Category: Native American

A Thousand Years of American Indian Storytelling

By: Henry, Jeannette and Rupert Costo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, The Indian Historian Press : 1981

Seller ID: A45460

Condition: Very Good

B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some rippling to the front book cover, along with a couple of small spots of discoloration. The text pages are clean and bright. Stories include: How Kodayampe Made the World, Kodayampe Creates Man, Death Comes to the People, Creation of the Earth, Oneida, Earth's Creation, Arapaho, The Great Dipper, Morning and Evening Star, Mario and the Mountain Lion, Legend of Tsali, Fifty Young Men and a Turtle, and more.
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Indian Summer A True Account of Traditional Life Among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley

By: Mayfield, Thomas J. (with An Introduction by Malcolm Margolin)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, Heyday Books : 1993

Seller ID: A45733

ISBN-13: 9780930588649

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Cover Art; This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers, along with a bit of creasing. The text pages are clean and bright.
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Childhood and Youth in Jicarilla Apache Society

By: Opler, Morris Edward

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, The Southwest Museum : 1964

Seller ID: A45610

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback with cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This is a publication of the Southwest Museum. The text pages are clean and bright. "Morris Opler's chief anthropological contribution is in the ethnography of Southern Athabaskan peoples, i. E. The Navajo and Apache, such as the Chiricahua, Mescalero, Lipan, and Jicarilla. His classic work is An Apache Life-Way (1941). He worked with Grenville Goodwin, who was also studying social organization among the Western Apache. After Good...
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The Myth Of Hiawatha And Other Oral Legends, Mythological And Allegoric Of The North American Indians

By: Schoolcraft, Ll. D, Henry R.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, J. P. Lippincott & Co. : 1856

Seller ID: A43502

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The brown cloth covers have some edge wear, rubbing, light fraying and a couple of chipped tears to the top spine. There is a gilt embossed library code to the bottom spine end. There is also inked library code numbers on the copyright page and the dedication page, but there are no other identifying library designations (where from) except a card pocket remnant on the rear pastedown page. (possibly a home library). There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy V. Brandt) on the front pastedown page. The text pages are generally ...
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Kokopelli Casanova of the Cliff Dwellers the Hunchbacked Fluteplayer

By: Young, John V.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Palmer Lake, CO, Filter Press : 1990

Seller ID: A38469

ISBN-13: 9780865410268

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Near Fine

B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. "Among the Hopi, Kokopelli carries unborn children on his back and distributes them to women; for this reason, young girls often fear him. He often takes part in rituals relating to marriage, and Kokopelli himself is sometimes depicted with a consort, a woman called Kokopelmimi by the Hopi. It is said that Kokopelli can be seen on the full and waning moon, much like the "rabbit on the moon". Kok...
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