Dog Story

Title: Dog Story

Author: Lyons, Oren

Publication: New York: Holiday House, 1973.

Description: Starting with the line "She was a lot of dog," this is the story of a boy and his hunting dog by Indigenous author Oren Lyons. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Lyons. In full tan cloth over boards, stamped with brown lettering on the spine and a sleeping dog on the front cover. 8.5 x 5.75 inches; 32 pages. Book with slight bumping at the corners and ghost pencil markings on the front free endpaper; dust jacket with mild edgewear, soiling, and a small tape repair to verso. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Oren Lyons is a Haudenosaunee Faithkeeper of the Wolf Clan of the Onondaga Nation and the Seneca Nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River. He advocates for the rights of Indigenous peoples around the world and is a longtime member of the Indigenous Peoples of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations. He taught Indigenous history for many years as a professor at University of Buffalo.