Download or read book Riding Gear of the North American Indians Classic Reprint written by Clark Wissler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Riding Gear of the North American Indians The horse culture complex of the American Indian offers an excellent opportunity to study diffusion, because most of the essential facts are obtainable. The horse was introduced by Europeans at an early date and spread ahead of interior exploration. In particular, many of the tribes west of the Mississippi River became horsemen before their discovery by Europeans. The history of horse introduction is briefly outlined in the American Anthropologist, Vol. 16, N o. 1, pp. 1 - 25. The investigation here reported is the intensive study of collections of riding gear and horse-using appliances to be found in anthropological collections. The material avail able in the Museum gives us a representative series for each important tribe in the horse-using area so that we may proceed in confidence. A preliminary statement of the results attained in this study were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1, p. 254. In the selection and comparison of specimens the writer has been aided by Mr. William A. Sabine, assistant in the Museum, whose great knowledge of specimens and their distribution was indispensable to the task. Other acknowledgments are due to Mr. S. Ichikawa for the illustrations and to my secretary, Miss Bella Weitzner, for gathering reference material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Encounters at the Heart of the World written by Elizabeth A. Fenn and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A True American written by Wendy Jean Katz and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized. In an era of industrialization, nativism’s erection of barriers to immigration appealed to artisans, a category that included most male artists at some stage in their careers. But as importantly, its patriotic message about the nature of the American republic also overlapped with widely shared convictions about the necessity of democratic reform. Movements directed toward improving the human condition, including anti-slavery and temperance, often consigned Catholicism, along with monarchies and slavery, to a repressive past, not the republican American future. To demonstrate the impact of this political effort by humanitarian reformers and nativists to define a Protestant character for the country, this book tracks the work and practice of artist William Walcutt. Though he is little known today, in his own time his efforts as a painter, illustrator and sculptor were acclaimed as masterly, and his art is worth reconsidering in its own right. But this book examines him as a case study of an artist whose economic and personal ties to artisanal print culture and cultural nationalists ensured that he was surrounded by and contributed to anti-Catholic publications and organizations. Walcutt was not anti immigrant himself, nor a member of a nativist party, but his kin, friends, and patrons publicly expressed warnings about Catholic and foreign political influence. And that has implications for better-known nineteenth-century historical and narrative art. Precisely because Walcutt’s profile and milieu were so typical for artists in this period, this book is able to demonstrate how central this supposedly fringe movement was to viewers and makers of American art.
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Download or read book Comanche Society written by Gerald Betty and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once called the Lords of the Plains, the Comanches were long portrayed as loose bands of marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction of horses to raise their people out of primitive poverty through bison hunting and fierce warfare. More recent studies of the Comanches have focused on adaptation and persistence in Comanche lifestyles and on Comanche political organization and language-based alliances. In Comanche Society: Before the Reservation, Gerald Betty develops an exciting and sophisticated perspective on the driving force of Comanche life: kinship. Betty details the kinship patterns that underlay all social organization and social behavior among the Comanches and uses the insights gained to explain the way Comanches lived and the way they interacted with the Europeans who recorded their encounters. Rather than a narrative history of the Comanches, this account presents analyses of the formation of clans and the way they functioned across wide areas to produce cooperation and alliances; of hierarchy based in family and generational relationships; and of ancestor worship and related religious ceremonies as the basis for social solidarity. The author then considers a number of aspects of Comanche life—pastoralism, migration and nomadism, economics and trade, warfare and violence—and how these developed along kinship lines. In considering how and why Comanches adopted the Spanish horse pastoralism, Betty demonstrates clearly that pastoralism was an expression of indigenous culture, not the cause of it. He describes in detail the Comanche horse culture as it was observed by the Spaniards and the Indian adaptation of Iberian practices. In this context, he looks at the kinship basis of inheritance practices, which, he argues, undergirded private ownership of livestock. Drawing on obscure details buried in Spanish accounts of their time in the lands that became known as Comanchería, Betty provides an interpretive gaze into the culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Comanches that offers new organizing principles for the information that had been gathered previously. This is cutting-edge history, drawing not only on original research in extensive primary documents but also on theoretical perspectives from other disciplines.
Download or read book Exchange written by Pierre Lagayette and published by Presses Paris Sorbonne. This book was released on 2005 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recueil de textes sur l'échange culturel, symbolique ou matériel. Les auteurs montrent que les échanges peuvent constituer le fondement de l'entente entre les peuples. Des textes analysent cette pratique dans le cadre de relations ethniques, éclairant la situation des Indiens, notamment en Californie et au Mexique.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of North American Indians written by William Brandon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most expansive one-volume history of the native peoples of North America ever published.
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Download or read book The Arts of the North American Indian written by Philbrook Art Center and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen authorities explore sociology, anthropology, art history of Native American creativity.
Download or read book Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian written by Barry T. Klein and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** The standard information sourcebook on the North American Indian, cited in BCL3, Sheehy, ARBA. The present revised and expanded edition (5th was in 1990) is now in a three column format. The Encyclopedia is divided into three main sections: Source Listings, Bibliography, and Who's Who. A new subsection within the Source Listings, Arts and Crafts Shops and Cooperatives, contains some 900 sources of retail, wholesale, and mail order Native American art and craft supplies. Approximately 500 in-print books have been added to the bibliography, and about 500 new biographies have also been added. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The North American Indian Volume 5 The Mandan The Arikara The Atsina Paperbound written by and published by Classic Books Company. This book was released on with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book North American Indian Music written by Richard Keeling and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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