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14 produkter
Studying Native America
Problems and Prospects
Av Russell Thornton, Russell Thornton
Häftad, 1999
294 kr
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Scholars from a variety of fields have contributed to this volume to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future.
We Shall Live Again
The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization
Av Russell Thornton, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 2006
461 kr
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This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Emphasizing the demographic situation of American Indians prior to the movements, Professor Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were …
We Shall Live Again
The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization
Av Russell Thornton, Ernest Q. Campbell
Inbunden, 1986
888 kr
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This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Emphasizing the demographic situation of American Indians prior to the movements, Professor Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were …
Year the Stars Fell
Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian
Av Candace S. Greene, Russell Thornton
Inbunden, 2007
525 kr
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Winter counts—pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past—marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include "the year the stars fell," the spectacular Leonid meteor …
Cherokees
A Population History
Häftad, 1992
210 kr
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The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the present. Thornton shows the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the …
American Indian Holocaust and Survival
A Population History Since 1492
Häftad, 1990
242 kr
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This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America and prospered in the ""New World,"" the …
Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain
E-bok, 2015
259 kr
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Russell Thornton''s latest collection of poems, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain , explores powerful, primary human relationships through images of two worlds: the natural and the urban industrial. Simple grass is the iron of an invisible forging within nature that involves the human creative …
Broken Face
Häftad, 2019
122 kr
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The poems in The Broken Face explore a sacramental, imaginative vision within contexts of crime, perception, memory and love. In this collection, Russell Thornton returns to the vital themes of intimacy and family, loss, fear and hope, bringing to each poem the essential quality of a myth or …
Answer to Blue
Häftad, 2022
156 kr
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A masterful new collection by award-winning poet Russell Thornton. In “Greek Fire,” one of the poems in Russell Thornton’s astonishing new collection, the central image is of fire burning through water: “water is a bridge / for a fire to come into the world.” This image also illuminates the driving …
