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Canada: Government of the Northwest Territories. Very Good. 1974. First Edition. Paperback. A collection of Inuit legends including: The Story of Inaloosiak and the Grizzly Bear; The Birds and Their Contest; The Man Who Became Many Things; Naraye; Anarktee; The Mouse and the Fox; Young Polar Bear; Ookpik and the Polar Bear; Medicine Song; Song of the… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Department of Mines and Resources. Fair. 1937. First Edition. Paperback. "The Sekani Indians of northern British Columbia centre today around two posts of the Hudson's Bay Company, Fort McLeod on McLeod Lake and Fort Grahame on Finlay River. The author visited them in those places during the summer of 1924, spending three weeks on… Read more about this item

Calgary, Alberta: Glenbow Museum. Good. 1979. First Edition. Paperback. 0919224008 . Includes chapters on the following native peoples of Alberta: Blackfoot Nation; Blackfoot Tribe; Blood Indians; Peigan Indians; Sarcee Indians; Stoney Indians; Plains Cree; Woodland Cree; Chipewyan Indians; Beaver Indians; Slavey Indians. An online reviewer speaks most highly of this book saying it contains information… Read more about this item

Canada: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. / Stó:lo Nation. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0295980443 . "Presents a comprehensive overview of Sto:lo-Coast Salish history. Full colour original maps, artwork and photographs grace the pages of this monumental volume, placing a vast wealth of easily accessible information at the fingertips of general… Read more about this item

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan: Moose Jaw Native Friendship Centre Corp.. Good. 1988. First Edition. Spiral Binding. A 122 page cookbook loaded with wonderful recipes for those desirous of a wild food diet. Prepared by the Moose Jaw Native Friendship Centre Corp. Founded in 1976, this organization was mandated to provide comprehensive programming and to assist the… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good. 1971. First Edition. Paperback. 0448020394 . Includes melody sheet music (treble clef only), chords and lyrics for more than fifty of Buffy's great songs. "Includes special piano arrangements for 10 of her most popular songs and many of her best songs with transcriptions in tablature showing her unique guitar stylings… Read more about this item

Calgary, Alberta: Glenbow-Alberta Institute. Good. 1980. Reprint. Paperback. "This anthropological paper surveys religious phenomena among the Plains Indians, with particular emphasis on the Blackfoot version of the Shaking Tent." - About Indians (4th Edn) 1224. "Blackfoot clairvoyance represents a local occurrence of the Shaking Tent rite, one of the most widely distributed religious observances of… Read more about this item

Canada: Isadore Toulouse. Good. 1992. Revised Edition. Plastic Comb Binding. An expanded and revised edition of the 1990 first edition. [4], 62 pages of Ojibwe words and their English meanings. Prior owner's name atop first page otherwise unmarked with average wear. Please note: This book was issued with an accompanying cassette audio tape… Read more about this item

Wellington, New Zealand: Government Printer. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. "Author was Ethnologist of the Dominion Museum. His earlier studies included Maori carving and meeting-houses. The gap filled by this book is an account of common houses, less spectacular but of more importance in any study of the way of… Read more about this item

Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 0773536868 . Signed and briefly inscribed upon title page by Tom Flanagan. "Challenging current laws and management, this illuminating work proposes the creation of a new system that would allow first Nations to choose to have full ownership of property, both individually and colllectively. Investigates… Read more about this item

Sidney, British Columbia: Gray's Publishing. Good. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 0888260253 . "Sarain Stump (1945-1974), Indigenous name Sock-a-jaw-wu, had little formal education and was encouraged to learn from his Shoshone-Cree elders. Moving to an Alberta ranch in 1964, he began the poems and drawings for [this book]. He promoted traditional Indigenous values and sought to… Read more about this item

USA: Gordon And Breach Science Publishers. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 2881244653 . "Details the nutritional properties, botanical characteristics and ethnic uses of traditional food plants of Indigenous Canadian peoples. Contains an index of over one thousand plants from all provinces of Canada, as well as the bordering states,… Read more about this item

Toronto: OGS. Good. 2004. Second Edition. Paperback. 0777921456 . "Deals with the volumes of material held in the Archives' RG 10 that make up the historical collection of the federal Department of Indian Affairs. Discusses four groups of people reflected in these documents - Status Indians, Inuit, Metis and non-status Indians. Well-documented and illustrated,… Read more about this item

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 0226476863 . "How does the rapidly changing modern world affect a large band of Salish Indians living on the east coast of Vancouver Island? A prosperous White town has grown up on the edge of their reserve, yet the Indians cling to… Read more about this item

Cobble Hill, British Columbia: St. Andrew's Trust. Very Good. 2005. First Edition. Paperback. 0969713312 . Signed (Jenny) and inscribed by author atop half-title. "This is the story of St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Cowichan Station, in the old South Cowichan, on Vancouver Island. In days gone by South Cowichan was an area south of Duncan and… Read more about this item

Canada: CAHS Press. 2011. First Edition. Paperback. 0929123190 . Signed, without inscription, upon title page by Translator and Editor, Allen Ronaghan. "The scope of this book is the geography of the land of the Blackfoot people as recorded in the years before the Blackfoot Treaty of 1877. Jean L'Heureux lived and travelled with the Blackfoot… Read more about this item

West Vancouver, B.C.: J.J. Douglas Ltd.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0888940424 . "The Northwest Coast Indians have been written about many times, but perhaps never as clearly or as concisely as in this beautifully illustrated introduction to the way of life of the seven tribes that inhabited the coast from the Columbia… Read more about this item

British Columbia: Presentation House Gallery/Arsenal Pulp Press. Very Good. 1999. First Edition. Paperback. 1551520710 . Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, curated by Faith Moosang and held from September 4 to October 17, 1999 at Presentation House Gallery. "An extraordinary collection of photographs… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, California: Southwest Museum. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "All informants for this particular example of Pomo Indian history now being dead, it remains the only record that has been written down. Descriptions of ceremonies are detailed enough to allow for restaging by future Indians or other generations who might wish to recreate the… Read more about this item

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Good, dust jacket only. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802017347 . "In the 1840's Paul Kane travelled the far reaches of the North American West, from the Great Lakes along the fur-trade routes to the coast, sketching a visual record of the Indian cultures of that vast area. With the publication of… Read more about this item