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Indigenous War Painting of the Plains Volume 283
An Illustrated History
Inbunden, 2024
699 kr
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art—narrating war exploits in large-scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. Essentially autobiographical, the paintings were worn and lived …
Crazy Horse
A Lakota Life
Häftad, 2008
287 kr
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Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend.Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, …
Between the Floods
A History of the Arikaras
Inbunden, 2023
531 kr
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The creation story of the SahniŠ, or Arikara, people begins with a terrible flood, sent by the Great Chief Above to renew the world. Many generations later, another devastating flood nearly destroyed the Arikaras when the newly built Garrison Dam swamped the fertile land of the Fort Berthold …
Powhatan Indians of Virginia
Their Traditional Culture
Häftad, 1992
247 kr
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Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure …
Strike Fear in the Land
Pedro De Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520–1541
Av W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
254 kr
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The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it as an armed confrontation whose stakes were evident and whose outcomes were decisive, especially in favor of the Spaniards. A critical reappraisal is …
New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume One
The Classic Period Inscriptions
Av Martha J. Macri, Matthew G. Looper
Häftad, 2013
400 kr
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For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the …
New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume Two
Codical Texts
Av Martha J. Macri, Gabrielle Vail
Häftad, 2023
400 kr
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This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail provide a comprehensive listing of graphemes found in the Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices, 40 percent of which are unique to these painted …
Sacred Pipe
Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Häftad, 1989
232 kr
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Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the ""keeper of the sacred pipe,"" he said, ""It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and through …
Nez Perces
Tribesmen of the Columbia Plateau
Häftad, 2012
284 kr
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A sedentary fishing tribe in the plateau and mountain country of central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington, the Nez Percés were transformed by the acquisition of the horse into a tribe that hunted on the plains and assimilated much of the buffalo culture. In the mountains …
Kiowas
Häftad, 2022
254 kr
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The Kiowas were once, along with the fighting Cheyennes, the most feared and hated of the Native tribes of the Great Plains. In The Kiowas, Mildred P. Mayhall tells the story of their evolution from mountain dwellers to fierce Plains nomads, explains how they lived, and traces the development of …
Chickasaws
Häftad, 1972
254 kr
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For 350 years the Chickasaws-one of the Five Civilized Tribes-made a sustained effort to preserve their tribal institutions and independence in the face of increasing encroachments by white men. This is the first book-length account of their valiant-but doomed-struggle.Against an ethnohistorical …
Last War Trail
The Utes and the Settlement of Colorado
Häftad, 1972
254 kr
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The stage was set for trouble in spring 1878 when new agent Nathan C. Meeker arrived at the White River Indian Agency on the Ute Reservation. The Utes had seen agents come and go without bringing any great change, but Meeker intended to convert them to Christianity and a farming lifestyle. His …
Shoshonis
Sentinels of the Rockies
Av Virginia Cole Trenholm, Maurine Carley
Häftad, 1973
254 kr
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The Shoshoni Indians have never, until now, found their biographer. This long-overdue volume at last brings their history into focus. Perhaps it is the nature of the Shoshonis - ""a friend, always a friend"" - which has caused them to be overlooked by historians. Washakie, their great chieftain of …
Sequoyah
Häftad, 2012
157 kr
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Sequoyah is widely celebrated as an unlettered Cherokee Indian who, entirely from the resources of his own brilliant mind, endowed his whole tribe with learning-the only man in history to conceive and perfect in its entirety an alphabet or syllabary. Soon after 1800, Sequoyah began to realize the …
Pueblo Gods and Myths
Häftad, 1973
247 kr
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Here is a thorough, and long-needed, presentation of the nature of the Pueblo gods and myths. The Pueblo Indians, which include the Hopi, Zuni, and Keres groups, and their ancestors are closely bound to the Plateau region of the United States, comprising much of the area in Utah, Colorado, …
Ritual of the Bacabs
A Book of Maya Incantations
Av Ralph L. Roys, Ralph L. Roys
Häftad, 1965
254 kr
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The Mayas believed the four gods, the Bacabs, held up the sky. The Bacabs were also invoked to heal disease. Ritual of the Bacabs: A Book of Maya Incantations is the first English translation of this Maya manuscript, dating back to colonial times. Discovered in the early twentieth century, the …
Indian Removal
The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
Häftad, 1974
242 kr
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It is unlikely that any single book or document will ever earn a more firmly-fixed position of respect and authority than this distinguished volume by Grant Foreman. Originally published in 1932, on the date of the hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Oklahoma of the first Indians as a result of …
Southern Cheyennes
Häftad, 2012
342 kr
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For almost fifty years George Bird Grinnell's great work The Fighting Cheyennes has stood unrevised and virtually unchallenged as the definitive account of the struggles of the Cheyenne Indians to preserve their way of life. Now Donald J. Berthrong has re-examined Grinnell's findings and searched …
Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
Av Angie Debo
Häftad, 1975
284 kr
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Here is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the record of a people whose forced migration from their ancestral homes in the South to what is now Oklahoma and whose subsequent efforts from the Civil War to the close of the century to …
Seminoles
Häftad, 1975
275 kr
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This is the history of a remarkable nation, the only Indian tribe that never officially made peace with the United States. General Thomas Sidney Jesup admired the Seminoles as adversaries: ""We have, at no former period in our history, had to contend with so formidable an enemy. No Seminole proves …
Kickapoos
Lords of the Middle Border
Häftad, 1975
298 kr
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The Kickapoo Indians resisted outsiders' every attempt to settle their lands--until finally they were forced to remove west of the Mississippi River to the plains of the Southwest. There they continued to wage war and acted as traders for border captives and goods. In 1873 they reluctantly settled …
Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri
Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows
Häftad, 1975
194 kr
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Edwin Thompson Denig, for more than twenty years a fur trader on the Upper Missouri and married to an Assiniboine woman, was an acute and objective observer of Indian manners and customs. He assisted Audubon and the Culbertsons in collecting Missouri River fauna, supplied information on the Indians …
Apache Frontier
Jacob Ugarte and Spanish-Indian Relations in Northern New Spain, 1769–1791
Häftad, 1968
254 kr
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When the tide of Spanish settlement in America reached the range of the Apache nation, it was abruptly halted. For two centuries marauding Apaches baffled the defending Spanish troops and exacted a fearful toll from the terrorized colonists.This book relates how Commandant General Jacobo Ugarte …
Indians of the Southwest
A Century of Development Under the United States
Häftad, 1949
254 kr
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With the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 the United States became responsible for the administration of some 125,000 Indians in addition to those already within the national boundaries. The new tribes included many peoples known only to traders and trappers who had ventured into …
Incas of Pedro Cieza De Leon
Av Pedro de Cieza de Leon, Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen
Häftad, 1977
342 kr
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More than four hundred years ago, Pedro de Cieza de León set out to conduct the readers of his time - and of subsequent generations - over the Royal Road of the Incas. His chronicles of Peru, published in 1553 and 1880, rank with Bernal Díaz del Castillo's account of the conquest of Mexico.While …
Spotted Tail's Folk
A History of the Brule Sioux
Häftad, 1976
254 kr
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Spotted Tail, the great head chief of the Brule Sioux, was an intelligent and farseeing man who realized alone of all the Sioux that the old way of life was doomed and that to war with the white soldiers was certain suicide. Although he was branded a traitor by many members of his tribe, the canny …
Indian and the Horse
Häftad, 1976
254 kr
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One truly remarkable phenomena of history is the acquisition of the horse by American Indian tribes of North America. With horses stolen from the Spanish frontier settlements (not ""strays"" found on the prairies), the Indian tribes were transformed and revitalized. Horses made Indians more mobile, …
Tanaina Tales from Alaska
Av Bill Vaudrin
Häftad, 1981
275 kr
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A young Chippewa Indian from Minnesota collected these legends and stories told by the Tanaina Indians of southwestern Alaska. Called suk-tus (""legend-stories"") and stemming from the seventeenth century, they are anecdotal narratives centered on a particular animal or animals common to the …
Naskapi
The Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula
Häftad, 1977
275 kr
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Convinced that native culture survived in its purest form in the northern portions of North America, Frank Speck devoted almost twenty years of research to the Naskapi of Canada's Labrador Peninsula during the first quarter of the twentieth century. He determined the Naskapi's lifestyles were …
Red Cloud's Folk
A History of the Oglala Sioux Indians
Häftad, 1979
284 kr
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The westward drive of the warlike Sioux Indians along a thousand miles of prairie and woodland, from the upper reaches of the Mississippi to the lower Powder River in Montana, is one of the epic migrations of history. From about 1660 to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the Teton Sioux …
