Author: Siddle Joe JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Texas
Author: Siddle Joe JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Texas
Author: Siddie Joe JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Texas, often called "the state of six flags," has had a most romantic history. This book presents that story for young Americans. In simple, clear prose the author tells of all the interesting and important happenings that have gone into the development of our largest state--from the days long ago when the Tejas, the friendly Indians, roamed the great plains, to the present day when Texas-trained pilots fly the skyways of freedom. The distinguished artist, Fanita Lanier, working closely with Miss Johnson on the book, and to such good effect that her seventy-five lovely drawings bring the pagentry of Texas history to glowing life. Great names are here, great deeds too. They should be familiar not only to all Texans but also to all other Americans. --
Land of the Tejas
Author: John Wesley ArnnPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292768060
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Combining archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and environmental data, Land of the Tejas represents a sweeping, interdisciplinary look at Texas during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. Through this revolutionary approach, John Wesley Arnn reconstructs Native identity and social structures among both mobile foragers and sedentary agriculturalists. Providing a new methodology for studying such populations, Arnn describes a complex, vast, exotic region marked by sociocultural and geographical complexity, tracing numerous distinct peoples over multiple centuries. Drawing heavily on a detailed analysis of Toyah (a Late Prehistoric II material culture), as well as early European documentary records, an investigation of the regional environment, and comparisons of these data with similar regions around the world, Land of the Tejas examines a full scope of previously overlooked details. From the enigmatic Jumano Indian leader Juan Sabata to Spanish friar Casanas's 1691 account of the vast Native American Tejas alliance, Arnn's study shines new light on Texas's poorly understood past and debunks long-held misconceptions of prehistory and history while proposing a provocative new approach to the process by which we attempt to reconstruct the history of humanity.
Hecho en Tejas
Author: Dagoberto GilbPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826341266
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Gilb has created more than a literary anthology--this is a mosaic of the cultural and historical stories of Texas Mexican writers, musicians, and artists.
The Thinker, Immortality, that Place Called Hades
Author: Oliver AllstormHistoric Native Peoples of Texas
Author: William C. FosterPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292781911
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
An incredibly detailed account of Indigenous lifeways during the initial rounds of European exploration in south-central North America. Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state, they recorded detailed information about the locations and lifeways of Texas’s Native peoples. Using recent translations of these expedition diaries and journals, along with discoveries from ongoing archaeological investigations, William C. Foster here assembles the most complete account ever published of Texas’s Native peoples during the early historic period (AD 1528 to 1722). Foster describes the historic Native peoples of Texas by geographic regions. His chronological narrative records the interactions of Native groups with European explorers and with Native trading partners across a wide network that extended into Louisiana, the Great Plains, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. Foster provides extensive ethnohistorical information about Texas’s Native peoples, as well as data on the various regions’ animals, plants, and climate. Accompanying each regional account is an annotated list of named Indigenous tribes in that region and maps that show tribal territories and European expedition routes. “A very useful encyclopedic regional account of the Europeans and Native peoples of Texas who encountered one another during the relatively unexamined two hundred years before the Spanish occupation of Texas and the French establishment of Louisiana.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Texas
Author: George Pierce GarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A study based on the history of Texas.
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman
Author: Juliana BarrPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786773X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Barr argues that Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter--first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity--Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis-a-vis others. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.
Annual Report
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Author: