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Author: Elias Johnson Publisher: Book Jungle ISBN: 9781438502175 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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Here is a wonderful book written by a Native American for the general public who have a genuine interest in the true story of the Indian. Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians was written by Elias Johnson a native Tuscarora Chief. Johnson has written this book in the hope of establishing a better relationship between his race and the white man. Elias Johnson says he is able to understand the people he writes about because as he says in his preface. ¿I was born and brought up by Tuscarora Indian parents on their Reservation in the Town of Lewiston, N.Y. From my childhood up was naturally inquisitive and delighted in thrilling stories, which led me to frequent the old people of my childhood's days, and solicited them to relate the old Legends and their Traditions, which they always delighted to do. I have sat by their fireside and heard them, and thus they were instilled upon my young mind.¿ Johnson describes characteristics, traits, customs and life in the Indian tribes.
Author: Elias Johnson Publisher: Book Jungle ISBN: 9781438502175 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
Here is a wonderful book written by a Native American for the general public who have a genuine interest in the true story of the Indian. Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians was written by Elias Johnson a native Tuscarora Chief. Johnson has written this book in the hope of establishing a better relationship between his race and the white man. Elias Johnson says he is able to understand the people he writes about because as he says in his preface. ¿I was born and brought up by Tuscarora Indian parents on their Reservation in the Town of Lewiston, N.Y. From my childhood up was naturally inquisitive and delighted in thrilling stories, which led me to frequent the old people of my childhood's days, and solicited them to relate the old Legends and their Traditions, which they always delighted to do. I have sat by their fireside and heard them, and thus they were instilled upon my young mind.¿ Johnson describes characteristics, traits, customs and life in the Indian tribes.
Author: Elias Johnson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781542889773 Category : Languages : en Pages : 210
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Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois is a comprehensive book on the Iroquois and Tuscarora culture that was written by Elias Johnson in 1881.
Author: Elias Johnson Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 200
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The present Tuscarora Indians, the once powerful and gifted nation, after their expulsion from the South, came North, and were initiated in the confederacy of the Iroquois. People who formerly held under their jurisdiction the largest portion of the Eastern States, now dwell as dependent nations, subject to the guardianship and supervision of a people who displaced their forefathers. Our numbers, the circumstances of our past history and present condition, and more especially the relation in which we stand to the people of the United States, suggest many important questions concerning our future destiny.
Author: Elias Johnson Publisher: Madison & Adams Press ISBN: 9788027334223 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 152
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The present Tuscarora Indians, the once powerful and gifted nation, after their expulsion from the South, came North, and were initiated in the confederacy of the Iroquois. People who formerly held under their jurisdiction the largest portion of the Eastern States, now dwell as dependent nations, subject to the guardianship and supervision of a people who displaced their forefathers. Our numbers, the circumstances of our past history and present condition, and more especially the relation in which we stand to the people of the United States, suggest many important questions concerning our future destiny.
Author: Elias Johnson Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781503337428 Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
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"[...]by the barbed and poisoned arrow linger in any more unendurable torment than those who are mangled with powder and lead balls, and the custom of scalping among Christian murderers would save thousands from groaning days, and perhaps weeks, among heaps that cover victorious fields and fill hospitals with the wounded and dying. But scalping is not an invention exclusively Indian. "It claims," says Prescott, "high authority, or, at least, antiquity." And, further history, Herodotus, gives an account of it among the Scythians, showing that they performed the operation, and wore the scalp of their enemies taken in battle, as trophies, in the same manner as the North American Indian. Traces of the custom are also [...]".
Author: Barbara Alice Mann Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190456477 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 288
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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.