wyszukanych pozycji: 12
The Education of Little Tree
ISBN: 9780826328090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. -Little Tree- as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course. Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, scares them away from his... The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in... |
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85,89 zł |
Tonto's Revenge: Reflections on American Indian Culture and Policy
ISBN: 9780826318220 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. How do Native Americans maintain their identity and culture in a hostile society, and to what end? Tonto's Revenge is a passionate attempt by a leading Native American scholar to reassess the Indian world view and its importance to all Americans. His deeply felt essays project a vision of how Native Americans can recapture the power of their cultural legacies. "What we have witnessed over the last five hundred years," states Rennard Strickland, "is the domination of an ideologically superior world view (that of the Native Americans) by a technologically advanced but spiritually bankrupt...
How do Native Americans maintain their identity and culture in a hostile society, and to what end? Tonto's Revenge is a passionate attempt by a leadin...
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187,11 zł |
The Indians in Oklahoma
ISBN: 9780806116754 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Indians in Oklahoma," a survey of the sixty-seven tribes residing in the state, explains the colonizing process that populated Indian Territory (the future Oklahoma) with American Indians from all parts of the United States during the nineteenth century and interprets the striking cultural diversity of the Indian communities thus formed. The author separates the Native American experience in Oklahoma into four periods. This book is one of a series entitled "Newcomers to a New Land" which analyzes the role of the major ethnic groups that have contributed to the history of Oklahoma.
"The Indians in Oklahoma," a survey of the sixty-seven tribes residing in the state, explains the colonizing process that populated Indian Territor... |
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94,50 zł |
San Houston with the Cherokees, 1829-1833
ISBN: 9780806128092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a lively effort to pierce the thick fog of Falsehood, calumny, ignorance, and legend surrounding the four years Sam Houston spent among the Cherokees in what is now northeastern Oklahoma, the broken years in Tennessee, and his advent in Texas on the eve of the War for Independence."-Virginia Quarterly Review" This is a lively effort to pierce the thick fog of Falsehood, calumny, ignorance, and legend surrounding the four years Sam Houston spent among the... |
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119,06 zł |
The Education of Little Tree
ISBN: 9780826328083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The story of a Cherokee boyhood of the 1930's.
The story of a Cherokee boyhood of the 1930's.
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107,42 zł |
The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession
ISBN: 9780804011105 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When you mentioned to family or friends that you were considering becoming a lawyer, you probably faced skepticism, if not serious criticism You are undoubtedly asking yourself if three or four years of a rigorous and costly legal education is really worth the candle. For you we add these final comments. We hope that they will reassure you, as well as your friends and family, that it is possible, as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. proclaimed, to live greatly in the law. from "The Lawyer Myth"
Lawyers and the legal profession have become scapegoats for many of the problems of our age. In "The... When you mentioned to family or friends that you were considering becoming a lawyer, you probably faced skepticism, if not serious criticism You are u...
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147,42 zł |
Chippewa Treaty Rights: The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin's Chippewa Indians in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9780299930226 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Distributed for the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
Distributed for the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
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128,82 zł |
The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession
ISBN: 9780804011112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Lawyers and the legal profession have become
scapegoats for many of the problems of our age. In "The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession," Rennard Strickland and Frank T. Read look behind current antilawyer media images to explore the historical role of lawyers as a balancing force in times of social, economic, and political change. One source of this disjunction of perception and reality, they find, is that American society has lost touch with the need for the lawyer s skill and has come to blame unrelated social problems on the legal profession. This... Lawyers and the legal profession have become
scapegoats for many of the problems of our age. In "The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American L... |
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84,22 zł |
Fire and Spirits: Cherokee Law from Clan to Court
ISBN: 9780806116198 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume 133 in The Civilization of the Americas Series This book traces the emergency of the Cherokee system of laws from the ancient spirit decrees to the fusion of tribal law ways with Anglo-American law. The Cherokees enacted their first written law in 1808 in Georgia. In succeeding years the leaders and tribal councils of the southeastern and Oklahoma groups wrote a constitution, established courts, and enacted laws that were in accord with the old tribal values but reflected and accommodated to the whites' legal system. Thanks to the great gift of Sequoyah-his syllabary-the Cherokees were...
Volume 133 in The Civilization of the Americas Series This book traces the emergency of the Cherokee system of laws from the ancient spirit decrees to...
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138,59 zł |
Shadows of the Indian: Stereotypes in American Culture
ISBN: 9780806119632 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Indian of popular culture has never existed anywhere except in imagination. Yet these illusory Indians are so authentic to most Americans that no alternate images are acceptable. Even in recent decades, when increased awareness of the sensitivities of minority groups has become more prevalent, American Indians are seen as almost mythic figures. Raymond William Stedman examines images of American Indians from the first contact with whites, who viewed them as a curiosity, through incarnations including the Noble Savage and, to the Puritans, an almost Satanic presence lurking in... The Indian of popular culture has never existed anywhere except in imagination. Yet these illusory Indians are so authentic to most Americans tha... |
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186,81 zł |
Language Is Sermonic: Richard M. Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric
ISBN: 9780807112212 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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162,73 zł |
Prairie City: Story of an American Community, the
ISBN: 9780806130941 / Angielski / Miękka / 1944 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Prairie City is the social history of a representative midwestern town - a composite of several Oklahoma small towns. Beginning with the "one flashing moment" of the 1889 land run, which opened the "Oklahoma Lands" for white settlement, Angie Debo depicts the struggles of the settlers on the vast prairie to build a community despite seasons of drought, prairie fire, and destitution. Solidly based on historical research, Prairie City chronicles the arrival of the railroad, the growth of political parties and educational institutions, KKK uprisings, the oil boom, the Depression and the New... Prairie City is the social history of a representative midwestern town - a composite of several Oklahoma small towns. Beginning with the "one flash... |
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94,50 zł |