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TECUMTHA: SHAWNEE CHIEFTAIN - ASTRAL AVATAR. REVELATION OF THE TRUE SHAWANO TECUMTHA; DREAMER OF AMITY; LONLEY REDMAN MONARCH AND MIGHTY MENTOR OF THE FOREST; LEAPING PANTHER FRUSTRATED AND SHOOTING STAR BETRAYED; GIGANTIC GENIUS...

By: Robb, Wallace Havelock.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Kingston, Canada, Abbey Dawn Press: 1958

Seller ID: 27700

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

223 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). Signed on front free endpaper in violet ink with drawing of a feather underneath: "Wallace Havelock Robb". 12 full-page illustrations by Adrian Dingle, including frontispiece (collated). Map. Title page continues: "and Magnificent Mystic Among the Gods." A story of the Shawnee chief, Tecumtha (Tecumseh), written in prose and verse, incorporating fact and mythology. Light wrinkling at bottom of spine, one corner is bumped, tiny light stain on bottom and fore-edge of text block, minor soiling. Dust jacket has light to moderate edge wear/wrinkling...
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THE GREAT FUR LAND OR SKETCHES FROM LIFE IN THE HUDSON'S BAY TERRITORY.

By: Robinson, H.M.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Coles: 1975

Seller ID: 28095

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

348 pp, 8 5/8" H. Burgundy cloth with black title block, gilt lettering/banding on spine, gilt lettering/banding on front board - one of the Coles Canadian Collection. B&w illustrations. A facsimile of the edition published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1879. "In approximately 1870, one H.M. Robinson, writer and traveller, journeyed by dog sled to the Hudson's Bay Territory. The account of his months there is fascinating not only for its first-hand look at life in northern Canada, but also for this cultured man's view of it. The book includes excursions by dog sled and canoe, ...
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MICHAEL ROBINSON: THE SPIRIT AND THE SMOKE.

By: Robinson, Michael. Foreword by Mimi Gely. Essay by Carol Podedworny.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art: 1985

Seller ID: 29895

ISBN: 09205390902

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

48 pp, 8" H x 9" D. B&w photographs, b&w and colour reproductions. The catalogue of the exhibition. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; The Spirit and the Smoke; Footnotes; Catalogue of Works; Poetry Section; Biography; Bibliography; Catalogue Production. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small sticker mark and a faint line indentation on rear cover.
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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 my...
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WARPATHS: INVASIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN.

By: Steele, Ian K.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 28413

ISBN: 0195082222

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

282 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, plans, photographs, reproductions. "(P)rovides a sweeping history of the numerous European invasions of North America, painting a dramatic new portrait of the centuries of warfare that shook the continent. Steele's fascinating account destroys the old image of technologically advanced Europeans overrunning primitive savages. Instead, he reveals how Amerindians rose to the challenge of each successive invasion with martial and diplomatic skill, from the defeat of Ponce de Leon in 1513 to a negotiated peace with the British in 1765. In war after war, the ...
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ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PAPERS AND RECORDS. VOL.II. THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALIST SETTLEMENT AT LONG POINT, LAKE ERIE.

By: Tasker, L.H.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1900

Seller ID: 28954

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good-

128 pp, 9 7/8" H. 7 b&w plates including map frontispiece. Contents: Introduction; Political Aspect of the Revolution; Motives of the Loyalists; Treatment of the Loyalists During the War; Legislative Enactments for the Punishment of the Loyalists; British Parliament and the Loyalists; What Britain Did for the Loyalists; Loyalist Emigration; Routes of the Loyalists; Modes of Travelling; Early Accounts of Long Point; The County of Norfolk; The Townships of Norfolk; The Indians of the Long Point District; The Migration to Long Point; Charlotteville; Clearing the Land; Buildings; Food; Mills...
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HUMBOLDT ON THE CARLTON TRAIL.

By: Telfer, W.P.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Modern Press: 1975

Seller ID: 28382

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

84 pp, oblong (8 3/4" H x 11" D). Copyright page states 'Limited Edition', but no limitation details supplied. Light brown cloth with black lettering on spine, black lettering & decoration on front board. B&w photographs, maps, drawings. A local history of Humboldt, Saskatchewan. Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; The First White Visitors; The Red River Cart; The Carlton Trail; The Dominion Telegraph; The Weldons; The Death of Birdie; Alfred von Lindeburgh; The Suicide at Round Hill; The Diary of Elizabeth McFadden; 1880-1884; 1885 - The Rebellion Year; Tom Hourie's Swimmin...
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CARTIER DISCOVERS THE ST LAWRENCE.

By: Toye, William.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1971

Seller ID: 28965

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

32 pp, 11 1/8" H. "This is the story of Jacques Cartier, the famous sixteenth-century French navigator, and his three voyages of discovery to North America: in 1534, when he explored the Gulf of the St Lawrence in search of a passage to Asia, and in 1535 and 1541 when he sailed up the St Lawrence River. Based on the journal of the voyages and containing many extracts from it, the book describes not only Cartier's considerable achievement, but also the hardships of the undertaking, the cold and disease, and the encounters - not always amicable - with the Indians who lived along the riv...
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NORTHWOODS DOCTOR.

By: Trent, Bill.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott: 1962

Seller ID: 28972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

320 pp, 8 1/2" H. "(T)he biography of Dr. Paul Leon Rivard, whose practice covers thousands of miles in the trackless wilderness of northern Quebec and whose patients are lumbermen, Indians, trappers and, on occasion, horses. But most important, it is the story of a human being, a man who suffered a great loss and tried to run away from the world. Utterly lonely, he sought his hiding place in the backwoods and there in the great Abitibi forests the young doctor traveled by sledge, snowshoe and plane to minister to the sick and injured and encourage the lonely and derelict. Gradually h...
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THE CHURCH IN THE FRENCH ERA: FROM COLONIZATION TO THE BRITISH CONQUEST.

By: Walsh, H.H. Foreword by John Webster Grant.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1966

Seller ID: 28895

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

221 pp, 9 1/2" H. Volume One of "A History of the Christian Church in Canada". Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; The Great Discovery; The Religious Background of New France; The Challenge of the Aborine; The Acadian Adventure; The Huronian Experiment; The Sulpician Intrusion; The New England Incursion; The Era of Laval; The Era of Saint-Vallier; An Era of Dismay; Bibliography; Index. Slight splitting in paper of rear inside hinge - hinge holding very firmly, small erasure mark on free front endpaper, small bump to corners of boards, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of...
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A CREE LIFE: THE ART OF ALLEN SAPP.

By: Warner, John Anson and Bradshaw, Thecla, Introduction by. (Allen Sapp.)

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, J.J. Douglas: 1977

Seller ID: 12788

ISBN: 0888941498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

126 pp, 4to, (12 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "This superb book brings together more than ninety of Sapp's (Saskatchwan Cree artist Kiskayetum Saposkum) best paintings, one-third in full colour and many accompanied by his own words. The introduction provides a rich backdrop that tells much of Sapp's life, his people's history and his developing success as a painter." Minor edge wear to boards, very light browning to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, a few tiny closed tears, tiny dint on front hinge, small areas of surface paper...
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A CREE LIFE: THE ART OF ALLEN SAPP.

By: Warner, John Anson and Bradshaw, Thecla, Introduction by. (Allen Sapp.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, J.J. Douglas: 1977

Seller ID: 28603

ISBN: 0888941498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

126 pp, 4to, (12 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "This superb book brings together more than ninety of Sapp's (Saskatchwan Cree artist Kiskayetum Saposkum) best paintings, one-third in full colour and many accompanied by his own words. The introduction provides a rich backdrop that tells much of Sapp's life, his people's history and his developing success as a painter." Book is very clean. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, very small scuff on front panel, very light rubbing including a few tiny scuffs, t...
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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: 0802079172

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...
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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.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia, Rockland Books: 1998

Seller ID: 27128

ISBN: 0968326005

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 dealin...
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HUNTING WITH THE ESKIMOS. THE UNIQUE RECORD OF A SPORTSMAN'S YEAR AMONG THE NORTHERNMOST TRIBE - THE BIG GAME HUNTING, THE NATIVE LIFE, AND THE BATTLE FOR EXISTENCE THROUGH THE LONG ARCTIC NIGHT.

By: Whitney, Harry. Introduction by Dillon Wallace.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Coles: 1974

Seller ID: 28099

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

453 pp, 8 5/8" H. Burgundy cloth with black title block, gilt lettering/banding on spine, gilt lettering/banding on front board - one of the Coles Canadian Collection. B&w photographs. A facsimile of the edition published by The Century Company, New York, 1910. "Here is an exciting episode to stir the blood of the most jaded adventure lover - a fourteen-month hunting expedition with the Eskimos of Greenland and Ellesmere Island in 1908-09. Thrilling incidents and hair-breadth escapes were the fortune of Whitney and his Eskimo guides and companions in their quest for polar bear, wol...
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THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC.

By: Williams, Jack.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Indianapolis, Alpha: 2003

Seller ID: 25138

ISBN: 1592570739

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

326 pp, large 8vo (9 1/16" H). B&w and color photographs, b&w drawings/diagrams/maps. "Key information on the plant and animal life that inhabit the polar landscape; Fascinating history of the exploration of these remote and forbidding areas; Cold, hard facts on environmental hazards such as global warming and oil drilling; How human populations such as the Inuit people have survived near the North Pole for thousands of years---" Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright.
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THE OPENING OF THE CANADIAN NORTH, 1870-1914.

By: Zaslow, Morris.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1971

Seller ID: 28338

ISBN: 0771090722

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

339 pp, 9 1/4" H. One of 'The Canadian Centenary Series'. B&w photographs, maps. "(T)races Canada's northward expansion in the years after Confederation. In the forefront of the movement were the fur-traders, missionaries, and gold-seekers. Behind them came provincial and federal overnments, concerned for their authority, and anxious to develop the riches of the North. Under the Laurier government (1896-1911) the advance quickened, and the roles of the Geological Survey, North-West Mounted Police, and Departments of the Interior, Indian Affairs, and Marine and Fisheries, gained ne...
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Category: Canada - Native Peoples