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American Indians
ISBN: 9780893567576 / Angielski / Twarda / 3 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines American Indian history and culture from ancient times through the formation of the US and Canada and into modern society. Topics covered include: personages; tribes; art and architecture; organizations; historical events; cultural traditions; and ceremonial customs.
This work examines American Indian history and culture from ancient times through the formation of the US and Canada and into modern society. Topics c...
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Tales from Wide Ruins : Jean and Bill Cousins, Traders
ISBN: 9780896723689 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mary Tate Engels's account of the lives of the Cousins is a valuable addition to the literature of Western Americana and an astute insight into the rich and complex Navajo culture." Tony HillermanOnly a few crumbling structures remain of the once thriving community of families who lived at the Wide Ruins Trading Post. Only the stories of Bill and Jean Cousins, their photos and letters, remain to validate the history of a corner of the Navajo Indian Reservation in the early twentieth century.And theirs is a unique history. The couple spent a lifetime in the Indian trading business at Cousins...
Mary Tate Engels's account of the lives of the Cousins is a valuable addition to the literature of Western Americana and an astute insight into the ri...
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Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee
ISBN: 9780896726017 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reinhardt furnishes revealing portraits of Gerald One Feather, Dick Wilson, Russell Means; he offers a telling indictment of Pine Ridge s economy. He is one of the few historians who understands the distinction D Arcy McNickle made decades ago between loss and defeat. He and the late Vine Deloria, Jr. would have welcomed this volume because of its thorough research and, above all, its unflinching honesty. Writing in 1970 Deloria called for historians to bring historical consciousness to the whole Indian story. Ruling Pine Ridge achieves that goal. It will be required reading for all who care...
Reinhardt furnishes revealing portraits of Gerald One Feather, Dick Wilson, Russell Means; he offers a telling indictment of Pine Ridge s economy. He ...
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The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material from Other Western Tribes
ISBN: 9780898754223 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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159,64 |
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The Dawes Commission: And the Allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893-1914
ISBN: 9780916489854 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Important New Resource for Native American Research from Ancestry.com of special interest to researchers of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek or Seminole Indian Nations. ""Well researched . . . all encompassing . . . The historian, the academician, the sociologist, and the genealogist--all will find it a vital work. Curt B. Witcher, MLS, FUGA, Manager, Historical Genealogy Dept. Allen Co. Public Library Discover how the U.S. Congress tried to end self-government for five major American Indian tribes and assimilate them into the dominant culture. Regarded by some as a human tragedy, the...
Important New Resource for Native American Research from Ancestry.com of special interest to researchers of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek or...
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121,44 |
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The Mystic Symbol: Mark of the Michigan Mound Builders
ISBN: 9780970398543 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An expanded edition of the original classic, long out-of-print, The Mystic Symbol describes thousands of Christian, inscribed tablets, unearthed across Michigan. The Michigan Mound Builders left behind 10,000 to 30,000 artifacts as a testament to their presence in North America. Mound burials have yielded evidence of a culture with Eastern Hemisphere influence in their spiritual and everyday life. Controversy has engulfed this find of artifacts mainly because they were here before Columbus of 1492 which is unacceptable to our academics today. Nevertheless, the Michigan artifacts continue to...
An expanded edition of the original classic, long out-of-print, The Mystic Symbol describes thousands of Christian, inscribed tablets, unearthed acros...
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83,43 |
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Lore of the River...the Shoals of Long Ago
ISBN: 9780971994621 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information can be found on the pages of this newly revised and expanded book about the first white settlers in this area. Rare and hard to find facts such as lists of names of men who with government land grants settled their families in Lauderdale County and where. Filled with old pictures and photographs of paintings done by Dorothy Carter McDonald, the author's wife, this book is sure to please, inform and add to you knowledge base. Lore of the River The Shoals of Long Ago is a great addition to a history/genealogy collection or a fabulous start "
Information can be found on the pages of this newly revised and expanded book about the first white settlers in this area. Rare and hard to find facts...
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A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Voices from Past and Present
ISBN: 9780972134934 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Very few books on the history and culture of the southern New England Native peoples have been written by the Natives themselves. Standard academic books read like a clinical autopsy of a dead culture from many years ago. Contrary to this, A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England provides an understanding of the ways, customs, and language of the southern New England American Indians from the Native's perspective. For the first time, a book written about the Native American peoples of southern New England is written by the Natives themselves. Incorporating voices of...
Very few books on the history and culture of the southern New England Native peoples have been written by the Natives themselves. Standard academic bo...
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Haskell Institute: 19th Century Stories of Sacrifice and Survival
ISBN: 9780976177388 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Milk presents American Indian/Alaskan Native student stories from early days of Haskell, a federal boarding school founded in 1884. Their stories reveal the ordeals and successes of Native students as they struggle within a military, assimilationist educational environment.
Milk presents American Indian/Alaskan Native student stories from early days of Haskell, a federal boarding school founded in 1884. Their stories reve...
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76,02 |
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The Sioux in South Dakota History: A Twentieth-Century Reader
ISBN: 9780977795543 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern American Indian life. The political and social ramifications of land heirship, the damming of the Missouri River, and shifting federal politices are among the topics discussed.
Taken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern American Indian life. The political and social ramifications of land heirshi...
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87,23 |
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Comanches: The History of a People
ISBN: 9781400030491 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.
Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of arrows. They lived by a strict legal code and worshipped within a cosmology of magic. As he portrays the Comanche lifestyle,... Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches rise...
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1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
ISBN: 9781400032051 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a...In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arr... |
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The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic
ISBN: 9781400032884 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1952, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty, the unrecognized, half-Inuit son of filmmaker Robert Flaherty, director of Nanook of the North. In a narrative rich with human drama, Melanie McGrath follows three generations of the Flaherty family--Robert, Josephie, and Josephie's daughters--to bring this extraordinary tale of deception and harsh deprivation to life.
In 1952, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of...
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Within a Four-Mile Square: The History of the Onondaga Nation
ISBN: 9781401024208 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,68 |
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This Was the Place: The Darker Side of Mormon Zion: Manifest Destiny's Mad March Across Northern Ute Indian Territory and Skullduggery in
ISBN: 9781403304810 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,24 |
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A Companion to American Indian History
ISBN: 9781405121316 / Angielski / Miękka / 513 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original essays by leading scholars in the field, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring an exciting modern perspective to Native American histories that were at one time related exclusively by Euro-American settlers.
A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original...
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The Iroquois Trail
ISBN: 9781410201447 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS David Cusick's Preface Foundation of the Great Island Real Account of the Settlement of North America Origin of the Five Nations Notes of Cusick's Sketches General Notes of the Iroquois Indian Fashions Dreams Dream Feast Houses Names Women Iroquois Stories Okwencha Hiawatha Condolence Caches
CONTENTS David Cusick's Preface Foundation of the Great Island Real Account of the Settlement of North America Origin of the Five Nations Notes of Cus...
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68,07 |
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Dahcotah: Life and Legends of the Sioux
ISBN: 9781410202987 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Incas of Peru
ISBN: 9781410215598 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important contribution by an expert and scholar on the Incas, the author was influenced by Prescott's Conquest of Peru, published in 1843. Sir Clements Markham describes his visit to Prescott in the preface, some 60 years later, providing interesting insights.
An important contribution by an expert and scholar on the Incas, the author was influenced by Prescott's Conquest of Peru, published in 1843. Sir Clem...
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Economics of the Iroquois
ISBN: 9781410220158 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS Introduction. Sketch of the Economic Systems of the North American Indians. Economic Antecedents of Iroquois Culture The Environment of the Iroquois The Productive Activities of the Iroquois The Organization of Producers The Wealth of the Iroquois The Distribution of Wealth Exchange Sociological Consequences The Family State and Government Religion Morals General Culture
CONTENTS Introduction. Sketch of the Economic Systems of the North American Indians. Economic Antecedents of Iroquois Culture The Environment of the I...
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