Author: Kerry Newcomb Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312986193 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
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One man was an outcast among his people. The other had found his home on the open seas. They came from halfway around the world to meet. And their journey had just begun... In 1814, Lost Eyes is exiled by his small Blackfoot tribe, blamed for the death of a young hunter and doomed to a life of lonely wandering. Halfway around the world, in a harbor in the Portuguese colony of Macao, a seafaring Cornishman watches his own ship go up in flames against the night sky-and then must make a desperate voyage across the Pacific to America. There, Morgan Penmerry will meet a native Blackfoot being led by visions and by dreams. Both men know what it means to love a woman. Both men know what it means to have a mortal enemy-and to stand alone. Now, in a gathering storm of violence and hate, each will trust the other with his life and soul... Scalpdancers is Kerry Newcomb's crowning achievement of adventure storytelling. From the high seas to the towering mountains of the American Northwest, this is an epic tale of two men, two cultures, and one vision becoming real-in a saga of honor, courage and blood ...
Author: Thomas W. Kavanagh Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803285507 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 250
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31. Miscellaneous Religious Matters -- 32. Fragmentary and Incomplete Narratives -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Francis Joseph Attocknie -- About Thomas W. Kavanaugh
Author: Johnny Arlee Publisher: Montana Historical Society ISBN: 9780917298578 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 108
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For over a hundred years, the Arlee Fourth of July Celebration, or Powwow, on the Flathead Indian Reservation has brought people together to honor the traditions of the Salish. Over a Century of Moving to the Drum: Salish Indian Celebrations on the Flathead Indian Reservation, by Salish teacher and spiritual advisor Johnny Arlee, offers a tribute to this longstanding event. Lavishly illustrated with pen and ink sketches of powwow scenes and photographs of powwows in the 1940s, the main narrative is based on interviews Arlee conducted with Salish elders in the 1970s. Excerpts of the interviews--and interviews with modern powwow participants--round out the volume.
Author: James Lee Humfreville Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: 9780811728140 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 500
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A lieutenant with the 9th U.S. Cavalry, the "Buffalo Soldiers, " offers his observations on all aspects of Plains Indian life. His views were sometimes simplistic but unfailingly sympathetic. 180 photos.
Author: Ernest Wallace Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806150181 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 419
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The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the other direction, they were indeed the Lords of the South Plains. For more than a century and a half, since they had first moved into the Southwest from the north, the Comanches raided and pillaged and repelled all efforts to encroach on their hunting grounds. They decimated the pueblo of Pecos, within thirty miles of Santa Fé. The Spanish frontier settlements of New Mexico were happy enough to let the raiding Comanches pass without hindrance to carry their terrorizing forays into Old Mexico, a thousand miles down to Durango. The Comanches fought the Texans, made off with their cattle, burned their homes, and effectively made their own lands unsafe for the white settlers. They fought and defeated at one time or another the Utes, Pawnees, Osages, Tonkawas, Apaches, and Navahos. These were "The People," the spartans of the prairies, the once mighty force of Comanches, a surprising number of whom survive today. More than twenty-five hundred live in the midst of an alien culture which as grown up about them. This book is the story of that tribe-the great traditions of the warfare, life, and institutions of another century which are today vivid memories among its elders. Despite their prolonged resistance, the Comanches, too, had to "come in." On a sultry summer day in June, 1875, a small hand of starving tribesmen straggled in to Fort Sill, near the Wichita Mountains in what is now the southwestern part of the state of Oklahoma. There they surrendered to the military authorities. So ended the reign of the Comanches on the Southwestern frontier. Their horses had been captured and destroyed; the buffalo were gone; most of their tipis had been burned. They had held out to the end, but the time had now come for them to submit to the United States government demands.
Author: Edward S. Curtis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Ethnology Languages : en Pages : 490
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"[A] comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes of the United States and Alaska that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive customs and traditions. The value of such a work, in great measure, will lie in the breadth of its treatment, in its wealth of illustration, and in the fact that it represents the result of personal study of a people who are rapidly losing the traces of their aboriginal character and who are destined ultimately to become assimilated with the 'superior race.' It has been the aim to picture all features of the Indian life and environment--types of the young and the old, with their habitations, industries, ceremonies, games, and everyday customs ... Though the treatment accorded the Indians by those who lay claim to civilization and Christianity has in many cases been worse than criminal, a rehearsal of these wrongs does not properly find a place here"--General introduction.
Author: Thomas E. Mails Publisher: Council Oak Books ISBN: 0933031459 Category : Cherokee Indians Languages : en Pages : 405
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This book depicts the Cherokees' ancient culture and lifestyle, their government, dress, and family life. Mails chronicles the fundamentals of vital Cherokee spiritual beliefs and practices, their powerful rituals, and their joyful festivals, as well as the story of the gradual encroachment that all but destroyed their civilization.
Author: James R. Walker Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 180
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As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux.
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