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100 Native Americans: Who Shaped American History
ISBN: 9780912517513 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book readers will be fascinated to learn about a wide variety of men and women who have made significant impacts upon the history of the United States.
Native Americans from various regions -- spanning time from early European discovery to present day -- are featured. Chronologically organized, the book begins with Dekanawida, the founder of the legendary Iroquois Confederacy. A diverse selection of other Native Americans are also included, such as Pocahontas, Metacomet, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Will Rogers, Jim Thorpe, Jay Silverheels, and Dennis Banks. The book... In this book readers will be fascinated to learn about a wide variety of men and women who have made significant impacts upon the history of the Unite...
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34,65 zł |
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Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas
ISBN: 9780917298509 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A brilliant military strategist, Red Cloud honed his skills against his tribe's traditional enemies -- the Pawnees, Shoshones, Arikaras, and Crows -- long before he fought to close the Bozeman Trail. Here, for the first time in print, is Red Cloud's "as-told-to" autobiography, where he shares the story of his early years. This manuscript -- which has rested ignored for decades at the Nebraska State Historical Society -- brings us closer than the historical record has yet allowed to understanding the life of one of the Sioux's greatest war leaders.
A brilliant military strategist, Red Cloud honed his skills against his tribe's traditional enemies -- the Pawnees, Shoshones, Arikaras, and Crows -- ...
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69,16 zł |
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Raising Ourselves
ISBN: 9780972494472 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children, Velma Wallis comes of age in a two-room log cabin in remote Fort Yukon, Alaska, a location accessible only by riverboat, airplane, snowmobile, or dog sled. Life is defined by the business of living off the land. Chopping wood. Hauling water from the river. Hunting moose. Catching salmon. Trapping fur. Taking care of the dogs. For a thousand years, the Gwich'in clan had followed migratory animals across the north. But two generations before, the people had settled where the Porcupine River flows into the Yukon. Now, the Wallis family has a post... Born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children, Velma Wallis comes of age in a two-room log cabin in remote Fort Yukon, Alaska, a location accessible... |
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73,50 zł |
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The Shaman Windwalker
ISBN: 9781403363411 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By using different kinds of materials and links between various disciplines and subject areas, this book aims to both explain certain features of Italian historical development and provoke further discussion. Designed as a teaching text around broad thematic chapters - the nation, the state, economy and society, politics - it introduces the reader to historical debates, themes, controversies and arguments. Boxes at the end of each chapter provide useful further information for students.
By using different kinds of materials and links between various disciplines and subject areas, this book aims to both explain certain features of Ital...
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64,50 zł |
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Yazoo Mingo: The Journeys of Moncacht-Ape Across North America 1687-1700
ISBN: 9781403372192 / Angielski / Twarda / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 100 years before the Lewis and Clark expidition a Yazoo Indian made the same transcontinental journey. Starting from Mississippi Moncacht-Ap travelled as far as southeast Alaska. Maps based on his journey paved the way for the later Corps of Discovery. This book tells the world of the Yazoo Mingo's saga.
100 years before the Lewis and Clark expidition a Yazoo Indian made the same transcontinental journey. Starting from Mississippi Moncacht-Ap travelled...
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206,16 zł |
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The Sign of The Prophet: A Tale of Tecumseh and Tippecanoe
ISBN: 9781410101181 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Shawnee leader Tecumseh, who has been hailed by many as the greatest Indian leader of all time, .came closer than any other before or after him to saving his people from total destruction by the whites on the eastern frontier in the early 19th century. If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered - the shadowy figure who created a loose confederacy of diverse Indian tribes that extended from the Ohio territory northeast to New York, south into the Florida peninsula, westward to Nebraska, and north into Canada. A warrior as well as a diplomat, the great Shawnee...
The Shawnee leader Tecumseh, who has been hailed by many as the greatest Indian leader of all time, .came closer than any other before or after him to...
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87,37 zł |
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The Life of Tecumseh and His Brother The Prophet
ISBN: 9781410203083 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,95 zł |
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Of Human Soil
ISBN: 9781420860177 / Angielski / Miękka / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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144,24 zł |
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The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
ISBN: 9781555916329 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people.
The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generati...
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86,51 zł |
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Voyages and Travels: Of an Indian Interpreter and Trader
ISBN: 9781557099198 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally publsihed in 1791 in England, this personal account of an Indian interpreter and trader describes the manners and customs of the North American Indians, with an account of the posts situated on the St. Laurence River, Lake Ontario, etc. The book also includes a vocabulary of the Chippewa language, along with word lists in Iroquois, Mohegan, Shawanee, and Esquimo and a table showing a comparison of the Algonquin and Chippewa languages.
Originally publsihed in 1791 in England, this personal account of an Indian interpreter and trader describes the manners and customs of the North Amer...
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113,61 zł |
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McGillivray of the Creeks
ISBN: 9781570036927 / Angielski / Miękka / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1939, McGillivray of the Creeks is a unique mix of primary and secondary sources for the study of American Indian history in the Southeast. The historian John Walton Caughey's brief but definitive biography of Creek leader Alexander McGillivray (1750-1793) is coupled with 214 letters between McGillivray and Spanish and American political officials. The volume offers distinctive firsthand insights into Creek and Euroamerican diplomacy in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi in the aftermath of the American Revolution as well as a glimpse into how historians have viewed the...
First published in 1939, McGillivray of the Creeks is a unique mix of primary and secondary sources for the study of American Indian history in the So...
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144,13 zł |
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North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wild
ISBN: 9781582182131 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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152,72 zł |
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The Life of Mary Jemison: The White Woman of the Genesee
ISBN: 9781582182339 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female. Embedded with the sentiments and lifestyle of the Seneca's she essentially transformed into a member of the tribe. Mary Jemison's story is a remarkable one not because of her extraordinary lifestyle, but because this was the lifestyle that, in the end, she chose for herself. When prisoners were being set free from the bondage of the Indians after the French and Indian War, Mrs. Jemison chose to remain with her Indian friends and accept her...
Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female. ...
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86,51 zł |
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The Life of Mary Jemison: Deh-He-Wa-MIS the White Woman of the Genesee
ISBN: 9781582182346 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female. Embedded with the sentiments and lifestyle of the Seneca's she essentially transformed into a member of the tribe. Mary Jemison's story is a remarkable one not because of her extraordinary lifestyle, but because this was the lifestyle that, in the end, she chose for herself. When prisoners were being set free from the bondage of the Indians after the French and Indian War, Mrs. Jemison chose to remain with her Indian friends and accept her...
Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female. ...
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129,87 zł |
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The History of King Philip
ISBN: 9781582183152 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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190,96 zł |
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Yellowsnake, Son of Prophecy
ISBN: 9781587213403 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,66 zł |
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Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend
ISBN: 9781597140539 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural Writing. American History. Native American Studies. It's a little known fact that the San Francisco Bay Area's Marin County is named after a Coast Miwok chief who achieved notoriety for defying Spanish authority over his people. Anthropologist and archaeologist Betty Goerke has pieced together a portrait of the life of this Native American leader, using mission records, ethnographies, explorers' and missionaries' diaries and correspondence, and other material. Chief Marin became a leader of Native resistance to Spanish colonization at that critical time when, as the mission system...
Cultural Writing. American History. Native American Studies. It's a little known fact that the San Francisco Bay Area's Marin County is named after a ...
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130,10 zł |
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Satanta: The Life and Death of a War Chief
ISBN: 9781880510568 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1867 the New York Times wrote that "in cunning or native diplomacy Satanta has no equal in boldness, daring and merciless cruelty." Even in 1867, however, the Times was able to admit that there are "good points in this dusky chieftain which command admiration." Here at last is a brilliantly researched and written biography of the Kiowa chief who terrorized the western frontier but who fascinated the eastern press. The war leader of the Warren wagon train massacre was also the orator and diplomat who did much to publicize to the eastern establishment the 19th-century tragedies being...
In 1867 the New York Times wrote that "in cunning or native diplomacy Satanta has no equal in boldness, daring and merciless cruelty." Even in 1867, h...
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121,20 zł |
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Native Heart
ISBN: 9781931044554 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most lives are lived solely in the present. But some lives are also lived with a spiritual and historical connection to the past. These lives grant us a sense of hope for the future.
NATIVE HEART is the story of Gabriel Horn and his attempt to live a modern mans life thats true to the indigenous spirit of this land we call America. As a teacher in the American Indian Movement Survival Schools, and as a writer, activist, husband, and father, Horn presents a challenging and haunting perspective on our "new world" culture and values. Whether its revealing a genocide Western historians choose to... Most lives are lived solely in the present. But some lives are also lived with a spiritual and historical connection to the past. These lives grant us...
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92,23 zł |
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
ISBN: 9780786868636 / Angielski / Twarda / 431 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman--who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband--conquered the seemingly unconquerable... From the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhab...
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130,10 zł |
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