Category: Canada - Native Peoples

LEGENDS OF VANCOUVER

By: Johnson, E. Pauline. (Tekahionwake.) Introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, Midtown Press : 2014

Seller ID: 30926

ISBN-13: 9780988110113

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

136 pp, 8 1/2" H. B&w illustrations - photographs, drawings. "(P)ays tribute to Pauline Johnson's contribution to Vancouver's cultural heritage and her enduring legacy of sharing some of Canada's rich background of mythological stories. This collection of stories as told to Johnson by Squamish Chief Joe Capilano, represents one of her lasting achievements of cultural preservation. Before her arrival on the West Coast, she was a proponent of Mohawk culture on stage and in her writings. She retired from the stage but continued to tell stories. The Vancouver legends were published separately at ...
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CHANGING LIVES: WOMEN IN NORTHERN ONTARIO.

By: Kechnie, Margaret and Reitsma-Street, Marge, eds. (Valerie Senyk, Eileen Goltz, Theresa Solomon-Gravel, Mary Ann Corbiere, Sheila Hardy, Helen Debevc-Moroz, Carol Alexis Stos, Dorothy Ellis, Pat Tobin, Varpu Lindstrom, Karen Blackford, et al.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn : 1996

Seller ID: 24469

ISBN-13: 9781550022391

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

362 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, maps, graphs, charts. A collection of essays on the women of Northern Ontario: First Nations, Ukrainian, Hispanic, Black, Finnish, Lesbian - women working as teachers, entrepreneurs, at the mines and lumber camps and in the home - women dealing with poverty, isolation, violence, health and education issues. Two of the essays are in French. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light rubbing.
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TWO SPIRITS SOAR: THE ART OF ALLEN SAPP - THE INSPIRATION OF ALLAN GONOR.

By: Kinsella, W.P.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart : 1990

Seller ID: 29251

ISBN-13: 9780773724273

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

134 pp, oblong large 8vo (9 1/4" H x 11 15/16" D). Profusely illustrated with colour reproductions of the artist's work and b&w photographs. "(C)elebrates the distinctive talent of the Canadian painter Allen Sapp, a Cree from Saskatchewan, and his relationship with Dr. Allan Gonor, mentor and friend. Sapp specializes in paintings depicting native life as he remembers it on the Red Pheasant Reserve near North Battleford, with subjects ranging from social activities and farming chores to full-dress ceremon-ies. These remarkable examples of Canadian art might never have existed were it not fo...
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TECUMSEH, A DRAMA and CANADIAN POEMS.

By: Mair, Charles.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs : 1901

Seller ID: 27815

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

276 pp, 7 11/16" H. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering/decoration on spine and front board. Tissue-covered b&w photographic frontispiece of author with facsimile signature, title page decorations by J.E. Laughlin, b&w portraits of Tecumseh and Brock. Contents: Part I. Tecumseh: A Drama; The Legend of Chileeli; A Ballad for Brave Women; The Last Bison; Missipowistic; The Iroquois at the Stake; Kanata; Vain Regrets; Open the Bay!; In Memory of Wm. A. Foster; Absence; The River of Pain; Cabot; Demos Tyrannus; The Recompense; Ruins; The Chain; Fulfilment. Part II. Dreamland; The Pines; Address...
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LEGENDS OF THE MISSISSAUGAS,

By: Mills, W. Gordon.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Altona / Natural Heritage : 1992

Seller ID: 24517

ISBN-13: 9780969572909

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

48 pp, 11" H. "An epic retelling in poetic form of the creation myth of the Mississaugas. The author of the poem, W. Gordon Mills, was a businessman with the T. Eaton Company in Toronto in 1923 when he wrote the poem. He was later to serve as Deputy Minister of National Defence for Naval Services in the Second World War. In recognition of his wartime work he was named a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (CMG). The poem is illustrated by eleven paintings, specially commissioned for this publication. The paintings are the work of Saul Mamakeesick, a young Cree/Ojibway art...
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THE POLAR PASSION: THE QUEST FOR THE NORTH POLE. WITH SELECTIONS FROM ARCTIC JOURNALS.

By: Mowat, Farley. (Thorgisl Orrabeinsfostri, Robert Bylot, William Baffin, Elisha Kent Kane, Charels Francis Hall, George Tyson, Adolphus Greely, Fridtjof Nansen, Frederick Cook.)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart : 1967

Seller ID: 29673

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

303 pp, 12 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with reproductions, drawings, maps, photographs. Contents: Foreword; The First Steps North: The Saga of Thorgisl Orrabeinsfostri c. 997 A.D.; The Bay of Disbelief: The Fifth Voyage of Robert Bylot and Wm. Baffin, 1616; A Moth to the Flame: Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations, 1853-55; Life on an Ice-Floe: Charles Francis Hall, Life Among the Esquimaux, 1865 / George Tyson, Wonderful Drift, 1871-73; Lieut. Greely Sees It Through: Adolphus Greely, Three Years of Arctic Service, 1881-84; The Inland Ice: Fridtjof Nansen, The First Crossing of Greenland,...
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Image for THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH-WEST REBELLION OF 1885. COMPRISING A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE WAR, OF THE VARIOUS ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE INDIANS AND HALF-BREEDS, OF THE HEROIC DEEDS PERFORMED BY OFFICERS AND MEN...

THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH-WEST REBELLION OF 1885. COMPRISING A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE WAR, OF THE VARIOUS ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE INDIANS AND HALF-BREEDS, OF THE HEROIC DEEDS PERFORMED BY OFFICERS AND MEN...

By: Mulvaney, Charles Pelham.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Coles : 1971

Seller ID: 19879

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

424 pp, 8 3/8" H. Facsimile reprint of the 1885 edition. Title continues: "and of Touching Scenes in the Field, the Camp, and the Cabin; Including a History of the Indian Tribes of North-Western Canada, their Numbers, Modes of Living, Habits, Customs, Religious Rites and Ceremonies, With Thrilling Narratives of Captures, Imprisonment, Massacres, and Hair-Breadth Escapes of White Settlers, Etc." B&w illustrations. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, small crease at the bottom of the front cover, tiny bump to bottom corner of rear cover, mino...
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A PAINTBRUSH IN MY HAND.

By: Odjig, Daphne. Through R.M. Vanderburgh and M.E. Southcott.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage : 1992

Seller ID: 28368

ISBN-13: 9780920474730

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

174 pp, 10 3/4" H. B&w photographs, colour and b&w reproductions. "Throughout (this book) Daphne Odjig's story has been told by herself as related through R.M. Vanderburgh and M.E. Southcott. As a product of an oral tradition that was still flourishing during her childhood in the village of Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island in Georgian Bay, Daphne became a superb storyteller, in the tradition of her elders. It is this inheritance that she has built on as she told her stories to her two collaborators. Odjig's skills as a storyteller are reflected in the impressionistic introductions to many...
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Image for THE WORKS OF FRANCIS PARKMAN. 13 VOLUME SET, COMPLETE, INCLUDING PIONEERS OF FRANCE IN THE NEW WORLD, JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 17th CENTURY, MONTCALM & WOLFE (2 VOLs), CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC AND THE INDIAN WAR (2 VOLs), OREGON TRAIL, ETC.

THE WORKS OF FRANCIS PARKMAN. 13 VOLUME SET, COMPLETE, INCLUDING PIONEERS OF FRANCE IN THE NEW WORLD, JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 17th CENTURY, MONTCALM & WOLFE (2 VOLs), CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC AND THE INDIAN WAR (2 VOLs), OREGON TRAIL, ETC.

By: Parkman, Francis. Incuding "A Life of Francis Parkman" by Charles Haight Farnham.

Price: $325.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown : 1910

Seller ID: 31050

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

13 volume set - 8 3/8" H. Leather spines and corners with gilt edges, spines have four raised bands, gilt lettering and gilt decoration incorporating a lotus design. Top edges gilt, marbled paper-covered boards and endpapers in salmon with gilt veining. Each volume has a b&w/sepia frontispiece with double tissue guards, the outer one bearing a caption in red (all present). 20 b&w maps/plans (some double page, some fold-out) - all in good condition. 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. 493 pp. 2. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century. 586 pp. 3. La Salle and the Discovery ...
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WAKING NANABIJOU: UNCOVERING A SECRET PAST.

By: Poling, Jim, Sr.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage : 2007

Seller ID: 24475

ISBN-13: 9781550027570

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

287 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs. "A woman from Northern Ontario is buried; her jewellery box reveals a mystery. Veteran Canadian journalist Jim Poling took on the most important assignment of his career: Just who was his mother? Why did she take a lifelong secret to her grave? The author searches for clues throughout Alberta and the Ontario communities of Thunder Bay and Chapleau, the CPR town where the people he believed were his ancestors played out their roles in building the national railway. A search that began in anger at his mother's secrecy concludes with an understanding of her actions...
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SUMMERTIMES: IN CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS OF THE MUSKOKA LAKES ASSOCIATION.

By: Reid, Ron; Gray, William M.; Peake, Sean; Pryke, Susan; King, Paul; Tatley, Richard; Mason, D.H.C.; Boyer, Barbaranne; O'Brien, Brendan; Smith, Graham; Gockel, Paul; Ross, Judy.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto / Erin, Stoddart/Boston Mills : 1994

Seller ID: 9634

ISBN-13: 9781550460810

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

192 pp, 12 1/4"H. Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, reproductions. Contents: Foreword; Enduring Land of Rock: A Natural History of Muskoka; Obajewanung: The First Peoples; David Thompson Slept Here: Muskoka's First Surveyor; In the Footsteps of the Mapmakers: Explorers and Surveyors; The Promised Land: Early Settlers; Timber!: The Lumber Trade in Muskoka; The Muskoka Club: The First Islanders; The Last Waltz: Life in the Golden Era of Muskoka Resorts; Memories: Cottage Life at the Turn of the Century; Room with a View: Cottage Architects & Builders; Getting There is Half...
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ARCTIC JOURNEYS, ANCIENT MEMORIES: SCULPTURE BY ABRAHAM ANGHIK RUBEN.

By: Ruben, Abraham Anghik. Preface bBy Kevin Gover. Forword by William W. Fitzhugh. Essay by Bernadette Drisoll Engelstad.

Price: $37.50 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of History : 2012

Seller ID: 31072

ISBN-13: 9780981614212

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

87 pp, 11" H. Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs, maps. The catalogue of the exhibition. "(F)eatures twenty-three pieces by this master sculptor, widely celebrated for his ability to tell us deep histories in new ways. His massive, intricately carved narratives speak not only of Inuit prehistory and settlement but of Viking legends and forays into the New World. The results are astounding, not just in terms of their great beauty and craftsmanship, but also the dialogues they present about ancient and living northern cultures." from the Preface. Interior - clean and tight...
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MARIE-ANNE: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF LOUIS RIEL'S GRANDMOTHER.

By: Siggins, Maggie. Inscribed.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart : 2008

Seller ID: 31020

ISBN-13: 9780771080296

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

307 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w maps. Inscribed by author on title page: "For Walter. Dec/08 To a wonderful writer and friend Maggie Siggins"."Beautiful and spirited, Marie-Anne rejected suitor after suitor until she was twenty-six - a rebellion unheard of in 1800s Quebec habitant society. Then, shortly after her marriage to the handsome coureur de bois Jean-Baptiste Lagimodiere, she insisted on accompanying him back to the uncharted wilderness of western Canada. The year was 1807, and no white woman had tackled the fierce wilderness of Canada's fur-trading country. Marie-Anne travelled almost three th...
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SPIRIT QUEST and TIME OF THE THUNDERBIRD. (KAYA AND TALA ADVENTURES.)

By: Silvey, Diane.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn

Seller ID: 29108

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

58 pp, 86 pp - 2 volumes 9" H. Spirit Quest (ISBN 9781550028317 - second printing, 2009 - b&w illustrations by Joe Silvey) - "Told in the tradition of rich Coast Salish legend, Diane Silvey recounts the adventures of teenaged twins Kaya and Tala as they journey into the British Columbian wilderness confronting fish and fowl, beast and phantom, on their mission to retrieve a sacred box which symbolizes the spirit of their people. They encounter wolverines, snakes and sharp-toothed fish of the deep as well as ferocious hawkmen and the evil spirits of the underworld as they and their mystical f...
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POINT AU PELEE ISLAND. A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE McCORMICK FAMILY, WHO WERE THE FIRST WHITE OWNERS OF THE ISLAND.

By: Smith, Thaddeus.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Leamington, Ontario, Speedprint Inc. : 1996

Seller ID: 30955

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

48 pp, 8 1/2" H - facsimile reprint of The Echo Printing Co., Limited edition of 1926, printed in Amherstburg, Ont. A local history of Point au Pelee Island (Point Pelee), Ontario, with information on the McCormick family's association with it. Interior - staples are rusty, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - staples are rusty, a small area of glue residue from an old sticker on the rear cover.
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INUIT DOLLS: REMINDERS OF A HERITAGE.

By: Strickler, Eva and Alookee, Anaoyok. Introduction by Razie Brownstone. Patricia Michael, editor.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Canadian Stage & Arts Publications : 1988

Seller ID: 21724

ISBN-13: 9780919952386

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

176 pp, oblong 8vo (8 1/2" H x 11" D). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, maps. Some additional text in Inuktitut. "The ancient art of Inuit dollmaking is disappearing slowly but surely. The real Inuit play dolls have already come to an end and today, the only dolls that remain are collectors' dolls made by Inuit dollmakers for the southern retail market. We have put this book together, most particularly for the Inuit growing up today, in order to preserve an important part of their cultural heritage." Interior - gift inscrption on first page, otherwise clean and tight wi...
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PEARLS & PEBBLES.

By: Traill, Catharine Parr. Edited by Elizabeth Thompson.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage : 1999

Seller ID: 30956

ISBN-13: 9781896219592

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

211 pp, 9" H. B&w illustrations. First published in 1894, this "is an unusual book with a lasting charm, in which the author's broad focus ranges from the Canadian natural environment to early settlement in Upper Canada. Through Traill's eyes, we see the life of the pioneer woman, the disappearance of the forest, and the corresponding changes in the lives of the Native Canadians who have inhabited the forest. The editor reminds us of the significance of the writings by Traill, the aged author/naturalist, who felt that the hours spend gathering the pebbles and pearls from her notebooks and jou...
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A HISTORY OF CANADIAN CULTURE.

By: Vance, Jonathan F.

Price: $24.00 USD

Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario, Oxford University Press : 2009

Seller ID: 31059

ISBN-13: 9780195419092

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

500 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(A) remarkable look at the development of Canadian art, from the first appearance of Native crafts through to Booker Prize winners such as Margaret Atwood and Yann Martel. In tracing the history of Canada's cultural roots, Jonathan Vance also tells the story of Canadian identity." Chapter headings: The First Artists; The Meeting and Mingling of Cultures; Colonial Societies; Common Showmen and Mountebanks; Culture on the Frontier; The Dream of Useful Knowledge; 'Streaks on the Horizon'; Importing Culture; Exporting Culture; The First World War; The New Par...
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UNFINISHED DREAMS: COMMUNITY HEALING AND THE REALITY OF ABORIGINAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.

By: Warry, Wayne.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press : 1998

Seller ID: 21904

ISBN-13: 9780802079176

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

323 pp, 8vo (9" H). "In this book Wayne Warry argues that self-government can be realized only when individuals are secure in their cultural identity and can contribute to the transformation of their communities. (He) draws on his reasearch among Nishnawbe communities, as well as on the reports and recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Case studies are used to illustrated the proceses of community development and cultural revitalization that are essential precursors to self-government. Warry's notion of 'community healing' involves efforts to rebuild the human foundat...
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HUDSON'S BAY TO HARO STRAIT: BOOKS ON WESTERN CANADA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. A COLLECTORS' GUIDE.

By: Whale, G.J. Kim. Signed.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia, Rockland Books : 1998

Seller ID: 27128

ISBN-13: 9780968326008

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

316 pp + Index, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). No. 186 of the first edition of 500 copies. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. "(T)he boundaries of the guide are reasonably flexible. If a book contains significant Western or Western Arctic material, it will be included. The geographic reach embraces all the past and present territory of Western and Arctic Canada, all that was once Rupert's Land as well as those areas where histories have intermingled. For example, the great gold rushes of Alaska and the Klondike are strongly linked, and that's reflected in the accounts dealing with t...
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Category: Canada - Native Peoples