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Power of a Navajo : Carl Gorman : the man and his life [signed]
by Henry Greenberg and Georgia Greenberg; R.C Gorman (introd.)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0940666820
- ISBN 13
- 9780940666825
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 1996. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition in a fine dustjacket, inscribed by Navajo code talker, artist, and professor, the late Dr. Carl (Kin-Ya-Onny Beyeh) Gorman, on the frontis in 1996. Rare with this signature. x, 202 pages : illustrations. Octavo. Dr. Carl Nelson Gorman, ... Kin-Ya-Onny-Beyeh (1907–1998) was a Navajo code talker, visual artist, painter, illustrator, and professor. He was faculty at the University of California, Davis, from 1950 until 1973. During World War II, Gorman served as a code talker with the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific. ... Gorman died from cancer on January 29, 1998, in Gallup, New Mexico. ... In 1990, Gorman was awarded a doctor of humane letters from the University of New Mexico. Shortly after his retirement in 1973, UC Davis named their new museum, the C.N. Gorman Museum in his honor, and Gorman donated to the collection. In 1995, Northern Arizona University unveiled a code talker monument, a bust of Gorman sculpted by his son, R.C. Gorman. His artwork is included in the permanent museum collections of the C.N. Gorman Museum, the Brooklyn Museum,and the National Museum of the American Indian." ---Wikipedia
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1321
- Title
- Power of a Navajo : Carl Gorman : the man and his life [signed]
- Author
- Henry Greenberg and Georgia Greenberg; R.C Gorman (introd.)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0940666820
- ISBN 13
- 9780940666825
- Publisher
- Clear Light Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Santa Fe, NM
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- world war II, Code talkers, native american, indigenous, war hero
- Bookseller catalogs
- Native America;
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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