Native American Literature, H-J
338. HAIL, Raven. The Raven Speaks, Vol. IV, No. 2 Dallas: (Self-Published), 1971. One sheet, folded to make four pages, then folded vertically; near fine. The text includes a hymn set to music, "The Land of Beulah," written in Cherokee. Uncommon.
339. HALE, Janet Campbell. The Owl's Song. NY: Doubleday (1974). Her first book, a novel for young adults about a young boy coming of age on an Idaho reservation. Hale grew up on the Yakima and Coeur d'Alene reservations. Her memoir, Bloodlines, received the American Book Award. Slight discoloration at inner hinges from binder's glue; near fine in a very near fine dust jacket with trace wear at the crown. An uncommon book, which seems to have been targeted primarily at libraries, so that copies that are not ex-library seldom show up.
340. HALE, Janet Campbell. Custer Lives in Humboldt County and Other Poems. NY: Greenfield Review (1978). A collection of poems published by Joseph Bruchac's Greenfield Review Press. Fine in stapled wrappers.
341. HANNUM, Alberta. Paint the Wind. London: Michael Joseph (1959). The first British edition of this nonfiction account of the Navajo, and the boy artist Beatien Yazz, illustrated with paintings by Yazz. Offsetting to the endpages and foxing to the foredge; near fine in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket with rubbing to the folds.
342. HARJO, Joy. The Last Song. (Las Cruces): (Puerto Del Sol) (1975). The uncommon first book by this writer of Muscogee Creek heritage; a collection of poems with illustrations by the author, published at New Mexico State University, the year before Harjo received her B.A. there. Harjo is one of the most highly regarded of contemporary Native American poets. She attended the Institute of American Indian Arts and later earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including an American Book Award, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, the William Carlos Williams Award and an NEA Fellowship, among many others. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers.
343. -. Another copy. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers, with retained return address signed by the author laid in.
344. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author in February, 1976. Saddle-stitched wrappers cracked at spine; otherwise very good.
345. -. Another copy. Stapled text block detached; spine chipped with front joint cracked; still about very good.
346. HARJO, Joy. What Moon Drove Me to This? NY: I. Reed Books (1979). Her scarce second book, a collection of poems. Inscribed by the author to another Native American writer: "...Keep speaking the truths you see in beauty," and signed "Joy." Fine in wrappers, with a cover illustration by the author. With the writer's ownership signature on the half-title.
347. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author to another poet: "For ____ ____ -/ after all these years!/ with ongoing love &/ respect." Light wear; very good in wrappers. A nice inscription in a scarce book.
348. HARJO, Joy. She Had Some Horses. NY/Chicago: Thunder's Mouth Press (1983). The very uncommon hardcover issue of the third book by this Creek author. Signed by the author, with a typed postcard signed to Clark Kimball of the Rydal Press laid in. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
349. -. Same title, the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Inscribed by the author in the month of publication. Rubbed at the folds and with a few light corner creases; still about near fine.
350. HARJO, Joy and STROM, Stephen. Secrets from the Center of the World. Tucson: Sun Tracks and University of Arizona Press (1989). Reflections, poetry and prose poems by Harjo, with photography by Strom. Inscribed by both Harjo and Strom to southwestern writer and editor Cynthia Farah. Fine in self-wraps. With a postcard laid in announcing a gallery opening that includes Strom's photographs for this book. Uncommon in the first printing, and a good association copy.
351. HARJO, Joy. Fishing. (n.p.): Ox Head Press, 1992. A miniature book printing a prose poem that first appeared in The New Yorker. Of a total edition of 425 copies, this is one of only 25 numbered hardcover copies. Although not a signed edition, this copy is inscribed by the author: "For ____, May this book bring you good fishing, Joy." Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
352. HARJO, Joy. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky. NY: Norton (1994). Poetry and prose poems. Inscribed by the author in the month of publication: "For ___ ____-/ you are part of/ these stories &/ songs/ with ongoing/ love,/ Joy Harjo/ 12/94." Fine in a fine dust jacket (not price-clipped, as most of the jackets were), with a black & white photo of the author and her daughter laid in.
353. HARJO, Joy. The Good Luck Cat. San Diego: Harcourt (2000). Her first children's book, illustrated by Paul Lee. Oblong quarto; fine in a fine dust jacket.
354. (HARJO, Joy). Reinventing the Enemy's Language. NY: Norton (1997). Writings by Native American women, the most extensive such anthology ever, including poetry, fiction, essays and memoirs. Edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird. With work by Harjo, Janet Campbell Hale, Paula Gunn Allen, Leslie Marmon Silko, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Wendy Rose, Linda Hogan, Susan Power, Louise Erdrich, and many others. Dampstaining to spine base; near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with dampstaining on verso.
355. -. Another copy. Inscribed by Harjo, assistant editor Valerie Martínez, and contributor Debra Haaland Toya. Fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
356. HEDGE COKE, Allison Adelle. Dog Road Woman. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press (1997). Poetry, her first book, which "presents an autobiographical sketch of a contemporary mixed-blood life," by a writer of Huron, Cherokee, French-Canadian and Portuguese descent. Fine in wrappers.
357. HENSON, Lance. Keeper of Arrows. Chickasha: Renaissance Press (1972). The first revised edition of his first book, a collection first published a year earlier, in 1971. The author is a Vietnam vet and a member of the Cheyenne Dog Soldier Society. Inscribed by the author to Joseph Bruchac on the copyright page; signed on the dedication page. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
358. HENSON, Lance. Naming the Dark. (Norman): (Point Riders Press) (1976). His second book, a collection of poems, some of which were included in the landmark anthology Voices of the Rainbow. Cover art by Indian artist Robbie McMurtry. Owner name on half-title. Folds rubbed; near fine in wrappers and inscribed by the author in 1982. Errata sheet laid in.
359. HENSON, Lance. Buffalo Marrow on Black. Edmond: Full Count Press (1972)[c.1980]. An uncommon collection of poems. The copyright date is given as 1972, but several of the poems are dated 1979, and other information on the rear cover suggests a publication date around 1980. Inscribed by the author to Joseph Bruchac. Ink annotation (by the author?) on first page of text. Slight rubbing; near fine in stapled wrappers.
360. HENSON, Lance. After Old Crow and Owl Faces. (n.p.): Renegade, 1984. A small broadside poem. 5 3/8" x 4 1/8". Fine. A scarce, ephemeral item.
361. HENSON, Lance. Another Distance. Norman: Point Riders Press (1991). New and selected poems, with a biographical sketch of the author that mentions his poetry having been translated into 22 languages and his role as an activist for Native American rights that resulted in his addressing the United Nations in 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland, on behalf of his people. Inscribed by the author to Joseph Bruchac and his family. Fine in wrappers. An uncommon book, and a good association copy.
362. HEN-TOH. Tales of the Bark Lodges. Oklahoma City: Harlow Publishing (1919). His first book, a collection of animal tales collected over the years by Hen-Toh (aka Bertrand Walker), a Wyandot, both from his own tribe in the Indian Territory and from his talks with older Indians of various tribes in his travels for the Indian Service, for which he worked for over 25 years until his death. Creasing to front flyleaf; modest foxing and handling; cloth a bit rubbed; very good. Uncommon.
363. HEYNEN, Jim. Notes from Custer. Ann Arbor: Bear Claw Press (1976). An early collection by this non-Indian writer, which focuses on themes relating to the Plains Indians and Custer, and includes a section of translations by the author from Lakota. Fine in wrappers.
364. HEYNEN, Jim. Sioux Songs. Marvin: Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1976. Translations by Heynen, a poet and fiction writer, from Sioux originals. Issued as Blue Cloud Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 3. Mailing address of Joseph Bruchac; fine in stapled wrappers.
365. HEYNEN, Jim. How the Sow Became a Goddess. Lewiston: Confluence Press (1977). A poetry chapbook, published in an edition of 300 copies. Inscribed by the author in 1978 to James and Lois Welch. Slight sunning to edges; near fine in self-wrappers.
366. HIGHTOWER, James. Happy Hunting Grounds. Colorado Springs: Self-Published (1910). Stories by a writer of Cherokee descent, written for young people. Illustrated, and with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Erased owner name front pastedown, stamping partially rubbed; fraying to spine extremities. Very good, without dust jacket.
367. HIGHWATER, Jamake. Song from the Earth. American Indian Painting. Boston: New York Graphic Society (1976). Highwater was one of the most controversial figures among contemporary American Indian writers. Critics claimed that he was not of Native American descent and that his asserting that he was represented another case of exploitation of Native Americans -- in this case, Native American ethnicity itself. Regardless of his ethnicity, he was one of the important contemporary literary voices dealing with matters of Native American culture and heritage. His writing was prolific, and his books -- on Native American painting, dance, and other subjects -- have filled voids left by other writers and have become significant landmarks in their fields. This title, Song From the Earth, an introduction to American Indian painting, and The Sweet Grass Lives On, a subsequent volume that introduced 50 contemporary American Indian artists, together helped launch the current trend in collecting contemporary Indian art. Inscribed by the author. Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket worn at the corners and spine extremities.
368. -. Another copy. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with modest edge wear, particularly at the spine crown.
369. HIGHWATER, Jamake. Anpao. An American Indian Odyssey. Philadelphia: Lippincott (1977). A review copy of his fourth book under his Indian name, a coming-of-age story for young people told in a manner that N. Scott Momaday called "truly reflective of the oral tradition and the rich heritage of Native American storytelling." The biographical information identifies Highwater as being of Blackfeet/Cherokee heritage, and the book is illustrated by Fritz Scholder, a Luiseño Indian artist, who also provided the dust jacket illustration. Inscribed by the author to a well-known bookman "in celebration of a man who celebrates writers." Fine in a rubbed, near fine dust jacket, with review slip laid in. A Newbery Honor Book for 1978 and a key book that was for a time out of print and is now a standard for introductory courses in multicultural literature.
370. -. Same title. NY: Folkways Records (1978). A long-playing record. Highwater reads from Anpao. Fine in a near fine sleeve, with a "Newbery Honors Book" sticker on the front panel.
371. HIGHWATER, Jamake. Ritual of the Wind. NY: Viking (1977). Heavily illustrated quarto, a study of Native American ceremonies, music and dance. His second book examining some specific aspect of Native American arts. Very good in a dust jacket that is worn along the edges with a chip and long tear on the rear panel.
372. HIGHWATER, Jamake. Journey to the Sky. NY: Thomas Crowell (1978). A novel about the Stephens and Catherwood trips through southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Yucatan peninsula in the 1830s that rediscovered the ruins of the Mayan civilization, record of which had been lost to Europeans by the 19th century, and was entirely new to Americans. Their two books -- Incidents of Travel in the Yucatan and Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and the Yucatan -- were popular, colorful accounts that were also archaeologically important for the highly detailed drawings Catherwood did of the ruins and glyphic writings of the Mayans. Fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several short but open edge tears, one internally tape-mended.
373. HIGHWATER, Jamake. Dance. Rituals of Experience. NY: A&W (1978). A survey and analysis of contemporary dance by this prolific author. Small quarto, heavily illustrated with photographs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some minor edge wear. An uncommon book in fine condition.
374. HIGHWATER, Jamake. Legend Days. NY: Harper & Row (1984). The uncorrected proof copy of the first book in his Ghost Horse cycle, a novel written for young adults and chronicling three generations in the lives of a Northern Plains Indian family in the nineteenth century. This is a square octavo, reproduced from galley sheets, with compositor's marginal comments reproduced as well -- an uncommon format. Near fine in wrappers.
375. HOBSON, Geary. Deer Hunting. (Norman/NY): Renegade/Strawberry (1990). Uncommon book of poetry by this writer of Cherokee descent, who also edited the important anthology The Remembered Earth. Fine in stapled wrappers.
376. HOGAN, Linda. Eclipse. Los Angeles: University of California (1983). Poetry; the third book by this award-winning Chickasaw writer, and the sixth volume in the series of Native American literary works published by the American Indian Studies Center at UCLA. Fine in wrappers.
377. HOGAN, Linda and HENDERSON, Charles Colbert. That Horse. (Acomita): Acoma Press, 1985. A collection of stories by Hogan derived from a tale her father and grandfather used to tell. Her father's version (by Charles Colbert Henderson) is the first one in the collection; the rest of the writing is by Hogan. Spotting to front near spine fold; near fine in wrappers.
378. -. Another copy. Signed by Hogan. Fine in wrappers. An attractive, uncommon volume published by a small press in Acoma Pueblo.
379. HOGAN, Linda. Seeing Through the Sun. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985. The scarce hardcover issue of this collection of poems. Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Inscribed by the author "with love" and signed "Linda." Fine in a near fine, rubbed dust jacket, with short tears at the spine extremities.
380. HOGAN, Linda. Savings. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1988. Her fifth collection of poems. This collection deals primarily with issues of urban relocation and its effect on Native American peoples. Inscribed by the author. Spine- and edge-faded; near fine in wrappers, with no indication of there having been a hardcover edition.
381. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author to another Native American poet, "... For ____ _____, And the red cedar, the poems, and the survival of our lives and stories. And for the roads we follow..." and dated 1992. With the poet's ownership signature. Very slight spine roll; else fine in wrappers.
382. HOGAN, Linda. The Hands. San Francisco: Streetfare Journal, 1989. A broadside of a poem that first appeared in Savings, designed by a nonprofit poetry and visual arts project to be exhibited on urban bus and subway systems throughout the U.S. and issued as part of the Streetfare Journal's urban poetry series. Illustrated by Li Hua. 28" x 11"; fine.
383. HOGAN, Linda. Mean Spirit. NY: Atheneum, 1990. The poet's first novel, a powerful and grim tale of an Oklahoma land grab in the 1920s, after oil was discovered there, that victimized Indians already once displaced from their earlier homelands. Hogan apparently created a screenplay called Mean Spirit, presumably based on the same story as this novel, and as yet unproduced. This book won the Oklahoma Book Award for fiction and the Mountain and Plains Booksellers' Association Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with an invitation to a reading laid in.
384. HOGAN, Linda. Red Clay: Poems & Stories. Greenfield Center: Greenfield Review (1991). A collection that reprints the contents of two books -- her first book, Calling Myself Home, and her first collection of short fiction, That Horse. With a new introduction by the author. Inscribed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
385. HOGAN, Linda. Dwellings. NY: Norton, 1995. A collection of essays, subtitled "A Spiritual History of the Living World" and focusing on the interconnection of humans and nature, and myth and spirituality. Inscribed by the author to another Native American writer, with his bookplate on the front flyleaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice association.
386. HOGAN, Linda and ROSE, Wendy. Readings and Conversations. (n.p.): Lannan Foundation, 1995. Program for a reading sponsored by the Lannan Foundation on February 7, 1995. A single sheet, approximately 11" x 14", folded once to make four pages. The program contains one poem each by Hogan and Rose and is signed by both authors. A short bibliography of each author is also provided on the program. Hints of creasing; else fine.
387. (HOGAN, Linda). "The Rose Beads" in Bloodroot, No. 7. Grand Forks: Bloodroot, 1980. An early appearance in print by Hogan, after her first book and preceding her second. Inscribed by Hogan at her contribution. Owner name, else fine in stapled wrappers.
Early Book by a Native American Woman
388. HOPKINS, Sarah Winnemucca. Life Among the Piutes. Boston/NY: Cupples, Upham/Putnam, 1883. The only book by this writer, who was the daughter of Paiute leader Winnemucca. An account of her life and the life of her tribe. Recounts her experiences during the Bannock War, during which she served as a translator, and gives both an overview of Paiute history and a number of specific stories pertaining to particular incidents. Small marginal stain to early pages; an offset square to title page; faded owner stamp to front cloth, which has blended staining; a very good copy in gold cloth (there were also issues in green cloth and dark brown cloth). An early book written by a Native American woman; relatively uncommon.
389. HUNTER, Lois M. The Shinnecock Indians. (n.p.): Buys Brothers, 1950. A history of the Shinnecock tribe, of eastern Long Island, written by a descendant of Sachem Nowedonah and the Reverend Paul Cuffee. Nowedonah was the leader, or sachem, of the Shinnecocks at the time the first white settlers arrived from Lynn, Massachusetts, to establish Southampton, the first English settlement in New York. Ringbound in heavy cardstock pictorial covers; illustrated. One tiny spot; else fine. Uncommon.
390. (INSHTA THEAMBA, aka "Bright Eyes," aka Susette La Flesche Tibbles). HARSHA, William Justin. Ploughed Under; the Story of an Indian Chief. Told by Himself. NY: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1881. An anonymous first person account attributed to Harsha, who was not an Indian chief as indicated but rather a Presbyterian pastor, thus making this a novel. With an introduction by Inshta Theamba, aka "Bright Eyes," an Omaha Indian whose father, a French-Indian, was the last head chief of the Omaha tribe. Her English name was Susette La Flesche and she married a white man named Thomas Tibbles. Susette La Flesche Tibbles, at the encouragement of Helen Hunt Jackson, contributed much of the information used to create the story and give it authenticity, in addition to writing the introduction. She was an early advocate of Indian rights, and the introduction, although short, is an eloquent re-statement of the "Indian problem" that lays to rest the white assumptions that make it a "problem." We know of no earlier book in which a Native American woman writer was a major contributor. Library stamp on the verso of the title page, which is detaching; ownership name on first blank. A very good copy in red cloth, and an early, important volume in the history of Native American literature, and particularly Native American women's literature.
391. JOHNSON, E. Pauline. Flint and Feather. Toronto: Musson Book (1914). The third edition of her most famous book, which reprints the poems from her first two collections -- The White Wampum and Canadian Born -- as well as a number of previously uncollected pieces. First published in 1912, just before she died. Johnson was the most celebrated Native American woman writer of her day; indeed, she remained so until the present generation of writers. Most of her books, including this one, were reprinted numerous times (this book had reached its twenty-second edition by 1931). Curvature to rear board; otherwise a near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket.
392. JONES, Reverend Peter. Life and Journals of Kah-Ke-Wa-Quo-Na-By. Toronto: Anson Green, 1860. Posthumously published memoir of this Ojibway, who became a Methodist missionary. Jones's father was a Welsh surveyor in northern Canada and his mother was the daughter of the chief of the Mississauga tribe of the Ojibways. He grew up primarily with his mother, as his father traveled much of the time for his work, and at the age of 21 he converted to Christianity, becoming a missionary to the Ojibways. Jones translated a number of Christian hymns and prayers into the Ojibway language, becoming the first person to do so. His posthumously published tribal history [see below] was the first comprehensive history of the tribe. Previous owner name, date and price on front flyleaf. Near fine. An important volume in Native American history and literature, and uncommon: Sabin 36591; not in Field; no copy in the 1999 Siebert auctions, although three other titles by the author were included.
393. JONES, Rev. Peter. "Kahkewaquonaby." History of the Ojebway Indians; with Especial Reference to Their Conversion to Christianity. London: A.W. Bennett, 1861. The uncommon first edition of this history of the Ojibway people, by an Ojibway author who became a devout missionary. Posthumously published: Jones died in 1856. Although preceded by George Copway's history of the Ojibway tribe, this volume is the first unified presentation of Ojibway history -- Copway's having been interspersed with tribal tales and family reminiscences. Copway and Jones were good friends. Owner gift inscription (1866) front flyleaf; joints repaired; staining to endpages and a few outer pages; modest overall foxing. A good copy of a landmark book in the history of Native American writing.