NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN
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A FURTHER REPORT TO THE INDIAN RIGHTS
ASSOCIATION ON THE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE SOUTHERN UTES
Francis Fisher Kane and Frank M. Ritter, Committee
Published January 20, 1892
Press of Wm. F. Fell & Co., Philadelphia
Herbert Welsh, Corresponding Secretary
Original printed wrappers; 32 pages; 1-page "Map of
Proposed Reservation, showing Route taken by Committee," drawn by Henry J.
Taylor, Philadelphia
Condition of wrappers: good plus; chips and marbled-paper
reinforcement to spine. Condition of interior pages: near fine
Price:
$300.00
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MY INDIAN BOYHOOD
By Chief Luther Standing Bear
Who was the Boy Ota K'Te (Plenty Kill)
With Illustrations.
Inscribed and signed by Chief Standing Bear
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside
Press Cambridge, 1931, first edition in original dust jacket
Original cloth binding with orange print; 190 pages;
illustrated end-papers. Illustrations by Chief Standing Bear and Rodney
Thomson.
Condition: book in very good plus condition, lightly sunned
spine; dust jacket chipped and lightly sunned on spine, unprice-clipped, very
good.
Price:
$985.00
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SCALPING IN AMERICA
By Georg Friederici
From the Smithsonian Report for 1906, Pages 423-438
(No. 1765)
First Separate Edition
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907
Original printed wrappers, 15 pages
Condition: good plus
Price:
$75.00
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THE URINE DANCE OF THE ZUNI INDIANS OF NEW
MEXICO
By John G. Bourke, Third Cavalry, U.S. Army
From the Ethnological Notes Collected by Him
Under the direction of Lieutenant General P.H. Sheridan,
U.S. Army in 1881.
Privately Printed, 1920. One of 100 copies printed
strictly for private circulation.
Near fine condition, 7 pages
Price:
$75.00
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A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY & SUFFERINGS OF LT.
NATHAN'L. SEGAR, Who Was Taken Prisoner by the Indians and Carried to Canada
During the Revolutionary War.
Written by Himself.
Paris. (ME.) Printed at the Observer Office and Published at
the Oxford Bookstore, 1825.
Reprinted by the
Charles P. Everitt Associates on Beekman Hill (1940), New York. With this
additional material now first published with an historical preface by Winthrop
H. Duncan. A map shewing the route traversed by the Indians and locating
the town-sites which they raided, drawn by Donald Gardner. A contemporary
letter, written only five weeks after the Indian attack, which further
substantiats the characters and events as told by Lt. Segar, and giving
additional details concerning the raid. A note from the Granddaughter of
Lt. Segar concerning a quaint circumstance while he was a prisoner on the
Island.
The Narrative is as original produced, 150 copies
printed. Map printed on original paper from 1764. Designed and
executed by Myron R. Ricketts.
Condition: near fine; a tiny bit
of chipping at top of spine.
From PREFACE: “The ensuing narrative of
captivity among the Indians is the story of the last Indian raid on the frontier
settlements of
New England
. These raids had been almost
continuous for a period of about one hundred years and retarded the settlement
and proper development of nearly all of the interior towns.
Before the Revolutionary War, these raids were largely instigated by the
French in
Canada
to whom the Indians were deeply attached. During
the Revolutionary War, however, these Indians became the allies of the English
who were their bitter enemies during the preceding wars.
It is difficult to understand how a civilized and benign nation like
England
could have employed savage-hordes and incite them to commit these merciless
depredations against her own children – the American colonists.
Yet she did it with a fervour quite as great as her arch-enemy,
France
in the former wars.”
Price:
$150.00
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THE BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE
By B.J. Petersen
Published by News Publishing
Co., Gordon, 1941. Original printed green wrappers; 34 pages; very good
plus condition. Half-tone illustrations. Petersen was president of
the Sheridan County Historical Society at the time of this publication.
From the FOREWORD: “In offering the story of
this much discussed affair to the public we will simply say that after long
study of the matter from all sides, as we believe the story itself will prove,
we have finally decided that the facts are sufficiently established to warrant
our doing so. As a boy 50 years ago
we had occasion to mingle with both Indians and soldiers, both before and after
the battle, and so obtained considerable information first hand ….”
“While the above is the usual title applied to
the event which occurred on the morning of Dec. 29, 1890, some have called it a
massacre, in which troops of the old Seventh Cavalry U.S. Army almost completely
wiped out a band of Minneconjou Sioux under Chief Big Foot (Siha Tanka Tokapa)
… Not only the government itself, but also many inhabitants of the land
deplored this anything but glorious even which was committed contrary to
specific orders from Washington ….”
SOLD
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THE
MOKI SNAKE DANCE: A popular account of that unparalleled dramatic
pagan ceremony of the Pueblo Indians of Tusayan, Arizona, with incidental
mention of their life and customs. By Walter Hough, PH.D. Sixty-four
Half-tone Illustrations from Special Photographs. Published by the
Passenger Department, Santa Fe Route, 1898. The Henry O. Shepard Co.,
Chicago. Publication is in its original illustrated wrappers;
square-bound; 60 pages. Two maps at rear of publication: a) Routes to the
Moki Pueblos; and, b) Santa Fe Route. Pages are generally clean and
bright; enamel-coated. Spine is strong and tight. Condition: cover
are very lightly soiled; spine has some paper missing around the lower inch or
so; otherwise, good plus to very good. Price: $150.00
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INDIAN
WOMEN CHIEFS, by Carolyn Thomas Foreman, 1954, first edition,
Press of The Star Printery, Inc., Muskogee, Oklahoma. Publication is in
its original green stiff wrappers; square-bound; 90 pages; indexed.
Publication addresses female leadership among the Iriquois, Hopoekaw -
Winnebago, Navaho, Chumash, Cherokee, Makusi, Chitimacha, Shawnee, Seri, and
others. Condition of publication: near fine, exterior and interior;
enamel-coated pages. Price:
$100.00 RESERVED
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CHEYENNE AUTUMN, by Mari
Sandoz 
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1953, first edition. Book is
in its original brown cloth binding with aqua and white printing on spine; 283
pages. Book is about 270 Northern Cheyennes who, in 1878, fled the
government reservation in Oklahoma for their home in Montana. Dust jacket
is price-clipped; otherwise it is in near fine condition with only the lightest
of edge wear. Original endpapers and flyleafs; no inscriptions.
Pages are bright, clean, and fresh. Illustrated with half-tone photographs
on enamel-coated paper. Price: $75.00
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Sioux Indians, Custer, and Little Big
Horn
THE
LAST BATTLE OF THE SIOUX NATION, published for Usher L. Burdick,
Fargo North Dakota, by Worzalla Publishing Co., Stevens Point, Wisconsin, 1929,
first edition. Sioux Indians; General Custer; Custer Battlefield; Little
Big Horn, Montana. Book is in its original maroon cloth binding with gold
embossing on cover; 164 pages; no dust jacket. Numerous half-tone
illustrations on separate enamel-coated plates; some chromolithographs.
Spine is strong and tight; pages are bright and clean. Overall, this book
is very good plus to near fine condition. Price:
$400.00
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SOLD
DESERT
DRUMS: The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, 1540 - 1928, by Leo
Crane; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928, first edition. Book is in
its original maroon cloth binding with gold embossing on front cover and spine;
393 pages; dust jacket. No inscriptions on endpapers or flyleafs.
Book is in very good plus condition, with some very light wear to spine;
however, spine is still very strong and tight; pages are quite bright and
fresh. Dust jacket has a very tiny tears, some chips on spine, as well as
some light sunning to spine. Overall, book is in very good plus
condition. Thirty-one half-tone illustrations on coated paper.
Foldout map of Pueblo Indian lands.
Price:
$145.00 SOLD
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Inscribed by Humfreville
TWENTY
YEARS AMONG OUR HOSTILE INDIANS. Describing the
Characteristics, Customs, Habits, Religion, Marriages, Dances and Battles of the
Wild Indians in their Natural State, together with the Fur Companies, Overland
Stage, Pony Express, Electric Telegraph, and other Phases of Life in the
Pathless Regions of the Wild West. By J. Lee Humfreville (Late Captain
United States Cavalry). Second Edition, revised, enlarged and improved
with many new and rare illustrations selected by the Author. Hunter &
Co., Publishers: New York, 1903 (first edition was 1899). Inscribed to
John W. Salter on the front endpaper by J. Lee Humfreville, 1904. Book is
in its original red cloth binding with gold embossing and illustrations on front
cover and spine; 480 pages, indexed. Book is in very good plus condition:
original endpapers and flyleafs; strong, tight spine; clean, bright pages; a
touch of light sunning on spine; a couple of bumped and one frayed corner.
Numerous half-tone and steel-engraved illustrations. Price:
$750.00
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Jones, Paul. BLUE FEATHER: A Story of
Prehistoric Indian Life Based on a Navajo Legend. Privately published
by Prairie Publishers, Lyons, Kansas, 1953, first edition, signed, in dust
jacket. Story of Indian life in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Original
light tan cloth binding; blue lettering on cover and spine; 169 pagesl
dust jacket. Overall condition: very good plus: book is in near fine
condition; dust jacket shows some edge wear. Book is signed by author on
front flyleaf. Price: $45.00
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Sedgwick, Mrs. William T. ACOMA, THE SKY CITY: A Study
in Pueblo-Indian History and Civilization. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1926, 1st edition. Book is in its original binding: aqua
boards, green cloth with illustrated front cover and gold embossing on spine;
314 pages; maps on endpapers and flylears; numerous illustrations.
Condition: very good; strong spine; bright pages; light sunning to spine; no
dust jacket. Price: $75.00
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Freeman, Dan A. FOUR YEARS WITH THE UTES: The Letters of Dan A.
Freeman. Edited and Published by W.M. Morrison, Waco, Texas,
1962. Waco Village Press. Number 60 of 100 copies for sale.
Original binding with tipped on title on front cover; 7 pages; one
illustration. Very good plus condition. Price: $85.00
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