Native Americans. The Book of Elders: The Life Stories & Wisdom of Great American Indians, as told to Sandy Johnson & photographed by Dan Budnik.

HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. First edition, 1st printing. 237 pages. Stiff illustrated wraps, as issued; front cover split two inches at top at spine hinge closed with archival tissue; remainder mark at bottom of text block. Custom-made 4-mil clear polyester jacket houses this attractive copy. Chapters with interviews of elders by tribe, some chapters with multiple interviews, which are presented as edited first person narratives without the questions posed by Johnson, the oral history interviewer.  Johnson provides an introduction to each subject, providing the circumstances under which the interview took place.  Black-and-white portrait photo of each narrator by Dan Budnik.  Tribes include Sioux, Hopi, Dineh, Tulalip, Onandaga, Six Nations, Mohawk, Pit River, Shoshone, Cree, Warm Springs, Ute, Seminole, Apache, Haida, Bella Bella, Kiowa, Yurok, Pueblo, and Lakota/Seminole.