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Native Americans 001 Josephy, Alvin M. Jr. Artist Was A Young Man The Life Story Of Peter Rindisbacher.
Fort Worth Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1970, vi, 102 pages, illus, notes, bib, index. Hardcover, very good to fine in like dust jacket. $8.50 Box A 71
This gifted Swiss immigrant artist chronicled many aspects of Native American life. Sadly, he died at the age of 28 in 1834.

Americana 038 (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876). Cheyenne memories of the Custer fight: a source book. (Series: Frontier military series; 18). Compiled and edited by Richard G. Hardorff. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 1995, 189p, bib, index, illus, maps. Fine in blue cloth with gilt titles, as befits the Seventh Cavalry colors. $23.50
Hardorff is a specialist on the battle and the author of some interesting books on the engagement. Sadly, with some notable exceptions, the white man seldom sought out the views of Native Americans on this or any other event.

Big Horn 1000 (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876). Russell, Don, 1899-1986. Custer's last; or, The Battle of the Little Big Horn in picturesque perspective, being a pictorial representation of the late and unfortunate incident in Montana as portrayed by Custer's friends and foes, admirers, and iconoclasts of his day and after. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1968, v, 67p, notes, bib, illus. (part col.). Very good in dust jacket. $10.00

Americana FCT Smithsonian Institution, Jesse Walter Fewkes, John Reed Swanton, William Edward Myer. Forty-second annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1924-1925. Washington, D.C., United States Government Printing Office, 1928, vii, 900 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations (some color), maps, index. Good, tight copy of a large volumes, in original green cloth. Nice copy. $100.00 Box 5678
Contents: Report of the Chief of Bureau by J. Walter Fewkes; Social organization and social usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy by John R. Swanton; Religious beliefs and medical practices of the Creek Indians by John R. Swanton; Aboriginal culture of the Southeast by John R. Swanton; Indian trails of the Southeast by William Edward Myer. Interesting collection of studies on the tragic history of one of the Five Civilized Tribes. The term Five Civilized Tribes was applied by European Americans in the colonial and early… Read More

Irish in America 2556js Lawrence, Elizabeth Atwood. His Very Silence Speaks: Comanche - The Horse who survived Custer's Last Stand. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989, 357 pages, frontis, illustrations, bib, index. First Edition. Comanche, ridden by the dashing Captain Myles Keogh at the Little Big Horn, was severely wounded but survived and lived until 1891. Fine in fine dust jacket. $27.50 Box 375

Americana 101 (Plains Indians/Connor, Patrick Edward, 1820-1891). Wagner, David E., 1939- Patrick Connor's war: the 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition. (Series: Frontier military series; 29). Norman, Oklahoma: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2010, 296p, bib, index, illus. Fine copy with collector's bookplate (in Gaelic) on front lining paper.. $17.50
The author draws on journals, letters, and reports—especially the James H. Kidd Papers, a copy of Connor's expedition report previously believed burned, and the newly discovered C. M. Lee diary. Also included is a detailed account of the civilian road-building expedition of James Sawyers, whose fate became intertwined with the Powder River expedition.
The Powder River Expedition of 1865 was a large and far-flung punitive military operation of the United States Army against the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians in Montana Territory and Dakota Territory, land that had been confirmed as Indian territory in the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie.
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Americana pkdp Petersen, Karen Daniels. Plains Indian art from Fort Marion.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971, xx, 340p, bib, index, illus. (some colored). Oblong book, very good in dust jacket. $25.00 Box 4118
Study of the art of the Plains Indian prisoners of war at Fort Marion by a specialist in Indian art.

Irish in America 106ccp (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876/Keogh, Myles, 1840-1876). Coulombe, Charles A., 1960- The Pope's legion: the multinational fighting force that defended the Vatican. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 260p, bib, index, [8] p. of plates: illus. Very good in dust jacket. $14.50 Box A 106
Good background information on Keogh and other volunteers for Pope Pius IX in his struggle against the Savoys. Coulombe posits, along with others, that Keogh's body was not mutilated because "many of Sitting Bull's men were Catholic". Further research is necessary to validate the claim. (See also: Lucio Martino: Gli irlandesi contro i Savoia: il battaglione di San Patrizio nelle Marche e Umbria durante il Risorgimento: i reduci nelle guerre del Far West. The Irish against the Savoys).

Americana Zuni. Holmes, William Henry, Roth, Walter E., Stevenson, Matilda Coxe.Thirtieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1908-1909. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office 1915, 453 pages, plates, figures, index. Very good copy in original green cloth. Very little shelf wear, a nice copy. $40.00 Box 5678

The two papers are: Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians by Matilda Coxe Stevenson and An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-lore of the Guiana Indians by Walter E. Roth. The first study has three plates, goes from pages 31 to 102. The second study has four plates (one colored) and six figures. This is the larger of the two studies, from pages 103 to 386.

Americana hopi Powell, John Wesley; Jesse Walter Fewkes; J. N. B. Hewitt. Twenty-first annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology: to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1899-1900. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903, xl. 360 pages, 62 brightly colored plates of Hopi Katcinas plates (these are plates Number II to Plates Number LXIII. The Plate Number 1 is a folded map in the pocket at the back of the book. There are six black and white photos of chiefs of the Cayuga/Iroquoian nation, which are numbered as Plates LXIV to LXIX. All plates collated and present. The binding is in good shape overall, a little shaken. The are spots on the back cover (one on the spine). The cover is dull.
This important work is in two parts: the first is the much sought-after study on the Hopi Katcinas. The study Hopi katchinas, drawn by native artists was written by Jesse Walter Fewkes. The latter part of the book is a work by J. N. B. Hewitt, Iroquoian cosmology. (Part I). This has also… Read More

Native Americans mwnc Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905. The night chant: a Navaho ceremony. Foreword by John Farella. Orthographic notes by Robert W. Young. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1995, xlviii, 332 pages, illus, eight plates, six are colored, index. Fine copy of the hardcover, black cloth with silver lettering and design on cover and spine. In the original stiff plastic dust jacket. Matthews was a prominent ethnologist who work appeared on the annual reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This work was originally published in 1901. $17.50 Box 2029

Irish in America bjsn Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896. The snake dance of the Moquis of Arizona. (Series: A Rio Grande classic). [Chicago]: [Rio Grande Press], [1962], xvi, 271 pages, index, plates. Very good copy of the reproduction of the 1884 edition, published by Scribner, New York. $20.00 Box 2027
A 19th century Army officer and ethnologist relates his experiences and observations regarding the customs of the Hopi Indians, mistakenly called Moqui Indians at that time, focusing particularly on the 16-day ritual known as the snake dance. Bourke was an amazing character even had Sigmund Freud write an introduction to his work on scatology.