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641. -. Another copy. Mailing label of another Native American poet. Small sunned block to front cover; near fine in stapled wrappers.
642. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author to another poet under the printed line "Poems by Mary TallMountain": "a survivor -- to _____, who is another as all poets must be -- Mary [tall mountain graphic]." Fine in stapled wrappers.
643. TALLMOUNTAIN, Mary. Green March Moons. (Berkeley): New Seed Press (1987). The first separate appearance of a story that first appeared in Womanblood, under another title. Fine in stapled wrappers.
644. -. Another copy. Corner bumped; near fine in stapled wrappers.
645. TALLMOUNTAIN, Mary. A Quick Brush of Wings. (San Francisco): (Freedom Voices) (1991). Stories and poems, issued by a publisher "featuring artists from writing workshops in San Francisco's Tenderloin district." Fine in wrappers.
646. TAUHINDAULI. The Gift of Singing. (Carmichael): (Chalatien Press) (1976). Poetry by this Wintu writer, apparently his first book. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Inscribed by the author to a Choctaw artist, with an autograph note signed laid in. This is the first edition, not to be confused with the 1981 edition.
647. TAUHINDAULI. Sunusa Stopped the Rain. (Carmichael): (Chalatien Press) (1979). A chapbook collection of poetry. Inscribed by the author to Joseph Bruchac in 1981. Fine in stapled wrappers.
648. THOMPSON, Chief Albert Edward. Chief Peguis and His Descendants. Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers, 1973. A biography of the Ojibway chief and a history of the tribe, written by his great-great grandson. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Map tipped to rear pastedown. A nice copy.
649. THOMPSON, Marilou Bonham. Abiding Appalachia. (Memphis): St. Luke's (1978). Second printing of this collection of poems by a Cherokee writer. Inscribed by the author to Joe [Bruchac] and signed "Marilou/Awiakta." Typed poem with holograph (unsigned) note laid in. Near fine, without dust jacket, apparently as issued, with publisher's information sheet laid in.
650. TIBBLES, T.H. The Ponca Chiefs. Boston: J.S. Lockwood, 1887. Subtitled "An Indian's Attempt to Appeal from the Tomahawk to the Courts, with Some Suggestions Toward a Solution of the Indian Question." With an introduction by Susette La Flesche Tibbles, a.k.a Inshta Theamba (Bright Eyes), daughter of one of the Omaha chiefs and wife of the author. A reissue of a book originally published in 1879 under a slightly different title; apparently the second edition (1880) bound into later wrappers. Still, an early appearance in print by a Native American woman writer. University stamps (and discard stamp); text tight, but fragile wrappers chipping and splitting along the folds, thus only a good copy.
651. TOMEO-PALMANTEER, Ted D. Man Spirit. (Greenfield Center): (Greenfield Review Press) (1979). Poetry and fiction by a member of the Colville tribe. Fading to spine; near fine in wrappers.
652. TRAVERSIE, Rick. Trails from Cheyenne River. Greenfield Center: COSMEP Prison Project (1981). A poetry collection by a Lakota inmate at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. Powerful and moving poetry by a 24 year-old. Fine in wrappers.
653. TREUER, David. Little. St. Paul: Graywolf Press (1995). The advance reading copy of this Ojibway writer's first novel, set on a fictional reservation in Minnesota. Fine in wrappers, with blurbs by Louise Erdrich and Toni Morrison.
654. -. Another copy. Signed by the author, with added sentiment "Wow!" Near fine in wrappers.
655. TREUER, David. The Hiawatha. NY: Picador (1999). The advance reading copy of his second novel. Inscribed by the author: "For ___/ Where'd you get this?/ David Treuer." Fine in wrappers.
656. TRUDELL, John. Living in Reality. Songs Called Poems. (n.p.): (Common Wealth Printing) (1982). The scarce first book by this Sioux poet/activist, who was a founder and National Chairman of the radical American Indian Movement during the 1970s -- a turbulent time of Native American political activism. Trudell became the spokesman for the Indians of All Tribes who occupied Alcatraz Island, which led to the founding of AIM. He was the Chair of AIM during the Wounded Knee siege and the Pine Ridge battle that left two FBI agents and one Indian youth dead and resulted in Leonard Peltier's conviction and incarceration for murder. Trudell's own family, his wife and three children, were killed in a fire set by an arsonist, which Trudell has long considered to have been an attempt to strike back at him for his radical activism and militancy, including his advocacy of the use of violence in pursuing claims of Native rights. He appeared in the documentary film about Peltier, Incident at Oglala, and was later cast as a charismatic Indian leader in the fictionalized film version of that story, Thunderheart. He is a musician as well as a poet and is also known as an eloquent speaker, both as a political leader and, more recently, as a guest lecturer. "Sample/Please Do Not Remove/New York Book Fair" stamped on front cover; else fine in wrappers.
657. TRUDELL, John. Stickman. NY: Inanout Press, 1994. Writings by the former AIM leader -- poems, lyrics and talks -- with a lengthy interview with Paola Igliori. Inscribed by the author. Illustrated with photographs. Shallow scratch to front cover; else fine in wrappers.
658. UDE, Wayne. Becoming Coyote. (Amherst): Lynx House Press (1981). The simultaneous issue in wrappers of his second book, first novel. Ude, who was born in Minnesota and grew up near the Fort Belknap Reservation, has since written several books focusing on Coyote, including recounting traditional coyote tales and exploring other trickster figures. Near fine in wrappers.
659. VICUÑA, Cecilia. Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water. (St. Paul): Graywolf Press (1992). Poetry by the Chilean poet and artist; inscribed to a Native American poet. A few erasures in margins; still fine in wrappers.
660. VIZENOR, Gerald. Raising the Moon Vines. Minneapolis: Callimachus (1964). A collection of haiku. Very good in wrappers and in a good, price-clipped dust jacket with tears at mid-spine and splitting along the folds, and a 1" chip missing from the spine crown. With ink paintings by Judith Horns Vizenor, and Japanese calligraphy by Haruko Isobe. A scarce, early title by this important writer.
661. VIZENOR, Gerald. Seventeen Chirps. (Minneapolis): Nodin Press (1968). Second printing of this early collection of haiku by a writer of Chippewa (Anishinabe) heritage. Fine in wrappers.
662. VIZENOR, Gerald. Anishinabe Adisokan. (Minneapolis): Nodin Press (1970). Traditional tales of the Anishinabe (i.e., Ojibway or Chippewa) people, assembled and edited by Vizenor. Stamp of Joseph Bruchac/Greenfield Review on half-title. Near fine in wrappers.
663. VIZENOR, Gerald. The Everlasting Sky. NY: Crowell-Collier (1972). Tales of contemporary Ojibway and Chippewas, nonfiction, by a noted writer of Anishinabe descent. Illustrated with photographs. Near fine in a rubbed, near fine dust jacket.
664. VIZENOR, Gerald. Matsushima. Minneapolis: Nodin Press (1984). His sixth book of haiku. Signed by the author. Very slight edge-tanning; still fine in wrappers.
665. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author to Joe Bruchac. Mild sunning; near fine in wrappers. An excellent association copy.
666. VIZENOR, Gerald. Griever: An American Monkey King in China. Normal/NY: Illinois State University/Fiction Collective (1987). The hardcover issue of his second novel, about a tribal trickster who becomes a teacher in China, contending with socialist regimentation and Chinese bureaucracy, with hilarious results. Winner of the 1986 Illinois State University/Fiction Collective Award and the 1988 American Book Award. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
667. -. Same title, the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Signed by the author. Fine.
668. VIZENOR, Gerald. Water Striders. (Santa Cruz): (Moving Parts Press) (1989). An attractive broadside, with a series of four haiku poems and drawings by Marada Edelstein. One of 85 copies printed on Gilbert Oxford text paper of which 15 were numbered and signed by the author; this is one of the 70 unsigned copies. Approximately 30" x 11-1/4", accordion-folded to 5-3/4" x 11-1/4". Fine. Uncommon; the only copy of this issue of the broadside that we have seen.
669. VIZENOR, Gerald. Landfill Meditation. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press (1991). A collection of "crossblood stories" by "the supreme ironist among American Indian writers of the twentieth century" (N. Scott Momaday). This is the scarce hardcover issue. Signed by the author. Fine without dust jacket, as issued.
670. VIZENOR, Gerald. Harold of Orange/Harold von Orangen. Osnabrück: O.B.E.M.A. (Osnabrueck Bilingual Editions of Marginalized Authors), 1994. A bilingual edition of this play, published in Germany. Fine in wrappers, with publisher's letter laid in. Scarce; no comparable U.S. edition.
671. VIZENOR, Gerald. Hotline Healers. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press (1997). Eleven interrelated stories that comprise "An Almost Browne Novel." Browne is a crossblood trickster storyteller, who first appeared in Vizenor's fiction in the 1980s. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
672. (VIZENOR, Gerald). Escorts to White Earth. (Minneapolis): Four Winds Press, 1968. A celebration of 100 years of the White Earth Reservation. Compiled, edited and introduced by Vizenor. Shot from typescript; only issued in wrappers. Owner gift inscription front flyleaf; else fine. An early, very uncommon work by Vizenor, and one of his first books to deal with Indian subject matter; his first several books were collections of haiku.
673. (VIZENOR, Gerald). Loosening the Seams: Interpretations of Gerald Vizenor. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press (2000). Essays on Vizenor, edited by A. Robert Lee. Includes "The Last Man of the Stone Age" by Louis Owens. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
674. WAGAMESE, Richard. For Joshua. (n.p.): Doubleday Canada (2002). A memoir by this Canadian Ojibway author. Stamp whited out on front flyleaf; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
675. WALSH, Marnie. A Taste of the Knife. Boise: Ahsahta Press (1976). Poetry, only issued in wrappers. Powerful and in many cases grim poems, largely dealing with reservation life in the West in the volatile decade of the 1970s. A couple marks to rear cover and fading to spine; near fine. An important book that has been called "a poetic precursor to Louise Erdrich's novel, Love Medicine," the book is back in print now 30 years after its original publication. The first edition is scarce.
676. WARREN, William S. History of the Ojibway Nation. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1885. Issued as Volume 5 of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society and including: a "Memoir of William W. Warren" by J. Fletcher Williams; the "History of the Ojibways, Based upon Traditions and Oral Statements," by William W. Warren; and the "History of the Ojibways, and Their Connection with Fur Traders, Based Upon Official and Other Records," by Edward D. Neill. Warren was part Chippewa, from La Pointe, Wisconsin. He attended the La Pointe Indian School and later the Oneida Institute. After returning to the West he settled in Minnesota, where he was elected to the state legislature. He was fluent in Chippewa and began writing a series of sketches around the time that George Copway and Peter Jones also were writing Ojibway tribal histories. Warren, however, was unsuccessful in getting his published during his lifetime. He died in 1853 and his history was not published until this edition, in 1885. Wear to corners and extremities; light rubbing to covers; about near fine, without dust jacket. An early and important tribal history by a Native American writer. Uncommon, especially in this condition.
677. WATERS, Frank. Masked Gods: Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialism. Denver: Sage Books (1950). The second edition of Waters' classic book on Navajo and Pueblo ceremonials, one of the first books to sympathetically explore Native American spirituality. Signed by the author. With the handmade bookplate of a Native American poet and his markings throughout the text. Hinges broken; good, without dust jacket.
678. WELCH, James. Riding the Earthboy 40. NY: World (1971). The first book by this author of Blackfoot-Gros Ventre heritage, who was one of the most important and accomplished Native American writers of the post-1968 generation. Welch was a respected poet and an award-winning novelist, and wrote, with great power and sensitivity, fiction focused on both contemporary Indian life (e.g., Winter in the Blood) and historical material (the award-winning Fools Crow). Riding the Earthboy 40, a collection of poems, was never properly distributed as the publisher folded at the time of publication. It was re-published five years later in a revised and expanded form by Harper & Row. This is the first edition. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
679. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author to poets Sandra McPherson and Henry Carlile "with best wishes and hopes for another fishing trip soon. Love, Jim." Carlile's ownership signature and stamp; a fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with slight wear at the spine extremities. A nice association copy.
680. -. Another copy, unsigned. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
681. -. Same title, the revised and expanded edition. NY: Harper & Row (1976). The sixth book in Harper & Row's Native American Publishing Program. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
682. WELCH, James. Winter in the Blood. NY: Harper & Row (1974). His landmark first novel, which Reynolds Price called "a nearly flawless novel about human life." One of the important Native American novels of the postwar period, and the third book in the Harper & Row Native American Publishing Program. Very slight foxing to top edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket, with agent's card clipped to front free endpaper.
683. -. Another copy. Owner name on flyleaf; else fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
684. -. Another copy. Foxing to top edge; spine slant; near fine in a very near fine dust jacket with light fading to the yellow spine base.
685. -. Another copy. Gift inscription front flyleaf; foxing to page edges; near fine in a fine dust jacket.
686. -. Same title. Third printing. Inscribed by Welch to Duane Niatum: "For Duane/ These people might be/ a little different from/ your people, but underneath/ they are the same as we are./ Best,/ Jim." Niatum's bookplate on flyleaf; the dust jacket panels have been clipped and affixed to the boards and endpages; else fine. A nice association copy.
687. WELCH, James. The Death of Jim Loney. NY: Harper & Row (1979). The second and perhaps scarcest novel by this award-winning Native American author. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners and one short edge tear.
688. -. Another copy. Inscribed by Welch to Duane Niatum: "To Duane,/ It's good to run into/ you again. We will survive/ and continue to write./ Meanwhile, let's/ get together./ Best,/ Jim Welch/ 2/81/ Seattle." Niatum's bookplate on flyleaf; the dust jacket panels have been clipped and affixed to the boards and endpages; spots to foredge; near fine.
689. -. Another copy. Glue residue to endpages; long abrasions to cloth; very good in a near fine dust jacket with glue residue inside the flaps.
690. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. Very good in wrappers.
691. WELCH, James. Fools Crow. (NY): Viking (1986). A review copy of this highly praised historical novel set among the Blackfeet of the 1870s. Winner of The Los Angeles Times Award for best novel of the year. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with review slip and promotional sheet laid in.
692. -. Another copy. Foxing to top edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket.
693. WELCH, James. The Indian Lawyer. NY: Norton (1990). His fourth novel. Signed by the author. Foxing to top edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
694. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. Signed by the author. Some fading and staining to covers; very good in wrappers.
695. -. Another copy of the uncorrected proof. Inscribed by the author. The faintest of spine fading; still fine in wrappers.
696. WELCH, James. Going to Remake This World. (n.p.): (Confluence Press) (1990). A broadside excerpt from Riding the Earthboy 40. 9" x 12". Attractively printed in black and red on light blue paper. Signed by the author. Fine.
697. WELCH, James with STEKLER, Paul. Killing Custer. NY: Norton (1994). Welch's first book of nonfiction, a retelling and reimagining of the Custer myth and the Battle of Little Bighorn, from the Indian perspective. Stekler is a documentary filmmaker, and he and Welch collaborated on the script for "The Last Stand," which was nominated for an Emmy Award. Signed by the author. Tiny corner bump; fine in a fine dust jacket.
698. -. Same title. The advance reading copy. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
699. WELCH, James. Heartsong of Charging Elk. NY: Doubleday (2000). The advance reading copy of his last novel, published to great critical acclaim. Welch was knighted by France in 2000 for his service to French culture through his literary works; this novel depicts a Sioux Indian with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show who is stranded in Marseilles, and has to make his way somehow in the French society of the late 19th century. Inscribed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
700. (WELCH, James). Ploughshares, Vol. 20, No. 1. (Boston): (Emerson College) (1994). A volume entitled "Tribes" that was guest-edited and introduced by Welch. Includes a section of Native American writers, with pieces by Alexie, Ortiz, Momaday, Glancy, Elizabeth Woody, Anita Endrezze, and Debra Earling. Signed by Welch. Fine in wrappers.
701. WHITE EAGLE. The Dog Supper and Other Poems of Cowboy and Indian Life. (Gillette): (n.p.) (1918). A small booklet printing five of White Eagle's poems as well as a photo of Lookout Mountain, the resting place of Buffalo Bill. White Eagle was a Sioux chief from Wyoming, who was an expert horseman -- winning medals for his skill -- and who also prided himself as a poet. A small, fragile book in white wrappers, this copy shows evidence of internal dampstaining and the pages having been stuck together; they are abraded and torn where they have been separated. Only a good copy, but an extremely scarce volume of poetry by a Native American author.
702. WHITE EAGLE. Autograph Letter Signed. May 30 [1921]. Written to Herbert Fay, Custodian of Lincoln's Tomb. One 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of white lined paper, written on both sides. This letter refers to White Eagle's being in charge of an exhibit in Chicago for the Custer Battlefield Highway Association and to his efforts to contact an Apache named Dr. Montezuma, who lived in Chicago, in order to provide Fay with a photograph for his collection. Folded in sixths for mailing. Near fine.
703. WHITEMAN, Roberta Hill. Star Quilt. Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1984. The first full-length book of poems by this Oneida writer, illustrated by her husband, Ernest Whiteman, an Arapaho artist and with a foreword by Carolyn Forché, who at that time was one of the most highly praised and prominent poets in the country. This is the scarce hardcover issue; there was a simultaneous issue in wrappers and most copies were issued in softcover. Inscribed by the author to another Native American poet. Recipient's handmade bookplate front flyleaf; fine, without dust jacket, as issued. A nice association copy of an uncommon and important first book.
704. WHITEMAN, Roberta Hill. Your Fierce Resistance. (n.p.): Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1993. A poem in honor of the author's aunt, Josephine Coté. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers and dust jacket. An attractively printed and bound volume by this Oneida poet.
705. WINNIE, Lucille "Jerry." (SAH-GAN-DE-OH). The Chief's Daughter. NY: Vantage Press (1969). Vanity press publication of the memoirs of the daughter of a Seneca chief. Crown bumped; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and rubbing to the folds.
706. (Wounded Knee). Anarchismo's Law of Hot Food No. 4. (Ware): Four Zoas Press, 1976. The Four Zoas Journal of Poetry and Letters, this issue dedicated to Russell Means in honor of his actions during the siege at Wounded Knee. Richard Elman, Gerard Malanga, others. Various page sizes folded together. A couple corner turns; near fine. Published in an edition of "700 or so."
707. YARROW, Joyce. Jumping Mouse. (Carmel): (Pacific Arts) (1977). A 33 1/3 rpm LP record album of American Indian themes, including the title piece, taken from Seven Arrows, an unlikely but enormous bestseller at the time, which helped popularize Native American themes for a mainstream audience, on the heels of the Native American renaissance that grew out of the 1960s and was partly fueled by the Sixties counterculture. Fine in a near fine sleeve.
708. YOUNG, Egerton R. Algonquin Indian Tales. NY: Eaton & Mains (1903). Indian tales collected by a non-Indian. A short letter from an Ojibway chief thanking the author for preserving these stories serves as a preface. Signed by the author in 1906, using his English and Indian names. Owner name on pastedown; surface soiling to boards; a very good copy, without dust jacket.
709. YOUNG BEAR, Ray A. Waiting to Be Fed. Port Townsend: Graywolf Press (1975). His first book, a single poem published in an edition of 225 copies. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. An attractive volume. Graywolf Pamphlet Series I. Young Bear is a member of the Sauk and Fox tribe.
710. -. Another copy. Slight corner bump; small stray ink mark on front cover. Near fine in wrappers.
711. YOUNG BEAR, Ray. Winter of the Salamander. San Francisco: Harper (1980). His first full-length collection of poems and the tenth book in Harper's Native American Publishing Program. Signed by the author with a small drawing in 1999. Paperclip impression on prelims; trace wear to cloth ends; near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a couple short, closed edge tears.
712. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author to Joseph Bruchac. Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket with shelf wear at the corners and spine ends.