edges; in a price-clipped Very Good dust jacket that has light edge and corner wear and some color loss, especially at spine ends, rubbing to both panels, couple of light overwrite impressions to back panel, and with some age toning along edges of flaps. This copy has been signed by Welch on the half-title page. Saga of a half-breed who is going insane in a small Montana town. This is Welch’s second novel.

Crazy Horse: Korczka's Heritage, Inc. 1984, 1st edition. (Small 4to) 307pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Signed by the author along with a signed inscription by Ziolkowski's wife. Illustrations, photographs. The unusual story behind sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski's memorial to Chief Sitting Bull. Book about Sitting Bull--Oglala Chief & Korczak Ziolkowski. Locale: South Dakota; Western America. (Art, Sculptors--United States).

Cincinnati: E. Morgan & Co.. Good with no dust jacket; Bookplate on front pastedown, boards soiled and . worn, foxing and staining, splits at head of spine, spine cracked.. 1850. Later Edition. Hardcover. Original brown blindstamped cloth. iii-viii, 9-235pp. Two woodcut plates at rear depicting not Tecumseh, but Old Tippecanoe, Gen. William Henry Harrison, in Battle of the Thames, and Proctor demanding that Harrison surrender Fort Meigs. Ex-Baltimore IOOF-copy. Howes D-460, Sabin 20811. Short history of Shawnee Indians and biography of Shawnee and Indian Confederacy leader Tecumseh, who died at the Battle of the Thames. ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Unknown – Turtle Rattle ( handmade)
Purchased through Lincoln Indian Center. In good condition. 20 inches long. In good condition

Voyageurs, Robes Noires, et Coureurs de Bois. By C.U. Clark. 1934 1st Edition Columbia University Institute of French Studies, Inc. FRENCH LANGUAGE. Stories from the French Exploration of North America, selected and edited by the venerable and renowned Charles Upson Clark, Ph.D: English title is: Travellers, Black Robes, and Wood-runners. Scarce. HARDCOVER. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Navy blue cloth boards with large gilt titling. No titling remains on spine. 5 ¾ X 8. 374 pages, indexed. Time period covered is 17th and 18th Centuries. JESUITS. ANTHROPOLOGY. SOCIAL SCIENCES. HISTORY OF FRANCE. HISTORY OF CANADA. CANADIANA. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Dr. Clark was the first archaeologist in the world to translate The Badianus Manuscript, aka The Codex Barberini, an Aztec compendium on traditional herbal medicine dating from the Fourteenth Century. Will ship from Oregon.

*SIGNED*; Front and back covers show minor wear with discoloration; Title page has a dedication and signature from the author; Pages are clean; Binding is tight.

Copenhagen: Royal Greenland Trade Department, 1961. Limited edition of 400 (#238/400). Introduction by Jens Rosing; Signed by Rosing. In ENGLISH and DANISH. Exterior green portfolio contains interior portfolio that holds introduction and eight lithographs of Aron's work. Exterior green paper portfolio is in Very Good condition with creasing, tearing, curling, and edgewear overall as well as an old ownership stamp on the inner flap. Interior portfolio is in Near Fine condition; it contains a printed introduction by Jens Rosing and eight pages of lithographs containing two illustrations each (for a total of 16). The interior portfolio is slightly creased at the top of the fold; lithographs and introduction are in Fine condition; upper corner on first lithograph very lightly bumped; final lithograph has small bend at top and a smudge towards the bottom. For additional information or photographs, please do not hesitate to contact us. Photos are of the set here at Barbed Wire Books.

New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. Foxing over flyleaf and adjacent page at front and rear. Spine sunned. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover. Overall a clean, solid copy. SIGNED -- "David E. Brown Lt. Governor Chickasaw Nation Chair Johnston County Democrat [sic] Party 12-5-98." Photo is of the copy for sale at Barbed Wire Books.

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No previous work on John Eliot's mission to the Indians has told such a comprehensive and engaging story. Richard Cogley takes a dual approach: he delves deeply into Eliot's theological writings and describes the historical development of Eliot's missionary work. By relating the two, he presents fresh perspectives that challenge widely accepted assessments of the Puritan mission.
Cogley incorporates Eliot's eschatology into the history of the mission, takes into account the biographies of the proselytes (the "praying Indians") and the individual histories of the Christian Indian settlements (the "praying towns"), and corrects misperceptions about the mission's role in English expansion. He also addresses other interpretive problems in Eliot's mission, such as why the… Read More