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Author: James Herbert CRANSTONPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Étienne Brûlé: Immortal Scoundrel. [A Biography. With Illustrations.].
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Author: James Herbert CRANSTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Étienne Brûlé, Immortal Scoundrel
Author: James Herbert CranstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Etienne Brule
Author: Gail DouglasPublisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781551539614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Tales of his spectacular adventures, outrageous behaviour as a scout and spy for Samuel de Champlain.
The Misunderstood Mission of Jean Nicolet
Author: Patrick J. JungPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870208802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
For years, schoolchildren heard the story of Jean Nicolet’s arrival in Wisconsin. But the popularized image of the hapless explorer landing with billowing robe and guns blazing, supposedly believing himself to have found a passage to China, is based on scant evidence—a false narrative perpetuated by fanciful artists’ renditions and repetition. In more recent decades, historians have pieced together a story that is not only more likely but more complicated and interesting. Patrick Jung synthesizes the research about Nicolet and his superior Samuel de Champlain, whose diplomatic goals in the region are crucial to understanding this much misunderstood journey across the Great Lakes. Additionally, historical details about Franco-Indian relations and the search for the Northwest Passage provide a framework for understanding Nicolet’s famed mission.
Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath
Author: Barbara Alice MannPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199997209
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath. This binary system was built on the belief that neither half of the cosmos can exist without its twin. Both halves are, therefore, necessary and good. Western anthropologists typically shorthand the Twinned Cosmos as "Sky and Earth" but this erroneously saddles it with Christian baggage and, worse, imposes a hierarchy that puts sky quite literally above earth. None of this Western ideology legitimately applies to traditional Indigenous American thought, which is about equal cooperation and the continual recreation of reality. Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath examines traditional historical concepts of spirituality among North American Indians both at and, to the extent it can be determined, before contact. In doing so, Barbara Alice Mann rescues the authentically indigenous ideas from Western, and especially missionary, interpretations. In addition to early European source material, she uses Indian oral traditions, traced as much as possible to their earliest versions and sources, and Indian records, including pictographs, petroglyphs, bark books, and wampum. Moreover, Mann respects each Indigenous culture as a discrete unit, rather than generalizing them as is often done in Western anthropology. To this end, she collates material in accordance with actual historical, linguistic, and traditional linkages among the groups at hand, with traditions clearly identified by group and, where recorded, by speaker. In this way she provides specialists and non-specialists alike a window into the purportedly lost, and often caricatured, world of Indigenous American thought.
The Beaver Men
Author: Mari SandozPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803258846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A history of the beaver trade in the Great Plains region ranges from its beginnings along the Saint Lawrence River to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers in 1834
Champlain
Author: Mary Beacock FryerPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459700783
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Samuel de Champlain has long been known as the founder of Quebec and as a tireless explorer. No one knows for sure where he was born or who he really was. Still, his career was packed with interesting details and his early life prepared him for greatness. Without Champlains own detailed records, the years 1600 to 1640 in Canada would be almost a mystery. Possibly Canadas first multicultural advocate, he dreamed of creating a new people from French and Aboriginal roots. However, his efforts to establish a colony encountered setbacks in France. Among his detractors was the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. Champlain was not of the nobility and thus was considered unfit for patronage. The explorers story is an exciting one, as he explored new territory, established alliances and understandings with Natives, waged war when necessary, and left behind a legend in the New World that lasts to this day.
The Cinema of Québec
Author: Janis L. PallisterPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838635629
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Quebecois cinema, too long neglected and too long unknown by American viewers, and often not appreciated on its own terrain, receives its well-deserved defense in Janis L. Pallister's The Cinema of Quebec: Masters in Their Own House.
Crow Never Dies
Author: Larry FrolickPublisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 1772120855
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"You should always go moose hunting with a partner." -James Itsi For over 50,000 years, the Great Hunt shaped human existence, creating a vital spiritual reality where people, animals, and the land shared intimate bonds. This compelling first-hand account by Larry Frolick takes the reader deep into one of the last refuges of hunting society: Canada's far north. The author travelled five years with First Nations Elders in remote communities across the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut, experiencing the raw power of their ancient traditions. His vivid narrative combines accounts of daily life, unpublished archival records, current scientific research, First Nations myths, and personal observation to illuminate the northern wilderness, its people, and their complex relationships. Readers of ecological travel narratives and Arctic adventures will enjoy Crow Never Dies.
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