Search Results: First Nations from Minotavros Books

Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1915. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Canada Department of Mines, Geological Survey, No. 5, Anthropological Series. Orig. card wraps. 53 pp. One fold-out chart. Staining to covers, bumping to corners, wear to spine. Some creasing to upper corners of interior.

Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer Publishing, 1990. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xx, 298 pp. B&W photos in text. Some very slight age toning to covers, fine overall.

Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. The Bowl with One Spoon, Volume 1. First paperback. Soft cover. xlv, 683 pp. Chafing to joints, slight bruise to spine head, fine overall. This book presents a sweeping analysis of encounters between Indigenous peoples and European empires, national governments, and transnational corporations on the moving frontiers of globalization. Anthony Hall connects many histories, including those of Canada, Latin America, South Africa, India, Australia, and the United States. Arguing that the globalization debate began in 1942, he links the horrific treatment of aboriginal people in the United States to the ethnic and religious prejudices that underlie the current war on terrorism.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. xv, 528 p.p. Numerous b/w in-text illustrations. Wear to edges, extremities. Corners and interior pages bumped. Owner signature in blue pen on inside front cover. Light sunning along spine and rear cover, otherwise in very good condition.

Albany: The Ladies Union Mission School Assocation, 1893. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Orig. red stamped cloth, front board with double border and title in black, title in gilt to spine. 136 pp. [2] B&W plates. Some staining to cloth. Very good overall.

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1980. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Fine. Forman Werner (photographs). 8vo (royal). First soft cover edition, with revisions. 272 pp. Copiously illustrated with 192 photos, mostly in B&W with 23 in colour. Creasing to corners, else fine.

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 11" x 11" Full black cloth. Pictorial endpapers. 278 pp. B&W photographs throughout. Some bumps to dust jacket, else a fine copy. More than any other photographer of the Arctic, Bruemmer has captured through his photos the transition from hunter to villager as Arctic people began moving off the land and settling permanently in villages and towns. In this way, his art serves as a mirror of the harsh transitions of twentieth century life.

USA: The Countryman Press and Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Coye, Lee Brown. 8vo. x, 190 p.p. Cloth. Tears along edges of dust-jacket, chip to top edge of front cover. Small stain to top of rear cover of dust-jacket. Discolouration to spine of boards, some to extremities. Paper label pasted to spine with small stain. Bumping to extremities. Interior clean. Book is in near fine condition.

Toronto: A Groundwood Book, 2002. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Heather D. Holmlund. 8vo (tall). Orig. pictorial boards. Unpaginated (about 40pp). Illustrated with beautiful watercolours. Near fine in matching d/w. A small stain to rear inner flap but a near fine jacket. Signed by authors and illustrator on half-title. This book captures the summer of ten-year old Lawrence, or Oskiniko, in 1944, who learns he will be taken to a residential school. "An epilogue describes the fate of children like Lawrence who, over a hundred year period were forcibly taken from their families and put into into government sponsored residential schools...". In 1944, author Larry Loyie was born in Slave Lake, Alberta. At the age of ten he was placed in St. Bernard's Mission residential school in Grouard, Alberta. This is his story.

Lethbridge, AB: Historical Society of Alberta, Lethbridge Branch, 1968. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Second printing with new preface with two pages of new information. Orig. yellow card wraps, staple bound. 22 pp., [8 pp. B&W photos]. A little minor rubbing to covers. Fine overall.

Los Angeles: Silent Walker Publishing, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full navy paper boards. 233 pp. Spine slightly tilted. Ink gift inscription to ffep. A few small spots of blue staining to fore edge of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly bumped to extremities. The true story of Rene Caisse and an Indian herbal medicine called Essiac, nature's cure for cancer.

Toronto: Coles Publishing Company, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Full burgundy cloth. 401-675 pp. Two folding B&W maps inserted to tipped in envelope at rear pastedown (Sixth Annual Report Plates II and III). Dust jacket is sunned to spine, rubbed to extremities, a few short tears to top edges, spot of wear to spine from sticker removal. One of the world's most famous anthropologists established a first for himself, for anthropology, and for the Eskimo culture when The Central Eskimo was published in 1888. It is the account of an exploratory expedition to Baffin Island in 1883-1884.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xiii, 360 pp., [6] plate illustrations. Covers lightly soiled and foxed, some creasing to spine and corners. Foxing to edges of text block. Some pencil marginalia.

Vancouver: J.J. Douglas Ltd, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Keziere, Robert (photography). 8" x 9.5" Full black cloth. B&W pictorial endpapers. 80 pp. B&W photography. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned and edge worn.

Toronto: New Press, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Brown cloth, vii, 190pp. Illustrated. Name on half-title o/w fine in d/w, some markings on jacket. A revealing biography of Anahareo and her life with Archie Belaney, Grey Owl.

New York: Wings Books, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full white paper boards. 459 pp., [6]. Five B&W illustrations. Fine, bright and well-preserved. Here is a comprehensive and informative source book of American Indian history and lore that presents valuable information in an accessible A-to-Z format.

Toronto: M.F. Feheley, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 9.25" x 8.5" Oblong. Orig. brown cloth. 83 pp. Numerous illustrations in text. Sunning to edges of endpapers. Dust jacket is lightly bumped to extremities with a few short tears. Presented in this book are the 1976 Cape Dorset graphic works, with a foreword by Alma Houston, biographical sketches on the artists and print-makers, a short note on each of the techniques, and a photographic essay on the community.

Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. x, 934 pp. Fine condition. Launching from Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, Earth into Property explores the relationship between the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the making of global capitalism. Anthony Hall draws on a massive body of original research to produce a narrative that is audacious, encyclopedic, and transformative in the new light it sheds on the cumulative historical processes that converged in the financial debacle of 2008 and 2009.

Lantzville, British Columbia: Oolichan Books, 2002. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Paperback, 64pp. Illustrated with line drawings. Light edge wear o/w fine.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 11" x 9" SIGNED by author to ffep. English and French. Oblong, orig. tan cloth. 224 pp. B&W and colour illustrations. Embossed ex libris stamp. Edge toning to interior. Dust jacket is rubbed soiled, chipped to extremities, a few damp stains.