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9 produkter
Great Confusion in Indian Affairs
Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era
Av Tom Holm
Häftad, 2005
275 kr
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The United States government thought it could make Indians "vanish." After the Indian Wars ended in the 1880s, the government gave allotments of land to individual Native Americans in order to turn them into farmers and sent their children to boarding schools for indoctrination into the English …
Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls
Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War
Av Tom Holm
Häftad, 1996
283 kr
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At least 43,000 Native Americans fought in the Vietnam War, yet both the American public and the United States government have been slow to acknowledge their presence and sacrifices in that conflict. In this first-of-its-kind study, Tom Holm draws on extensive interviews with Native American …
Darkening Land
Poems
Av Tom Holm
Häftad, 2027
236 kr
Kommande
In Cherokee oral culture, seven warriors travel westward to the realm of the dead, a place called the Darkening Land, to retrieve the Sun's Daughter. For a Cherokee warrior like Marine Tom Holm, Vietnam was in the west like the Darkening Land. When the warriors of myth returned with the Sun's …
Osage Rose
Av Tom Holm
Häftad, 2008
251 kr
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Corrupt lawmen, insatiable businessmen, and an oil boom on Indian land. This is the milieu in which Tom Holm sets his gritty and provocative detective novel. Life is looking easy for J. D. Daugherty, a crusty ex-cop who has set up his own PI firm in Tulsa, Oklahoma, just after World War I. J. D. …
Anadarko
A Kiowa Country Mystery
Av Tom Holm
Häftad, 2015
236 kr
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Anadarko, a small bootlegger town in Oklahoma's Kiowa Country, shakes off its sleepy veneer when J.D. Daugherty, an Irish ex-cop turned private eye, and Hoolie Smith, a Cherokee war veteran, show up to investigate the mysterious disappearance of oilman and geologist Frank Shotz.J.D. and Hoolie find …
Native Apparitions
Hollywood's Indians Through an American Indian Studies Lens
Av Steve Pavlik, Tom Holm m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
413 kr
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In Cherokee, the term for motion picture is "a-da-yv-la-ti" or "a-da-yu-la-ti," meaning "something that appears." In essence, motion pictures are machine-produced apparitions. While the Cherokee language recognizes that movies are not reality, Western audiences may on some level assume that film …
Panther Creek
A Pawnee Country Mystery
Av Tom Holm
Häftad, 2024
234 kr
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J. D. Daugherty and Hoolie Smith return in this riveting 1928 mystery. A sadist is preying on young women, especially Native American girls. He murders them and dumps their bodies by two creeks—one near Pawnee and one near Claremore—both named Panther Creek.Hoolie, his family, and his friend John …
Ira Hayes
The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism
Av Tom Holm
Inbunden, 2023
283 kr
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The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA HAYES tells the story of Ira Hamilton Hayes from the perspective of a Native American combat veteran of the Vietnam generation. Hayes, …
Code Talkers and Warriors
Av Tom Holm
Inbunden, 2007
367 kr
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Code Talkers and Warriors, part of the insightful new ""Landmark Events in Native American History"" set, chronicles Native American life during World War II. This impeccably researched and illustrated volume covers issues such as draft resistance on the basis of religion and sovereignty; the …
