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Book The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History

Download or read book The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History written by Kass Fleisher and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how a pivotal event in U.S. history-the killing of nearly 300 Shoshoni men, women, and children in 1863-has been contested, forgotten, and remembered.

Book Sagwitch

Download or read book Sagwitch written by Scott R. Christensen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sagwitch, "the Speaker," was a leader of the Shoshone people. Following the Bear River Massacre he lead the survivors. He and his band later were baptized as members of the Mormon church and settled the Washakie Indian colony in northern Utah.

Book Saints  The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days  Volume 2

Download or read book Saints The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days Volume 2 written by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saints, Vol. 2: No Unhallowed Hand covers Church history from 1846 through 1893. Volume 2 narrates the Saints’ expulsion from Nauvoo, their challenges in gathering to the western United States and their efforts to settle Utah's Wasatch Front. The second volume concludes with the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple.

Book Great Basin Indians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Hittman
  • Publisher : University of Nevada Press
  • Release : 2013-06-15
  • ISBN : 0874179106
  • Pages : 670 pages

Download or read book Great Basin Indians written by Michael Hittman and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Native American inhabitants of North America’s Great Basin have a long, eventful history and rich cultures. Great Basin Indians: An Encyclopedic History covers all aspects of their world. The book is organized in an encyclopedic format to allow full discussion of many diverse topics, including geography, religion, significant individuals, the impact of Euro-American settlement, wars, tribes and intertribal relations, reservations, federal policies regarding Native Americans, scholarly theories regarding their prehistory, and others. Author Michael Hittman employs a vast range of archival and secondary sources as well as interviews, and he addresses the fruits of such recent methodologies as DNA analysis and gender studies that offer new insights into the lives and history of these enduring inhabitants of one of North America’s most challenging environments. Great Basin Indians is an essential resource for any reader interested in the Native peoples of the American West and in western history in general.

Book Bear River Spirit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Payton Lee
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2003-01-21
  • ISBN : 0595265189
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Bear River Spirit written by Payton Lee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widower and widow, both of mixed Shoshone blood, agree to marry for the sake of the widower's son. Their love deepens and they are witnesses to the bloody Bear River Massacre.

Book Native America  3 volumes

Download or read book Native America 3 volumes written by Daniel S. Murphree and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing innovative research and unique interpretations, these essays provide a fresh perspective on Native American history by focusing on how Indians lived and helped shape each of the United States. Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia comprises 50 chapters offering interpretations of Native American history through the lens of the states in which Indians lived or helped shape. This organizing structure and thematic focus allows readers access to information on specific Indians and the regions they lived in while also providing a collective overview of Native American relationships with the United States as a whole. These three volumes synthesize scholarship on the Native American past to provide both an academic and indigenous perspective on the subject, covering all states and the native peoples who lived in them or were instrumental to their development. Each state is featured in its own chapter, authored by a specialist on the region and its indigenous peoples. Each essay has these main sections: Chronology, Historical Overview, Notable Indians, Cultural Contributions, and Bibliography. The chapters are interspersed with photographs and illustrations that add visual clarity to the written content, put a human face on the individuals described, and depict the peoples and environment with which they interacted.

Book A History of Utah s American Indians

Download or read book A History of Utah s American Indians written by Forrest Cuch and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the six Native American tribes of Utah, from an Indigenous perspective. The valleys, mountains, and deserts of Utah have been home to native peoples for thousands of years. Like peoples around the word, Utah’s native inhabitants organized themselves in family units, groups, bands, clans, and tribes. Today, six Indian tribes in Utah are recognized as official entities. They include the Northwestern Shoshone, the Goshutes, the Paiutes, the Utes, the White Mesa or Southern Utes, and the Navajos (Dineh). Each tribe has its own government. Tribe members are citizens of Utah and the United States; however, lines of distinction both within the tribes and with the greater society at large have not always been clear. Migration, interaction, war, trade, intermarriage, common threats, and other challenges have made relationships and affiliations more fluid than might be expected. In this volume, the editor and contributors endeavor to write the history of Utah’s first residents from an Indian perspective. An introductory chapter provides an overview of Utah’s American Indians and a concluding chapter summarizes the issues and concerns of contemporary Indians and their leaders. Chapters on each of the six tribes look at origin stories, religion, politics, education, folkways, family life, social activities, economic issues, and important events. They provide an introduction to the rich heritage of Utah’s native peoples. This book includes chapters by David Begay, Dennis Defa, Clifford Duncan, Ronald Holt, Nancy Maryboy, Robert McPherson, Mae Parry, Gary Tom, and Mary Jane Yazzie. This book is a joint project of the Utah Division of Indian Affairs and the Utah State Historical Society. It is distributed to the book trade by Utah State University Press.

Book History and Culture of the Boise Shoshone and Bannock Indians

Download or read book History and Culture of the Boise Shoshone and Bannock Indians written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Echoes from the Past

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dirk Pool
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2015-07-17
  • ISBN : 1504915305
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Echoes from the Past written by Dirk Pool and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katelyn is a young lady who works as an evening desk clerk at a motel. She put herself through university to become a historian. Katelyn is a dreamer, and any piece of history that she studies, she puts herself and her boyfriend, Rolland, in that history piece. Of course, Rolland doesnt know that her history dreams also involve him. Rolland respects Katelyn for the stand she has taken not to have sex before marriage. He would love to propose to her, but he wants to see her fulfill her dream of working in a museum in a major city. Katelyn is unaware that Rolland wants her dream to come true, so she often finds herself frustrated because he isnt proposing to her. They struggle with desires to have sex, but respect always seems to win. Since Katelyn refuses to have sex unless she is married, her dreams into history with Rolland never go anywhere sexually either. Katelyn thinks about Rose from the movie Titanic, and she struggles within herself that she might never experience that kind of joy with Rolland. Of course, she would rather refrain from sex then to give into it if Rolland has no intentions of marrying her. Although Rolland doesnt know that he is in Katelyns historical dreams, he is aware of her dreaming about history, and when she gets the far off look in her eyes, he just lets her dream until her mind brings her back to the present day. He also finds it hard not to propose to the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with, but his love for her prevents him from proposing because he wants to see her fulfill her dream first, even though his desires for her are very strong.

Book The Utah Journey

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Gibbs Smith
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1423623843
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book The Utah Journey written by and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ghost Dances and Identity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory E. Smoak
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2008-03-11
  • ISBN : 0520256271
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Ghost Dances and Identity written by Gregory E. Smoak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " This is a compellingly nuanced and sophisticated study of Indian peoples as negotiators and shapers of the modern world."—Richard White, author of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

Book Massacring Indians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger L. Nichols
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2021-03-04
  • ISBN : 080616980X
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Massacring Indians written by Roger L. Nichols and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenous populations, and some of the conflicts stand out today as massacres, as they involved violent attacks on often defenseless Native communities, including women and children. Although historians have written full-length studies about each of these episodes, Massacring Indians is the first to present them as part of a larger pattern of aggression, perpetuated by heartless or inept military commanders. In clear and accessible prose, veteran historian Roger L. Nichols examines ten significant massacres committed by U.S. Army units against American Indians. The battles range geographically from Alabama to Montana and include such well-known atrocities as Sand Creek, Washita, and Wounded Knee. Nichols explores the unique circumstances of each event, including its local context. At the same time, looking beyond the confusion and bloodshed of warfare, he identifies elements common to all the massacres. Unforgettable details emerge in the course of his account: inadequate training of U.S. soldiers, overeagerness to punish Indians, an inflated desire for glory among individual officers, and even careless mistakes resulting in attacks on the wrong village or band. As the author chronicles the collective tragedy of the massacres, he highlights the roles of well-known frontier commanders, ranging from Andrew Jackson to John Chivington and George Armstrong Custer. In many cases, Nichols explains, it was lower-ranking officers who bore the responsibility and blame for the massacres, even though orders came from the higher-ups. During the nineteenth century and for years thereafter, white settlers repeatedly used the term “massacre” to describe Indian raids, rather than the reverse. They lacked the understanding to differentiate such raids—Indians defending their homeland against invasion—from the aggressive decimation of peaceful Indian villages by U.S. troops. Even today it may be tempting for some to view the massacres as exceptions to the norm. By offering a broader synthesis of the attacks, Massacring Indians uncovers a more disturbing truth: that slaughtering innocent people was routine practice for U.S. troops and their leaders.

Book Journeys West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virginia Kerns
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2010-03-01
  • ISBN : 0803228279
  • Pages : 445 pages

Download or read book Journeys West written by Virginia Kerns and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeys Westtraces journeys made during seven months of fieldwork in 1935 and 1936 by Julian Steward, a young anthropologist, and his wife, Jane. Virginia Kerns identifies the scores of Native elders whom they met throughout the Western desert, men and women previously known in print only by initials, and thus largely invisible as primary sources of Steward's classic ethnography. Besides humanizing Steward's cultural informantsrevealing them as distinct individuals and also as first-generation survivors of an ecological crisis caused by American settlement of their landsKerns shows how the elders worked with Steward. Each helped to construct an ethnographic portrait of life in a particular place in the high desert of the Great Basin. The elders' memories of how they and their ancestors had lived by hunting and gatheringa sustainable way of life that endured for generationsrichly illustrated what Steward termedcultural adaptation. It later became a key concept in anthropology and remains relevant today in an age of global environmental crisis. Based on meticulous research, this book draws on an impressive array of evidencefrom interviews and observations to census data, correspondence, and the field journal of the Stewards.Journeys Westilluminates not only on the elders who were Steward's guides, but also the practice of ethnographic fieldwork: a research method that is both a journey and a distinctive way of looking, listening, and learning.

Book Sagwitch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott R. Christensen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Sagwitch written by Scott R. Christensen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sagwitch, "the Speaker," was a leader of the Shoshone people. Following the Bear River Massacre he lead the survivors. He and his band later were baptized as members of the Mormon church and settled the Washakie Indian colony in northern Utah.

Book The History of Emigration Canyon  Gateway to Salt Lake Valley

Download or read book The History of Emigration Canyon Gateway to Salt Lake Valley written by Cynthia Furse and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emigration Canyon is well known in Utah as the route by which pioneers, in 1847, reached Great Salt Lake Valley to establish the state's first lasting Euro-American settlements. Before and after 1847 the canyon had an interesting history, which included the Donner-Reed party, the Pony Express and Overland Stage, mining and sheep herding, a narrow-gauge railroad, a major resort, a brewery, and the transformation of recreation areas and cabin sites into year-round residential neighborhoods. This well-illustrated, detailed history tells the story of a unique place, but its counterparts can be found across the West and America wherever the development of wild and scenic areas has been shaped by the growth and needs of neighboring cities. In this second edition, new illustrations and maps, new information and stories, a significantly expanded chapter on the Emigration Canyon Railroad, and a new chapter on the modern history, bring to life the story of a place and its people.

Book The Northern Shoshoni

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brigham D. Madsen
  • Publisher : Caxton Press
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9780870042669
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book The Northern Shoshoni written by Brigham D. Madsen and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Historian Brigham Madsen has devoted much of his career to telling the story of the Shoshoni. The tribe once occupied a huge region that included portions of Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. Madsen tells the story of the tribe and their struggle to adapt to the massive cultural changes that have occurred during the past 150 years.