Pocahontas

• * ISBN 0-8061-1642-0
• * Condition : Excellent.
• * Size 8" x 5" Soft Cover. 227 pages

This book enhances the romantic story of the appealing daughter of Chief Powhatan and her friendship with the colonist of the Jamestown settlement. Her friendship extended beyond her rescue of Captain John Smith to supplying the starving colonist with food and warning them of Indian attacks. Her marriage and brief life in England are vividly recreated. There is the thorough going study of the Powhatan culture in chapters 2 and 3 from which Pocahontas emerged.

$17

Pascua - A Yaqui Village in Arizona

• * ISBN 0-8165-0845-3
• * Condition : Excellent (back cover is slightly bent on the bottom corner).
• * Size 8" x 5" Soft Cover. 325 pages.

The Yaqui Indians of Mexico were among the first converts to Christianity in New Spain, yet came to be regarded as a hostile tribe by the early emerging Mexican government. Many Yaquis fled Mexico in the early twentieth century and established a settlement in Arizona where they resumed a peaceful existence centered around their ceremonial calendar.

$13.95

Jim Beckwourth

• * ISBN 0-8061-1555-6
• * Condition : Excellent.
• * Size 8" x 5" Soft Cover. 248 pages.

Sometime around 1800 James Beckwourth was born a slave in Frederick County, Virginia, the natural son of Sir Jennings Beckwith and a slave girl. In 1810 Sir Jennings moved with his family to the wilderness of St. Louis, Missouri, where Jim was educated and eventually apprenticed to a blacksmith. His father recorded a Deed of Emancipation in his name on 3 different occasions, sending young Jim out into the world with his blessings. Jim Beckwourth was a fur trapper, an army scout during the Seminole campaign, a trader, war chief of the Crow Nation, explorer, hotelkeeper, dispatch carrier, storekeeper, prospector, Indian agent for the Cheyennes--in short, a mountain man extraordinaire ! Jim spent the remainder of his long, eventful life in the West, dying among the Crow Indians whom he loved.

In his old age Beckwourth dictated an autobiography to T. D. Bonner, a man more interested in making money with Jim's adventures than accurately recording his life. Beckwourth was later disparaged because of the inaccuracies that crept into Bonner's account.

$20

Giving Voice To Bear

• * ISBN 1-879373-48-3
• * Condition : Very good ( a small stain on the bottom of the book)
• * Other Info : 10" X 7.5" Soft Cover. 224 Pages.

This book has a lot of black and white photos of American Indians, mask, medicine bags, fetishes, and where the American Indians lived including in Alaska.

A comprehensible introduction to tribal attitudes, customs, and rituals. It is a stirring reminder of what it was like to be alive when being human meant living intimately with nature. This is a book that will change our way of thinking about this noble creature - and about those who sought to preserve its spirit.

$15

Views From The Apache Frontier

• * ISBN 0-8061-2196-3
• * Condition : Excellent.
• * Size 5.5" x 8.5" Hardback. 163 pages.

Lieutenant Jose Cortes of the Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers was a keen observer of the native peoples of the Northern Borderlands of New Spain. Especially fascinated by the Apaches whom he observed at frontier presidios in the 1790's, he gleaned all possible information from veterans of the frontier service, and in the process grew from sympathetic inquirer to virtual advocate.

$30

The World of the Crow Indians

• * ISBN 0-8061-2076-2
• * Condition : Excellent.
• * Size 5.5" x 8.5" Hardback. 193 pages.

This rare and penetrating portrait of the Crow (Apsaalooke) Indian world view is the result of the author's long and close association with the residents of the Crow Reservation in Montana. Having survived more than a century of harsh assimilation pressures, Crow society today is alive and vibrant, far from vanishing. Crow world view, which can be characterized by the Apsaalooke term for clan, ashammaleaxia, literally "as driftwood lodges." In the same way that pieces of driftwood lodge together along a riverbank, so the members of a clan cling together in a turbulent world. each depending on, and contributing to, the strength of the whole.

$20

The Western Apache

• ISBN 0-8061-1999-3
• * Condition : Excellent.
• * Size 5.5" x 8.5" Hard Back. 273 pages

At one time the apaches were the most feared Indians of the Southwest, and for good reason. They were fierce, swift, and clever. They could hide and not be seen; they could run and not leave a trail. Not until they were subdued and herded onto reservations by the United States Army did Mexican and Anglo-American settlers feel safe, and sometimes not even then.

Basically, Western Apache livelihood consisted of farming, hunting and gathering wild foods. Buskirk shows them to be a helpful and caring people who lived well off the land. There was plenty of food most of the time, and the Apaches always stored winter emergency supplies in scattered caches. Not overlooked are ritual and beliefs, and a strong family and band relationships.

$30

The Mescalero Apaches

• * ISBN 0-8061-1615-3
• * Condition : Excellent.
• * Size 8" x 5" Soft Cover. 335 pages

A well-written history of a group of Indians who helped to keep the Southwest in an uproar for several centuries. The description of the earlier Apaches' way of life, contrasted with their wretched life after the white man arrived, explains the uproar. The saddest words in the book are 'It need not have been that way.' For here, retold as it affected and still affects the Mescaleros, is also the story of our errant and confused Indian policy. This book concludes with an evaluation of the situation the Mescaleros face today on their beautiful reservation in New Mexico. One hopes this warm, sympathetic and lucid history will find a wide audience to help banish the prevalent misconceptions and stereotypes of Indians held by many Americans.

This book, is an account of their struggle against hardship and warfare, deception and oppression.

$20

The Jicarilla Apache Tribe

• * ISBN 0-0832-9422-0
• * Condition : Excellent.
• * Size 5.5" x 8.5" Soft Cover. 289 pages.

When this book was written in 1983, the reviewers wrote: "Indian tribal histories are among the most challenging projects to undertake... Veronica Tiller, however, in narrating a history of her tribe, the Jicarilla Apaches, concentrating on the modern era, 1846-1970, has been completely successful. After summarizing the early period, the author, in a vivid, well-documented narrative, has given an excellent portrait of her people in their relations with other tribes and in their long history of peace and war with the United States."

$12.95

The Conquest of the Apacheria

• * ISBN 0-8061-1286-7
• * Condition : Excellent.
• * Size 8" x 5.5" Soft Cover. 405 pages.

Apacheria ran from the Colorado to the Rio Grande and beyond, from the great canyons of the North for a thousand miles into Mexico. Here, where the elusive, phantomlike Apache bands roamed, life was as harsh, cruel and pitiless as the country itself. The conquest of Apacheria is an epic of heroism, mixed with chicanery, misunderstanding, and tragedy, on both sides.

The author's account of this important segment of Western American history includes the Walapais War, an eyewitness report on the death of the gallant lieutenant Howard B. Cushing, the famous Camp Grant Massacre, General Crook's offensive in Apacheria and his difficulties with General Miles, and the formidable Apache leaders, including Cochise, Delshay, Big Rump, Chunz, Chan-deisi, Victorio, and Geronimo.

$25