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Book Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear

Download or read book Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear written by Robert H. Brunswig and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear explores advances in the prehistory and early history of Numic hunter-gatherers in the Rocky Mountain West through the presentation and analysis of archaeological and historic research on the period from the earliest established presence in the Rockies and its borderlands more than a thousand years ago to the forced removal of Ute, Shoshone, and other tribes to reservations in the mid-nineteenth century. New research into Numic archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography is significantly changing the understanding of migratory patterns, cultural interactions, chronology, and shared cultural-religious practices of regionally defined Numic branches and non-Numic populations of the American West. Contributors examine case studies of Ute and Shoshone material culture (ceramics, lithics, features and structures, trade and seasonal migration), chronology (dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating, thermoluminescence), and subsistence systems (hunting camps, game drives, faunal and botanical evidence of food sources). They also delineate different hunter-gatherer “ethnic groups” who co-occupied or interacted within one another’s territories through trade, raiding, or seasonal subsistence migrations, such as the Late Fremont/Ute and the Shoshone or the early Navajo/Ute and the Shoshone. With a strong emphasis on diverse cases and new and original archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic lines of evidence, Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear interweaves anthropological theory and innovative applications of leading-edge scientific methodologies and technologies. The book presents a cross-section of field, laboratory, and ethnohistoric studies—including indigenous consultation—that explore past, recent, and ongoing developments in Numic cultural history and prehistory. It will be of interest to scholars of Southwestern archaeology, as well as private and government cultural resource specialists and museum staff. Contributors: Richard Adams, John Cater, Christine Chady, David Diggs, Rand Greubel, John Ives, Byron Loosle, Curtis Martin, Sally McBeth, Lindsay Montgomery, Bryon Schroeder, Matthew Stirn

Book Land of the Spotted Eagle

Download or read book Land of the Spotted Eagle written by Luther Standing Bear and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Land of the Spotted Eagle" by Luther Standing Bear. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Infrastructure in Archaeological Discourse

Download or read book Infrastructure in Archaeological Discourse written by M. Grace Ellis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume expands perspectives on infrastructure that are rooted in archaeological discourse and material evidence. The compiled chapters represent new and emerging ideas within archaeology about what infrastructure is, how it can materialize, and how it impacts and reflects human behavior, social organization, and identity in the past as well as the present. Three goals central to the work include: (1) expand the definition of infrastructure using archaeological frameworks and evidence from a wide range of social, historical, and geographic contexts; (2) explore how new archaeological perspectives on infrastructure can help answer anthropological questions pertaining to social organization, group collaboration, and community consensus and negotiation; and (3) examine the broader implications of an archaeological engagement with infrastructure and contributions to contemporary infrastructural studies. Chapters explore important aspects of infrastructure, including its relationality, scale, history, and relevance, and provide archaeological case studies that examine the social repercussions of infrastructure and the various ways it has materialized in the past. This compilation ultimately expands the discourse of infrastructure in archaeology and social sciences more broadly. Social scientists can turn to this volume for insights into an archaeologically informed perspective on infrastructure relevant to the study of past and current human behavior.

Book Vision of Eagle Strength of Bear

Download or read book Vision of Eagle Strength of Bear written by Allan Lombardo and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A white man's stories of his travels into the spirit world of the Native American.

Book Land of the Spotted Eagle  The Lakota Life and Customs

Download or read book Land of the Spotted Eagle The Lakota Life and Customs written by Luther Standing Bear and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land of the Spotted Eagle is an ethnographic description of traditional Lakota life and customs, criticizing whites' efforts to "make over" the Indian into the likeness of the white race. Luther Standing Bear was a Sicangu and Oglala Lakota chief notable in history as a Native American author, educator, philosopher, and actor of the twentieth century. Standing Bear fought to preserve Lakota heritage and sovereignty; he was at the forefront of a Progressive movement to change government policy toward Native Americans. "In this book I attempt to tell my readers just how we lived as Lakotans—our customs, manners, experiences, and traditions—the things that make all men what they are. There are reasons why men live as they do, think as they do, and practice as they do; hence, there were forces that made the Lakota the man he was. White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life. After nearly four hundred years' living upon this continent, it is still popular conception, on the part of the Caucasian mind, to regard the native American as a savage, meaning that he is low in thought and feeling, and cruel in acts; that he is a heathen, meaning that he is incapable, therefore void, of high philosophical thought concerning life and life's relations. For this 'savage' the white man has little brotherly love and little understanding. From the Indian the white man stands off and aloof, scarcely deigning to speak or to touch his hand in human fellowship. To the white man many things done by the Indian are inexplicable, though he continues to write much of the visible and exterior life with explanations that are more often than not erroneous. The inner life of the Indian is, of course, a closed book to the white man. So from the pages of this book I speak for the Lakota—the tribe of my birth. I have told of his outward life and tried to tell something of his inner life—ideals, religion, concepts of kindness and brotherhood; of laws of conduct and how we strove to arrive at arrangements of equity and justice."

Book Chief White Eagle

    Book Details:
  • Author : L. S. Wood
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2016-07-07
  • ISBN : 1491791705
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Chief White Eagle written by L. S. Wood and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a joyful day when an infant boy is born into a free roaming tribe of Abnaki Indians residing in Vermont. As the village celebrates little White Eagles birth, a pair of unfriendly eyes watches from the distance and contemplates how to uproot the friendly tribe from their home. While White Eagle grows up in a loving family, the white man settles closer every day to their village, eventually forcing the tribe to move to a reservation governed by their race. As White Eagles journey eventually leads to become the one of tribes best hunters and the next-in-line to become chief, he finds love, marries, and sires a son. But when smallpox takes his family away forever, a devastated White Eagle buries them away from their village. Determined not to abandon them, White Eagle finds refuge from his troubles inside a nearby mountain cave and creates a solitary existence. As years and seasons pass, White Eagle quietly ages without any idea that he is about to finally realize his purpose in the world. In this historical novel, an Abnaki Indian journeys through a challenging existence as he attempts to avoid capture by the white man and bravely confronts his destiny as life comes full circle.

Book Flying with the Eagle  Racing the Great Bear

Download or read book Flying with the Eagle Racing the Great Bear written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying With The Eagle, Racing the Great Bear is a continent-spanning collection of sixteen thrilling tales in which young men must face great enemies, find the strength and endurance within themselves to succedd, and take their place by the side of their elders.

Book Hard Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Pagani
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2021-06-11
  • ISBN : 1662428677
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Hard Land written by John Pagani and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling Water is the second installment in the riveting Hard Land adventure and survival series. Set along the rugged North American Pacific Coast in the early nineteenth century, John and Erin Daly live a hardscrabble life, scratching out a subsistence existence while fending off nature’s predators and the elements. Their love and faith and the local Native tribe are the bedrock of their survival until challenged by outlaws, a wicked Native witch, and a horrifying demon. The allure of gold weaves through twisting plots and schemes, drawing all participants in this exciting tale to a hidden valley where a final battle of good versus evil erupts. Descriptive panoramas of endless forests, towering mountains, and tumbling waterfalls are the backdrop through all facets of the book. The deep beauty of coastal redwood forests and rugged coastlines provide stunning imagery. The story is colored with early American pioneering customs, skills, and ways of life. Native American symbolism, shamanism, and customs are explored. This captivating tale is one of adventure, excitement, and the supernatural that builds upon itself from one gripping scene to the next only to reach a thrilling and surprising conclusion.

Book Spirit of the Eagle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vella Munn
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1997-01-31
  • ISBN : 0812535006
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Spirit of the Eagle written by Vella Munn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-01-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1872 and the last of the Modoc tribe are being forced by the U.S. government to leave their sacred land and move to a reservation. But they won't leave without a fight. Luash, a young tribeswoman, is the voice of the Eagle Spirit that guides the Modoc, finds herself torn between tribal loyalty and the white soldier, Jed Britton.

Book Listening to the Land

Download or read book Listening to the Land written by Lee Schweninger and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looks at the challenges faced by Native American writers who confront stereotypical representations as they assert their own ethical relationship with the earth. Lee Schweninger considers a range of genres by Native writers from various parts of the United States. Contextualizing these works within the origins, evolution, and perpetuation of the 'green' labels imposed on American Indians, Schweninger shows how writers often find themselves denying some land ethic stereotypes while seeming to embrace others"--From publisher description.

Book The Bald Eagle  The Improbable Journey of America s Bird

Download or read book The Bald Eagle The Improbable Journey of America s Bird written by Jack E. Davis and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Books of the Month: Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction. Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves—monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world’s finest parents—The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird’s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.

Book The Ghost Dance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice Beck Kehoe
  • Publisher : Waveland Press
  • Release : 2006-06-14
  • ISBN : 1478609249
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book The Ghost Dance written by Alice Beck Kehoe and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2006-06-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating ethnohistorical case study of North American Indians, the Ghost Dance religion is the backbone for Kehoes exploration of significant aspects of American Indian life and her quest to learn why some theories become popular. In Part 1, she combines knowledge gained from her firsthand experiences living among and speaking with Indian elders with a careful analysis of historical accounts, providing a succinct yet insightful look at people, events, and institutions from the 1800s to the present. She clarifies unique and complex relationships among Indian peoples and dispels many of the false pretenses promoted by United States agencies over two centuries. In Part 2, Kehoe surveys some of the theories used to analyze the events described in Part 1, allowing readers to see how theories develop, to think critically about various perspectives, and to draw their own conclusions. Kehoes gripping presentation and analysis pave the way for just and constructive Indian-White relations.

Book Glimpses of the Spirit land

Download or read book Glimpses of the Spirit land written by Samuel H. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the 5th Annual Convention at Eagle Lake  Indiana  1890

Download or read book Proceedings of the 5th Annual Convention at Eagle Lake Indiana 1890 written by Western Association of Writers and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eagle Bear

    Book Details:
  • Author : Buddy Hannah
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2012-07-10
  • ISBN : 9781544931951
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Eagle Bear written by Buddy Hannah and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eagle Bear is a giant of a warrior and a Cherokee Death Warrior who becomes the chief of the Cherokee Nations Wolf Clan, one of the seven clans of the Cherokee Nations in the early 1700's. There are many adventures told about Eagle Bear and his family. The book is full of adventure and leaves you wanting to never stop reading once you start. Even though the book is fiction there are many facts about the Cherokee Nations Wolf Clan throughout the book. Read about the true first American's in the United States of America before it became a nation. The Eagle Bear Series will become a collectable series of great books. The writing style of the author draws you into the story and lets your mind take you back to the times of Eagle Bear and his family.

Book The Winged

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kaitlyn Moore Chandler
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0816532028
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book The Winged written by Kaitlyn Moore Chandler and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Investigates social interactions between Native American groups and birds along the upper Missouri River in all their tangible and intangible expressions"--Provided by publisher.

Book Touching Spirit Bear

Download or read book Touching Spirit Bear written by Ben Mikaelsen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Nautilus Award-winning classic Touching Spirit Bear, author Ben Mikaelson delivers a powerful coming-of-age story of a boy who must overcome the effects that violence has had on his life. After severely injuring Peter Driscal in an empty parking lot, mischief-maker Cole Matthews is in major trouble. But instead of jail time, Cole is given another option: attend Circle Justice, an alternative program that sends juvenile offenders to a remote Alaskan Island to focus on changing their ways. Desperate to avoid prison, Cole fakes humility and agrees to go. While there, Cole is mauled by a mysterious white bear and left for dead. Thoughts of his abusive parents, helpless Peter, and his own anger cause him to examine his actions and seek redemption—from the spirit bear that attacked him, from his victims, and, most importantly, from himself. Ben Mikaelsen paints a vivid picture of a juvenile offender, examining the roots of his anger without absolving him of responsibility for his actions, and questioning a society in which angry people make victims of their peers and communities. Touching Spirit Bear is a poignant testimonial to the power of a pain that can destroy, or lead to healing. A strong choice for independent reading, sharing in the classroom, homeschooling, and book groups.