Kategoria BISAC: History >> Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

David Ogden was born into an unusually tumultuous time in America--the colonials were struggling to throw off the yoke of British rule while also battling the Iroquois tribes for control of their ancestral lands. The bibliography of anyone who survived a life in the late 1700s frontier days of New York would be a great tale, but David Ogden's story stands alone, even within historical context of his times.

"Captive The Story of David Ogden and the Iroquois" is a compelling true adventure story of one young colonial soldier's bravery, choosing a daunting 126-mile race to freedom fraught...

By the mid-nineteenth century, Captain John Smith, the early colonial explorer and settler, was a well-known figure in American history. The story of how, in 1607, the Powhatan princess Pocahontas saved him from execution by her tribe appeared in all the standard American histories. Numerous plays, novels, and poems were devoted to the episode. Starting in the 1860s, however, scholars began to question Smith's published accounts of the Pocahontas incident, and a controversy ensued, with Henry Adams becoming Smith's most famous detractor. Today many scholars continue to regard Smith as a...

Kenny recounts how rapacious frontier settlers, most of them of Ulster extraction, began to encroach on Indian land as squatters, while William Penn's sons cast off their father's Quaker heritage and turned instead to fraud, intimidation, and eventually...

Endeavoring to replace stereotypical images with a more accurate understanding of Native Americans, "Culture and Customs of the Choctaw Indians" explores the traditional lives of the Choctaw people, their history and oppression by the dominant society, and their struggles to maintain a unique identity in the face of overwhelming pressures to assimilate.

The book begins with a historical overview of traditional Choctaw life, belief systems, social customs, and traditions. Moving to contemporary Choctaw communities, it looks at the modern-day Choctaw and the important issues they face....

This book discussed the causes of suicide and provides recommendations on how to reduce suicide. It provides suicide solutions that have eluded health and public policy experts for decades. It is a practical book that provides practical solutions to convoluted public problem of suicide. It is a good book for public policy experts, public sector administrators, scholars of management studies, politicians who want to create and add values, sociologists, law enforcement officials, health officials, public policy advocates, and various other decision makers. It is also a good book for social...

This book discussed the causes of suicide and provides recommendations on how to reduce suicide. It provides suicide solutions that have eluded health and public policy experts for decades. It is a practical book that provides practical solutions to convoluted public problem of suicide. It is a good book for public policy experts, public sector administrators, scholars of management studies, politicians who want to create and add values, sociologists, law enforcement officials, health officials, public policy advocates, and various other decision makers. It is also a good book for social...

Ralph Rossum explores the origins, arguments, and impact of California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, the 1987 Supreme Court decision that reasserted the unique federally supported sovereignty of...