Undated. In top left margin it states - 'Eleventh Census of the United States, Robert P. Porter Superintendent'. This Census occurred in 1894. The map was issued periodically with changes over the course of the next 2 decades This tracked the evolution of the US Government's efforts to regulate and control the location of American Indians. Map - 'Shows location and names of Indian reservations in the United States. Insets: Alaska -- Mission Ind. Res. in California -- Indian Territory. Shows Indian reservations, military stations, towns, rail roads, Indian agencies, and schools. Photo-litho co... View More...
An account of the forced migration of mainly aboriginal people from Stanley Park. Only in 1958 were the last of the many families forced out of their homes and the park returned to its supposed "pristine" character. Winner of the City f Vancouver Book Award. Finalist for 2006 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. A 'Near new' copy - only defect - a number of corner-tip creases where a former reader has marked reading points.NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, th... View More...
Special issue on Native Peoples and Colonialism in British Columbia. Editorial and Nine Articles. 320pp, photo illustrated, maps & figures. Bright, clean copy. Tight, square binding. 'As New'. Unmarked. Weight, 430g. Too thick for Lettermail rates. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images are available. Shipped well packed. USA postage is usually $6.90 - $9.00 unless extra ... View More...
In The Maiden King, two wise teachers guide us through the rich, metaphorical world of an ancient folktale to explore the possibility of a new relationship between masculine and feminine. Here, both women and men will find a vision of the powerful feminine, an energy our contemporary world has not been able to receive or sustain . . . xviii, 264 pages, index ; 23 cm. An 'as new' copy in a similar, unclipped dustjacket. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to off... View More...
Treatise on the Chukchee language of the Siberian indigenous people of the Chukchi Peninsula, the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean, now within modern Russia. Extracted from a larger work - Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 40 [1922], pp631-903 Copy of a title page of the larger work, laid-in. All pages still connected at the spine and in near Fine condition. View More...
Emily Carr's first book published in 1941 to considerable acclaim. Book features 21 word sketches written after visiting and living with Native people. Foreword by Ira Dilworth. [9], 111. Interior is bright and clean. Text is unmarked. Covers are bright and clean. Tight, square binding with no creases to the spine. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, or via the USPS Media Mail, in card sleeve. From $4.00 to $8.00 depending on exact weight etc. Those requiring Tracking in Canada will find postage considerably more. Tracking with all shipments to the USA. Im... View More...
Colorful description of the Tloo-qwah-nah, the most magnificent form of Potlach, by the author, a member of the Tse-shaht people of Vancouver Island. Illustrated by the author.188pp. Bright copy with a sound binding. Unused price label to the front cover. Attractive copy. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $3.00 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations. View More...
"These legends are still told by the Ktunaxa (pronounced tun-a-ha') or Kootenai people living in the Rocky Mountain region in Western Montana, Northern Idaho, and British Columbia. Coyote, or Skinkuc, is the main character of about half of these stories, which have been repeated by parents, grandparents, and elders since ancient times." New edition of: 'Kootenai legends', c1984. Translations from Kutenai of taped story telling sessions. xvi, 380 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm. Ktunaxa Country extends from Central British Columbia south to Washington State, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Brig... View More...
The author's name is spelt incorrectly and should be DURIEU. Durieu was formerly the Roman Catholic Bishop of New Westminster. The 'Chinook jargon, was transcribed into Duployan shorthand by Jean-Marie Le Jeune." 112pp, two photo illustrations. Printed in a two-column format with very small headings in English. Text bloc is clean and unmarked with some browning to the edges. Some corner-tips are dog-eared, but a minor fault. Light green wrappers are still present with a few chips missing from the brittle paper. Book found in Kamloops, B. C. Stamped 'Oblate Historical Archives', Ottawa. Pos... View More...
"Crossroads of Continents' is also the title of an exhibition organized by the National Museum of Natural History and circulated by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service. 360pp. : ill. (some col.) ; 29cm by 23cm by 2.75cm. Book interior if bright, clean and unmarked. Tight, square binding, faint central crease to the spine. Signs of light use. Large, heavy book may require extra postage. Exact postage quote on equest. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and tr... View More...
The story of prehistoric cultures from the Bering Straits to Greenland, by a distinguished American archeologist whose wilderness excavations in the Far North combined science and adventure on the sites of early man's most remote settlements [front cover]. xxxi, 391pp, Index [xv], profusely illustrated, nine maps. Introduction by Henry B. Collins. Book is almost Fine - bright, clean and unmarked except for a previous owner's detail to the fpde under the dustjacket flap.Binding is tight and square, hinges sound. No wear to thedual colored cloth boards. The price-clipped dustjacket is is otherw... View More...
History of the Gitksan Wet'suwet'en aboriginal people in Northwest British Columbia and their struggle for recognition of their rights from 1872 on to recent times. 'Epic battles with bear spirits in the streets of an ancient mythical city, logging-road showdowns deep in the Skeena Mountains...'. A bright, clean, unmarked copy in a similar unclipped dustjacket. Almost 'as new'. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to offer very competitive postal charges - bas... View More...
Reconstructs the entire sequence of events of the campaign of 1876 and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Mitch Boyer was an interpreter and guide in the Old West following the American Civil War. General John Gibbon called him "next to Jim Bridger, the best guide in the country". He was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Foreword by Robert M. Utley. xviii, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Book is 'as new'; unclipped dustjacket shows some light edge wear, mostly at the top. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We u... View More...
Five legends of the Pacific Northwest Indians 're-told' by the author. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper - 'Best Wishes / Christie Harris'. ix, [3], 148 pages, woodcut illustrations by John Frazer Mills; 24 cm. Book is near Fine - clean, bright and unmarked. Tight, square binding with no wear to the brightly colored cloth boards. The price-clipped dustjacket is clean but with minor edge wear to the front panel, wear to the spine including and very small, lost piece at the head. Rear panel is about VG, little wear. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague ... View More...
An earlier edition of that published by Hibben & Co circa 1871. Dated 1899. 14cm by 21.2cm. 35pp, [1], advertising. Body of the text is clean and unmarked, page uniformly and lightly browned. Details of a previous owner to the top margin of page 1 [an inside title page]. Rear cover is darkened with some lightstaining and two small holes, one affecting the last two leaves, the other almost the entire booklet, but only tiny and in the lower, blank margin. The front cover is lightly soiled i parts wit a couple of ink smudges. No loss or affect to text. Paper cover the spine is mostly lost.. Shi... View More...
Standard work on this subject, first published in 1932. 452pp, illustrated in color and in b&w, map in pocket at rear, appendix, bibliography. Hardcover in red cloth with gilt titles and with dustjacket. Good copy! Tight, bright and clean. Unmarked. Unclipped dustjacket is nearly similar. Very heavy book weighing 1.5kg. Postage to anywhere in Canada is $15.00. All prices in US$. View More...
Through a rich blend of history and fiction, Lalor tells the story of the birth and growth of the Aboriginal communities along the Winnipeg River. Fiction. 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. This copy appears 'as new', however, there is a rubber stamp to the title page showing an earlier ownership to possibly an Indian Band at Waglisla, BC near Bello Coola. Otherwise the book appears 'as new' an unused. no other marks. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, or via the USPS Media Mail, in card sleeve. From $4.00 to $8.00 depending on exact weight etc. Those requir... View More...
Western Australian Museum.; Information series No. 6. 72pp, profusely photo illustrated. Bright, clean and unmarked. Tight, sound, stapled binding. 'As new' except for minute traces of wear to the fore-edges of the wrappers. Weight, 242g. View More...
Describes the early practice of medicine on the northwest coast of British Columbia, including traditional native practices. xiii, 193 pages, map; 24 cm. Book is generally bright, clean and unmarked except for a gift inscription to the ffep. Binding is tight and square, hinges sound, with no wear to the cloth boards. The unclipped dustjacket shows moderate edge wear, mostly very nshort tears closed with acid-free tape for the most part. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and As... View More...
An account of a woman's experiences in West New Guines with her adventurer, photographer husband. They went to film the head-hunting cannibals of the Kirrirri Tribe along the Merauke River. Great photos and description of the lives of the Natives. 308 pages, plates (part double), endpaper maps. Interior of the book is clean and unmarked. Tight, square binding bound in an attractive, light-coloured 'burlap'-style cloth. Cloth is bright and clean and shows no wear. The dustjacket is complete with all text and front panel photo present, but with considerable edge wear, short tears, chips, etc.... View More...
