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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat
ISBN: 9780060730604 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. In striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn Allen, the acknowledged founder of Native American literary studies, draws on sources often overlooked by Western historians and offers remarkable new insights into the adventurous life and sacred role of this foremost American heroine. Gunn Allen reveals why so many have revered Pocahontas as the female counterpart to the father of our nation, George Washington. In striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Ind... |
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72,58 zł |
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Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men
ISBN: 9780060926823 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. From the co-author of Lakota Woman, which has sold more than 150,000 paperback copies, comes a compelling account detailing the unique experiences and spiritual knowledge accumulated by four generations of powerful medicine men.
From the co-author of Lakota Woman, which has sold more than 150,000 paperback copies, comes a compelling account detailing the unique experi...
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68,10 zł |
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Crazy Horse: A Life
ISBN: 9780143034803 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn. With his uncanny gift for understanding the human psyche, Larry McMurtry animates the character of this remarkable figure, whose betrayal by white representatives of the U.S. government was a tragic turning point in the history of the West. A mythic figure puzzled over by generations of...
Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography...
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72,62 zł |
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Sifters: Native American Women's Lives
ISBN: 9780195130805 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 24 dni roboczych. In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries. Each one recounts the experiences of women from vastly different cultural traditions--the hunting and gathering of Kumeyaay culture of Delfina Cuero, the pueblo society of San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, and the powerful...
In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographica...
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977,99 zł |
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Sifters: Native American Women's Lives
ISBN: 9780195130812 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 24 dni roboczych. In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries. Each one recounts the experiences of women from vastly different cultural traditions--the hunting and gathering of Kumeyaay culture of Delfina Cuero, the pueblo society of San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, and the powerful...
In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographica...
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320,15 zł |
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The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal Over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune
ISBN: 9780195182989 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 24 dni roboczych. The first biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. This book explores how control of his fortune was violently contested by his guardian, the state of Oklahoma, the Baptist Church, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and an adventuress who kidnapped and married him. Coming into national prominence as a case of Bureau of Indian Affairs mismanagement of Indian property, the litigation over Barnett's wealth lasted two decades and stimulated Congress to make long-overdue reforms in its policies towards Indians. Highlighting the paradoxical role played...
The first biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. This book explores how control of his fortune was...
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238,74 zł |
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Black Hawk
ISBN: 9780252723254 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheeked old Sauk warrior who lived under four flags while the Mississippi Valley was being wrested from his people.The author is Black Hawk himself - once pursued by an army whose members included Captain Abraham Lincoln and Lieutenant Jefferson Davis. Perhaps no Indian ever saw so much of American expansion or fought harder to prevent that expansion from driving his people to exile and death.He knew Zebulon Pike, William Clark, Henry Schoolcraft, George Catlin, Winfield Scott, and such figures in... This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheeked old Sauk warrior who lived under four flags w... |
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76,87 zł |
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Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent--Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man
ISBN: 9780306814105 / Angielski / Miękka / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. This is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent-a "halfbreed" born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife-whose lifetime spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our nation's history. Raised as a Cheyenne but educated in white schools, George Bent fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, became a Cheyenne warrior and survived the horrific 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, rode and killed for revenge with the ferocious Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, and later became a prominent interpreter and negotiator for whites and adviser to tribal leaders. He hobnobbed with frontier...
This is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent-a "halfbreed" born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife-whose lifetime sp...
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112,83 zł |
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Standing Bear Is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice
ISBN: 9780306814419 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 24 dni roboczych. In a federal courtroom in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1879, Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court demanding the same basic right that white Americans enjoyed-the right to be recognized legally as a human being. The compelling, behind-the-scenes story of that landmark court case, and the subsequent reverberations of the judge's ruling across nineteenth-century America is told in Stephen Dando-Collin's "brisk and evocative account" (Kirkus). It is a story of memorable Old West characters who joined to fight for Standing Bear and paved his way to the...
In a federal courtroom in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1879, Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court demanding the same b...
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81,52 zł |
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Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
ISBN: 9780312147617 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. Russell Means is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life so far, in which he has done everything possible to dramatize and justify the Native American aim of self-determination, such as storming Mount Rushmore, seizing Plymouth Rock, running for President in 1988, and--most notoriously--leading a 71-day takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973. This visionary autobiography by one of our most magnetic personalities will fascinate, educate, and inspire. As Dee Brown has written, "A reading...
Russell Means is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his ...
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112,83 zł |
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Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
ISBN: 9780312206628 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle, and her book becomes a quest to reclaim and preserve the great Native American values that form the foundation of our nation. Now featuring a new Afterword to the 2000 paperback reissue, this edition of Mankiller completely updates the author's... In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom,... |
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90,47 zł |
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Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
ISBN: 9780312263805 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. He has affirmed his innocence ever since--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain... Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. In 1977, Le... |
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81,52 zł |
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Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots
ISBN: 9780380795536 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died. In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her... In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that ... |
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68,10 zł |
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Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last "wild" Indian
ISBN: 9780393326987 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 24 dni roboczych. After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins and hunting with bow and arrow. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist Alfred Kroeber declared him the world's most "uncivilized" man and made Ishi a living exhibit in his museum. Thousands came to see the displaced Indian before his death, of tuberculosis. Ishi's Brain follows Orin Starn's gripping quest for the remains of the last of the Yahi.
After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins an...
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85,82 zł |
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Geronimo: His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior
ISBN: 9780452011557 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. I am thankful that the President of the United States has given me permission to tell my story. I hope that he and those in authority under him will read my story and judge whether my people have been rightly treated. Geronimo
This book contains one of the most extraordinary and invaluable documents in the annals of Native American history the authentic testament of a remarkable war shaman who for several years held off both Mexico and the United States in fierce defense of Apache lands. During 1905 and 1906, Geronimo, the legendary Apache warrior and honorary war chief, dictated... I am thankful that the President of the United States has given me permission to tell my story. I hope that he and those in authority under him wi...
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68,15 zł |
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The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker
ISBN: 9780471160762 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. Critical acclaim for The Last Comanche Chief
""Truly distinguished. Neeley re-creates the character and achievements of this most significant of all Comanche leaders."" -- Robert M. Utley author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull ""A vivid, eyewitness account of life for settlers and Native Americans in those violent and difficult times."" -- Christian Science Monitor ""The special merits of Neeley's work include its reliance on primary sources and illuminating descriptions of interactions among Southern Plains people, Native and white."" -- Library... Critical acclaim for The Last Comanche Chief
""Truly distinguished. Neeley re-creates the character and achievements of this most significant of a... |
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90,29 zł |
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Crazy Horse: The Life Behind the Legend
ISBN: 9780471417002 / Angielski / Miękka / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-18 dni roboczych. "A treat . . . Insightful . . . Refreshing . . . A must-have . . . Not only is Sajna's work a valuable historical resource, it makes for a compelling read as well."-American History
"There has to be someone left to tell the tale." Little did the legendary war chief Crazy Horse know when he spoke these words in battle that it was his tale that people would be telling long after his death. Now, author Mike Sajna brings the renowned warrior back to life in this book about his epic struggle to save his culture and homeland amid the westward movement of white settlers.... "A treat . . . Insightful . . . Refreshing . . . A must-have . . . Not only is Sajna's work a valuable historical resource, it makes for a compelling ...
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95,62 zł |
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Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth
ISBN: 9780472069200 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. In the captivating art of the oral tradition-told in the author's own voice-Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth brings to life the childhood years of a Michigan woman of both Native American and white. Presented here with the clarity and charm of a master storyteller, the words of Keewaydinoquay contain layers of understanding, conveyed by both what is said and how it is said. The values of the worldview that she shares with us are ones that resonate on far more than just an intellectual level.
The stories span generations and cultures and shed a rare light on the living... In the captivating art of the oral tradition-told in the author's own voice-Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth brings to life the childhood ...
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103,71 zł |
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Indian Boyhood
ISBN: 9780486220376 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. Charles Eastman, or Hakadah, as his Sioux relatives and fellow tribesmen knew him, as a full-blooded Indian boy learned the reticent manners and stoical ways of patience and bravery expected of every young warrior in the 1870's and 1880's. The hunts, games, and ceremonies of his native tribe were all he knew of life until his father, who had spent time with the white man, came to find him.
Indian Boyhood is Eastman's first-hand reminiscence of the life he led until he was fifteen with the nomadic Sioux. Left motherless at birth, he tells how his grandmother saved him from relatives... Charles Eastman, or Hakadah, as his Sioux relatives and fellow tribesmen knew him, as a full-blooded Indian boy learned the reticent manners and stoic...
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50,03 zł |
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Life of Black Hawk
ISBN: 9780486281056 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12-16 dni roboczych. Westward expansion of the American frontier was not without its attendant tragedies many of which involved injustices committed against Native Americans. One such tragedy took place in the early nineteenth century, when the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by a dynamic tribal chieftain named Black Hawk (1767-1838), resisted the establishment of white settlements in Indian territory in western Illinois. The Indians were slaughtered in the resulting brief but violent conflict now known as the Black Hawk War.
In the late summer of 1833, following his release from federal prison where he had been... Westward expansion of the American frontier was not without its attendant tragedies many of which involved injustices committed against Native America...
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