Baseball's First Indian
by Ed Rice

"Sockalexis was the greatest player I ever saw.. (He) had a gorgeous lefthand swing, hit the ball as far as Babe Ruth, was faster than Ty Cobb and as good a baserunner. He had the outfielding skill of Tris Speaker and threw like Bob Meusel, which means that no one could throw a ball farther or more accurately."

-- Andy Coakley, Outstanding Philidelphia A's Pitcher

$24.95

Basket Tales of the Grandmothers
by William A. Tumbaugh and Sarah Peabody Tumbaugh

Indian baskets provide the theme for over 250 traditional stories captured in this volume that includes references to Maine Indian baskets.

Illustrated with over 280 photographs.

$29.95

Birchbark Art of the Algonquin Indians
by Frank G. Speck

Discusses the Algonquin birchbark basketry
tradition in northeastern North America.
Suitable as a teacher resource or for high
school students.

$16.95

Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new america
by Warren Lahrer and Judith Sloan

A kaleidoscopic view of new immigrants and refugees living in Queens, New York - the most ethnically diverse locality in the United States of America.

Dawnland Encounters Indians and Europeans in Norther New England
edited Colin G. Calloway

Eight narratives challenge old stereotypes and provide a clearer understanding of the nature of captive taking. These stories portray captors as individuals with a unique culture, offering glimpses of daily life in frontier communities.

$22.95

Empires Emerging; Collecting the Peruvian Past
The Hudson Museum

Empires Emerging: Collecting the Peruvian Past contains many spectacular and rare objects made by artisans in the cultures of ancient Peru. Students in Museum Anthropology (ANT 413) at the University of Maine helped to conceptualize the exhibit during the Spring 1997 semester. The exhibit is not really about ancient Peruvian objects, artisans or cultures. It is about how collections are made and come to be in museums and private hands. The objects do not come from well-known public collections of ones created through the works of professional archaeologists. THey come from provate collections and museusm whose holdings were originally private collections. The exhibit asks the viewer to ponder difficult questions but does not offer easy answers: What can we learn about the Peruvian past by studying such collections?

$12.50

Handicrafts of the Modern Indians of Maine
by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm

From childhood to well into her eighties, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm made a study of Maine Indian language, culture and history from her home in Brewer, Maine. Her many years in close proximity and family friendship with the Penobscots and Passamaquoddy people and her diligent historical research made her the perfect and perhaps only white person who could comment authoritatively on the items presented in this little book. In the Handicrafts of the Modern Indians of Maine, Eckstorm provides the historical and cultural background for these important samples of Maine Indian art.

$14.95

The Hatchling's Journey
by Kristen Bieber Domm
illustrations by Jeffrey C. Domm

In this richly-illustrated story Elen discovers, with the help of her grandfather, that the turtle hatchling's journey is not so different from her own.

$14.95

Images for Eternity; Mexican Tomb Figures and Retablos
The Hudson Museum

Ancient ceramic shaft-tomb figures from the West Mexican states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, and Michoacan are around you, in collectors' living rooms, movies, paintings, advertisements, and museums. Their use as decor, props, investments, or art objects belies their antiquity and importance for understanding the lifeways of peoples long gone. These highly visible artifacts have lost their original context, which is the enviornment determining an objects exact meaning for the people who made and used it. Recently acrchaeologists and art historians have been making progress in understanding cultures of anvient West Mexico and putting tomb figures back into context.

This book exhibits the William P. Palmer III Collection, University of Maine alumnus William Palmer began collecting West Mexican tomb figuers around 1965.

$12.50

Indians of the Northeast Coast
from Cobblestone Press

Well-written articles about Native Americans of the Northeast that provide a good resource for classroom teachers and homeschoolers.

$4.95

Katahdin: Wigwam's Tales of the Abnaki Tribe
by Molly Spotted Elk

Stories about Mt. Katahdin, the origins of corn and tobacco, animal behavior, how the rabbit lost his tail, how mice became small, and numerous other fill this volume. The author, born Mary Alice Nelson in 1903 on Indian Island is best known by her public enterainer persona "Molly Spotted Elk." In addition to working as a dancer and an actress, one of her most fervent desires was to publish a book of her writings based on Penobscot traditional tales.

$18.00

The Language of Native American Baskets From the Weavers' View
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

In earlier days, baskets accompanied Indian people throughout their lives. Meals were prepared and cooked in them, and worldly goods were stored in them. Babies were carried in baskets, and in some groups baskets were given as a gift to mark an individual's entrance into and exit from this world.

$19.95

Made of Thunder, Made of Glass; American Indian Beadwork of the Northeast
Selections from the collection of Gerry Biron and JoAnne Russo

The Gerry Biron Collection was exhiited for the first time at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine from May 25 through November 18, 2006. In addition to Mr. Biron's collection of historical photographs of Native People, including Beadworkers, and of non-Native people wearing or displaying beadwork they have acquired from Native artists. Mr. Biron also generously loaned to the exhibition eleven portraits he painted of Native people, based on historic photographs. In these paintings the artist has incorporated beadwork from his collection.

$19.95

The Micmac Anthology
edited by Rita Joe and Lesley Choyce

A varied and spirited collection of work by the Mi'kmaq writers of Atlantic Canada, this volume brings together both young and old and includes short stories, autobiographies, poetry and personal essays.

$18.95

The Micmac: How Their Ancestors
Lived Five Hundred Years Ago
by Ruth Holmes

$9.95

Micmac Medicines
by Laurie Lacey

Laurie Lacey's reflects on the magical world of plant life and gathering of remedies chronicles more than 70 plants used by the Micmac as medicines. He takes us into swamps and bogs, the barrens and woods to explore the habitats of plants with healing properties. He then illustrates each medicinal plant and describes its traditional use or uses.

$11.95

Molly Spotted Elk
by Bunny McBride

Using diaries, letters and interviews,
the author chronicles the remarkable
life of the dancer, actress, and vaudeville
performer Molly Spotted Elk, born on the
Penobscot indian reservation in Maine in 1903.

$19.95

Mollyockett
by Pat Stewart

Mollyockett is a fictionalized reconstruction of the life of a remarkable Abenaki Indian woman, the last of her tribe, the Pequawkets. She lived in New England, primarily Western Maine, and in Canada from about 1740 to 1816. She struggled to reconcile Indian spirituality, Catholocism and the Protestant faith of her New England neighbors.

$19.95

Native Names of New England Towns and Villages
by C. Lawrence Bond

This book translates 211 place names throughout New England derived from the Algonkian language.

$9.95

The Old Man Told Us Excerpts from Mi'kmaw History 1500-1950
by Ruth Holmes Whitehead

In this rich collection, oral and written Mi'kmaw accounts are juxtaposed with contemporary European perceptions of native peoples, as documented in letters, journals, court cases, and much more. Above all else, The Old Man Told Us is a historical jigsaw puzzle, a display of fragments in which one can capture moments in the lives of particular people. It is a book of excerpts from what little documentation has survived over the centuries.

$24.95

Penobscot Man
by Frank G. Speck

The classic work on the Penobscot Indians. Suitable
as a teacher resource or for high school students.

Hardcover: $35
Paperback: $15

Princess Watahwaso: Bright Star of the Penobscot
by Bunny McBride

This is a bold-faced example of how Native women responded to turn-of-the-century socioeconomic challenges and opportunities. Looking at her life helps us understand why American Indians and "Indianness" have survived despite relentless pressure to assimilate.

Paperback: $15

The Sharing Circle
Stories about First Nations Culture

The Sharing Circle is a collection of seven stories about First Nations Culture and the spiritual practices: The Eagle Feather, The Dream Catcher, THe Sacred Herbs, The Talking Circle, The Medicine Wheel, Researched and written by Mi'kmaw children's author Theresa Meuse-Dallien, and beautifully illustrated by Mi'kmaw illustrator Arthur Stevensm, this book will engage and inform children of all ages.

$9.95

Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore
by William S. Simmons

Spanning three centuries, this collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales, and traditions of four major native American groups from their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present. The book is based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings, newspapers, magazines, diaries, local histories, anthropology and folklore publications, a variety of unpublished manuscripts sources, and field reseearch with living Indians.

$21.95

St. Regis Indian Trading Co.

reprint of the original 1915 catalog with 1917
price list. This 50-page book provides an excellent
visual and descriptive reference for collectors of
Northeastern Indian baskets. Learn to recognize
basket forms by the historical terms used at the
St. Regis Trading Co. of Hogenburg, New York, from
arm baskets to a wide variety basket forms.

Paperback, $10

Symbolism in Penobscot Art
by Frank G. Speck

Examines the double-curve motif and realistic
floral figures. Suitable as a teacher resource or
for high school students.

$14.95

A pioneering work of ambitious scope. This substantial book is a significant contribution to the field.

$19.96

Unsettled Past, Unsettled FutureThe Story of Maine Indians
by Niel Rolde

Rolde explores what we know about the pre-history period, the first contact between Euroeans and Indians, how wars and treaties affected tribal lands, and why Maine Indians were treated differently from many of the other tribes in the United States. You'll learn wabout their legends and culture, their struggles with government agents, the long fight for the right to vote, and the history of tribal government representation in our legislature.

$20.00

The Voice of the Dawn An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation
by Frederick Matthew Wiseman

$20.95

The Wabanakis of Maine and the Maritimes
Prepared for and published by the Wabanaki Program of American Friends Service Committee

"In this highly recommended volume, Wabanaki people offer teachers a helping hand in fostering cross-cultural understanding. This accurate and up-to-date resounce book is a major contribution to the teaching the cause and effects of contact in the Northeast because it provides historical and cultural overviews keyed to lesson plans, fact sheets, and classroom projects." Kenneth Morrison, Historian and Professors of Religious Studies, Arizona State University

$9.95

Who Belongs Here? An American Story
by Margy Burns Knight
Illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien

As a young boy, Nary was hungry and frightened as he and his grandmother stole through the Cambodian jungle to reach the Thai border. Fleeing the brutality of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, they left their friends and family, all that they knew. They dreamed of the U.S. , where, Grandmother said, life would be "better than heaven." But now that he's here, the U.S. doesn't seem like the heaven his grandmother had promised. In this probing, plan-spoken book based on a true story, Knight and O'Brien invite readers to explore the human implications of intolerence.

$6.95

Women of the Dawn
by Bunny McBride

Spanning four centuries, this volume tells the
stories of four Wabanaki women and the impact
of European culture on Wabanaki traditional life.

$11.95