People of the Blue Water: My Adventures Among the Walapai and Havasupai Indians

Description

Author: Iliff, Flora Gregg (1882-1959)

Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Pub Date: 1954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition:  Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Foxing to front and rear pastedowns.  Smudging to spine head and foot.  Light corner and edge wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped.  Spine head and foot chipped, each missing some pieces.  Lower front cover edge has several horizontal wrinkles.  Lower rear cover edge has an approx. 1/2″ tear.  Upper rear cover edge near spine head has an approx. 1/2″ tear.  Chipping to lower flap corners.  In mylar.

Notes:  Iliff and her husband were teachers at Indian schools (read boarding schools), but they lived with the Walapai and Havasupai.  She was later named as a “superintendent” of the Havasupai, “given complete charge” of the tribe.  Anecdote and personal interest stories.  A little light on the anthropology.  From the looks of Iliff’s photo, she looked like a stern taskmaster.