Download or read book The Big Chiefs written by Meja Mwangi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chiefs written by Stuart Woods and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling thriller that launched the career of best-selling novelist Stuart Woods in an anniversary hardcover edition.
Download or read book Big Chief Harrison and the Mardi Gras Indians written by Al Kennedy and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the life, work, and legacy of a pivotal figure in New Orleans cultural history. Based on more than seventy interviews with the subject and his close friends and family, this biography delves deep into the life of Donald Harrison—a waiter, performer, mentor to musicians, philosopher, devoted family man, and, most notably, the Big Chief of the Guardians of the Flame, a Mardi Gras Indian tribe. The firsthand accounts and anecdotes from those who knew him offer insight into the electrifying existence of a man who enriched the culture of New Orleans, took pride in his African American heritage, and advocated education throughout the city. Beneath a vibrant costume of colorful feathers and intricate beading stood a man of conviction who possessed a great intellect and intense pride. Harrison grew up during the Great Depression and faced discrimination throughout his life but refused to bow down to oppression. Through determination and an insatiable eagerness to learn, he found solace in philosophy, jazz, and art and spiritual meaning in the Mardi Gras Indian tradition. He shared his ideals and discoveries with his family, whom he protected fiercely, until he took his last breath in 1998. Harrison’s wife, children, and grandchildren continue to carry his legacy by furthering literacy programs for New Orleans’ youth. From Harrison’s birth in 1933 to his desire to become a Mardi Gras Indian to the moment he met his beloved wife, author Al Kennedy shares Harrison’s significant life experiences. He allows Big Chief Donald to take center stage and explain—in his own words—the mysterious world of the Mardi Gras Indians, their customs, and beliefs. Rare personal photographs from family albums depict the Big Chief with his family, parading through the streets on Carnival Day, and performing the timeless rituals of the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans. This well-researched biography presents a side of the Big Chief the public did not see, revealing the rebellious spirit of a man who demanded respect, guarded his family, and guided his tribe with utmost pride. Praise for Big Chief Harrison and the Mardi Gras Indians “Enormously enjoyable, richly informative, and deeply moving. . . . To meet the Harrisons is to encounter an America you can't help but fall in love with and be inspired by forever, while gaining a glimpse into the powerful and meaningful tradition of the Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans. It's a story of strength, passion, survival, and resistance. It’s a story for today.” —Jonathan Demme, Academy Award–winning director “Building on his impressive knowledge of New Orleans culture, Al Kennedy delivers a masterpiece of artistic biography. The world needs to know about Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr. Al Kennedy tells his full story in this wonderful book. . . . A powerful read.” —Robert Farris Thompson, Col. John Trumbull Professor, History of Art; Master of Timothy Dwight College, Yale University; and author, Tango: The Art History of Love, Face of the Gods, and Aesthetic of the Cool
Download or read book The Saukie Indians and Their Great Chiefs Black Hawk and Keokuk written by Amer Mills Stocking and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chief of Chiefs written by Al Kennedy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring true story of one of New Orleans’s most beloved citizens, whose remarkable life spanned most of the twentieth century. From his birth in 1915, Robert Nathaniel Lee faced hardship and discrimination. But the man who would one day be known as Big Chief Robbe always found a way to do what he believed in?even if that meant using his fists to beat back bullies. When he saw the Mardi Gras Indians for the first time, he knew that he was going to be one of them, part of the long tradition of song and dance processions held in ceremonial attire that enliven Fat Tuesday year after year. Joining the Mardi Gras Indian community at only ten, he quickly became known for his stunning sewing and singing abilities. By the end of his life in 2001, he had been the Big Chief of four different tribes—the first and only person to be named “chief of chiefs” by the Mardi Gras Indian Council—given a lecture at Yale University, and become a role model for generations of New Orleans black youth. In this book, Al Kennedy, author of Big Chief Harrison and the Mardi Gras Indians, enhances the story of Chief Robbe’s life with extensive detail and interviews from their personal relationship, creating a biography that reflects the rich history and personality of New Orleans.
Download or read book Santa Fe Chiefs written by Bill Yenne and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like lightning flashing across the desert sky, the Chief streaks by, resplendent in its ""warbonnet"" livery. This splendid illustrated history of the Santa Fe Railroad's flagship passenger trains carries readers back to an era of luxury travel on America's rails - when movie stars and moguls booked their places on the Chief for the 40-hour trip from Chicago to Los Angeles - faster even than Amtrak's Southwest Chief today. The story of America's most celebrated passenger train, the nation's first diesel-poweed streamliner - from its first run in 1936 to its takeover by Amtrak in 1971 - also includes cocverage of the Santa Fe's other Chiefs, including the Texas and San Francisco.
Download or read book Wappo Texts 1st Series written by Paul Radin and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology written by University of California (1868-1952) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer Expanded Annotated written by Wooden Leg and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most fascinating classics ever written about the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Dr. Thomas Marquis spent many years getting to know and interviewing Native Americans who had fought against General Custer and the 7th Cavalry. This is the narrative of Chief Wooden Leg, given to Marquis late in Wooden Leg's life. Long dismissed by historians, Little Bighorn scholars today believe the Indian accounts to be essential to an understanding of what went wrong at the Little Bighorn (and what went right for the Sioux and Cheyenne). Archaeology at the battlefield has born out the veracity of the Indian accounts and the contribution to history by Wooden Leg and Marquis is invaluable. Included is a great deal of information about the life of the Cheyenne of Wooden Leg's time, his boyhood, his understanding of Indian medicine, a very detailed account of the June 25-26, 1876 battle with Custer, and more. This is a book you'll read more than once. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
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Download or read book Dreux Club Blues written by Scott D. Fenner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David McAllister is a police officer working in New Orleans in the 1980s. Hes also a regular at the Dreux Club, located in the Gentilly Terrace area of the city. All types of neighbors and friends showed up there, where they could relax over a couple of drinks and complain their ways to happiness. Dave finds himself among a unique group of characters populating the club, and over the course of a decade, he faces unusual encounters that transport him to a world he could never have imagined. As the friends of the Dreux do their best to weather the era, their stories depict an unforgettable journey, uncompromisingly direct at times, hilarious and memorable at others. Through ups and downs, their lives form a tapestry woven with threads of adventure, criminal undertakings, and the unmistakable personality of New Orleans. In this novel, a police officer experiences the 1980s with the eclectic group of friends and neighbors who populate the local club.
Download or read book World Music Pedagogy Volume VII Teaching World Music in Higher Education written by William J. Coppola and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education addresses a pedagogical pathway of varied strategies for teaching world music in higher education, offering concrete means for diversifying undergraduate studies through world music culture courses. While the first six volumes in this series have detailed theoretical and applied principles of World Music Pedagogy within K-12 public schools and broader communities, this seventh volume is chiefly concerned with infusing culture-rich musical experiences through world music courses at the tertiary level, presenting a compelling argument for the growing need for such perspectives and approaches. These chapters include discussions of the logical trajectories of the framework into world music courses, through which the authors seek to challenge the status quo of lecture-only academic courses in some college and university music programs. Unique to this series, each of these chapters illustrates practical procedures for incorporating the WMP framework into sample classes. However, this volume (like the rest of the series) is not a prescriptive "recipe book" of lesson plans. Rather, it seeks to enrich the conversation surrounding cultural diversity in music through philosophically-rooted, social justice-conscious, and practice-oriented perspectives.
Download or read book Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior written by United States. Board of Indian Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Department of the Interior with Accompanying Documents written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
