Indian History And Art from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

Norman; (1965): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. 378 pages, index. In July, 1781, the Quechan Indians wiped out two small Spanish settlements that had been established among them a few months earlier. The Fransican friars Francisco Garces, Juan Diaz, Matias Moreno, and Juan Barreneche were killed, as were most of the Spanish soldiers and colonists. In retelling… Read more about this item

Oceanside, Ca: The Academy of American Franciscan History, 2018. First Edition. Octavo. 340pp., Essays from a conference hosted by Flagler College St. Augustine, Florida. As the 450th anniversary of the founding of Saint Augustine drew near, scholars from the Americas and Europe gathered on March 13-15, 2014, for the conference, "Franciscan Florida in Pan-Borderlands Perspective: Adaptations, Negotiation and Resistance"… Read more about this item

Berkeley; (1976): University of California Press. First Edition. Octavo. 488pp., with a foreword by Theodora Kroeber and a biographical introduction by Timothy H.H. Thoresen, Folkloristic Commentary by Alan Dundes and Editor's preface by Grace Buzalkijko. Between 1901 and 1907 the author, then a young professor at the university of Berkely, made numerous trips into the country of the Yurok… Read more about this item

Chinile, Arizona, 1983. Quarto. The story of Navajo Fortress Rock is a true story. It tells of the heroic stand at Fortress Rock made by a group of Navajos. The Navajo leaders in charge of more than three-hundred people who spent the winter of 1863 and 1864 at Navajo Fortress Rock were certainly not "savages". Issued in a very… Read more about this item

New York City: The American Museum of Natural History, 1928. Octavo. [81]-392pp. illustrated. Volume XXIX, Part III. The Havasupai are a small and obscure group of Yuman-speaking Indians living in the neighborhood of the Grand Canyon in north central Arizona. Our earliest knowledge dates from their discovery in 1776 by Padre Francisco Garces. They were a very secluded tribe.… Read more about this item

Flagstaff, Arizona (1965): Northland Press. First Edition in Book Form. Octavo. Limited to 200 copies signed by Robert C. Euler who wrote the foreword. The present copy is #70. 75 pages, with the 4 page promotional account laid in. Cushing's 1882 account of his visit to the Havasupai Indians, or 'The Nation of the Willows" . In the first… Read more about this item

San Franciso; (1994): Pomegranate Art Books. First Edition. Small Quarto. 79 pages. Inscribed by Ursula Le Guin to Philomena (Guillebaud) "with Christmas cheer" and signed by Susan Seddon Boulet, the illustrator, whose paintings deal with primitive man and creatures often with a Native American sensitivity. A beautiful work and Karla Armbruster have written an article on ecofeminism in this… Read more about this item

New York; (1990): Rizzoli. First Edition. Quarto. 239pp., illustrated with 223 illustrations of which 122 are in color. About 2000 years ago, the Anasazi culture flourished in the Southwest. The Anasazi people had no written history and insight into their way of life has been ascertained from archaeological evidence, the written records of Spanish explorers who had contact with… Read more about this item

Albuquerque; (1991): University of New Mexico in Collaboration with Calvin Horn Publisher. First Edition. Small Quarto. Fronstispiece map, xviii, 500 pages, index, bibliography. The Hohokam is an archaeologically defined culture, the "heart- land" of which is thought to have been around Phoenix (radiating northward to the Mogollon Rim and southward into northern Mexico). They are best known for their… Read more about this item

New York; (1964): The Viking Press. First Edition. Large Octavo. 2nd printing. Signed and inscribed by White Bear. 347 pages, with Hopi glossary, illustrated with photographic images. The drawings and source material recorded by Oswald White Bear Fredericks. Thirty elders of the Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona met to offer these accounts. The first two parts deal with the… Read more about this item

Norman, Oklahoma; (1958): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. 303 pages, index. Illustrated One of the finest histories by one of the Southwest's premier historians of the Mescalero Apaches from their history to their betrayal by the Spanish, Mexicans and the Americans. A fine copy bound in light brown cloth, spine lettering in dark brown and yellow, in… Read more about this item

Norco, CA; (1980): Tales of the Mojave Road. Octavo. 240 pages, index. General George Stoneman sent Thomas Byrne's Company F that clashed with the Walapai in Truxton Cañón in January, the battle between immigrants and Mojaves on the Colorado River east bank on August 30, 1871, and the subsequent September 11 clash between Walapai warriors and retreating migrants. Pages… Read more about this item

(One Horse Land & Cattle Co.Sante Fe, New Mexico, 2007). First Edition. Quarto. First printing, Limited. 369 pages, limited. to less than 100 copies with the original John Henry Sharp engraving of an Indian bound in. Joseph Henry Sharp watched and recorded a way of life long since faded from our view. He painted 212 portraits of Indians who… Read more about this item

Norman; (1974): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. 391p. Signed by the author, index. bibliography. Thrapp's earlier major works on Al Sieber, General Crook and the Conquest of Apacheria are now followed by a work on the remarkable Mimbres Apache leader who outmaneuvered and outfought both Mexican and American armies in the period 1879-1880. While there have been… Read more about this item

Tucson: Balkow Print Co, 1954. First Edition. Octavo. 2nd printing. 58 pages, colored illustrations: Wheeler-Jones, the maker of the Mission Inn kachinas, pictures the Hopi katchina Sio Humis Taamu (see Fig. i). This latter katchina carries yucca whips in each hand, often has a basket on his back and threatens to whip or carry away disobed Ahulani -- Nuvak… Read more about this item

London: Published by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, 1841. First Edition. Octavo. Two volume set, first issue with "Frederick" for "Zedikiah" on page. 104. The first edition of Catlin's famous book, one of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. The book contains hundreds of line drawings of southern and western Indians. It… Read more about this item

New York; (1930): John Day Plenty Coups Indians. First Edition. Octavo. 313 pages. Inscribed "To /E. Howard Atchley/, Like this old 'Injun' if/ you can, /Frank B. Linderman /1930. Illustrated by H.M. Stoops. While the vast majority of Americans had regarded Indians as savages, Frank Linderman of Montana promoted positive views of Indians. This began when Plenty Coups, the… Read more about this item

Princeon, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. Folio. Issued as the first in a series of classics including Gladys Reichard's Navajo Religion, Mircea Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return, and others destined to be classics of the spiritual aspects of the Navajo view of the sacred. The artist Maud Oakes left her studio in 1941 to spend two years… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894. Quarto. 683 pages. Perhaps the most important and exhaustive treatment of the American Indian in the 19th Century. While the Dawes Act (1887) was originally designed to either keep the Indian on the reservations (or else be assimilated into what they thought characterized an American), this was the most notable governmental study of the… Read more about this item

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 247(1) pp., illustrated in color by Awa Tsireh and others. Awa Tsireh was a famous artist of San Ildefonso and has her illustrations in several well known museums and galleries. The Indian stories are usually told in the Winter's evening. Stories are not told during Spring or Summer as… Read more about this item