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A collection of approximately 38 books on American Indians, all with portions of the text underlined and highlighted and with extensive notes in Brando's hand, titles include: McNICKLE, D'Arcy and FEY, Harold Indians and other American, New York, 1959, inscribed on the front endpaper in black ink: To Marlon Brando, In these things there are many questions and few answers. D'Arcy McNickle, August 1963, inscribed in Brando's hand in black ink on page 189: The business was taking land away from Indians and destroying their culture, until those elements are restored to their [sic] proper amounts and perspectives the govt of U.S. is still in business.; BROWN, Dee and SCHMITT, Martin Fighting Indians of the West, New York, 1974, inscribed in Brando's hand in black ink on page 14: Do you think that white history is the only history...Only fools would.; TERRELL, John Apache Chronicle, New York, 1972, inscribed in Brando's hand in black ink on page 61: How do you know this? Vas ya der Charlie; BOLTON, Herbert Coronado, Knight of Pueblos and Plains, Albuquerque, 1974, inscribed on the front cover in Brando's hand in blue ink with a quote from Percy Shelley's poem Ozymandias: I am Ozmondiaz [sic], King of Kings - Look upon my work ye mighty and dispair [sic] and on page 267 Thanks to Christ we got that straight; McNICKLE, D'Arcy They Came Here First: The Epic of the American Indian, Philadelphia, 1949, inscribed on the rear endpaper in black ink in Brando's hand: Perhaps one reason society was formed was to protect people from themselves. Is not society an extension of the psychic family? (a lot)

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