Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Indigenous

"Chief Joseph: A Biography" explores the world of the Nez Perce Indians from their entrance into the Columbia Plateau through their relations with the expanding United States. It recounts their attempt to accommodate the rapidly changing world around them, and it follows the life of Chief Joseph, one of their greatest peace leaders.

Readers will learn how interactions with Lewis and Clark at the beginning of the 19th century and the subsequent duplicity of white settlers and their government radically changed the Nez Perce way of life--and influenced Joseph's rise. Separating the real...

"Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary" focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans. Such treatments are rare, as most Native American biographies are historical (pre-1900) and cover familiar figures. Profiles collected here are written to be enjoyable as well as instructive, presented as examples of personal storytelling that should be savored not only for their factual content, but also for the humanity they evoke.

The book spotlights Native American lives in the United States and Canada, mainly after 1900, though a few older figures are included because their...

Born in 1861 in New Mexico's Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people's ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West Show Indian he travelled in Europe with his family, and saw his sons become silversmiths, painters, and consultants on Indian Lore. In 1928, in a life-culminating experience, he recited...

As a young child of the Oglala Lakota Sioux, Black Elk had been given a mighty vision which would lead him on a personal journey that lasted his entire life. Although Black Elk's vision was a prophetic message telling the terrible future of his tribe, it also held positive aspects that must be reclaimed. It is through this reclamation that the guiding beacons given to him reveal an ancient pathway woven into the images of the West. By exploring Black Elk's eyewitness account of the crucial events of that time, the author discovered a series of metaphorical footprints that show us the way...

Als junger Knabe empfing der Oglala Lakota Sioux Black Elk eine machtige Vision, die ihn auf eine personliche Reise fuhren sollte. Eine Reise, die sein ganzes Leben hindurch andauerte. Obwohl Black Elks Vision als prophetische Botschaft die schreckliche Zukunft seines Volkes enthullte, so enthielt sie doch auch positive Aspekte, die es neu zu entdecken gilt. Fordert man sie zutage, so entdeckt man, dass die Orientierungssignale, die Black Elk empfangen hat, einen uralten Pfad weisen, der in die Bilderwelt des amerikanischen Westens eingewoben ist. Beim Studium von Black Elks...

During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover," Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against Americans, spied deep into enemy territory, and was influential in convincing the tribes to fight for the British.

The Americans declared Girty an outlaw. In U.S. history books he is a...