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Book The Doctrine of Souls and of Disease Among the Chinook Indians

Download or read book The Doctrine of Souls and of Disease Among the Chinook Indians written by Franz Boas and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chinook Indians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert H. Ruby
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 9780806121079
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Chinook Indians written by Robert H. Ruby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinook Indians, who originally lived at the mouth of the Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington, were experienced traders long before the arrival of white men to that area. When Captain Robert Gray in the ship Columbia Rediviva, for which the river was named, entered the Columbia in 1792, he found the Chinooks in an important position in the trade system between inland Indians and those of the Northwest Coast. The system was based on a small seashell, the dentalium, as the principal medium of exchange. The Chinooks traded in such items as sea otter furs, elkskin armor which could withstand arrows, seagoing canoes hollowed from the trunks of giant trees, and slaves captured from other tribes. Chinook women held equal status with the men in the trade, and in fact the women were preferred as traders by many later ships' captains, who often feared and distrusted the Indian men. The Chinooks welcomed white men not only for the new trade goods they brought, but also for the new outlets they provided Chinook goods, which reached Vancouver Island and as far north as Alaska. The trade was advantageous for the white men, too, for British and American ships that carried sea otter furs from the Northwest Coast to China often realized enormous profits. Although the first white men in the trade were seamen, land-based traders set up posts on the Columbia not long after American explorers Lewis and Clark blazed the trail from the United States to the Pacific Northwest in 1805. John Jacob Astor's men founded the first successful white trading post at Fort Astoria, the site of today's Astoria, Oregon, and the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company soon followed into the territory. As more white men moved into the area, the Chinooks began to lose their favored position as middlemen in the trade. Alcohol; new diseases such as smallpox, influenza, and venereal disease; intertribal warfare; and the growing number of white settlers soon led to the near extinction of the Chinooks. By 1&51, when the first treaty was made between them and the United States government, they were living in small, fragmented bands scattered throughout the territory. Today the Chinook Indians are working to revive their tribal traditions and history and to establish a new tribal economy within the white man's system.

Book The Critic

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book The Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Critic and Literary World

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  • Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 890 pages

Download or read book Critic and Literary World written by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States Army

Download or read book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics

Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Medical Journal

Download or read book New York Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians

Download or read book Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians written by Åke Hultkrantz and published by Stockholm : Ethnographical Museum of Sweden. This book was released on 1953 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of American Folklore

Download or read book Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Whaling Equipment of the Makah Indians

Download or read book The Whaling Equipment of the Makah Indians written by Thomas Talbot Waterman and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literary Digest

Download or read book The Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revival  Studies of Savages and Sex  1929

Download or read book Revival Studies of Savages and Sex 1929 written by Alfred Ernest Crawley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of my revised edition of Mr Crawley's The Mystic Rose has encouraged me to bring together in the present volume some of his papers previously unpublished in book-form, on subjects akin to those of his great work. Mr Crawley's treatment of these problems of sexual anthropology, especially on the psychological side, was, in the years in which he was most actively at work, too uncompromisingly original to meet with general acceptation, even in academic circles. But now his standpoint, which can perhaps be best described as being that of a profound psychological analysis on the basis of biological common-sense, is beginning to be appreciated. And the following papers will be found, I think, to contain all those qualities which so sharply differentiate Mr Crawley's work from that of most other students in the same fields.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 550 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: