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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Description
The story of the American Indians has, until now, been told as a 500-year tragedy, a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases, followed by steady retreat, defeat, and diminishment. Yet the true story begins much earlier, and its final recent chapter adds a major twist. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a longtime student of Indian history and culture, tells a radically new story, thanks...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
"Artist Theodore Morris's rendering of Florida's early peoples reflects his passion to create a pictorial record of the state's vanished heritage and of the tribes who have been forgotten through the centuries. The 58 detailed paintings in this book are based on historical evidence and the artist's own research, conducted side-by-side with archaeologists and anthropologists at excavation sites throughout the state. Morris re-creates the lives of these...
86) Wandering stars
Author
Description
"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where...
89) Woman Chief
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1979
Description
Raised as a slave by the Crow tribe who took her captive, an Alsina Indian girl achieves an unheard-of role as a hunter, warrior, and tribal leader.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Young Wrass, still being held captive, along with several other children, in Gannajero's camp, organizes the children for an assault on Gannajero's warriors. Meanwhile Koracoo and Gonda are coming for the children and they have allies: a battle-weary Mohawk war chief and a Healer from the People of the Dawnland.
100) Indian costumes
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1968
Description
Describes everyday, wartime, and ceremonial dress characteristic of the tribal groups of North America: Apache, Blackfoot, Crow, Iroquois, Navaho, Northwest Coast Indians, Ojibwa, Pueblo, Seminole, Sioux, and Indians of today.
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