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Author: Fred Westmark Publisher: ISBN: 9781080704323 Category : Languages : en Pages : 200
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Did the Vikings come to North America five hundred years before Columbus? Maybe. Some evidence suggests the Vikings came here. This fictional story, using historical information, is about the adventures of a band of Vikings exploring many parts of America. They explored everywhere on foot and by canoe. Horses came to the Americas seven hundred years later with the Spanish Conquistadors. Was it idyllic? Perhaps not. Dangers lurked everywhere and life was short and difficult. Some might suggest the story is romanticized and simplified. I think the Native Americans were people with hopes and dreams, like everyone. They struggled to survive as we all do. Some Old Norse words are introduced and used to make the readings more authentic and interesting. However, the locations are real. Modern people have given names to many of the places, but had no meaning to the Vikings and Indians.
Author: Fred Westmark Publisher: ISBN: 9781080704323 Category : Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
Did the Vikings come to North America five hundred years before Columbus? Maybe. Some evidence suggests the Vikings came here. This fictional story, using historical information, is about the adventures of a band of Vikings exploring many parts of America. They explored everywhere on foot and by canoe. Horses came to the Americas seven hundred years later with the Spanish Conquistadors. Was it idyllic? Perhaps not. Dangers lurked everywhere and life was short and difficult. Some might suggest the story is romanticized and simplified. I think the Native Americans were people with hopes and dreams, like everyone. They struggled to survive as we all do. Some Old Norse words are introduced and used to make the readings more authentic and interesting. However, the locations are real. Modern people have given names to many of the places, but had no meaning to the Vikings and Indians.
Author: Fran Striker Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1479448370 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 219
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Tom Quest, hero of this exciting adventure series, finds action, suspense, and thrills... this time, in the mysterious and rugged American West! Fran Striker (born Francis Hamilton Striker) (August 19, 1903 – September 4, 1962) was an American writer for radio and comics, best known for creating The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and Sgt. Preston of the Yukon.
Author: Neil Philip Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780395984055 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 168
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Presents a collection of Native American mythology from various tribes including their different perspectives on how the earth was started and how it will end.
Author: Elizabeth A. Fenn Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0374711070 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 518
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Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how these Native American people thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes, and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her own encounters at the heart of the world.
Author: Edward S. Curtis Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312169695 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S Curtis the history of the North American Indian as told in the words and photographs of Edward S Curtis. Includes 243 photos of which 93 have never previously been published.
Author: James P. Ronda Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803290195 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 325
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Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the gap between academic and general audiences.OCo"Choice""
Author: Sierra Crane Murdoch Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0399589171 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 402
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism. “I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days In development as a Paramount+ original series WINNER OF THE OREGON BOOK AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Publishers Weekly When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher “KC” Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone, and few people were actively looking for him. Yellow Bird traces Lissa’s steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke’s disappearance. She navigates two worlds—that of her own tribe, changed by its newfound wealth, and that of the non-Native oilmen, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is an exquisitely written, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart, funny, eloquent, compassionate, and—when it serves her cause—manipulative. Drawing on eight years of immersive investigation, Sierra Crane Murdoch has produced a profound examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing.
Author: Tracy Potter Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 212
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"His Mandan name is She-he-ke-shote. In English this means White Coyote. Lewis and Clark called him Chief Big White. Mandan interpreter Rene Jessaume referred to him in French as Le Gros Blanc. To some, he was simply 'the Mandan Chief'. Today, we call him Sheheke, the Mandan Indian who traveled from North Dakota with Lewis and Clark to meet President Thomas Jefferson in Washington, D.C., in 1806. The story of his life has been too long untold. It is the story of a dynamic native culture, a peaceful and welcoming people, and a nation struggling for survival. It is the story of a procession of curious explorers from the north and east. It is the story of one man with the mettle and foresight to embark upon an unprecedented trip that would take him thousands of miles into a foreign land with unfamiliar customs. Sheheke was an ambassador for the Mandan Nation, a consistent friend of the United States, and an important part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In sharing his story, his legacy of kindness, friendship, and courage lives on."--Back cover
Author: Joshua David Bellin Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812292340 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 274
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From the 1820s to the 1930s, Christian missionaries and federal agents launched a continent-wide assault against Indian sacred dance, song, ceremony, and healing ritual in an attempt to transform Indian peoples into American citizens. In spite of this century-long religious persecution, Native peoples continued to perform their sacred traditions and resist the foreign religions imposed on them, as well as to develop new practices that partook of both. At the same time, some whites began to explore Indian performance with interest, and even to promote Indian sacred traditions as a source of power for their own society. The varieties of Indian performance played a formative role in American culture and identity during a critical phase in the nation's development. In Medicine Bundle, Joshua David Bellin examines the complex issues surrounding Indian sacred performance in its manifold and intimate relationships with texts and images by both Indians and whites. From the paintings of George Catlin, the traveling showman who exploited Indian ceremonies for the entertainment of white audiences, to the autobiography of Black Elk, the Lakota holy man whose long life included stints as a dancer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, a supplicant in the Ghost Dance movement, and a catechist in the Catholic Church, Bellin reframes American literature, culture, and identity as products of encounter with diverse performance traditions. Like the traditional medicine bundle of sacred objects bound together for ritual purposes, Indian performance and the performance of Indianness by whites and Indians alike are joined in a powerful intercultural knot.
Author: Fred Westmark
Author: Fred Westmark
Author: Fran Striker
Author: Neil Philip
Author: Elizabeth A. Fenn
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Author: James P. Ronda
Author: Sierra Crane Murdoch
Author: Tracy Potter
Author: Matilda Coxe Stevenson
Author: Joshua David Bellin