Download or read book Indians of the Lower Plateau written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indians of the Lower Plateau written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plains Indian Rock Art written by James D. Keyser and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plains region that stretches from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and the Sioux. Its rolling grasslands and river valleys have nurtured human cultures for thousands of years. On cave walls, glacial boulders, and riverside cliffs, native people recorded their ceremonies, vision quests, battles, and daily activities in the petroglyphs and pictographs they incised, pecked, or painted onto the stone surfaces. In this vast landscape, some rock art sites were clearly intended for communal use; others just as clearly mark the occurrence of a private spiritual encounter. Elders often used rock art, such as complex depictions of hunting, to teach traditional knowledge and skills to the young. Other sites document the medicine powers and brave deeds of famous warriors. Some Plains rock art goes back more than 5,000 years; some forms were made continuously over many centuries. Archaeologists James Keyser and Michael Klassen show us the origins, diversity, and beauty of Plains rock art. The seemingly endless variety of images include humans, animals of all kinds, weapons, masks, mazes, handprints, finger lines, geometric and abstract forms, tally marks, hoofprints, and the wavy lines and starbursts that humans universally associate with trancelike states. Plains Indian Rock Art is the ultimate guide to the art form. It covers the natural and archaeological history of the northwestern Plains; explains rock art forms, techniques, styles, terminology, and dating; and offers interpretations of images and compositions.
Download or read book Indians of the Unites States Indians of the Lower Plateau written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plateau Indians written by Craig A. Doherty and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plateau Indians, from the new 10-volume set Native America, tells the history and culture of the Plateau Indians. This book begins with a brief set introduction that discusses some of the broad history and themes found throughout the Plateau Indian culture, as well as explains the concept of culture areas to students. Narrative text of the chapters is interspersed with numerous box features that highlight important people, events, and topics, as well as sidebars. This book also includes a timeline, a list of museums and sites related to these tribes, further reading, and an index.
Download or read book Plateau Indians written by Mir Tamim Ansary and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the history, dwellings, artwork, religious beliefs, clothing, and food of the various Native American tribes of the Plateau Region between the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains.
Download or read book Handbook of North American Indians Plateau written by William C. Sturtevant and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples in Siberia, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.
Download or read book Native Arts of the Columbia Plateau written by Susan E. Harless and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau written by James D. Keyser and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and painted designs created by ancient artists who inhabited this area, the Columbia Plateau, as long as seven thousand years ago. Expressing a vital social and spiritual dimension in the lives of these hunter-gathers, rock art captivates us with its evocative power and mystery. At once an irreplaceable yet fragile cultural resource, it documents Native histories, customs, and visions through thousands of years. This valuable reference and guidebook addresses basic questions of what petroglyphs and pictographs are, how they were produced, and how archaeologists classify and date them. James Keyser identifies five regions on the Columbia Plateau, each with its own variant of the rock art style identifiable as belonging exclusively to the region. He describes for each region the setting and scope of the rock art along with its design characteristics and possible meaning. Through line drawings, photographs, and detailed maps he provides a guide to the sites where rock art can be viewed. In western Montana, rock art motifs express the ritualistic seeking of a spirit helper from the natural world. In interior British Columbia, rayed arcs above the heads of human figures demonstrate possession of a guardian spirit. Twin figures on the central Columbia Plateau reveal another belief--the special power of twins--and hunting scenes celebrate success of the chase. The grimacing evocative face of Tsagiglalal, in lower Columbia pictographs, testifies to the Plateau Indians’ “death cult” response to the European diseases that decimated their villages between 1700 and 1840. On the southeastern Plateau, images of horse-back riders mark the adoption, after 1700 of the equestrian and cultural habits of the northwestern Great Plains Indians. Despite geographic differences in emphasis, similarities in design and technique link the drawings of all five regions. Human figures, animals depicting numerous species on the Plateau, geometric motifs, mysterious beings, and tally marks, whether painted or carved, appear throughout the Columbia Plateau.
Download or read book Dreamer Prophets of the Columbia Plateau written by Robert H. Ruby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seekers after wisdom have always been drawn to American Indian ritual and symbol. This history of two nineteenth-century Dreamer-Prophets, Smohalla and Skolaskin, will interest those who seek a better understanding of the traditional Native American commitment to Mother Earth, visionary experiences drawn from ceremony, and the promise of revitalization implicit in the Ghost Dance. To white observers, the Dreamers appeared to imitate Christianity by celebrating the sabbath and preaching a covenant with God, nonviolence, and life after death. But the Prophets also advocated adherence to traditional dress and subsistence patterns and to the spellbinding Washat dance. By engaging in this dance and by observing traditional life-ways, the Prophets claimed, the living Indians might bring their dead back to life and drive the whites from the earth. They themselves brought heaven to earth, they said, by “dying, going there, and returning,” in trances induced by the Washat drums. The Prophets’ sacred longhouses became rallying points for resistance to the United States government. As many as two thousand Indians along the Columbia River, from various tribes, followed the Dreamer religion. Although the Dreamers always opposed war, the active phase of the movement was brought to a close in 1889 when the United States Army incarcerated the younger Prophet Skolaskin at Alcatraz. Smohalla died of old age in 1894. Modern Dreamers of the Columbia plateau still celebrate the Feast of the New Foods in springtime as did their spiritual ancestors. This book contains rare modern photographs of their Washat dances. Readers of Indian history and religion will be fascinated by the descriptions of the Dreamer-Prophets’ unique personalities and their adjustments to physical handicaps. Neglected by scholars, their role in the important pan-Indian revitalization movement has awaited the detailed treatment given here by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown.
Download or read book Great Plains written by Edward S. Curtis and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the strange and wondrous ceremonial masks of the Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Ogalala and other Plains peoples.
Download or read book The Indian Journal of Medical Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Indian Calendar written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of North American Indians written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Indians of the Plateau and Plains written by Kathleen Kuiper and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a brief description of each of the Native American tribes which inhabited the Great Plains of the United States.
Download or read book Native Peoples of the Plateau written by Krystyna Poray Goddu and published by North American Indian Nations. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many Plateau Indians still live in [the Plateau region near the Columbia River]. They work in a variety of industries, from fishing and logging to hospitality. Read more about [their] history and culture"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Montana s Indians written by William L. Bryan and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 150 colorful photos and a chapter on each of Montana's reservations give readers a complete view of each of the ten tribes, past, present and future.
