05/30/2020
My friend David Ellis has an awesome First Nations library of historical value. He has asked me to publish a list of Haida books he wishes to sell at this time. In the very near future he has other nations such as Nisga'a Nation, Gitsaan Nation and many more.
Jurassic Formations of Maude Island and Alliford Bay, Skidegate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia
McLearn, F. H.
Published by Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 1946 - listed at $65.00
Northern Haida Songs by Enrico and Haida elders listed at $320.00
Masset texts by Haida Elders and Swanton(reprint)listed at $200.00
Blackcod use by BC Aboriginal Peoples (secret dfo correspondence from Aboriginal Fisheries strategy negotiation and allocation period)
listed at $95.00
Halibut use by BC Aboriginal People (secret DFO correspondence from Aboriginal Fisheries strategy negotiation and allocation period)
Listed are $95.00
Shellfish Licensing Policy Paper (1989) by DFO (secret DFO correspondence from Aboriginal Fisheries strategy negotiation and allocation period)
Listed at $55.00
Indian Fisheries Productivity in Pre-Contact Times In the Pacific Salmon Area. Gordon W. Hewes. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes. 7 (2): 133 -155.
Listed at $40.00
Hidden from History The Canadian Holocaust by Annett
Listed at $45.00
No Ordinary Man: George Mercer Dawson 1849-1901 (warned Haida and Kwakwaka'wakw of coming genocide by smallpox)
Listed at $75.00
Comparative vocabularies of the Indian tribes of British Columbia, with a colour map illustrating distribution Tolmie, William Fraser; Dawson, George ...
Publisher: Montreal: Dawson Brothers 1884. 129 pages.The spectacular map in dashing colour is the first to accurately note linguist/cultural boundaries in the BC and is of intense interest for Rights and Title and Specific Claims. The book has first word lists of many First Nations languages and for Haida, Cumshewa dialect (the only record of that dialect). Tsimshian has Kitunto, Kithatla dialect word lists. For Tinne, they do not use the word Carrier, they note Takulli and Teheili and Nakoontloon and Tshilkotin word lists. Bilhoola and Kootenuha lists included. St'atlium is called Selish and there is a Lillooet tribe word lists. With a note that the Selish have "marked dialectic varieties, but are "mutually intelligible" and that "most of the country east of the Fraser river is divided between the Shewhapmuh and the Okanagan". So it seems the authors thought that the "Lillooet tribe words" would suffice also for Okanagan and Secwepemc [as "mutually intelligible" with Lillooet]. For Kwakiool, Haishilla, Hailtzuk, Kwiha and Likwiltoh dialects. For Coast Salish, many dialects and word lists including for Kwantlin (the only record we have of that dialect). For Nuuchanulth or "aht" just one dialect word list, from Kaiookwaht from Clayoquot (from Sproat). I have made a readable and clean reprint of of this great book and map. Nobody else has ever reprinted it or digtized it. UNBC for example has one original and fragile copy.
Listed at $500.00
Indian Rock Carvings of the Pacific North West (1971) by Meade ["one mile from Skidegate are shallow pecked human heads and mask faces" noted CF Newcombe in 1900; the Man who Fell from Heaven is in Prince Rupert] Listed at $95.00
Report on a Nuuchanulth Whaling Canoe (1975) by Arima [detailed 150 page study on exactly how to make a Nuuchanulth canoe] Listed at $65.00
Common Edible Plants by Provincial Museum
Listed at$26.00
Guide To Marine Life Of British Columbia
By Provincial Museum (fish, birds, shellfish, land and sea mammals, sea weeds). Listed at $25.00
Tlingit Myths and Texts by Tlingit elders and Swanton First edition
Listed at $200.00
Razor clams by Berger 223 pages
Listed at $60.00
The Knowledge and Usage of Marine Invertebrates by the Skidegate Haida People of the Queen Charlotte Islands
By Solomon Wilson and Ellis
Listed at $95.00
Halibut fishery: biology, fishery and management (1987) by the International Pacific Halibut Commission 59 pages reprint
Listed at $95.00
The Pacific Halibut: the Resource and the Fishery (1981) by Bell [much on all aspects of this fishery] 267 pages
Listed at $95.00
Chinook Jargon by Tate (reprint)
Listed at $40.00
Native tribes of the coast (1914) by Sapir (reprint)
Listed at $40.00
Administration of Indian Affairs (1931) [legal relationship of First Nations to the Canadian government and the law and policy regarding residential schools] reprint by Duncan Campbell Scott.
Listed at $40.00
Land, Man, and the Law: The [Illegal] Disposal of Crown Lands in British Columbia [key book concerning Rights and Title in BC] by Cail
Listed at $2,200.00
Clam Gardens by Williams [archeologcal documention of the construction of highly productive clam beds by First Nations]
Listed at $40.00
Indian Artists at Work by Seltzer with pics of Florence Davidson, Hannah Parnell, Eliza Abraham, Nellie Yeomans, Carrie Weir, Grace Wilson, Nelson Cross, Bill Reid, Pat Dixon, Gordon Cross, Doug Wilson, Robert Davidson, Gerry Marks, Francis Williams, Greg Lightbown, Reg Davidson, Claude Davidson, Fred Davis, John Yeltatzie, George Yeltatzie. (1976). First edition
Listed at $20.00
Petro-Canada. Inc. 1983. Offshore Queen Charlotte Islands: Initial Environmental Evaluation. Volumes. I, 2 and 3. Plus Overview. Includes Letter of Transmittal by Glazier, General manager, Environmental and Social Affairs, Petro-Canada Inc.
Listed at $2,200.00
Recommended Actions for Environmental Management of Offshore Hydrocarbon Exploration in BC. Workshop Report.
Prepared by Wayne Duval and Patricia Vonk. ESL Environmental Sciences Limited
Prepared for
BC Ministry of Environment
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Department of Environment
(November 1988) 120 pages
Listed at $700.00
Offshore Oil and Gas in Canada, West Coast Environmental, Social, and Economic Issues by McPhee Westwater Research Centre
(1982) 79 pages
Listed at $95.00
Shaped Cedars and Cedar Shaping: a Guidebook to Identifying, Documenting, Appreciating and Learning from Culturally Modified Trees (1998) by Garrick [First Nation legal control of destructive logging activities]
Listed at $220.00
Sea Otter Chiefs
(1995) by Robinson
[The lives of Maquinna, Legaik and Cuneahat first contact]
Listed at $90.00
Vanishing Heritage: The Loss of Ancient Red Cedar from Canada's Rainforests by Nelson.
Listed at $40.00
Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900 (1997) by Barman IN BC Studies [quote: Bishop "O'Connor defended himself..having r***d 4 Aboriginal women....the inference was clear...they had made him do it... tracing the lineage of his attitudes in BC"]
Listed at $30.00
The Regulation of First Nations Sexuality by Cannon
Listed at $30.00
Cook Voyage "Artifacts" in Leningrad, Berne & Florence Museums by Kaeppler
Listed at $60.00
Coast of Many Faces (with pictures of Dick Wilson, Arnold Pearson, Ricky Wilson, Augustus Wilson, Bill Reid, Ghigndeging, Irene Collinson, Dempsey Collinson, Robert Davidson, Reggie Davidson, Gerry Marks, Chief Galaa, Selina Peratrovich, Nora Cogo, Florence Davidson. (1979)
Listed at $70.00
Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast by Stewart
Listed at $20.00
Carving Totem Poles & Masks by Bridgwater. The only book that explains how to make all of the different carving tools.
Listed at $90.00
Destruction of BC herring populations. DFO commercial catch data 1888-2016 (covers all of Haida territories)
Listed at $220.00
Herring spawning areas of the Queen Charlotte islands back to 1937. Annual DFO spawn data [as so many spawns now depleted by roe herring fishery, is important for legal reasons]
Listed at $220.00
Indians of the Northwest as revealed by the Earliest Journals (1916) by Sperlin [Chiefs names noted in ship journals]
Listed at $30.00
The Journal of John Work, January to October, 1835
John Work, Hudson Bay Company trader by sailing ship. (1945) 98 pages (traded into Gwaii Haanas) reprint
Listed at $95.00
Haida Texts and Myths, Skidegate Dialect by Haida elders and Swanton
First Edition in green covers
Listed at $800.00
Plants of Haida Gwaii: Xaadaa Gwaay Gud Gina K'aws Skidegate, Xaadaa Gwaayee Guu Ginnkaw's Massett by Turner. First edition
Listed at $300.00
Bird of Paradox by Wilson Duff and Haida elders (deep insights into Haida art)
Listed at $20.00
The Journal of Don Jacinto Caamano. (1792) By Newcombe. Traded to Kiusta and Rose Spit villages) reprint
Listed at $75.00
Haida Language by Haida elders and Swanton 1910. 82 pages. Total examination of the Haida language. Includes a story in both English and Haida, "A Raid on the Bella Coola by the People of Ninstints and Kaisun"
First edition $800.00
Reprint $85.00
David Ellis bookseller
First Nations Libraries Ltd
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All books are negotiable.
