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For the most part, the writers below are/were enrolled members of American Indian tribes.  In cases where the author is known by . more than one name, he or she is listed under the more familiar name, with a link to/from the less familiar one.  
 
 
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 LITERATURE AND CRITICISM
 
 
Sherman Alexie (1966-    ) Spokane/Coeur d'Alene
National Book Award Winner 2007
 
 *The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.  New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2007. Advance reading copy.  In wrappers, as issued.  Very good-near fine, very minor shelf wear. Signed. (5025*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $28.00

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.  (ID: 4024) SignedSOLD GVBF . 2/18/18

*The Business of Fancydancing.  Fine soft cover.  Inscribed and signed.  ($35.00)  $10.00 (substituted for unsigned copy not located.  SOLD  Amazon 9 5 17 

*Blasphemy.  New and Selected Stories.  New York:  Grove Press, 2012.  New.  Unread.  Signed on the title page, NYC, 10/15/12.  (ID:  6078'; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00 

*Dangerous AstronomyBoise, Idaho:  Limberlost Press, 2005.  Letterpress printed limited edition of 850 copies, 100 of which were bound in cloth and boards numbered and signed by the poet.   This copy is one of the unsigned 750 issued in wrappers. Signed by Alexie on October 15, 2012, in New York City.  Fine. (ID: 5927; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00 

*First Indian on the Moon Brooklyn, NY:  Hanging Loose Press, 1993.  First edition. Cloth, near fine; minor crimping upper right cover corner. No dust jacket, as issued.  As new.  Signed. (5013*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00.

*Flight.  New York:  Black Cat, 2007.  Paperback original.  As new. Signed. (5026*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00

*Indian Killer.  New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996.  Cloth, fine.  Dust jacket, fine. Signed. (5019*; 254) $45.00 SOLD

Indian Killer.  New York:  Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996.  Cloth volume with narrow drip stain to ffep, otherwise fine, in fine dust wrapper.  In Mylar.  (Item ID:  5538) $15.00  SOLD

Indian Killer.  New York:  Warner Books, 1996.  As new soft cover.  (Item ID: 5540)  $10.00  SOLD

*The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.  New York:  Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993.  First printing. Cloth fine; dust jacket price clipped, but otherwise fine. Signed. (5002*; HP255) 25.00  

*The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.  New York:  Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. Uncorrected advance proof.  Wrappers as issued.  Very good-near fine.  Very minor shelf wear to bottom front cover.  Signed and dated.  (Item ID:  5001*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $35.00  

*Smoke Signals.  A Screenplay.  New York:  Hyperion, 1998. Paperback, first edition, third printing.Signed. (ID: 5068*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $40.00.

*Ten Little Indians.  Grove Press, 2003.  Fine cloth volume in fine dust wrapper. (ID: 5138*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $35.00 

Smoke Signals.  A Screenplay.  New York:  Hyperion, 1998.  First edition, 9th printing.  (ISBN:  0786883928)  Interiors neat and tight, covers good plus with edge and tip wear.  (ID: 6216)  $15.00  SOLD

*Ten Little Indians.  Grove Press, 2003.  Uncorrected advance proof. In wrappers, as issued.  Signed.  (ID: 5018*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $30.00

*Ten Little Indians.  New York:  Grove Press, 2003.  First edition. Cloth, fine.  Dust jacket, fine. Signed. (5138*)  $20.00. 

*The Toughest Indian in the World New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. Wrappers as issued. Uncorrected advance proof. Very minor smudging to right bottom corners of pages. Signed. (ID: 5007*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $30.00

*You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me.  A Memoir.  New York:  Little, Brown and Company, 2017. First Edition, First Printing.  [ISBN:  9780316270755] Signed (with a ballpoint pen, not a Sharpie, which bleeds) by Alexie on the title page.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  Photo of Alexie at the signing included, as well as a copy of a New York Times review of the book.  (ID: M717-100; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)   $50.00 . NEW

Paula Gunn Allen (1939-2003) Laguna Pueblo

Skin and Bones.  Poems, 1979-87.  Albuquerque, NM:  West End Press, 1988.  Soft cover.  Minor wear to edges, otherwise near fine, as new. (Item ID:  5072; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $8.00   

Margot Astrov

American Indian Prose and Poetry.  An Anthology.  New York:  Capricorn, 1962.  Very good to near fine soft cover. As new.  Minor tanning of cover.  (Item ID:  5077; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00 

Ruth Benedict

Tales of the Cochiti Indians.  Washington, DC:  US Government Printing Office, 1931.  Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 98.  Some fading of green wrappers, light wear to spin top and bottom, crease rear cover and endpaper.  Otherwise, near fine.  (Item ID:  5375; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

John Bierhorst, Editor

In the Trail of the Wind.  American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. Fine volume, as new.  Dust wrapper has very light edge wear, some rubbing, otherwise near fine. In Mylar.  (Item ID:  5373; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00  

Harold Bloom, Editor

Native-American Writers.  Philadelphia:  Chelsea House Publishers, 1998.  Introduction by Harold Bloom.  First soft cover printing.  As new.  (ID: 6125; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibristore.com)  $10.00   SOLD Amazon 9 2 21 hard cover

Dee Brown

*Creek Mary's Blood.  New York:  Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1980.  Some fading, but otherwise very good cloth volume.  Dust jacket has small closed tears, remainder dot on spine.  Signed on the half title.  (Item ID:  5029*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

Joseph Bruchac (1942-    ) Abenaki

*Bowman's Store.  A Journey to Myself.  New York:  Dial Books, 1997.  Fine cloth volume in fine dust wrapper.  This is Bruchac's autobiography.  Signed by the author.  (Item ID:  5440*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00  

*Dawn Land.  Golden, CO:  Fulcrum Publishing, 1993.  Fine cloth volume in Mylar-protected fine dust wrapper -- as new.  Signed by the author on the half-title.  (Item ID:  5222*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00  

*Dog People.  Native Dog Stories.  Illustrated by Murv Jacob.  Golden, CO:  Fulcrum Publishing, 1995.  Small bump to spine bottom, otherwise as new volume in as new dust wrapper.  Signed by the author.  (Item ID: 5223*) $15.00  NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

Dog People.  Native Dog Stories.  Golden, Colorado:  Fulcrum Kids, 1995.  First Edition, First Printing.  Illustrated by Murv Jacob.  [ISBN: 1555912281] As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  (ID: 5466; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com$10.00. NEW

The Girl Who Married the Moon:  Tales from Native North America.  Bridgewater Books, 1994.  Cloth volume, as new, in as new dust wrapper.  Signed by the author. (Item ID: 5325* http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00  

*Jim Thorpe's Bright Path.  New York:  Lee & Low Books, 2003.  Children's book.  In wrappers, as issued.  As new.  Signed by the author.  (Item ID:  5445*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

*Jim Thorpe.  Original All-American.  New York:  Speak (Penguin Group), 2006.  Young adult biography. Soft cover, as issued.  As new.  Signed by the author.  (Item ID:  5443*) $30.00  SOLD

*“Remember the Earth,” in Native Innovation.  Indigenous American Poetry in the 21st Century.  New York:  Poets House, 2013.   Signed by Bruchac.  In addition to contributions by Bruchac, also includes essays by Joy Harjo, Santee Frazier, Maurice Kenny, Natalie Diaz, and others. In wrappers, as issued. (ID: 6113; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00

Roots of Survival.  Golden, CO:  Fulcrum Publishing, 1996.  Fine cloth volume in fine dust wrapper with Smithsonian Museum Shop sticker on rear cover.  As new.  Includes Native American writers Joy Harjo, Paula Gunn Allen, Linda Hogan, Duane Niatum, among others.  (Item ID:  5141; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00  

*Roots of Survival.  Golden, CO:  Fulcrum Publishing, 1996.  Fine cloth volume in fine dust wrapper.  As new. Includes Native American writers Joy Harjo, Paula Gunn Allen, Linda Hogan, Duane Niatum, among others. Signed by the author.  (Item ID:  5439*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back. (1983) paperback (ID: 6173) $18.00 SOLD Amazon 1 11 19

Turkey Brother and Other Tales.  Iroquois Folk Stories.  Illustrated by Kahones.  Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1975.  Hard cover.  Lower front corner has small tear, very light soiling, otherwise very good to near fine.  (Item ID:  5480; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

*Joseph Bruchac, editor.  The Greenfield Review.  Volume 9, Numbers 3 & 4, Winter 1981-1982.  In wrappers as issued.  Some sunning on spine, faint tanning of cover edges, otherwise fine.  Signed by Bruchac. Includes contributions by Joy Harjo, Paula Gunn Allen, Linda Hogan, Maurice Kenny, Duana Niatum, Wendy Rose, and many others.  (Item ID:  5226*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00  

Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac, editors.  Foreword by N. Scott Momaday. Illustrated by John Kahionhes Fadden.  Native American Stories Told by Joseph Bruchac.  Golden, CO:  Fulcrum Publishing, 1991.  Light crease front cover, very minor soiling, otherwise near fine.  (Item ID:  5446; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00  

Clarence Orvel Bunnell

Legends of the Klickitats.  A Klickitat Version of the Story of the Bridge of the Gods.  Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort Publishers, 1935.  3rd edition.  Fine hard cover in near fine to fine dust wrapper with light tanning to rear cover. As new, in Mylar.  (Item ID:  5484; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

Ann Nolan Clark

Buffalo Caller:  the Story of a Young Sioux Boy of the Early 1700's, Before the Coming of the Horse. Evanston:  Row, Peterson and company, 1942.  Soft cover children's book.  Owners' names written in.  Some fading, corners rubbed, otherwise good.  (Item ID:  5229; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00 

Little Herder in Summer. Little Herder in AutumnLittle Herder in WinterLittle Herder in Spring. Boston:  Beacon Press, 1970.  Illustrated by Hoke Denetsosie.  4 volumes in stapled illustrated wrappers.  Originally published by the US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Branch of Education.  Light tanning to covers and owner’s name on inside front cover, but otherwise near fine to fine.  (ID: 6104; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $45.00  for the four 

Edwin Corle

People of the Earth.  New York:  Random House, 1937.  First Edition.  Light soiling/fading, light wear to spine top and botto, browning to endpapers and pastedowns, but otherwise very good to near fine volume.  (Item ID: 5380; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00  

Mary Crow Dog (1954-2013) Rosebud Sioux

Lakota Woman.  With Richard Erdoes.  New York:  Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.  2nd Printing.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper.  (ID: 5601) $15.00  SOLD Alibris 8 25 22

Lakota Woman.  With Richard Erdoes.  New York:  HarperPerennial, 1991.  4th printing.  Soft cover. Owner’s name/date/place on ffep, pages lightly tanned, but otherwise very good.  (ID: 5700; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $6.50

Ohitika Woman.  With Richard Erdoes. New York:  Grove Press,1993.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  (ID: 5702; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00

Michael Dorris

*Cloud Chamber.  New York:  Scribner, 1997.  As new copy in as new dust jacket.  Tiniest bit of edgewear at spine top.  Signed on FFEP, plus warm, personal inscription on title page.  (Item ID: 5122*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

The Crown of Columbus.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1991.  With Louise Erdrich.  Fine cloth volume in fine dust wrapper.  Inscribed and signed by Dorris and Erdrich.  (Item ID:  9054*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00  

*Paper Trail.  Essays.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1994.  As new copy in as new, Mylar-protected jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.  (Item ID: 5060*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00

Paper Trail.  Essays.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1994.  Hard cover first edition.  As new copy in as new dust jacket. (Item ID:  5141; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00

*Working Men.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1993.  First edition hard cover. As new in as new dust jacket.  Signed by the author on the title page.  (Item ID:  5142*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

*A Yellow Raft in Blue Water.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1987, Hardcover. Dorris's first novel.  As new in as new dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.  (Item ID:  5142a*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00

*A Yellow Raft in Blue Water.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1987.  Complimentary Reading Copy.  Wrappers as issued.  Signed by the author.  (Item ID:  5061*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

Eastman, Charles A (Ohiyesa; 1858-1939) Santee Sioux and Elaine Goodale Eastman

Wigwam Evenings. Sioux Folk Tales Retold.  Boston:  Little, Brown, and Company, 1909.  Illustrations by Edwin Willard Deming.  All illustrations present.  Some edgewear at spine and corners; owner's name on half-title; light foxing to endpapers and top edge, a very few light stains interior, otherwise bright, fairly tight copy.  No dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5139; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $40.00

J. B. Enochs

Little Man’s Family.  Diné yázhi ba’álchiniReader.  Washington, DC:  Bureau of Indian Affairs,  1950.  Revised 1950.  Illustrated by Gerald Nailor. Bilingual (Navajo-English] reader.  Maroon paper covers, stapled.  Lower front cover and first ten pages crease, owner’s last name on title page partially erased, but otherwise near fine.  (ID: 6055; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00  NEW))

 Louise Erdrich (1954-    ) Chippewa (Ojibwe)

National Book Award Winner

*The Beet Queen.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1986.  As new copy in as new dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.  (Item ID: 5132*)  $15.00. SOLD 1 20 22

*The Beet Queen. New York:  Henry Holdt 1986. [ISBN: 0805000585] First Edition, Second Printing.  As new copy; dust wrapper is near fine with tiny chip at upper rear flap. Association copy: Signed, dated and inscribed to journalist Emily Benedict by the author on the half title. Laid in, in a plastic sleeve,  is a Bantam bookmark advertising Erdrich's Love Medicine and The Beet Queen.  (Item ID: 5131*/*5033*) ; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00

*The Bingo Palace.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1994.  As new fine copy with fine, bright dust jacket.  Signed by Erdrich on title page.  (ID: 5034*)  $45.00  

*The Bingo Palace.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1994.  Wrappers, as issued.  Uncorrected proof.  Has publisher's sticker (1"x2")with information about the author on front cover.  Inscribed by the author on the title page.  (Item ID:5140*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country.  Washington, DC:  National Geographic, 2003.  Fine cloth volume in fine dust wrapper.  As new.  (Item ID:  9032) $10.00  SOLD Alibris 1/17/18 

*The Crown of Columbus.  See Dorris, above.  

*Four Souls.  New York:  HarperCollins, 2004.  Advance Reader's Edition.  Marking page before half title. Fine cloth volume, no dust wrapper as issued.  Signed.    (Item ID:  5043*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00  

*The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.  New York:  HarperCollins, 2001.  As new copy in as new dust jacket.  Tiny rub upper right corner of jacket.  Signed by the author on the title page.  (Item ID:  5037*)  $40.00   SOLD Alibris 2 26 18 

*Love Medicine.  New York:  Holt Rinehart Winston, 1984.  Fine cloth volume, as new, in near fine to fine dust wrapper.  First Edition.  Signed on the half title.  (Item ID:  5063) $100.00  SOLD GVABF 2 20 ($80.00)

*Love Medicine.  New York:  Holt Rinehart Winston, 1993.  Uncorrected proof.  New and expanded version. Signed.  (Item ID:  5236) $60.00   $100.00 . SOLD 3 25 19 ALIBRIS

The Master Butchers Singing Club.  New York:  HarperCollins, 2003.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  (Item ID:  5237; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  

*Original Fire.  Selected and New Poems.  New York:  HarperCollins, 2003.  Fine cloth volume in fine dust wrapper.  New.  First Edition.  Signed.  (Item ID:  5038*)  $50.00  SOLD

The Painted Drum.  New York:  Harper Perennial, 2006.  Light creases to front cover, ffep, o/w near fine soft cover.  (ID:  991; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $8.00 

*The Plague of Doves.  New York:  Harper, 2008.  Vine dust volume in fine dust wrapper.  New.  First Edition.  Signed.  (Item ID:  5039*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

*Tales of Burning Love.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1996.  Fine cloth volume in fine dust wrapper.  New.  First Edition.  Signed.  (Item ID:  5042*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $22.50  

Tales of Burning Love.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1996.  Fine volume in fine dust wrapper.  (Item ID: 9024; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

(16) *Tracks.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1988.  Uncorrected Proof.  In wrappers, as issued.  Fine.  Signed. (Item ID:  5040*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00  

*Tracks.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1988.  Fine cloth volume in fine dust wrapper.  First Edition.  Inscribed and signed.  In protective Mylar.  (Item ID:  5041*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

([Erdrich, Louise, and Michael Dorris]  Chavkin, Allan, and Nancy Feyl Chavkin, Editors.  Conversations with Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris.  Jackson:  University of Mississippi Press, 1994.  Literary Conversations Series. Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, General Editor.  Fine soft cover.  (Item ID:  5515; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

Mick Fedullo, Editor

Adobe Sings.  An Anthology of Poems by Pima Indian Children.  Sacaton, AZ:  Sacaton School No. 18.  Gila River Indian Community, 1983.  Translated into Pima by Henrietta Pablo.  No dust wrapper.  Ex libris, with no typical library markings.  Fine.  (Item ID:  9094; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  

Robert Freeman

*For Indians Only.  Self-published, 1971.  In wrappers as issued.  Signed.  Very light age soiling, otherwise fine.  $15.00  (Item ID:  5423*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00  

Diane Glancy (1941-    ) Cherokee Descent

Claiming Breath.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1992.  As new cloth volume in as new dust wrapper. Winner of 1991 North American Indian Prose Award.  (Item ID:  5241; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00

Richard Green

Te Ata.  Chickasaw Storyteller.  American Treasure.  Afterword by Rayna Green and John Troutman.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.  1st Edition.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper.  In Mylaw.  (Item ID:  5479; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

Joy Harjo (1951-    ) Muskogee Creek

*Crazy Brave.  A Memoir.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 2012.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  In Mylar.  Inscribed and signed on the title page.  (ID: 6112) $60.00  SOLD ALIBRIS 11 23/19

*How We Became Human.  New and Selected Poems:  1975 – 2001.  New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.  First soft cover printing. Very small creases at cover tips, otherwise near fine to fine.  Signed. (ID: 5729; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $24.00

In Mad Love and War.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan University Press, 1990.  Third Printing.  Fine soft cover.  (ID:  6106)  $10.00  SOLD ALIBRIS 1/8/21 

*A Map to the Next World. Poems and Tales. New York: Norton, 2000.  Fine hard cover in near fine dust jacket, with very minor edge wear. Inscribed and signed.  (Item ID: 5092; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00

*Secrets from the Center of the World.  Tucson:  Sun Tracks and The University of Arizona Press, 1989.  3rd Printing.  Photographs by Stephen Strom.  Signed. Soft cover. Near fine. (ID: 5728; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00

*She Had Some Horses New York:  Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1983 (1997) Residue from price sticker on lower back cover, otherwise fine soft cover. Signed. (ID: 5726)  $25.00   SOLD 5 22 21 ALIBRIS       

*“Singing Lines,” in Native Innovation.  Indigenous American Poetry in the 21st Century.  New York:  Poets House, 2013.   Signed by Harjo and Joseph Bruchac.  In addition to contributions by Harjo and Bruchac, also includes essays by Santee Frazier, Maurice Kenny, Natalie Diaz, and others. In wrappers, as issued. (ID: 6113)  $25.00   SOLD Alibris March 28, 2022

“Singing Lines,” in Native Innovation.  Indigenous American Poetry in the 21st Century.  New York:  Poets House, 2013. In addition to contributions by Harjo and Joseph Bruchac, the collection includes essays by Santee Frazier, Maurice Kenny, Natalie Diaz, and others. In wrappers, as issued. (ID: 6114; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00 

*The Spiral of Memories:  Interviews.  Edited by Laura Coltelli.  Ann Arbor:  The University of Michigan Press, 1996.  Cloth fine, no dust jacket, as issued. Signed by the poet.  Card laid in with message in Harjo's handwriting, also signed.  (Item ID:  5044*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $150.00 

*The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. Poems.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1994.  As new hard cover in very good plus near fine dust wrapper with sticker residue on front cover and tiny bit of edge wear; price clipped by the publishers.  Inscribed, stars drawn by Harjo, and signed. (ID: 5730)  $75.00  SOLD dealer 6 10 21

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky.  Poems.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1994.  6th Printing.  Signed. 1-1/2” narrow printer’s ink mark on inside back cover and half-title, otherwise as new, unread.  (ID: 5727;  http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

Tony Hillerman

A Thief of Time.  London:  Michael Joseph, 1989.  1st British Edition.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper. (Item ID: 9062; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $45.00 

 

William Least Heat-Moon  (1939-    ) Osage Descent

Blue Highways:  A Journey into America.  Boston:  Little Brown, 1982.  6th Printing.  Fine cloth in very good dust wrapper.  (Item ID:  5242; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00 

River-Horse:  Across America by Boat.  New York:  Penguin-Putnam, 1999.  Soft cover.  Very good. Signed. (Item ID: 5243*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00  

Jamake Highwater

Kill Hole.  New York:  Grove Press, 1992.  New cloth volue in dust wrapper.  First Edition.  (Item ID:  5244; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00   

Tony Hillerman

Sacred Clowns.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1993.  New cloth volume in dust wrapper. (Item ID:  5073; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00   

Jeannette Henry, Editor

The American Indian Reader.  San Francisco:  American Indian Educational Publishers, 1973.  New cloth volume in dust wrapper.  (Item ID:  5137; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  

Arlene Hirschfelder, Editor

Native Heritage.  Personal Accounts by American Indians.  1790 to the Present.  Foreword by Jeffrey L. Hamley.  New York:  Macmillan, 1995.  As new soft cover.  (Item ID:  5543; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

Linda Hogan (1947-    ) Chickasaw

The Book of Medicines.  Minneapolis:  Coffee House Press, 1993.  As new soft cover.  (Item ID:  9092; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00 

*Dwellings.  New York:  Norton, 1995. Fine cloth volume in dust wrapper.  As new.  Publishers information and author's photo laid in.  Signed.  (Item ID:  5245; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00  

Mean Spirit.  New York:  Atheneum, 1990.  First Edition.  Fine cloth volume.  Dust wrapper has light rubbing of black background of cover, otherwise fine.  (Item ID:  5246; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $30.00

Power.  New York:  Norton, 1998.  Hard cover with very small dent to spine tip, otherwise fine.  Dust wrapper has minor wear at spine tips, otherwise near fine.  (Item ID:  5247; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00  

Red Clay.  Poems and Stories.  Greenfield Center, NY:  The Greenfield Press, 1991.  In wrappers, as issued. As new. Cover art by Marilyn Auer.  (Item ID:  5372; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

Savings.  Poems by Linda Hogan.  Minneapolis:  Coffee House Press, 1998.  In near fine wrappers.  (Item ID: 5375; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  

Seeing Through the Sun.  Amherst:  University of Massachusetts Press, 1985.  As new cloth volume in dust wrapper. (Item ID:  5140; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

Solar Storms.  A Novel.  New York:  Scribner's, 1995.  As new cloth volume in dust wrapper.  (Item ID:  5248; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00 

Adolf Wolf and Beverly Hungry Wolf (1950-    ) Blood Tribe, Blackfoot Nation

Hungry Wolf, Adolf and BeverlyChildren of the Sun.  Stories by and About Indian Kids.  New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1986.  Uncorrected Bound Galleys.  Fine, in orange wrappers, as issued.  Stories, culled from little-known sources, documented by the authors, recreate Indian family life, especially the relationship of children with their tribal elders.  (ID: 6188; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00 

E. Pauline Johnson (see Tekahionwake, below)

Basil H. Johnston

*Tales the Elders Told.  Ojibway Legends.  Illustrated by Shirley Chichoo.  Toronto:  Royal Ontario Museum,1981.  Near fine cloth volume with minor spine and tip wear.  Dust wrapper is near fine with small chips and closed tears, wear to edges and tips.  Signed by Shirley Chichoo.  (Item ID:  5481; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00

Karoniaktatie (Alex A. Jacobs) (1953-    ) Mohawk

Landscape:  Old and New Poems.  Cover and illustrations by Karoniaktatie.  The Blue Cloud Quarterly, Volume 30, Number 4.   Marvin, SD:  The Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1984.  Association copy:  Addressed on back cover to novelist Jonis Agee.  Fine.  (Item ID:  5344; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

Hattie Kauffman (1955-    ) Nez Perce

*Falling into Place.  A Memoir of Overcoming.  Grand Rapids, Michigan:  Baker Books, 2013.  SIGNED by the author.  As new in as new dust wrapper.  (ID: 6297) $15.00

 Maurice Kenny (1929-2016) Mohawk
 

Boston Tea Party.  New York:  Con/Berry, 1982.   Originally published in Soup in 1981.  Drawings by Hopi/Miwok writer Wendy Rose; Kenny is a Mohawk. Wrappers, as issued.  Small (1/4”) round stain on cover, otherwise fine.  Scarce.  (Item ID:  5252; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $55.00  

Boston Tea Party.  New York:  Con/Berry, 1982.  Originally published in Soup in 1981. Drawings by Hopi/Miwok writer Wendy Rose. Stapled wrappers, as issued.  Fine.  Scarce, especially in this condition.  (Item ID:  5432; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $65.00 

Carving Hawk.  New and Selected Poems.  Buffalo:  White Pine Press, 2002.  First Edition. Cover art by Mohawk cover artist Danielle Cole.  Very light soiling a corners, crimp to upper front corner tip and the tips of about half the volume, o/w very good soft cover.  (ID: 6129; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00  

Dancing Back Strong the Nation.  Buffalo:  White Pine Press, 1981.  Revised and expanded second edition. Illustrations by Rokwaho. Introduction by Paula Gunn Allen.  (ID: 9066;http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00

Dancing Back Strong the Nation.  Introduction by Paula Gunn Allen.  Cover and Illustration by Rokwaho (Daniel Thompson).  The Blue Cloud Quarterly.  Volume XXV, Number 1.  Marvin, SD:  Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1979. Address on back cover (Small Press Review). Small crease upper right corner.  Stapled wrappers, as issued.  Fine. (ID:  5346; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00

For Cherokee Marie.  Who May Have Forgotten.  Binghamton:, NY:  The Bellevue Press, [n.d.].  Mohawk poet. Postcard.  Fine. (Item ID:  5249; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $7.00  

Humors And/Or Not So Humorous.  Buffalo:  Swift Kick, 1988.  Swift Kick #7/8. Illustrations by Seneca artist Peter Jemison.   Fine, in wrappers, as issued.  Scarce.  (Item ID: 5433; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $85.00

“I Am the Sun.” Buffalo:  White Pine Press, 1979.  A Dodeca Paphlet Publication, 1976, and ACIA, Center News reprint, 1978.  Artwork by Rokwaho.  The full title is “I Am the Sun.  A Song of Praise, Defiance and Determination.”  First appeared in Akwesasne Note, 1973.  New material by Kenny in this edition.  Stapled pamphlet.  Pinecone logo, inside rear cover, by Helen Rundell.  The poem quotes the chant, based on a Lakota Sioux Ghost Dance Song:  “Chankpe Opi Wakpala,” Lakota Sioux meaning "Wounded Knee."  Penelope Myrtle Kelsey writes that Kenny composed the poem while “immobilized on bedrest as a result of a heart condition,” frustrated that he could not join the Wounded Knee Occupation of 1973. (“An Introduction to the Works of Maurice Kenny,” [Celebrations of a Mohawk Writer, Albany:  State University of New York Press, 2011, p. 4.  Dark gold covers very lightly soiled with light crease to upper front tip, light crease to rear cover.  (ID: 6134; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $45.00 

On Second Thought.  A Compilation.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.  Foreword by Joseph Bruchac (dated Green Corn Moon); as new hard cover in as new Mylar-protected dust wrapper.  (ID: 9093; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00

Is Summer This Bear. Saranac Lake, NY:  The Chauncy Press, 1985. The publication includes a glossary to references to elements of Mohawk culture that appear in the poems. Fine, in wrappers; as new; review copy, letter from publisher laid in. (ID: 5431; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

Sandpiper.  Binghamton, NY:  The Bellevue Press, [n.d.]  Mohawk poet. Postcard, fine. (ID:  5251; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $7.00  

The Smell of Slaughter.  Marvin, SD:  Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1982.  The Blue Cloud Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 1.  Fine gold stapled wrappers, as issued; address on back cover.  (ID:  9101; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $35.00

Tekonwatonti/Molly Brant.  Poems of War.  Buffalo:  White Pine Press, 2002.  Third Printing.  SIGNED and inscribed by Kenny on the half-title.  As new soft cover.  (ID: 6302; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00  

Craig Lesley, Editor

Talking Leaves.  Contemporary Native American Short Stories.  An Anthology.  Edited and Introduced by Craig Lesley.  New York:  Dell, 1991.  2nd Printing.  Includes stories by Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Paula Gunn Allen, Diane Glancy, N. Scott Momaday, Linda Hogan, James Welch, among others.  Light tanning at edges of pages, but otherwise as new soft cover.  (Item ID:  5542; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00

Layli Long Soldier (n.d.) Oglala Lakota

Whereas.  Minneapolis:  Greywolf Press, 2017.  First edition, first printing.  [ISBN:  9781555977672]  Fine, as new soft cover.  Program for “Words for Water.  Song and Stories of Strength by Native Women,” March 5, 2017, at the Whitney Museum of American Art laid in.  Ms. Long Soldier was one of the featured poets at the event.  (ID: M717-118)) . SOLD . Amazon 8 5 17

D'Arcy McNickle (1904-1997) Salish Kootenai

The Hawk Is Hungry and Other Stories.  Edited by Birgit Hans.  Tucson:  University of Arizona Press, 1992. Fine soft cover; as new.  (ID:  9063; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  

Wind from an Enemy Sky.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1978.  First Edition. Fine volume in price clipped dust wrapper.  Light wear to spine ends, edges; small chips, otherwise near fine. (ID:  9023; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

Wind from an Enemy Sky.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1978.  Fine volume in very good plus to near fine dust wrapper with light wear to edges and tips.  (ID:  9068; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00

[D'Arcy McNickle]  Parker, Dorothy R.  Singing an Indian Song.  A Biography of D'Arcy McNickle. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.  Near fine soft cover.  (ID:  9097; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00

Navarre Scott Momaday (1934-    ) . Kiowa, Cherokee

The Ancient Child.  New York:  Doubleday, 1989.  As new hard cover volume in a dust wrapper with minor wear to edges, corners, and spine tips, otherwise near fine.  (Item ID: 5254; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00  SOLD. Alibris 5 3 2020

The Ancient Child.  New York:  Doubleday, 1985.  As new in Mylar protected dust wrapper. (ID: 8260; http)  $12.00  SOLD AMAZON APRIL 21, 2022

Angle of Geese and Other Poems.  Boston:  David R. Godine Publishers, 1974.  Number 5 in the First Godine Poetry Chapbook Series.  No dust wrapper, as issued. Darkening at edges, spine faded, otherwise fine. (ID: 5472)  $10.00  SOLD Alibris 1 25 21

The Gourd Dancer.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1976.  Uncorrected proof in light blue wrappers, as issued. Minor browning to the edges, otherwise a fine copy.  (Item ID:  5507; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00

*House Made of Dawn.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1968. First edition, later printing (A-U). Owner's signature erased on FFEP, otherwise fine.  Dust wrapper has gold sticker ("The 1969 Pulitzer Prize Novel"), small (1/2") chip lower front spine end, very light tanning toward edges, otherwise near fine to fine.  Signed by Momaday on the title page.  (ID:  5437*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $300.00  

House Made of Dawn.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1968.  First edition, later printing (D-S). Hard cover, fine; dust wrapper has very minor rubbing, otherwise near fine to fine. (ID:  5255; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00  

In the Bear's House.  New York:  St. Martin's, 1888.  As new hard cover volume in as new dust jacket.  (ID: 5258; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00 

In the Presence of the Sun.  Stories and Poems, 1961-1991.  New York:  St. Martin's, 1992.  As new hard cover volume in as as new dust wrapper.  (ID:  5229; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

The Man Made of Words.  Essays, Stories, Passages.  New York:  St. Martin's Griffin, 1998.  (ID:  5144; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE; PLEASE CHECK BACK

The Man Made of Words.  Essays, Stories, Passages.  New York:  St. Martin's, 1998.  Cloth:  very small bumps to bottom edges, tips.  Dust wrapper:  minor shelf wear to edges.  First edition, later printing (sticker reading "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction" on cover) (ID:  5260) $10.00 .   SOLD   ALIBRIS 7 13 18

The Names.  A Memoir.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1976.  Uncorrected Proof.  In yellow wrappers, as issued. Edges sunned, otherwise fine.  (ID:  5505; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $85.00

The Names.  A Memoir.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1976.  Fie hard cover in fine dust wrapper.  (ID: 5505a; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00

The Names.  A Memoir.  Tucson:  University of Arizona Press, 1996.  Reprint.  Cloth:  slight wear at right rear lower tip, otherwise near fine.  Dust wrapper:  minor shelf wear right top and bottom tip  (ID:  5261; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  

The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 1969.  First printing.  Illustrated by Al MomadaySigned on title page.  One inch tan stain to lower edge at spine, light tip/spine end wear, o/w very good to very good plus.  Dust wrapper:  a bit of tip and spine wear, but otherwise near fine.  In Mylar. ($20.00 Syracuse) (ID:  6085; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $55.00

The Way to Rainy Mountain.  Illustrated by Al Momaday.  Albuquerque, NM:  University of New Mexico Press,1973 (1969)  Reprint.  The illustrator is the writer's father, a distinguished Kiowa Indian painter.  Hard cover, fine; dj near fine, with small (3/4") chip at right front corner, minor edge wear rear corner tip. (ID: 5419; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

Natachee Scott Momaday (1913- 1996) Cherokee descent

American Indian Authors.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1972.  Light edge/tip wear, o/w near fine soft cover.  Appears to be unread.  ($4.50 Syracuse)  (ID:  6086; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00 

Owl in the Cedar Tree.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press (Bison), 1992.  2nd Printing.  Soft cover.  Light tanning, very light soiling at tips, otherwise near fine to fine.  The author, of French, Cherokee, and English lineage, is the mother of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist N. Scott Momaday.  (ID:  5482; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

Duane Niatum (1938-    ) S'Kallam

Ascending Red Cedar Moon.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1974.  Cloth, near fine to fine. Dust wrapper has very minor edge wear, otherwise near fine to fine.  (ID:  5115; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00

Carriers of the Dream Wheel.  Contemporary Native American Poetry.  (Duane Niatum, editor)  Slight sunning to edges, but otherwise fine hard cover.  Dust jacket has sunning to edge, price clipped, but otherwise fine. (ID:  5540; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

Digging Out the Roots.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1977.  First edition. As new hard cover.  Dust jacket is near fine to fine, with some browning inside front cover.  (Item ID:  5263; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00  

Digging Out the Roots.  New York: Harper & Row, 1977.  Hard cover, no dust wrapper.  (ID:  5113; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)   $15.00  

(5) Digging Out the Roots.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1977.  Fine soft cover, as new.  (ID:  5108; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00  

*Drawings of the Song Animals.  New and Selected Poems by Duane Niatum.  Duluth, MN:  Holy Cow! Press, 1991.  Soft cover presentation copy, signed and inscribed "for ---, an old and dear friendly, warmly, Duane Niatum, 4 Moon of Crackling Brances, 1999."  As new.  (ID:  9095*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $30.00 

*Drawings of the Song Animals.  New and Selected Poems by Duane Niatum.  Duluth, MN:  Holy Cow! Press, 1991. Inscribed, dated (Moon of Winter 1996), signed.  Fine hard cover, as new with bright gilt.  (ID: 9096*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00

Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry.  (Duane Niatum, editor)  San Francisco: HarpersSanfrancisco, 1988.  Owner's name ffep, otherwise fine soft cover.  (ID:  5541; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00  

*Songs for the Harvester of Dreams.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 1981. Cloth:  small spots on back cover, light wear to tips, spine ends, otherwise fine with bright gilt.  Dust wrapper:  rubbed at edges, small chips at corners, spine ends.  Signed and dated.  (ID:  5264*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00

Songs for the Harvester of Dreams.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 1981. Review copy. Publisher's information laid in.  Near fine cloth volume with minor shelf wear.  Dust wrapper has small chips, closed tear, minor shelf wear, but otherwise very good to near fine.  In protective Mylar.  (ID:  5091; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00  

*Songs for the Harvester of Dreams.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 1981.  Presentation copy. Cloth:  near fine with light tip wear.  Dust wrapper is very good plus with 1 small closed tear, edge and tip wear. Inscribed, dated ("8 Yellow Leaf Moon 1984"), and signed.  (ID:  9100*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $60.00  

Stories of the Moons.  Cover illustration by Anita Endrezze-Danielson.  Blue Cloud Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2. 1987. Stapled wrappers, as issued. A few small stray marks on front cover, otherwise near fine.  Review copy sent to poet Rochelle Ratner.  (ID: 5434; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00   

Tommy Orange (1985-    ) Cheyenne & Arapaho

*Orange, Tommy.  There There.  A Novel.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.  [ISBN:  9780525520375] Signed by author on the title page.   As new hard cover in as new Mylar-protected dust wrapper. (ID: M618-100)  $50.00  SOLD 7 7 18

*Orange, Tommy.  There There.  A Novel.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.  [ISBN:  9780525520375] Signed by author on the title page.   As new hard cover in as new Mylar-protected dust wrapper. (ID: M714-100)  $50.00  SOLD   Alibris 7 27 18

Dorothy R. Parker

Daniel Peck, Editor

New Essays on The Last of the Mohicans.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1992.  First Edition.  As new hard cover.  First Edition. (ID:  5266; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

Susan Power (1961-    ) Sioux

The Grass Dancer.  New York:  G. P. Putnam, 1994.  Author's first book. As new cloth volume in as new dust wrapper.  In protective Mylar.  (ID:  5453; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

The Grass Dancer.  London:  Picador, 1994.  First British Edition. Author's first book.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  (ID:  5452; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $12.00

Wendy Rose (1948-    ) Hopi, Miwok

Academic Squaw.  Reports to the World from the Ivory Tower.  Marvin, SD:  Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1977.  In stapled wrappers, as issued.  Drawings by Wendy Rose.  Addressed on rear cover, some tanning, but otherwise fine.  (ID:  9064; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00 

*Bone Dance.  New and Selected Poems.  1965-1993.  Tucson:  University of Arizona Press, 1994.  Signed. As new soft cover. (ID: 5450; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

Builder Kachina:  A Home-Going Cycle.  Marvin, SD:  Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1979.  Volume 25, Number 4.  In stapled wrappers as issued.   Addressed on back cover, otherwise fine.  (ID:  9056; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

Going to War with All My Relations.  New and Selected Poems.  Flagstaff, AZ:  Entrada Books/Northland Publishing, 1993.  Wrappers, as issued.  Fine.  (ID:  9067; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00 

Hopi Roadrunner Dancing.  Greenfield Center, NY:  The Greenfield Review Press, 1973. One of 500. Published by Joseph Bruchac's press.  In wrappers, as issued.  Very light soiling rear wrap, light bumping at tips, but otherwise as new.  Author's first book. (ID:  5448; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

Lost Copper.  Banning, CA:  Malki Museum Press, 1980.  First Edition.  Publisher's information laid in with a note, signed by Rose, requesting a review.As new. Mylar-protected dust wrapper has 2" closed tear front, otherwise fine.  (Item ID:  5451; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $75.00 

Lost Copper. Banning, CA:  Malki Museum Press, 1980.  Illustrated by the author.  Introduction by N. Scott Momaday.  Fine cloth first edition in fine, Mylar-protected dust wrapper.  (Item ID:  9098; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff

American Indian Literatures.  An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography.  New York:  Modern Language Association of America, (ID: 5732)  $12.00 . SOLD dealer 4 2 17

American Indian Literatures:  An Introduction..... SOLD 9 23 21 (R's copy) 

Literatures of the American Indian.  Indians of North America.  Frank W. Porter III, General Editor.  New York: Chelsea House, 1991. Very good soft cover with some wrinkling and shelf wear.   (ID:  5117; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $5.00  

Neil Schmitz

White Robe's Dilemma:  Tribal History in American Literature.  Amherst:  University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.  As new soft cover. (ID:  5281; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-    ) Laguna Pueblo

Almanac of the Dead.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1991.  First Edition.  As new cloth volume.  Dust jacket as new. (ID:  5455) $15.00.  SOLD Alibris 1 15 22

*Almanac of the Dead.  Special Reader's Excerpt.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1991.  Signed. Soft cover, as new.  Main cover says "Special Reader's Excerpt," while the second cover with blurb by Larry McMurtry.  (ID:  5454*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $60.00  

Ceremony.  New York:  Penguin, 2006.  Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.  Third Printing.  Very good soft cover with some edge wear, bumped corners.  (ID:  5143; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00 SOLD

(Gardens in the Dunes.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1991.  Hard cover with slight bumps to bottom corners, otherwise fine.  Dust wrapper has bumps to bottom corners, otherwise fine.  (ID:  5456; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  

*Storyteller.  New York:  Seaver, 1981.  Signed.  Fine cloth volume in dust wrapper with small chip rear cover edge and top tip, otherwise fine.  (ID:  5449*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $160.00  

Yellow Woman and A Beauty of the Spirit.  Essays on Native American Life Today.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1997.  First Touchstone Edition.  Soft cover:  as new except for small black remainder mark on bottom edge. (ID:  5136; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  

(6) Yellow Woman and A Beauty of the Spirit.  Essays on Native American Life Today. New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1996.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  (ID:  5483; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

[Leslie Marmon Silko]  Seyersted, Per.  Leslie Marmon Silko.  Boise:  Boise State University, 1980.  Boise State University Western Writers Series.  Number 45.  In stapled wrappers, as new.  (ID:  9093; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00 

Holly Stewart and Cheryl Wilson

Stories of the People Native American Voices.  National Museum of the American Indian.  New York: Universe Publishing, 1997.  Fine cloth volume in as new dust wrapper.  Two US postage stamps (1 cent fox, 5 cent 1800 canoe) taped to half title.  (ID:  5119; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00 

Drew Hayden Taylor

Funny, You Don't Look Like One.  Observations from a Blue-Eyed Ojibway.  Penticton, BC, Canada: Theytus Books Ltd., 1998.  Revised Edition.  As new soft cover.  Small light indentation to top edge, otherwise fine.  (ID:  5547; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $7.00  

Tehanetorens (1910-2008) Mohawk

Tales of the Iroquois.  Illustrated by Kahones.  Mohawk Natioon, NY:  Akwesasne, 1976. Association copy: This volume apparently belonged to Mohawk poet Peter Blue Cloud. Six Nations Indian Museum Series.  First Edition. Wrappers, as issued.  Very small stain upper edge first few pages, otherwise fine, as new. (ID:  5286; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

Tekahionwake (E. Pauline Johnson; 1861-1913) Six Nations/Mohawk

Flint and Feather.  Toronto:  Musson Book Company, 1913.  "This is the Second Edition.  Printed in 1913." Maroon covers with two small stains to front, gilt bright, first signature starting.  Rare dust wrapper has slight staining at upper edge and spine, small chips to tips and spine top/bottom, otherwise very good to near fine. Excellent condition for this book. In Mylar.  (ID:  5550; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $75.00

Flint and Feather.  The Complete Poems of E. Pauline Johnson.  Toronto:  Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d.] Cloth volume and dust wrapper as new.  In Mylar.  (ID:  5118; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00

David Treuer (1970-   ) Ojibwe

*Little.  New York:  Picador, 1995.  Signed.  Soft cover with very small spots, smudges lower edges.  (ID: 5052*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

*Native American Fiction:  a User's Manual.  Saint Paul:  Gray Wolf Press, 2006.  Signed.  Soft cover with very minor wear at corners.  (ID:  5053*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00 

Triquarterly 59

Winter 1984 issue.  Evanston:  Northwestern University Press, 1984.   "The American Blues."  Includes poems by Roy A. Young Bear, among others.  Light soiling at corners, otherwise near fine to fine.  (ID:  5286; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $12.00

 

E. Donald Two-Rivers (Edmund D. Broeffle; 1945-2008) Aishinaabe (Ojibwe)

A Dozen Cold Ones from Two-Rivers.   (ID: 6108)  $45.00 SOLD Alibris 1 7 17

Gerald Vizenor (1934-    ) Minnesota Chippewa

Hotline Healers.  Hanover and London:  Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, 1997. First Edition.  As new hard cover volume in as new dust wrapper.  (ID:  5290; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00  

Landfill Meditation:  Crossblood Stories.  Hanover:  Wesleyan University Press (University Press of New England), 1991.  Signed by Vizenor.  Scarce in hard cover.  No dust jacket, as issued.  (ID:  5371*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

Frederick G. Walsh

The Trial of Louis Riel: [a play].  Fargo:  North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies.  Very good soft cover with some shelf wear.  (Item ID:  5473; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00 

Robert Penn Warren

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.  A Poem by Robert Penn Warren.  New York:  Random House, 1982.  First paperback edition.  As new with minor tanning, wrinkling at binding.  Former poet laureate's epic poem.  (Item ID: 5071; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $5.00  

 James Welch

The Death of Jim Loney.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1979.  Fine. Uncorrected proof.  In wrappers, as issued. (ID:  5056; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $40.00 

The Death of Jim Loney.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1979.  Review copy with slip laid in. Fine cloth volume in near fine dust wrapper with very minor shelf wear.  (ID:  5093; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $35.00

The Death of Jim Loney.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1979.  Fine cloth volume.  Dust wrapper has light wear to spine top and bottom, otherwise fine.  Mylar-protected.  (Item ID:  5568; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $30.00

*Fool's Crow.  A Novel.  New York:  Viking, 1986. Signed. Fine cloth volume in near fine to fine dust wrapper with small closed tear near bottom.  Otherwise as new.  (ID:  5055*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $60.00 

Fool's Crow.  A Novel.  New York:  Viking, 1986.  Advance Reading Copy.  Wrappers, as issued.  Fine.  (ID: 5070; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

*The Heartsong of Charging Elk.  New York:  Doubleday, 2000. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in wrappers as issued.  Inscribed by Welch. (ID:  5107*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $75.00 

The Heartsong of Charging Elk.  New York:  Doubleday, 2000.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper.  (ID:  5544; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

The Heartsong of Charging Elk.  New York:  Anchor Books, 2000.  Fifth printing.  Near fine to fine soft cover. (ID:  5545; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $12.00

*The Indian Lawyer.  New York:  Norton, 1990.  Inscribed and signed.  As new cloth volume in as new dust wrapper.  (ID:  5054*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $65.00  

Killing Custer.  The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1994.  First Edition.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper.  As new.  (Item ID:  5135; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00 

Killing Custer.  The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians.   New York:  W. W. Norton, 1994.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper.  As new.  (ID:  5541; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00 

Riding the Earthboy40.  New York:  The World Publishing Company, 1971.  Fine cloth volume in near fine dust wrapper.  Printed letter P on rear end paper.   World went out of business before this book could be distributed.  (ID: 5058; http:/www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $75.00 

*Riding the Earthboy40.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1976.  Revised, expanded edition. Signed. Fine cloth volume in fine dust wrapper.  As new.  (ID:  5106*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $110.00  

*Winter in the Blood.  New York:  Harper, 1974.  Inscribed, dated, signed.  Fine cloth volume in near fine dust wrapper with closed tear upper left.  (ID:  5069*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $85.00

Winter in the Blood.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1974.  First edition, hard cover.  Book is near fine to fine. Very small black mark on FFEP.  Dust wrapper is Mylar protected, with very small chips upper spine and upper front; price inked out, but otherwise as new.  Third book in Harper & Row's Native American Publishing Program. James Welch (1940-2003) was the son of a Blackfeet father and a Gros Ventre mother. Winter in the Blood is his first published novel. (ID: 5111; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00

(16) [Welch, James]  The American Indian Speaks.  Vermillion, SD:  University of South Dakota Press, 1969. Contains 7 poems by James Welch. Text identical to South Dakota Review, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer 1969)  Closed tear spine; tanned covers.  rust in front and back covers, otherwise very good to near fine.  (Item ID:  9062; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00 

[Welch, James]  Wild, Peter.  James Welch.  Boise State University Western Writers Series.  Number 57. Boise:  Boise State University, 1983.  Fine, in wrappers, as issued. Has bibliography.  (ID:  9055; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) (1876-1938) Sioux

Old Indian Legends.  With illustrations by angel De Cora.  Boston:  Ginn & Company, 1901.  Variant issue in red cloth.  Date on title page. Light edge and tip wear, owner's signature, date on FFEP, small tear bottom FFEP and title page, back cover rubbed, light tanning.  Near fine, tight, clean copy.  ID:  5354)  $175.00  SOLD dealer 4 2 17

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