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Book Miscellanea linguae nationis Mahikan dictae

Download or read book Miscellanea linguae nationis Mahikan dictae written by Johann Jacob Schmick and published by American Philosophical Society Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First printed in 1991, this volume is the first Mahican and English dictionary based on the Moravian variety or dialect. Mahican was an important language because the Native American tribe was in a dominant position in New England and New York in the 1700s. (Foreign Language-Dictionary)

Book Contact Points

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Cayton
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 0807838578
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Contact Points written by Andrew Cayton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. Focusing on contact points between these groups, they construct frontiers as creative arenas that produced new forms of social and political organization. Contributors to the volume offer fresh perspectives on a succession of frontier encounters from the era of the Seven Years' War in Pennsylvania, New York, and South Carolina to the Revolutionary period in the Ohio Valley to the Mississippi basin in the early national era. Drawing on ethnography, cultural and literary criticism, border studies, gender theory, and African American studies, they open new ways of looking at intercultural contact in creating American identities. Collectively, the essays in Contact Points challenge ideas of either acculturation or conquest, highlighting instead the complexity of various frontiers while demonstrating their formative influence in American history. The contributors are Stephen Aron, Andrew R. L. Cayton, Gregory E. Dowd, John Mack Faragher, William B. Hart, Jill Lepore, James H. Merrell, Jane T. Merritt, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Elizabeth A. Perkins, Claudio Saunt, and Fredrika J. Teute.

Book Moravian Soundscapes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Justina Eyerly
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 0253047730
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Moravian Soundscapes written by Sarah Justina Eyerly and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and cultural borderland, sound mattered. People listened carefully to each other and the world around them. In Moravian communities, cultures of hearing and listening encompassed and also superseded musical traditions such as song and hymnody. Complex biophonic, geophonic, and anthrophonic acoustic environments—or soundscapes—characterized daily life in Moravian settlements such as Bethlehem, Nain, Gnadenhütten, and Friedenshütten. Through detailed analyses and historically informed recreations of Moravian communal, environmental, and religious soundscapes and their attendant hymn traditions, Moravian Soundscapes explores how sounds—musical and nonmusical, human and nonhuman—shaped the Moravians' religious culture. Combined with access to an interactive website that immerses the reader in mid-18th century Pennsylvania, and framed with an autobiographical narrative, Moravian Soundscapes recovers the roles of sound and music in Moravian communities and provides a road map for similar studies of other places and religious traditions in the future.

Book The Travels of John Heckewelder in Frontier America

Download or read book The Travels of John Heckewelder in Frontier America written by Paul A. Wallace and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul A. Wallace gathers the diaries and journals of John Heckewelder to prepare this engrossing account of a man who traveled extensively in the Western frontier in the service of the Moravian Church and the United States government, and recorded a great deal of early American history along the way. Heckewelder also lived among the Indians for nearly sixty years, learning their languages, sharing their activities, and wrote vividly of his life with them. Between 1762 and 1813 he crossed the Allegheny Mountains thirty times and made numerous trips down the Ohio River as far south as Kentucky, and along the Great Lakes to Detroit. Heckewelder tells of the first great migration of whites into the West, and also wrote of the early settlements in many important cities, including Detroit, Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Schenectady and Albany.

Book At the Crossroads

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane T. Merritt
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 0807899895
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book At the Crossroads written by Jane T. Merritt and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier. Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence. They traded skills and resources and found a common enemy in the colonial authorities, including the powerful Six Nations, who attempted to control them and the land they inhabited. Using innovative research in German Moravian records, among other sources, Merritt explores the cultural practices, social needs, gender dynamics, economic exigencies, and political forces that brought native Americans and Euramericans together in the first half of the eighteenth century. But as Merritt demonstrates, the tolerance and even cooperation that once marked relations between Indians and whites collapsed during the Seven Years' War. By the 1760s, as the white population increased, a stronger, nationalist identity emerged among both white and Indian populations, each calling for new territorial and political boundaries to separate their communities. Differences between Indians and whites--whether political, economic, social, religious, or ethnic--became increasingly characterized in racial terms, and the resulting animosity left an enduring legacy in Pennsylvania's colonial history.

Book Library of Aboriginal American Literature

Download or read book Library of Aboriginal American Literature written by Daniel Garrison Brinton and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History and Legends of Len  p

Download or read book The History and Legends of Len p written by Daniel G. Brinton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a series of ethnological studies of the Indians of Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland, around what is asserted to be one of the most curious records of ancient American history. (Daniel G. Brinton, The Lenâpé and Their Legends)

Book The Len  p   and Their Legends

Download or read book The Len p and Their Legends written by Daniel G. Brinton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lenâpé and Their Legends by Daniel G. Brinton is a series of ethnological studies of the Indians of Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. One of the most curious records of ancient American history, bound to educate and delight any enthusiast of the subject.

Book A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society

Download or read book A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society written by American Philosophical Society and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1987 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Guide to the archives and manuscript collections of the American Philosophical Society. 1966.

Book The Len  p   and their Legends

Download or read book The Len p and their Legends written by Daniel Brinton and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lenâpé and Their Legends" by Daniel G. Brinton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Chinese American Forum

Download or read book Chinese American Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Papers of the     Algonquian Conference

Download or read book Papers of the Algonquian Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yearbook of German American Studies

Download or read book Yearbook of German American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Actes Du Huiti  me Congr  s Des Algonquinistes

Download or read book Actes Du Huiti me Congr s Des Algonquinistes written by William Cowan and published by Carleton University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indians of North and South America

Download or read book Indians of North and South America written by Carolyn E. Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Willard E. Yager Library-Museum at Hartwick College has remained committed to maintaining a collection of resources relating to Native Americans since Scarecrow first published Indians of North and South America in 1977. This updated bibliography includes items added to the collection after the first supplement was compiled in 1987 and before November 1, 1995. All materials circulate and are available for interlibrary loans except rare books.

Book Guide to the Archives and Manuscript Collections of the American Philosophical Society

Download or read book Guide to the Archives and Manuscript Collections of the American Philosophical Society written by American Philosophical Society and published by Philadelphia. This book was released on 1966 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: