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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day
By Vine Deloria. 1977
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
By Clyde Robert Bulla. 1982
The Trail of Tears (Cornerstones of Freedom, 2nd Series)
By Deborah Kent. 2005
Geronimo (Cornerstones of Freedom)
By Zachary Kent. 1989
Indian Americans of Massachusetts (American Heritage)
By Meenal Atul Pandya. 2018
Indians are the most recent immigrants in Massachusetts Though a tiny minority their contributions are numerous and far-reaching…
Swami Vivekananda arrived in Boston in 1893 and left a lasting legacy of Hindu philosophy Sushil Tuli opened a unique community bank Leader Bank as the first and only minority-owned bank in the state of Massachusetts The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT created with the grant of 20 million by Desh and Jaishree Deshpande empowers MIT s researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies Author Meenal Atul Pandya details the influence of Indians on Massachusetts historyA Call to Virginity?
By Fr. Thomas Dubay. 1977
American Indian Design and Decoration
By Le Roy Appleton. 1971
The most original and most powerful design art produced in the Western Hemisphere is also its most indigenous: that of…
the Indian, in innumerable cultures existing from prehistory to the arrival of the white man, reaching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. It owes, of course, nothing to Europe or the classical Orient. It is tremendous in variety, differing region by region, era by era, often tribe by tribe. It is always vigorously distinctive. This book, 20 years in preparation, shows us that art in all its profuse diversity and in the almost numberless crafts for which the American Indian is famous. Well over 700 examples, drawn with painstaking care, are shown: representations of flora and fauna, men and gods, earth and sky; symbols of clan and tribe, religion and magic; formal designs from the primal to the highly intricate. They appear in examples of basketry, weaving, pottery, sculpture, painting, lapidary work, masks, drumheads, weapons, apparel, beadwork, goldwork, blankets, ponchos, and many other forms. The arts and crafts of Inca, Tiahuanaco, Chimú, Maya, Axtec, Zapotec, Totonac, Mixtec, Navaho, Zuni, Hopi, Apache, Cherokee, Creek, Winnebago, Dakota, Blackfoot, Nez Percé, Cheyenne, Crow, Sioux, Cochiti, Haida, Bellacoola, and others known and unknown are here. Each section is preceded by a page of typical motifs of an area, making it easy to isolate the design elements. In addition, the lore and tradition behind the designs are told in a text reproducing the Indians' own stories and songs. Separate indices simplify locating the work of particular tribes and regions. Craftspeople will find in this book a prolific source of timeless, eternally valid design ideas representing years of research in museums all over the hemisphere; for the graphic artist there is a wealth of material than can be adapted directly to his needs. All those interested in the Americans who preceded us on these continents will find this work unique.Great Speeches by Native Americans (Dover Thrift Editions Ser.)
By Bob Blaisdell. 2000
Remarkable for their eloquence and depth of feeling, these 82 speeches encompass 5 centuries of Indian encounters with nonindigenous peoples.…
Speakers include Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Seattle, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, and many lesser-known leaders, whose compelling words are graced by forceful metaphors and vivid imagery.Pueblos of New Mexico (Images of America)
By Ana Pacheco, Brian Vallo. 2018
As early as 1851, photographers journeyed along the arduous Santa Fe Trail on horseback and in covered wagons on a…
quest to capture the magnificent vistas on film. In the ever-changing light of New Mexico's landscape, they photographed the faces of the Pueblo People and helped to document their ancient, unimaginable world. They became witness to millennia of history. New Mexico's first inhabitants are believed to have descended from the Anasazi, the largely nomadic group that settled along the Colorado Plateau around 200 AD. Most likely, drought conditions brought the population centers of the Anasazi villages located in the Four Corners of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico to settle along the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico and the Mogollon Rim of Arizona in 1300 AD.God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
By Louis S. Warren. 2017
In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into…
trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute named Wovoka to the tragedy in South Dakota. To this day, the Ghost Dance remains widely mischaracterized as a primitive and failed effort by Indian militants to resist American conquest and return to traditional ways. In fact, followers of the Ghost Dance sought to thrive in modern America by working for wages, farming the land, and educating their children, tenets that helped the religion endure for decades after Wounded Knee. God's Red Son powerfully reveals how Ghost Dance teachings helped Indians retain their identity and reshape the modern world.A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
By Resendez. 2007
In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a…
hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the three hundred men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived--three Spaniards and an African slave. This tiny band endured a horrific march through Florida, a harrowing raft passage across the Louisiana coast, and years of enslavement in the American Southwest. They journeyed for almost ten years in search of the Pacific Ocean that would guide them home, and they were forever changed by their experience. The men lived with a variety of nomadic Indians and learned several indigenous languages. They saw lands, peoples, plants, and animals that no outsider had ever seen before. In this enthralling tale of four castaways wandering in an unknown land, Andrés Reséndez brings to life the vast, dynamic world of North America just a few years before European settlers would transform it forever.“Norfleet”: The Actual Experiences of a Texas Rancher’s 30,000-Mile Transcontinental Chase After Five Confidence Men
By J Norfleet, W White. 2018
Originally published in 1924 this is the true story of J Frank Norfleet a typical West Texas…
ranchman and his four-year chase after a gang of international swindlers which takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific from Mexico and Cuba into Canada A gripping and incredible chronicle of one man s dedication to break up an international crime ring True story of West Texas rancher J Frank Norfleet cousin to General Robert E Lee on his grandmother s side who was deceived and robbed by sophisticated politicians and financiers and proceeded to track them across continents from the Atlantic to the Pacific from Mexico and Cuba into Canada to bring them to justice Applauded by the U S Department of Justice Norfleet set an example in his time that rings as true today do not let yourself be abused by financial manipulators who pervert laws to rob the common man A gripping and incredible chronicle of one man s dedication to break up an international crime ringHeck Thomas, Frontier Marshal: The Story of a Real Gunfighter
By Glenn Shirley. 2018
The Old West bred some mighty tough men Unfortunately the general public knows little or nothing about the good…
ones Billy the Kid the Daltons Jesse James Sam Bass the Youngsters Wesley Hardin and many more are familiar as heroes to the children and their parents of today So even more unfortunately are many so-called lawmen who were actually nothing but hired killers far more crooked than most of the men they eliminated Heck Thomas deserves to be known in a way that most of the current TV Marshals never deserved Fighter yes and killer at times law officer of some of the toughest areas in the Southwest such as the Cherokee Strip and other outlaw-ridden parts of Oklahoma he never took a bribe was a model family man and lived to a magnificent old age still in hardness honoured as one of the last genuine heroes of the frontier by all who knew him No one outlaw or politician ever made him back down and his record of arrests and captures still stands as one of the most noteworthy of any peace officer anywhere To a public which always seeks true heroism and is proud of the iron men who built America this man Heck Thomas must stand forever as the best type of man of the West low-voiced courteous law-abiding and very very dangerous Heck Thomas made his lifework keeping the law and emerges from the shadowy past to blazing life as an authentic hero of the Old FrontierPomo Indian Myths and Some of their Sacred Meanings
By Cora Clark, Texa Williams. 2018
In this volume which was first published in 1954 some forty-odd myths collected at various Pomo settlements are…
given clearly and concisely by Cora Clark and Texa Bowen Williams It includes a separate section in which the sister authors provide a partial analysis of the myths based upon the interpretations given them by the storytellers The meanings attributed to the tales include much nature symbolism coyote in an abbreviated creation myth for example is said to represent earth Frog Woman water Kingfisher air and the Lizard fire In other tales the number four is said to represent the growth principle arrows heat rays and so on This type of symbolism has not been attributed to the Pomo in previous discussions and is thus represented here for the first time A fascinating addition to the literature on Pomo mythologyTrail Town
By Ernest Haycox. 2018
LAW AND ORDER WERE HIS GAME GUNS AND GUTS HIS WAYRiver Bend stood tough and dusty at…
the end of a thousand-mile cattle trail For the men who rode the long hard Texas cattle drives it was a rootin -tootin trail town where they could quench their thirst for whiskey women and a rousing fight But Sheriff Dan Mitchell wasn t worried about rowdy cowpokes the man with the star was as quick with his gun as he was with his fists and his wits When it came to law and order he meant business Trouble was the saloonkeepers and the so-called respectable folks who had put him in office had their own notions as to the extent of the law And they didn t expect the sheriff to be such an independent cuss Each wanted him out for his own reasons Now Mitchell kept his 44s belted around his waist and the Henry rifle in his saddleboot ready to keep the law his way or die trying MOVES STEADILY RELENTLESSLY FORWARD WITH GRIM POWER THE NEW YORK TIMESThe Wild Bunch
By Ernest Haycox. 2018
BLOOD JUSTICEFrank Goodnight set out to track down Theo McSween the man who had run off with his…
pretty sister and left her high and dry He had been on McSween s trail for weeks when he rode into Sherman City Wyoming a tough town at the base of the Owlhom hills on a hunch the varmint was hidin up there with the Wild Bunch a gang of outlaws Who been preying on prideful ranchers While Goodnight sampled the rotgut at the local saloon the Wild Bunch rode into town with their Colts ablazin and suddenly he was a stranger caught plumb in the middle of a range war But he survived dodging the hot lead and even gettin a good look at his man ridin with that bunch of gun toughs All he could think of now was putting McSween six feet under but that would have to wait a spell He wanted the chance to meet that scummy nightrider alone and man to man and make him sweat bloodThe Shawnees and the War for America
By Colin G. Calloway. 2007
With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural…
resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees? land, while imbuing historical figures such as warrior chief Tecumseh, Daniel Boone, and Andrew Jackson with all their ambiguity and complexity. More than defending their territory, the Shawnees went to war to preserve a way of life and their own deeply held vision of what their nation should be. .A Geography of Blood
By Candace Savage. 2012
*Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little…
town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex Discovery Centre, the fossils to be found in the dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the wild inhabitants of this mysterious land-three coyotes in a ditch at night, their eyes glinting in the dark; a deer at the window; a cougar pussy-footing it through a gully a few minutes' walk from town.But as Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality-a story of cruelty and survival set in the still-recent past--and finds that she must reassess the story she grew up with as the daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of prairie homesteaders.Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and imbued with Savage's passion for this place, A Geography of Blood offers both a shocking new version of plains history and an unforgettable portrait of the windswept, shining country of the Cypress Hills.The Lakotas and the Black Hills
By Jeffrey Ostler. 2010
A concise and engrossing account of the Lakota and the battle to regain their homeland. The Lakota Indians made their…
home in the majestic Black Hills mountain range during the last millennium, drawing on the hills' endless bounty for physical and spiritual sustenance. Yet the arrival of white settlers brought the Lakotas into inexorable conflict with the changing world, at a time when their tribe would produce some of the most famous Native Americans in history, including Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse. Jeffrey Ostler's powerful history of the Lakotas' struggle captures the heart of a people whose deep relationship with their homeland would compel them to fight for it against overwhelming odds, on battlefields as varied as the Little Bighorn and the chambers of U. S. Supreme Court. .