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Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 133 Anthropological Papers 19-26.
BAE 1943 Softcover Good, sl wear. Stamp on cover " From Congressman Walter Huber 14th District" Octavo
615 pp 2 large folding maps plus maps in text, black and white photographs Contents include Chitimacha Indians, Northern Northwest Coast Archeology, Early Vertebrate Fauna of British Columbia Coast, Beaufort Co SC Archaeology, Ceramic Remains Beaufort SC, Eastern Cherokees, Poison Whaling, The Carrier Indians, The Peruvian Quipu,
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Abbott, Lawrence edit. I Stand in the Center of the Good.
University of Nebraska 1994. 080321037X / 9780803210370 Hardcover in DJ Good, remainder mark on foreedge. Good Octavo
Octavo 292 pp What is Indian art? There have been many attempts to define it, but the so-called Santa Fe style of the 1930s - placid, two dimensional depictions of traditional scenes - set the standard by which subsequent art by Native Americans would be judged. Art that radically challenged the stereotype - the work of Joe Herrera, Fritz Scholder, and T.C. Cannon, for example - met with resistance; questions were raised about its authenticity as Indian art. Today's Indian art has resoundingly overturned old preconceptions: here are cartoon figures in throbbing neon colors, "decorated" grocery bags, messages to America on the Spectator billboard in Times Square, delicate abstractions and cubist images, work that ranges from monotype and photography to mixed media and clay, from humor and biting commentary to quiet introspection. I Stand in the Center of Good, the first book of its kind, offers a forum for seventeen contemporary Native American artists to speak about the development of their art, their creative processes, how they define their art, and how it relates to their Indianness. The interviews are handsomely illustrated with works by the artists.
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Demos, John The Unredeemed Captive.
NY Knopf 1994 0394557824 / 9780394557823 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Octavo
316 pp An account of the Puritan minister John Williams and his family, who were taken prisoner in a raid by a party of French and Indians on a Massachusetts village in 1704, during Queen Anne's War. Williams was eventually released by the French; however his wife and several of his children died while in captivity. The unredeemed captive of the title was his daughter Eunice, who converted to Roman Catholicism, married an Indian, and lived the rest of her life in Canada. John Demos explores the details of this story and interprets its meaning for 18th-century English-Americans.
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Drinnon, Richard White Savage : The Case of John Dunn Hunter.
Schocken Books 1972. Hardcover in DJ. Ex-lib, usual lib markings. Octavo
282 pp Biography of man who was captured by the Osage Indians, wrote an account of such and tried to save the American Indian from genocide beyond the Mississippi. Created the "Red and White Republic of Fredonia". Truth or not?
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Ellis, Richard General Pope and US Indian Policy.
University of New Mexico Press 1970. 0826301916 / 9780826301918 Hardcover in DJ Good Good, sl waterstain on dj. Octavo
287 pp "This book tells the story of federal relationships with Western Indians as seen from the dominant position of General John Pope, U.S. military commander in the West, from the time of the Civil War to his retirement in 1886. Although Pope was perhaps the most important commander in the West during his era, the glory and the fame went to the men who carried out his orders: Dodge, Custer, Miles, Crook, Mackenzie, Grierson, Fetterman and others."
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Feder, Norman American Indian Art.
Abrams 1971. 0810900149 / 9780810900141 Hardcover in DJ. Very light waterstain to cover, very light waterstain to upper corner of text block / water stain to dj front, spine and back. Quarto
446 pp 302 illus, 60 tipped in plates "The art forms of the American Indian nations of the Great Plains, the Southwest, California, the Great Basin, the Pacific Plateau, the Northwest, the Arctic, and the Woodlands are discussed and illustrated. The origin, stylistic variations from tribe to tribe, materials used, ecological aspects involved, and the future of American Indian art are discussed. "
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Flaherty, Robert. Comock. The True Story of an Eskimo Hunter as told to....
Godine 2003. 1567922651 / 9781567922653 Hardcover in DJ. Very Good Very Good Quarto
127 pp "In 1912, the village of Cape Wolstenholme on Hudson Bay was the northernmost edge of the North American frontier.It was there during a hunting expedition that Robert Flaherty, an American-born prospector and a pioneer filmmaker, chanced to see the landing of an overcrowded, leaking, sealskin-and-whalebone vessel. This improvised contraption, kept afloat by inflated seal bladders, held an Inuit hunter named Comock, his wife, their eleven children, and two dogs. Ten years earlier, Comock and his family had crossed the Hudson Bay's ice floes in search of a fabled island rich in caribou, walruses, and seals. They found their "promised land" – Mansel Island, sixty miles west of Cape Wolstenholme – but lost their bearings and most of their belongings en route. Although they were the island's only human inhabitants, the family, thanks to Comock's skill as a hunter, not only survived but thrived in one of the world's harshest environments. A full decade later, they returned to tell their incredible tale. With all the skill of the great documentary filmmaker he would later become, Flaherty recorded Comock's story and retells it in the hunter's own voice. A classic of oral literature, a kind of real-life Eskimo folk tale of cunning, ingenuity, and daring, Comock was originally published to critical acclaim in 1968. This beautiful new large-format edition includes many Inuit drawings collected by Flaherty, several sections of previously omitted text, and a new epilogue by the noted anthropologist Edmund Carpenter. The book has also been enhanced by tri-tone reproductions of forty-six Flaherty photographs, images reminiscent of stills from his great silent film Nanook of the North. "
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