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1. Sanchez, Joseph, et al; curated by Michelle LaVallee. 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. – Janvier, Ray, Morrisseau, Odjig, Sanchez, Beardy, Cobiness. Regina, Saskatchewan: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2014. 2nd edition. ISBN: 9781896470870. pp. 391. 4to. Aquamarine cloth binding, decorated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Front board slightly bowed, else near fine, in rubbed, very good dustjacket. Hardcover. Revised and expanded edition. (#095786) $100.00
2. James, William C. A.A. Chesterfield: Ungava Portraits (Gens de l’Ungava): 1902-04. Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, 1983. ISBN: 9780889113732. pp. 47. 4to. Stiff card covers. Black and white photographs. Light rubbing to covers, contents clean and unmarked; very good+. Paperback. (#095529) $25.00
3. Kirkness, Verna J. Aboriginal Languages A Collection of Talks and Papers. Cedar Cove, ON: Published By The Author, 1998. ISBN: 9780968356401. pp. xvi, 150. 8vo. Author’s signature to title page. Lightest shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. SIGNED by Kirkness. (#097031) $35.00
4. Marles, Robin J.; Christina Clavelle; Leslie Monteleone; Natalie Tays; Donna Burns. Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada’s Northwest Boreal Forest. Edmonton: Natural Resources Canada, 2008. ISBN: 9780660198699. pp. xiii, 368. 8vo. Colour photographs. Previous owner’s name to inside front cover; near fine. Paperback. (#099845) $28.00
5. Alaskan Embers. Alaskan Embers Parents/Grandparents Storybook #3. Anchorage, AK: Alaskan Embers, 1994. pp. 40. 4to. Black and white photographs. Wear to corners; very good. Spiral Bound. “Stories, tales, anecdotes, vignettes, poems, and other such stuff by people who love Alaska for people who love Alaska.” (#097662) $25.00
6. Hill, Greg A.; Lee-Ann Martin; Chris Dueker. Alex Janvier. Ottawa: National Gallery Of Canada, 2016. ISBN: 9780888849427. pp. 200. 4to. Light shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. (#098110) $70.00
7. Hutton, S.K. Among the Eskimos of Labrador A Record of Five Years’ Close Intercourse with the Eskimo Tribes of Labrador. London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1912. pp. 343. 8vo. Bound in very dark grey cloth. Ex Hudson’s Bay Company Library: HBC bookplate to ffep, library sticker to spine. Duotone photographic plates. General shelfwear, spine slightly pulled, corners bumped, boards somewhat splayed, some discolouration to page ends, minor ink notation to bookplate; very good-. Hardcover. (#098552) $40.00
8. Allen, Jan; Annie Pootoogook. Annie Pootoogook Kinngait Compositions. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, 2011. pp. 77. 4to. Art book. Light shelfwear and some discolouring to card covers; very good. Paperback. (#098176) $30.00
9. Frideres, James. Arrows in a Quiver From Contact to the Courts in Indigenous-Canadian Relations. Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina, 2019. ISBN: 9780889776784. pp. xxv, 325. 8vo. Edges/corners bumped, wear to bottom edge, small scuff to top of spine; very good-. Paperback. (#096031) $30.00
10. Arngna’naaq, Ruby; Jack Butler; et. al. Art and Cold Cash. Toronto: YYZ Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780920397534. pp. 191. 4to. B&W and colour photographs. Shelfwear; very good. Paperback.
Contains a series of interviews, in English and Inuktitut, where eight Baker Lake residents consider the question: “Do you remember when you first used money?” (#097420) $40.00
11. Cuthand, Ruth; Jen Budney [ed.]. Back Talk / Kihkahtowi-Naskwewasimowin Ruth Cuthand: Works / Atoskewina 1983 – 2009. Saskatoon: Mendel Art Gallery, 2012. ISBN: 9781896359779. pp. 144. 4to. Colour plates. Near fine. Paperback. Text in English and Cree. (#098086) $35.00
12. Monkman, Kent. Being Legendary At Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Art Institute Canada, 2023. pp. 174. 4to. Orange cloth binding to spine. Some scuffing to binding; very good+. Hardcover. Confronting Colonialism, Rethinking History (#097324) $45.00
13. Jackson, Elisabeth [intro.]. Bella Coola-Kwakiutl Nootka – Salish A Photographic History. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1972. Unpaginated. 4to. Black and white photographs and maps. Wear to edges, University of Manitoba stamp to front cover and one page; very good. Paperback. (#099811) $30.00
14. Lester, Patrick D. The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters. Tulsa: SIR Publications, 1995. ISBN: 9780806199368. pp. xvii, 701. 4to. Bound in light blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Light shelfwear; very good+ in good+ dustjacket with scuffing to spine and tears to top edge. Hardcover. (#098477) $30.00
15. Belitz, Larry. Brain Tanning the Sioux Way Step – By- Step. [Pine Ridge Indian Reservation]: [Pine Ridge Indian Reservation], 2001. Seventheenth Printing. pp. 16. 8vo. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Includes sample of tanned der hide stapled to front cover. Lightest shelfwear, rubber stamp to inside front cover; near fine. Stapled Wraps. (#097572) $25.00
16. Deerchild, Rosanna. Calling Down the Sky. Markham, Ontario: Bookland Press, 2015. ISBN: 9781772310054. pp. 80. 8vo. Light shelfwear, slight crease to front cover; very good. Paperback. (#094915) $25.00
17. [Canadian Geographic]. Canadian Geographic Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada (4 Volume Set) Inuit; First Nations; Métis; Indigenous Canada. Ottawa: The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, 2018. ISBN: 9780986751646. 4to. Replete with demographic maps and pictorial illustrations in colour. Lightest shelfwear; near fine with a slipcase with some dinting and puncture marks to spine. Hardcover. (#096738) $45.00
18. Shaw, George C. The Chinook Jargon And How to Use it. Seattle: [Self Published], 1909. pp. 65. 8vo. Red binding. Ex Hudson’s Bay Company Library: Library sticker to front cover, HBC bookplate to inside front cover. Front wrap detached completely, scuffing and creasing; good. Stapled Wraps.
A complete and exhaustive lexicon of the oldest trade language of the American continent. (#099070) $75.00
19. Hopkins, Candice; Steve Loft; Lee-Ann Martin; Jenny Western; Sherry Farrell Racette, ed. Close Encounters The Next 500 Years. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Plug In Editions, 2011. ISBN: 9780921381365. Unpaginated. Square 4to. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering; double-sided dustjacket. Hardcover.
An exhibition featuring 33 “international Indigenous artists who reconfigure ways of thinking and being in the future”. (#097554) $150.00
20. Blodgett, Jean . The Coming and Going of the Shaman Eskimo Shamanism and Art. Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979. ISBN: 9780889150683. pp. 246. 4to. Photographs. Rubbing to covers, corners bumped. sticker residue to first page; very good-. Paperback.
Exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery March 11 to June 11, 1978 (#097665) $25.00
21. St. Onge, Nicole, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda Macdougall (ed.). Contours of a People Metis Family, Mobility, and History. Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780806142791. pp. 482. 8vo. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, some nicking to edges of dustjacket; very good+ in very good dustjacket. Hardcover. (#098849) $35.00
22. Wight, Darlene Coward . Creation and Transformation Defining Moments in Inuit Art. Vancouver: Douglas & Mcintyre, 2013. First American Edition. ISBN: 9781926812892. pp. 228. 4to. Ni discernible flaws. Dustjacket slightly shelfworn and nicked; near fine in very good+ dustjacket. Hardcover. (#098140) $40.00
23. Riggs, Stephen Return and John Poage Williamson, eds. Dakota Odowan. Hymns in the Dakota Language. New York: American Tract Society, 1865. pp. 162. 12mo. Brown leather with gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Loss to leather over front joint, boards slightly bowed, minor spotting to contents which are otherwise clear. Leather Bound.
See OCLC 1070647556 for the the 1863 printing. Inscribed: “Miss Cissie Jammy (?) from Alfred L. Riggs Santee Agency June 1871”. Riggs was a 19th century Christian missionary, who compiled the first Dakota dictionary, published in 1852. (#094239) $2,000.00
24. Elias, Peter Douglas . The Dakota of the Canadian Northwest Lessons for Survival. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University Of Manitoba Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780887551420. pp. 262. 8vo. Bound in dark gray cloth. Ffep clipped, dustjacket lightly shelfworn and sunned; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. Hardcover.
Manitoba Studies in Native History V. (#098164) $25.00
25. Riggs, Stephen Return; Thomas S. Williamson. Dakota Wowapi Wakan Kin. The New Testament, in the Dakota Language [Bound With] Wicoicage Wowapi, Mowis Owa Qa Wicoie Wakan Kin, Salomon Kaga. The Books of Genesis and Proverbs in the Dakota Language. New York: American Bible Society, 1865. pp. 408; 115. 8vo. Brown leather with gilt lettering to spine. Spine pulled, surface leather chipped away at spine, edges worn, joints tender, text block sound, contents unmarked. Leather Bound.
Inscribed: “Ada M. J—y from A. [Alfred] L. Riggs Santee Agency June 1871”. OCLC 5631145. Riggs was a 19th century Christian missionary, who compiled the first Dakota dictionary, published in 1852. (#094235) $2,000.00
26. [Urban Shaman]. Dance to the Berdashe. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Urban Shaman, 2009. Unpaginated. 12mo. Red binding. Kent Monkman interviews and photos by Chris Chapman. Light shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. (#098241) $30.00
27. Bob, Dempsey; Sarah Milroy [ed.]. Dempsey Bob In His Own Voice. Whistler, BC: Audain Art Museum, 2022. ISBN: 9781773271613. pp. 212. 4to. Colour photographs. Artist’s signature to half-title page. Light shelfwear; very good. Hardcover. (#095661) $30.00
28. [John Barnsley & Co.]. Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon Indian Trade Language of the North Pacific Coast. Victoria: T.N. Hibben & Co., 1972. Reprint. pp. 35. Small 8vo. Ex Hudson’s Bay Company Library: HBC sticker to spine, rubber stamps to title page; very good. Card covers. (#098789) $35.00
29. Baraga, Frederic . A Dictionary of the Ojibway Language. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780873512817. pp. 422. 8vo. Light shelfwear, some creasing to spine; very good+. Paperback. (#096973) $25.00
30. Barbeau, Marius; George Clutesi [intro.]. The Downfall of Temlaham. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1973. pp. xii, 253. 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Twelve colour plates including reproductions of art by A.Y. Jackson, Edwin H. Holgate, W. Langdon Kihn, Emily Carr, and Annie D. Savage. Light shelfwear, discolouration to bottom edge and small spot to ffep; very good in very good dusjacket with minor wear to top corners. Hardcover. (#096842) $50.00
31. O’Brien, Peter [ed.]. Dream Visions The Art of Alanis Obomsawin. Santa Monica, CA: Perceval Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781736813812. pp. 79. 4to. Colour illustrations. Light rubbing to boards, slight spine slant; very good+. Hardcover. (#094146) $25.00
32. Hyslop, Joe; Wayne Scott; Harry Bone; Treaty and Dakota Elders of Manitoba; AMC Council of Elders. Dtantu Balai Betl Nahidei Our Relations to the Newcomers: Treaty Elders’ Teachings Volume 3. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Treaty Relations Commision of Manitoba, 2015. ISBN: 9780993910661. pp. 223. 4to. Colour photographs. Lightest shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. (#097532) $35.00
33. Wight, Darlene Coward. Early Masters Inuit Sculpture 1949-1955. Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2006. ISBN: 9780889152342. pp. 192. 4to. Black and white maps and photographs. Light shelfwear, corners thumbed, rubbing and creases to covers, some residue to front cover; very good-. Paperback. (#094896) $50.00
34. Tepper, Leslie Heyman . Earth Line and Morning Star Nlaka’Pamux Clothing Traditions. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1994. ISBN: 9780660140261. pp. 137. 4to. Replete with photographic illustrations. Light shelfwear, discoloured spotting to card covers; very good-. Paperback. (#097585) $25.00
35. Poitras, Edward; Matthew Teitelbaum. Edward Poitras: Indian Territory. Saskatoon: Mendel Art Gallery, 1989. ISBN: 9780919863453. pp. 28. 4to. Black and white photographs. Very good+. Stapled Wraps. (#094370) $30.00
36. Binney, George [W.W. Perrett; Dr. S.K. Hutton, trans.]. The Eskimo Book of Knowledge / Aglait Ilisimatiksat Inungnut Ilingnajut. London: Hudson’s Bay Company, 1931. pp. 237. 8vo in original paper-covered boards with illustrated pastedown to front board, blue lettering to front board and spine, and Hudson’s Bay Company flag to rear board. Map endpapers. Photographic frontispiece, 8 black and white photographic plates. Ex-Hudson’s Bay Company Library: Sticker and glue to spine, HBC bookplate. Front pastedown chipped at corner, edgewear, frontispiece pulling away from binding, internally clean and unmarked, binding sound; very good. Hardcover.
Dual language text. A condescending colonialist treatise containing “information useful to the Labrador and other Canadian Eskimos, in adjusting to the white man’s administration; includes sections on the British Empire, health, and work (trapping, handicrafts, etc.)” – Arctic Bibliography 1569. Scarce. (#098814) $150.00
37. Peck, Edmund James. Eskimo Grammar. Ottawa: Geographic Board of Canada, 1919. pp. 92. Slim 8vo. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Ex-Hudson’s Bay Library: small number to spine, sticker residue to bottom of spine and boards, bookplate and rubber stamps to front endpaper. Otherwise unmarked, binding sound; very good. Hardcover.
OCLC 12026870. Not in Peel. “In 1919 [Peck] wrote a grammar and dictionary in Inuktitut. The Eskimo grammar (Ottawa, 1919) would go through several reprintings, and the Eskimo-English dictionary would be published by Walton in Hamilton, Ont., in 1925.” – DCB. (#098718) $500.00
38. Wallen, Lynn Ager . The Face of Dance Yup’ik Eskimo Masks from Alaska. Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1991. ISBN: 9780919224957. pp. 40. 4to. B&W and colour photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. (#094068) $35.00
39. Semmens, Rev. John. The Field and The Work Sketches of Missionary Life in the Far North. Toronto: Methodist Mission Rooms, 1884. pp. 199. Bound in blue cloth with black and gilt lettering and decoration to front board and spine. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations. Edgewear, slight spine slant, rear board shows scuffing and rippling to cloth, Hudson’s Bay Company bookplate to front pastedown, spots and fingerprints to pages. Hardcover. Cover reads “Mission Life in the North West”. Peel 1288: “Semmens describes missionary work among the Natives in northern Manitoba”. (#098815) $140.00
40. [Indian and Northern Affairs Canada]. First Nations Community Profiles 1997-98 Manitoba Region. Ottawa: Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1997. pp. 170. 8vo. Light shelfwear, discoloured markings and light soiling to rear card cover; very good-. Spiral Bound. (#096290) $40.00
41. Johnson, E. Pauline; Theodore Watts Dunton [intro.]. Flint and Feather. Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1926. pp. xxxi, 166. Royal 8vo. Bound in suede with hand tooled lettering and hand-painted portrait (man in headdress) to front cover. Decorated endpapers. Frontispiece and illustrated plates by J.R. Seavey. Some spots to extremities, yapped edges slightly curled, owners’ names to half-title page, binding pulled at half title, tears to one plate, ink to rear endpapers affecting last few pages; very good-. Limp leather. (#098888) $35.00
42. Gaudin, S. [Samuel] D. Forty-Four Years with the Northern Crees. Toronto: Published for the author by Mundy-Goodfellow Printing, 1942. pp. 170. Small 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to front board. 8 pages of black and white photographic plates. Ex-library: two rubber stamps to front endpaper. Repaired split to cloth over spine, spine chipped at head, two small spots to front board, a few ink notes to contents, tide mark to page edge, slight musty odor. Hardcover. Peel 6498. (#099768) $60.00
43. Kent Monkman. The Four Continents: Kent Monkman. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2017. ISBN: 9781911164081. pp. 71. 4to. Lightest shelfwear; near fine. Paperback. (#095785) $45.00
44. Lytwyn, Victor P. The Fur Trade of the Little North Indians, Pedlars, and Englishmen East of Lake Winnipeg, 1760-1821. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Rupert’s Land Research Centre, 1986. pp. vi, 208. Several maps. Sunning to spine, minor spots to covers and bottom edge, internally unmarked, binding sound: very good. Paperback. (#095721) $150.00
45. Redsky, James (Esquekesik); James R. Stevens (ed.). Great Leader of the Ojibway: Mis-quona-queb. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972. ISBN: 9780771074219. pp. 127. 8vo. Contains black and white photographs. Some shelfwear and creasing, old price stickers to rear cover, text unmarked, binding sound; very good. Paperback.
“A gem of history, legend and anthropology” – rear cover. (#098366) $65.00
46. MacDonald, George F. Haida Art. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1996. ISBN: 9781550544022. pp. xi, 242. 4to. Photographs in colour and black & white. Light shelfwear, gift inscription to half-title page; very good+ in very good, lightly rubbed dustjacket, small ripple to lamination on rear panel. Hardcover. (#097271) $40.00
47. Marshall, Ingeborg . A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk. Montreal: Mcgill-queen’s University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780773517745. pp. 640. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. Paperback. (#098266) $30.00
48. Friesen, Gerald . The Honourable John Norquay Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781772840582. pp. vii, 619. Royal 8vo. Black and white photographs. Lightest shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. Hardcover. (#094878) $25.00
49. [Aborigines’ Protection Society]. The Hudson’s Bay Company, Canada West, and the Indian Tribes. [London]: [Aborigines’ Protection Society], [1857]. pp. 12. Threads have snapped: pages loose in card covers. Age-toned. Sewn. Peel 334: “Aborigines’ Protection Society: Founded in England, 1837; merged with Anti-Slavery Society to become Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, 1909. // Primarily a series of extracts from various publications to support the Society’s idea that “the Hudson’s Bay Question is assuming so much importance, that the Imperial Parliament will be compelled to consider it upon its merits, and to adopt measures in conformity with the rights of Canada, and the wants and the interests of the native population”. ” (#098731) $250.00
50. Barbeau, Marius. Huron-Wyandot Traditional Narratives In Translation and Native Texts. Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources Canada, 1960. pp. 338. 8vo. Ex Hudson’s Bay Library: HBC stamp to front cover. Author’s signature to half-title page. Light shelfwear, adhesive ghost to front cover; very good. Card covers. National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 165. (#098843) $45.00
51. Fossett, Renee . In Order to Live Untroubled Inuit of the Central Artic, 1550 to 1940. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780887551710. pp. xxii, 336. Royal 8vo. Black and white photographs and maps. Light shelfwear; very good. Hardcover. (#096843) $35.00
52. Silook, Roger; Robert Mayokok (illus.). …..In the Beginning. Anchorage: [Self Published], 1970. Unpaginated. 4to. Line illustrations. General shelfwear, discoloured spotting to card covers, author’s signatures to title page; very good-. Stapled Wraps. (#097642) $30.00
53. King, Thomas . The Inconvenient Indian A Curious Account of Native People in North America. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2012. First edition. ISBN: 9780385664219. pp. 288. 8vo. Light shelfwear, some discolouredf spotting to page ends of top edge; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. Hardcover. (#097366) $30.00
54. Koyczan, Shane L. Inconvenient Skin nayêhtâwan wasakay. Theytus Books, 2019. ISBN: 9781926886510. pp. 48. Square 8vo. Author’s signature to ffep. Text in English and Cree. Colour illustrations and photographs. Lightest shelfwear; very good+ in very good dustjacket. Hardcover. SIGNED by Koyczan. (#097037) $35.00
55. Titley, Brian . The Indian Commissioners Agents of the State and Indian Policy in Canada’s Prairie West, 1873-1932. Edmonton: University Of Alberta Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780888644893. pp. 266. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine. Paperback. (#098656) $35.00
56. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; R.H. Knox; J. Phillip Nicholson. Indian Conditions A Survey. Ottawa: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1980. ISBN: 9780662108528. pp. 159. Oblong 4to. Charts and diagrams. Ex-Hudson’s Bay Company Library: HBC bookplate to verso. Creasing and scuffing to extremities, moisture rippling and short tear to front cover; good+. Paperback. (#099430) $30.00
57. Johnson, James S. Indian Cooking and Cowboy-Hard Times Recipes The Pemmican Maker. pp. 77. 8vo. Light shelfwear, discolouration to covers; very good-. Comb binding.
Inscription on inside cover from “Jimmy Two Ponies” (author?). (#096122) $35.00
58. Smith, Louise M.; Robert L. Paley (illus.). The Indian Story of the Creation and Flood Being the First of the Myths and Legends of Colorado Done Into Tales. Denver: [Self Published], 1906. pp. 23. 4to. Brown wraps. Contents clean and in near fine condition, binding considerably nicked and torn; overall very good-. Stapled Wraps. (#097741) $40.00
59. Chamberlain, Andrew B. Indian Trade House and Strong Room Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site Williston, North Dakota. [Harper’s Ferry Center]: [National Park Service], 1993. pp. 236. 4to. Contains duotone illustrations and photographs. General shelfwear and minor discolouration, some tearing to card covers at spiral binding, ink lettering and rubber stamp to title page. Spiral Bound. (#096289) $35.00
60. Altamirano-Jiménez, Isabel . Indigenous Encounters with Neoliberalism Place, Women, and the Environment in Canada and Mexico. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780774825092. pp. 267. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. Paperback. (#098704) $30.00
61. Well-Off-Man, Dr. Manuela; Dr. David Begay; Andrea Carlson; Dr. Suzanne Newman Fricke; Chelsea Herr. Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future. Santa Fe, NM: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 2020. ISBN: 9781732840324. pp. 175. 4to. Pictorial boards, colour illustrations throughout. Minor shelfwear; near fine. Hardcover.
This book “investigates a major trend in Contemporary Native Art—the rise of futuristic or science-fiction inspired Native American art. The essays and artworks present the future from a Native perspective and illustrate the use of Indigenous cosmology and science as part of tribal oral history and ways of life.: -IAIA (#095782) $40.00
62. Robinson, Eric; Henry Bird Quinney. The Infested Blanket Canada’s Constitution – Genocide of Indian Nations. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Queenston House Publishing Co. , 1985. ISBN: 97809200273009. pp. xxiv, 168. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good-. Paperback. (#096879) $40.00
63. Ningewance, Pat; Ida Bear and Roger Roulette. Ininímotán Becoming a Successful Cree Eavesdropper. [Winnipeg]: Manitoba Association for Native Languages Inc., [ND]. ISBN: 97809969433111. pp. 127. 8vo. Lightest wear; near fine. Spiral Bound.
Cree language book which contains 16 lessons, 16 dialogues, 48 exercises and a reference list. (#098369) $25.00
64. Ace, Barry et al. Insurgence Resurgence. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2017. pp. 32. 8vo. Small tear to front cover; very good+. Stapled Wraps. (#097444) $30.00
65. Isaac, Jamie; Julie Nagam. Insurgence Resurgence. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2017. ISBN: 9781773070018. pp. 168. 4to. Colour photographs. Light shelfwear; near fine. Hardcover. Catalogue of an important, groundbreaking and beautiful 2017-2018 exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery: their first exhibition featuring contemporary Indigenous artists. (#097408) $60.00
66. Igloliorte, Heather [ed.]; Krista Ulujuk Zawadski [ed.]. INUA Inuit Moving Forward Together. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq, 2022. ISBN: 9781773070056. pp. 189. 4to. Colour photographs. Light rubbing to covers; very good. Hardcover. Catalogue of an exhibit held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from March 2021 – April 2022. (#098207) $45.00
67. Barz, Sandra B., ed. Inuit Artists Print Workbook. New York: Arts & Culture of the North, 1981. First printing. ISBN: 0960589805. pp. 323. Oblong 4to. Sunning and a couple of creases to covers, edgewear, contents unmarked; very good. Comb binding. Information on 3,600 catalogued prints plus special commission and some uncatalogued prints. With Indexes by title; artist; catalogs: listed by cooperative, referenced by year, print numbers, and artist. Areas covered include Arctic Quebec, Baker Lane, Cape Dorset, Holman Island, Pangnirtung. (#098730) $125.00
68. Keewatin Divisional Board of Education. Inuit Games. Baker Lake, N.W.T. : Keewatin Divisional Board of Education, 1995. pp. 136. 4to. Black and white illustrations. Creasing and discolouration to extremities, corners thumbed, short tear to spine; very good. Paperback. Illustrated by Susan Shirley. Text in Inuktitut and English. (#094939) $25.00
69. The N.W.T. Inuit Land Claims Commission. Inuit Nunangat The People’s Land A Struggle for Survival. Frobisher Bay: Inuit Land Claims Commission, 1978. 8vo. B&w photos, and a map. Covers a bit soiled, else very good. Stapled Wraps. Text in English from one cover and in Inuk syllabics from the other. (#098372) $30.00
70. Wight, Darlene Coward and Jocelyn Piirainen. Inuit Sanaugangit. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2024. ISBN: 9781773070100. pp. 239. 4to. Light rubbing; very good+. Hardcover. (#097584) $45.00
71. D’Anglure, Bernard Saladin. Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2018. pp. 257. 8vo. No discernible flaws; near fine. Paperback. (#097503) $25.00
72. Poulin, Grace. Invisible Women WW II Aboriginal Servicewomen in Canada. Thunder Bay: [Ontario Native Women’s Association], 2007. pp. 142. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine. Paperback. (#097475) $60.00
73. Byrne, Nympha [ed.]; Camille Fouillard [ed.]. It’s Like The Legend Innu Women’s Voices. Charlottetown, PEI: gynergy books, 2000. pp. 295. 8vo. Editors’ and select contributors’ signatures to half-title page. Black and white map. Light shelfwear, corners thumbed; very good. Paperback. (#099910) $35.00
74. Rich, E. E. [ed.] [intro.]; A.M. Johnson. James Isham’s Observations on Hudsons Bay, 1743 Notes and Observations on a Book Entitled A Voyage to Hudsons Bay in the Dobbs Galley, 1749. Toronto: The Hudson’s Bay Record Society, 1949. pp. cv, 352. Large 8vo. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrations. Ex Hudson’s Bay Company Library: ink number and sticker ghost to spine, HBC bookplate to ffep. Shaken binding, sunning to extremities, rubbing to boards, corners bumped; good+. Hardcover. Number 402 of a Limited Edition. Champlain Society XII. (#098329) $50.00
75. Wallace, W. S. John McLean’s Notes of a Twenty-Five Year’s Service in the Hudson’s Bay Territory. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1932. pp. xxxvi, 402. Large 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Fold-out map to rear. Ex Hudson’s Bay Company Library: ink number and sticker to spine, HBC bookplate to front pastedown. Dust-soiling to extremities, front hinge split with mull exposed, binding sound, occasional pencil annotations, aged tape to map; good+. Hardcover.
Limited edition. Number 56 of 550. Champlain Society XIX. (#098280) $175.00
76. Linklater, D’Arcy; Harry Bone; Treaty and Dakota Elders of Manitoba; AMC Council of Elders. Ka’esi Wahkotumahk Aski Our Relations with the Land: Treaty Elders’ Teachings Volume 2. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Treaty Relations Commision of Manitoba, 2014. pp. 157. 4to. Colour photographs. Lightest shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. (#097533) $35.00
77. Brownlee, Kevin and E. Leigh Syms. Kayasochi Kikawenow Our Mother Earth From Long Ago. Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, 1999. pp. 91. 4to. Replete with anthropological photography, illustrations, diagrams and graphs. Some scuff marks, author’s signatures in ink to title page; very good. Paperback. SIGNED by Brownlee and Syms. (#097652) $47.50
78. Shirley, James R.; Jamura Ltd. The Keewatin Kit A Multi-Sensory Experience from the Canadian Northwest Territories. Rankin Inlet: Jamura Ltd., 1986. Kit contains: “Conversations With Keewatin Carvers: A Photographic History of the Kewatin Region”, 4to, duotone photographic illustrations; folder containing four 4to cards with colour photograph plates and poetry excerpts, and a type-written description of everything found in the kit; an Inuit knife called an ulu; three clear circular receptacles containing dried reindeer moss, herb willow and tirariaq; a cassette tape of Inuit music; and some caribou antler jewelry. All contained in a white cardboard box. Some scuffing to box, otherwise very good+. Stapled Wraps. Booklet SIGNED by author. (#097758) $65.00
79. Ross, Ian. Kinikinik A Treaty Play. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba, 2010. pp. 20. 8vo. Very good. Stapled Wraps. “Kinikinik is a short instructive piece of theatre that seeks to enlighten those who experience it…written for all ages with a focus on a youthful audience; Kinikinik serves as an adaptable tool for exploration of themes surrounding Treaties.” (#098413) $30.00
80. Wishart, Vernon R. Kisiskaciwan (Saskatchewan) Tracing My Grandmother’s Foot Steps. Clandeboye, Manitoba: White Buffalo Books, 2012. ISBN: 9780981007830. pp. 366. 8vo. Black and white maps & illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. (#095858) $35.00
81. Routledge, Marie and Darlene Coward Wight. Kiugak Ashoona Stories and Imaginings from Cape Dorset. Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2010. ISBN: 9780889150065. Unpaginated. 4to. Inuit Art. Lightest shelfwear; near fine. Paperback. (#098139) $40.00
82. Hawkes, E.W. The Labrador Eskimo. Ottawa: Canada Department of Mines, 1916. pp. 235. 8vo. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Ex Hudson’s Bay Company Library: HBC bookplate to front pastedown, library sticker to spine. Contains many photographic plates and a fold out map. Light shelfwear, corners bumped, stickers and rubber stamp to spine, ink inscription to second page; very good. Hardcover. Memoir 91, No. 14 Anthropological Series. (#098572) $50.00
83. Dorais, Louis-Jacques. The Language of the Inuit Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780773536463. pp. xii, 396. 8vo. Black and white maps. Moisture damage to bottom page edge, rippling to some pages; very good in very good+ dustjacket. Hardcover. (#099880) $45.00
84. Fiddler, Thomas; James R. Stevens [ed.]. Legends From the Forest. Moonbeam, Ontario: Penumbra Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780920806647. pp. 109. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Ex Hudson’s Bay Company Library: HBC bookplate to inside front cover. Light shelfwear, sticker residue to spine and rear cover; very good. Paperback. (#098325) $25.00
85. Hughes, Kenneth; George Swinton [foreword]. The Life and Art of Jackson Beardy. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Canadian Dimension Publishers, 1979. ISBN: 9780888622785. pp. 49. 4to. Colour illustrations. Beige binding. Light shelfwear, indentation to front board; very good in good, rubbed dustjacket, two-inch tear and indentation mark to front panel. Hardcover. (#095203) $30.00
86. Brand, Johanna . The Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, 1978. 1st paperback edition. ISBN: 9780888621535. pp. 171. 8vo. Map, b&w photos. Ex-Hudson’s Bay Company Library: sticker to spine, HBC bookplate. Crease to spine, shelfwear, internally unmarked. Paperback.
“A member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States during the 1970s, Pictou Aquash was murdered in 1975, triggering a 35-year investigation that culminated in the conviction of two fellow AIM members. Today, Pictou Aquash is a symbol of the injustices suffered by Indigenous women within their own communities.” – The Canadian Encyclopedia. (#098985) $30.00
87. Hele, Karl S. (ed.). Lines Drawn upon the Water First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781554580040. pp. 351. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. Hardcover. (#098683) $25.00
88. Wolfart, H.C. [ed.]. Linguistic Studies Presented to John L. Finlay Memoir 8 of Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistic, 1991. pp. 190. 8vo. Discolouration to covers and page edges, ink owner’s name to inside front cover, occasional pencil annotations; very good. Paperback. Lecture event map and details, with presentation leaflet (April, 1991) laid in loose. (#095631) $25.00
89. Carter, Sarah . Lost Harvests Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy. Montreal: Mcgill Queens Univ Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780773507555. pp. 323. 8vo. Bound in dark gray cloth. Black and white photographs. Some discoloured spotting to page ends, author’s signature in ink to title page; very good+ in near fine dustjacket. Hardcover. SIGNED by Carter. (#099464) $60.00
90. Mithlo, Nancy, Editor; Will Wilson, Preface; Patsy Phillips, Foreword . Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism. Santa Fe NM: Museum Of Contemporary Native Arts, 2011. ISBN: 9780615489049. pp. 199. 4to. Pictorial boards. Near fine, with folded-paper wraparound band showing creases and some scuffing. Hardcover. 60 biographical essays by 21 indigenous curators, historians, anthropologists and academics, over 100 full-color reproductions and four contextual essays. (#095784) $65.00
91. Steffenson, Kenneth. Manitoba Native Peoples and Homosexuality Historical and Contemporary Aspects. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Council on Homosexuality and Religion, 1987. pp. 45. 8vo. Dark yellow wraps. Rubber stamp to rear cover, small ink stain to front cover; very good+. Stapled Wraps. (#097468) $45.00
92. Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James; Warren Cariou [ed.]; Beatrice Mosionier [foreword]. Manitowapow Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Highwater Press, 2011. ISBN: 9781553793076. pp. xx, 416. Royal 8vo. Black and white map, photograph, and illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. (#099610) $25.00
93. Auger, Dale; Mary-Beth Laviolette. Medicine Paint The Art of Dale Auger. Surrey, BC: Heritage House Publishing, 2009. ISBN: 9781894974752. pp. 175. 4to. Colour plates. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket protected by plastic sleeve. Hardcover. (#097275) $35.00
94. Goulet, George and Terry. The Metis Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities. Calgary: Fabjob, 2011. Third Printing. ISBN: 9781894638982. pp. 335. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. (#097495) $30.00
95. Sealey, D. Bruce and Antoine S. Lussier; Bérard (illus.). The Métis Canada’s Forgotten People. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Manitoba Metis Federation Press, 1977. Third Printing. pp. 200. 8vo. Light shelfwear, some discoloured spotting to cloth binding; very good. Hardcover. (#097107) $30.00
96. Barkwell, Lawrence J.; Leah Dorion; Darren R. Prefontaine. Metis Legacy A Metis Historiography and Annotated Bibliography. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Pemmican Publications, 2003. ISBN: 9781894717038. pp. 512. 4to. Black and white and colour photographic reproductions. Light shelfwear, front cover slightly curled, contents clean and unmarked; very good+. Paperback. (#097409) $100.00
97. Barkwell, Lawrence, Leah M. Dorion and Audreen Hourie. Metis Legacy Volume II Michif Culture, Heritage and Folkways. Saskatoon: Gabriel Dumont Institute / Pemmican Publications, 2006. ISBN: 9780920915806. pp. 254. 4to. Contaisn colour and duotone illustrations and photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. “This ground breaking book, the first time that s systematic account of the Michif worldview has appeared in one volume, provides readers with a holistic appreciation of what it means to be ‘Michif’. With contributions from Elders, scholars and laypeople, Metis Legacy II provides the reader with a thorough overview of the central tenets of the Michif world-view including language, spiritualism, superstition, storytelling, music, dance, healing traditions, communalism, material culture, family life, foods, gaming, holidays, and celebrations. This highly anticipated tome clearly demonstrated that being Michif is not merely about self identification, but is, rather, about being part of a community of people who share a common heritage, which is firmly rooted in both time and place.” (Write up from back cover) (#098673) $125.00
98. Krotz, Larry; Cheryl Albuquerque (photo.); Raymond M. Beaumont (ed.). Metis Voices/Metis Life. [Winnipeg]: Frontier School Division No. 48, 1995. pp. 74. 4to. Light shelfwear; very good+. Spiral Bound. (#098550) $25.00
99. Eegeesiak, Ooleepeeka. -miut. Edmonton: MacEwan University/Mitchell Art Gallery/Inuit Art Foundation, 2024. pp. 62. Small 8vo. Zine for Inuit diaspora. Text in English and Inuktitut syllabics. Poetry and photographs. Light rubbing; very good+. Paperback. (#098240) $25.00
100. Western, Jenny [curator] ; Jennifer Woodbury [foreword]. Mother’s Mother’s Mother The Legacy and Rebellion of Aboriginal Women’s Arts. Brandon, MB: Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, 2008. ISBN: 9780973153972. pp. 47. 12mo. Colour photographs. Light shelfwear; very good. Paperback. Curated by Jenny Western and guest writer Leah Fontaine. Showcasing works by Hannah Claus, Rosalie Favell, Maria Hupfield, Shelley Niro, Daphne Odjig, and Tania Willard for host institutions AGSCM, Urban Shaman Gallery, Ace Art Inc., and Mentoring Artists for Women’s Arts. First exhibited at Urban Shaman Gallery and Ace Art Inc first in Winnipeg between July 10 – August 16, 2008 and then at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba between September 5 – October 15, 2008. (#098102) $30.00
101. [Winnipeg Art Gallery – Qaumajuq]. naadohbii To Draw Water. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2022. pp. 144. 4to. Light shelfwear, small puncture markings to front cover; very good. Paperback. (#097583) $45.00
102. Brasser, Theodore . Native American Clothing An Illustrated History. Richmond Hill, ON: Firefly Books, 2009. ISBN: 9781554074334. pp. 368. 4to. Colour photographs. Scuffing to spine ends; very good in very good, rubbed dustjacket with short tears to top edge and scrape to rear panel. Hardcover. (#098480) $25.00
103. King, Thomas; Cheryl Calver; Helen Hoy [editors]. The Native in Literature. Winnipeg, Manitoba: ECW Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780920763162. pp. 232. 8vo. Rubbing and light scratches to covers; very good-. Paperback. (#096885) $50.00
104. Le Clercq, Chrestien; William F. Ganong [trans.]. New Relation of Gaspesia With the Customs and Religion of the Gaspesian Indians. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1910. pp. cv, 452. Large 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Black and white maps and photographs. Complete as called-for. Ex Hudson’s Bay Company Library: ink number and sticker to spine, HBC bookplate to front pastedown and stamp to ffep. Corners bumped, light scuffing and dust-soiling to extremities, sunning to spine, spots to a few page margins; very good-. Hardcover. Limited edition. Number 56 of 520. Champlain Society V. (#098275) $100.00
105. Jiles, Paulette. North Spirit Travels Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps. Toronto: Doubleday Publishing, 1995. ISBN: 9780385254991. pp. 289. 8vo. Crease to ffep and half-title page, minor spots of discolouration to top edge; very good+ in very good lightly rubbed dustjacket. Hardcover. (#095884) $45.00
106. Pharand, Donat . The Northeast Passage Arctic Straits. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1984. First edition. ISBN: 9789024729791. pp. 199. 8vo. Green binding. Contains folded map housed in pouch on rfep. Light shelfwear, bookplate to front pastedown, ink inscription by Pharand to ffep. Dustjacket creased and lightly scuffed with multiple tears to edges, now protected in plastic brodart sleeve; very good+ in fair+ dustjacket. Hardcover. SIGNED by Pharand. (#096150) $70.00
107. Shoji, hiroshi [ed.]; Jiha Janhunen [ed.]. Northen Minority Languages Problems of Survival. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnolgy, 1997. pp. iii, 232. 4to. Fold-out map. Light shelfwear, short tear to front cover, pencil marks to table of contents; very good. Paperback. Senri Ethnological Studies, No. 44 (#099374) $25.00
108. McLean, W.J. Notes and Observations of Travels On the Athabasca and Slave Lake Regions in 1899. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Free Press Company, 1901. pp. 7. 8vo. Light brown wraps. The Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba. Some nicking to edges; very good. Stapled Wraps.
Transaction No. 58. (#097734) $50.00
109. Clairmont, Donald H. Notes on the Drinking Behaviour of the Eskimos and Indians in the Aklavik Area A Preliminary Report. Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 1962. pp. 13. 4to. Ex Hudson’s Bay Company Library: library sticker and rubber stamp to front cover and HBC bookplate to inside front cover. Light shelfwear, age toning, sticker ghost and some discoloured markings to front cover; very good-. Stapled Wraps. (#099071) $40.00
110. Symons, Harry. Ojibway Melody. Toronto: Ambassador Books Ltd., 1946. First edition. pp. 294. Large 8vo. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Scuffing to edges, bottom edge of front board discoloured, very good overall, in price-clipped dustjacket showing a few short tears and a couple of chips, some overall spotting and darkening. Hardcover. SIGNED by author, with inscription dated at Toronto 1946. (#095522) $175.00
111. Mason, Sophia Thomas, William Mason, and John Sinclair, trans. [Rev. Mr. Steinhauer]. Oski Testement ketipeyichikeminow mina kipimachiyiweminow Chisas Knist (New Testament in Cree). London: Printed by William Mavor Watts for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1862. pp. 292. 8vo. Original plain brown leather binding, with Watkins bindery sticker to rear pastedown. Loss to leather over spine and along edges, endpapers glued to gutters, text block stable, contents clear and unmarked. Leather Bound. Peel 387: “Title also transliterated as Otiki tititemitot. Title and text in syllabics devised by James Evans; only imprint is in English. Cree is Western (or Plain) Cree dialect.” Printed in two columns. “Although the three works last titled have the name Rev. Wm. Mason on their respective title pages, denial has been made in a number of instances that they were translated by him…”, instead having been translated by John Sinclair and Rev Mr Steinhauer, the manuscript of their translations entrusted to Mason, who took it to England for printing. – Pilling Algonquin p. 339-340. Darlow & Moule 3129. Following the 1859 printing (which contained 612 pages). (#094229) $2,500.00
112. Mackay, John Alexander, ed.; William Mason, trans. Otiki Tetitimatot ketipeyichikeminow mina kipimachiyiweminow Chisas Knist (The New Testament in Plain Cree). London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1957. pp. 453. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with gilt syllabics to spine. Multiple name stamps to endpapers and top page edge. Shelfwear, contents clean, binding sound; very good. Hardcover. With Key to the Cree Syllabic System and Numerals. Reprint of the 1904 edition: see Darlow & Moule 3134, and Peel 2782. (#094231) $150.00
113. Oakes, Jill; Rick Riewe . Our Boots An Inuit Women’s Art. Vancouver: Douglas & Mcintyre, Limited, 1995. ISBN: 9781550541953. pp. 224. 4to. B&W and colour photographs. Corners bumped, light scuffing to board edges; very good- in very good- dustjacket. Hardcover. (#095987) $30.00
114. Daly, Richard. Our Box Was Full An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780774810753. pp. xxix, 352. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear, discolouration to foredge; very good+. Paperback. (#094152) $25.00
115. McBride, Bunny; Donal Sanipass (photo.) . Our Lives in Our Hands Micmac Indian Basketmakers. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1991. ISBN: 9780921054825. pp. 85. Oblong 8vo. Duotone photography. Light shelfwear, sticker ghost to rear card cover; very good. Paperback. (#097640) $30.00
116. Wight, Darlene Coward. Oviloo Tunnillie A Woman’s Story in Stone. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2016. ISBN: 978978088915016. pp. 96. 4to. Brilliant colour photographs. Bound in slate cloth. Very good+ condition, in very good gently rubbed dustjacket. Hardcover. (#097927) $75.00
117. Mowat, Farley. People of the Deer. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. 1st edition. pp. ix, 320. 8vo. Green cloth binding, publisher’s yellow topstain. Map endpapers, drawings by Samuel Bryant. Edgewear, ink name to front pastedown; very good. Dustjacket is torn with old tape repairs to verso, front flap clipped. Hardcover. SIGNED by author on title page. The story of the Ihalmiut people of Northern Canada. Author’s first book. (#098783) $65.00
118. Blicq, Andrew; Ken Gigliotti [photographer]. People of the Interlake. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Turnstone Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780888011046. pp. 129. Oblong 4to. Signed by the author and photographer. Black and white photographs and map. Light shelfwear; very good. Paperback. (#099426) $30.00
119. Feest, Christian F. and Sylvia S. Kasprycki. Peoples of the Twilight European Views on Native Minnesota, 1823 to 1862. Afton: Afton Historical Society Press, 1999. ISBN: 9781890434069. pp. 315. 4to. Bound in red cloth. Contains duotone and colour photographic plates and illustrations. Lightest shelfwear. Thin dustjacket with some short tears and a sticker ghost. Burgundy slipcase lightly worn; very good+ in very good- dustjacket. Hardcover. (#096157) $95.00
120. Highway, Tomson. Permanent Astonishment. Canada: Doubleday, 2021. ISBN: 9780385675628. pp. xiii, 326. 8vo. Author’s signature to blank page. Small indent to bottom edge of boards; very good in very good dustjacket. Hardcover. (#097940) $50.00
121. Gustavison, Susan; Darlene Coward Wright. Pitaloosie Saila A Personal Journey. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2017. ISBN: 9780889150218. pp. 55. Square 8vo. Colour illustrations. Light shelfwear, minor rubbing to rear cover; very good+. Paperback. (#094830) $27.50
122. Kuehl, Gerald. Portraits of the North. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Vidacom, 2017. ISBN: 9781988182407. pp. 236. Oblong 4to. Light shelfwear, ffep excised, some minor discoloured spotting to binding and dustjacket; very good in very good, lightly discoloured dustjacket. Hardcover. Stunning graphite pencil portraits and intimate profiles of First Nations and Metis elders. Text and art by Manitoba artist Gerald Kuehl. (#099993) $40.00
123. Augaitis, Daina: Kathleen Ritter [eds.]. Rebecca Belmore Rising to the Occasion. Vancouver, BC: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2008. ISBN: 9781895442687. pp. 126. 4to. Red cloth spine and rear board; photographic front board. Colour photographs throughout. Light shelfwear; very good. Hardcover. With contributions from Daina Augaitis, Florene Belmore, Rebecca Belmore, Marilyn Burgess, Jessie Caryl, Marcia Crosby, Richard William HIll, Robert Houle, and Kathleen Ritter. (#097921) $60.00
124. Houle, Robert. Red is Beautiful. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2021. ISBN: 9781636810379. pp. 248. 4to. Colour photographs. Minor discolouration to boards; very good+. Hardcover. (#096101) $30.00
125. Kuokkanen, Rauna . Reshaping the University Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift. Vancouver: Ubc Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780774813570. pp. 222. 8vo. Light shelfwear, rubber stamp to inside front cover; very good. Paperback. (#098006) $30.00
126. [Urban Shaman]. Retrospective 1996 – NOW. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Urban Shaman, 2009. ISBN: 9780973193510. pp. 49. Tall 8vo. Photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good, lightly rubbed fold-out dustjacket. Paperback. With contributions from Liz Barron, Leanne L’Hirondelle, Steve Loft, Miles Morrisseau, Wanda Nanibush, and Lita Fontaine. (#098482) $45.00
127. Peters, Evelyn, Matthew Stock and Adrian Werner. Rooster Town The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780887558252. pp. 225. 8vo. Light shelfwear and discolouration; very good. Paperback. (#097504) $25.00
128. Rogers, Edward S. The Round Lake Ojibwa. Toronto: The Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, 1962. Royal 8vo. Black and white photographs, maps and charts. Rubbing to covers with short tear to rear, sticker ghost and Hudson’s Bay Company library stamp to front cover, several pages detatched but present, title page stapled to front cover; good. Paperback. Published for the Royal Ontario Museum, University of Toronto Art and Archeology Division – Occasional Paper 5. (#099384) $40.00
129. Ray, Carl; James R. Stevens . Sacred Legends. Thunder Bay: Penumbra Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780921254775. pp. 144. 8vo. Light shelfwear, corners thumbed; very good. Paperback.
“James R. Stevens revisits and completely revises his original publication, Sacred Legends of the Sandy Lake Cree, which was widely known for its accurate presentation of myths and legends from the boreal forest south of Hudson Bay. Sacred Legends includes stories of windigos, thunderbirds, and avenging gods that once inhabited the world.” (#095088) $40.00
130. Haetta, Odd Mathis; Ole Petter Gurholt (trans.). The Sami An Arctic Indigenous People. [Norway]: Davvi Girji, 2008. pp. 88. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. Paperback. (#098255) $30.00
131. Fontaine, Lita. Sanksannica. Brandon/ Winnipeg, MB: Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba/ Urban Shaman Gallery, 2016. ISBN: 9780973193541. pp. 95. 8vo. Colour photographs. Light shelfwear; bound in navy cloth in very good condition, in rubbed very good- dustjacket. Hardcover. Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia and Daina Warren. (#097922) $40.00
132. Silook, Roger S; Florence Malewotkuk (illus.). Seevookuk Stories the Old People Told on St. Lawrence Island. Anchorage: [Self Published], 1976. pp. 63. 4to. Red binding, duotone illustrations. General scuffing and edgewear, author’s signature to title page; very good-. Card covers. (#097641) $25.00
133. Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1980. First Paperback Edition. pp. 153. 8vo. General shelfwear and creasing, stubborn sticker to rear cover; very good. Paperback. (#097853) $45.00
134. Bouchard, Randy ; Dorothy I. D. Kennedy [ed.]; Charley Draney; Aimee August [trans.]. Shuswap Stories Collected 1971-1975. Vancouver: CommCept Publishing, 1979. ISBN: 9780888290489. pp. 152. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Shelfworn with rubbing to covers, indirect etching to front cover; good+. Paperback. (#097810) $40.00
135. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Sixth Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada. London: “Offices of the Association” [British Association for the Advancement of Science], 1890. pp. 163. 8vo. Colour Linguistic Map of British Columbia at frontispiece, and some in-text illustrations. Ex-Hudson’s Bay Company library: placed in green card covers (front cover detached but present) with library tape over spine showing title and numbered label, HBC bookplate to inside front cover (which has separated from the tape). Inside these covers, the cover of the booklet itself is tattered and the rear cover missing. Title and first page are laid-in loose and show some chipping at edges. Contents complete and unmarked. Card covers. Includes comparative vocabulary of eighteen languages spoken in British Columbia. OCLC 55570386. “Sixth report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. E.B. Tylor, Mr. W. Bloxam, Sir Daniel Wilson, Dr. G.R. Dawson, General Sir H. Lefroy and Mr. R.G. Haliburton, appointed to investigate the physical characters, languages industrial and social condition of the North-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada”. – p. 1. With the ownership signature Fred C. Denison: “militia officer, lawyer, author, politician, and businessman” -DCB. (#098733) $100.00
136. Maracle, Lee . Sojourner’s Truth And Other Stories. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1990. ISBN: 9780889740235. pp. 143. 8vo. Light shelfwear, sunning to spine, author’s signature to title page; very good+ Paperback. SIGNED by Maracle. (#097496) $45.00
137. Unknown; Chuuchkamalthnii [foreword]; Hatchard and Company [intro.]. Some Account of The Tahkaht Language As Spoke by Several Tribes on the Western Coast of Vancouver Island. Port Alberni, BC: Houle Printing, 2014. pp. 80. 8vo. Laminated facsimile or microform. Light shelfwear, cover thumbed, with knick to p. 71 at foredge; very good. Paperback. Originally published in 1868 by Strangeways and Walden, with an introduction by Hatchard and Co. This edition is one of a limited reproduction of 200 copies for the Quuquuatsa Language Society. (#098099) $30.00
138. Campbell, Maria [trans.]. Stories of the Road Allowance People. Saskatoon, SK: Gabriel Dumont Institute , 2010. ISBN: 9780920915998. pp. 123. 4to. Colour illustrations by Sherry Farrell Racette. Transparent pocket to inside rear cover, contents not included. Lightest shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. An anthology of traditional Metis oral stories in print. (#095194) $25.00
139. [Papers in Manitoba Archaeology]. Studies in Manitoba Rock Art Petroforms. Winnipeg, Manitoba: [Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Recreation], 1986. Second Edition. pp. 173. 4to. Contains pictorial and line drawn illustrations and maps. Very lightly soiled and some creasing to card covers; very good. Card covers.
Miscellaneous Paper No. 14 (#097128) $50.00
140. Thomas, Jeff. A Study of Indian-Ness. Toronto: Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2004. Unpaginated. 8vo. Duotone photography. Lightest shelfwear; near fine in near fine dustjacket. Hardcover. (#097965) $40.00
141. Cairns, H.A.C, S.M. Jamieson, K. Lysyk, M.-A. Tremblay, F.G. Vallee, J. Ryan; H.B. Hawthorn (ed.). A Survey of Contemporary Indians in Canada (2 Volumes) A Report on Economic, Political, Educational Needs and Policies. Ottawa: Indian Affairs Branch, 1966-67. pp. 409, 251. 4to. Tan wraps. Light shelfwear, sticker ghost to Volume I, ink lettering to inside front cover of both volumes, light foxing and discoloured spotting to both volumes; very good. Card covers. (#096736) $40.00
142. Johnston, Basil H.; Maxine Noel (Ioyan Mani) (illus.). Tales of the Anishinaubaek. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1993. ISBN: 9780888544070. pp. 79. 8vo. Lavender binding. Beautiful colour illustrations. Light shelfwear to dustjacket; near fine in very good+ dustjacket. Hardcover. (#097746) $45.00
143. Richard, William C. The Technique of Porcupine-Quill Decoration Among The North American Indians. New York: The Museum of the American Indian, 1916. pp. 53. 8vo. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Colour frontispiece, black and white photographs, illustrations and maps. Ex Hudson’s Bay Company Library: ink number, sticker and residue to spine, HBC bookplate and stamp to front pastedown. Light wear and spots to boards, ink names to ffep; very good-. Hardcover. The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Volume IV, Number I. (#098749) $50.00
144. Wagamese, Richard. The Terrible Summer. Toronto: Warwick, 1996. ISBN: 9781895629637. pp. 167. 8vo. Light shelfwear, previous owner’s name in ink and spot to ffep; very good+. Paperback. (#097058) $25.00
145. Payment, Diane Paulette. “The Free People—Otipemisiwak” Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1870-1930. Ottawa, Ontario: National Historic Parks and Sites, Parks Service, Environment Canada, 1990. ISBN: 9780660134444. pp. 366. 8vo. Tables and b&w photos. Light scuffing and creases to covers, small repaired tear to bottom of front cover, contents clean and unmarked, binding sound; very good-. Paperback. Part of the series “Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and History”. “Payment studies the Métis communities along the South Saskatchewan River… and concludes that “the free people” pursued their activities and endeavoured to control their own destiny.” (#095902) $55.00
146. Orange, Tommy. There There. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2018. ISBN: 9780771073014. pp. 294. 8vo. Author’s signature to title page. Light shelfwear; very good in very good, lightly worn dustjacket. Hardcover. (#096844) $30.00
147. MacLaine, Craig . This Land Is Our Land Mohawk Revolt at Oka. Montreal/Toronto: Optimum Pub International, 1990. ISBN: 9780888902290. pp. 121. 4to. Replete with photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. (#098059) $30.00
148. University of Manitoba Press; George Swinton [photo.]. Tiktak Sculptor from Rankin Inlet N. W. T. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 1970. Unpaginated. 4to. Black and white photographs. Age-toning to covers, front cover slightly rippled; very good. Paperback. A retrospective exhibition March 4th to 21st, 1970 at Gallery One-One-One, University of Manitoba. (#099858) $45.00
149. The Oblate Fathers. Tipatchimowin: A Cree and Ojibway magazine May 1966, Vol. 5, No. 4. Ogoki, ON: The Oblate Fathers, May 1966. pp. 19. 4to. Black and white photos. Covers a bit soiled with ink name to front. Stapled Wraps. Text in Cree syllabics, Ojibway, and with some text in English. See OCLC 1080282946. Scarce. (#099794) $65.00
150. Glave, Edward J.; Julie Cruikshank, Doug Hitch and John Ritter (eds.). Travels to the Alseck Edward Glave’s Reports From Southwest Yukon and Southeast Alaska, 1890-1891. Whitehorse: Yukon Native Language Centre, 2013. pp. 408. 4to. Replete with illustrations, maps, sketches and photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+. Hardcover. (#098734) $45.00
151. Pelletier, Wilfred. Two Articles. [Canada]: Neewin Publishing Company, ND [ca. 1970]. No pagination. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Minor wear to covers, a few instances of underlining, faint markings to title page; very good-. Stapled Wraps. Includes: Childhood in an Indian Village; and Some Thoughts about Organization and Leadership From A Paper Presented to the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood 1967. (#099817) $25.00
152. Cardinal, Harold . Unjust Society. Madeira Park: Douglas & Mcintyre , 1999. ISBN: 9781550544831. pp. xxi, 146. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. Paperback. (#094267) $25.00
153. Woodman, David C. Unravelling the Franklin Mystery Inuit Testimony. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780773508330. pp. xiv, 390. Large 8vo. Black and white maps and photographs. Near fine in very good, rubbed dustjacket, small tear to top edge of front panel. Hardcover. (#096100) $40.00
154. Pratt, Doris; Harry Bone; Treaty and Dakota Elders of Manitoba; AMC Council of Elders. Untuwe Pi Kin He Who We Are: Treaty Elders’ Teachings Volume 1. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Treaty Relations Commision of Manitoba, 2014. pp. 160. 4to. Colour photographs. Lightest shelfwear; very good+. Paperback. (#097534) $35.00
155. Pratt, Doris; Harry Bone; Treaty & Dakota Elders of Manitoba . Untuwe Pi Kin He / Who We Are Treaty Elders’ Teachings, Volume 1. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Treaty Relations Commission Of Manitoba, 2014. ISBN: 9780986916816. pp. 160. 4to. Colour photographs. Light discolouration to some pages; very good. Paperback. (#095135) $37.50
156. Fuller, Francis. A Vanished Dynasty Ashanti. London: Frank Cass & Co., 1968. Second Edition. pp. 241. 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, some soiling to binding, clear tape to bottom edges of both boards, adhesive stains to front pastedown, library pouch and rubber stamp to ffep, map pasted to rear endpapers somewhat torn. Dustjacket lightly shelfworn, library sticker and clear tape to sunned spine; good+ in very good- dustjacket. Hardcover. Class Library of African Studies General Studies No. 78. (#099700) $35.00

