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Book The Illustrated Directory of Native Americans

Download or read book The Illustrated Directory of Native Americans written by Ray Bonds and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the way of life of the first Americans. It is divided into nine cultural areas, and describes the beliefs, the key individuals and historical events in the lives of the most notable tribes and groups of Indians, including the Apache, Cheyenne and Cherokee.

Book The Native Americans

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Hurst Thomas
  • Publisher : Turner Publishing, Incorporated
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book The Native Americans written by David Hurst Thomas and published by Turner Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first project in a year-long initiative devoted to Native Americans by Turner Broadcasting. Written by well-known authorities in Indian history and culture, this comprehensive volume spans thousands of years. Lavishly illustrated with photos and works by both comtemporary and historical artists.

Book Illustrated Directory of the Old West

Download or read book Illustrated Directory of the Old West written by Ray Bonds and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2002-08-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 19th century America, the great surge westward by settlers eager to open up the frontiers and take advantage of as-yet unknown natural resources. This extraordinary story is detailed in this fact-filled and illustration-packed reference featuring specially commissioned photographs of surviving weapons, implements, tools, and equipment, as well as Native American artifacts. The text, also illustrated with rare period photos, describes how explorers, homesteaders, the lawless and lawmen, buffalo hunters, railroaders, and others lived-and often fought-with each other and the Native Americans beyond the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean and from the northern territories to the Mexican border.

Book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Indian Mythology

Download or read book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Indian Mythology written by David Michael Jones and published by Lorenz Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically-arranged entries provide information on more than nine hundred key characters and themes in the mythology of the Americas.

Book The Native Americans

Download or read book The Native Americans written by Betty Ballantine and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Indians of Iowa

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  • Author : Lance M. Foster
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2009-10
  • ISBN : 1587298171
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book The Indians of Iowa written by Lance M. Foster and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of Iowa's Native American tribes that discusses their history, culture, language, and traditions, and includes illustrations.

Book The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists

Download or read book The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists written by Arlene B. Hirschfelder and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicates information about the histories, contemporary presence, and various other facts of the Native peoples of the United States. From publisher description.

Book The Illustrated Directory of North American Locomotives

Download or read book The Illustrated Directory of North American Locomotives written by Pepperbox Press and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 250 classic American locomotives. "Let the country but make the railroads, and the railroads will make the country." — Edward Pease During the mid-1800s, American railroads became the lifeblood of new communities in the West and brought new ways of life and means of commerce to rural communities. Railroads became the shining thread that tied together the tapestry of American life into a land of plenty. The Illustrated Dictionary of North American Locomotives explores the story of railroads and their motive power. Giant beasts of iron and steel once roamed the land. Their descendants still race across the country. This book charts the progress of motive power on America's railroads from 1830 until the present. Its 432 pages illustrate a wide variety of grand and humble locomotives from the steam powered Puffing Billy types of the "Early Days" chapter, to the mighty Allegheny class steamers that were used to haul coal for the American industry in the "Steam in Charge" chapter. Technical specifications are given for each engine type and the book is fully illustrated with both black & white and color photos. The book goes on to show the progress of Diesel Power, including the output of General Electric and General Motors electromotive division (EMD) from the 1920s to the present. Ultimately, the book also explores the Electric Power that powers so many of today's railways.

Book Native America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christine Mather
  • Publisher : Clarkson Potter
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Native America written by Christine Mather and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 1990 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the traditions of the American Indians in 400 photographs of pottery, jewelry, blankets, baskets, masks, totem poles, dances and powwows.

Book Native Americans

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  • Author : Arlene B. Hirschfelder
  • Publisher : New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub.
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780789451620
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Native Americans written by Arlene B. Hirschfelder and published by New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help readers fully understand Native Americans, this book offers a well-researched text of their history, spiritual beliefs and adaptation to modern life, and weaves in numerous archival photographs, eyewitness accounts, side bar references, chronological details, and maps.

Book Why You Can t Teach United States History without American Indians

Download or read book Why You Can t Teach United States History without American Indians written by Susan Sleeper-Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of the standard American history survey. Contributors reassess major events, themes, groups of historical actors, and approaches--social, cultural, military, and political--consistently demonstrating how Native American people, and questions of Native American sovereignty, have animated all the ways we consider the nation's past. The uniqueness of Indigenous history, as interwoven more fully in the American story, will challenge students to think in new ways about larger themes in U.S. history, such as settlement and colonization, economic and political power, citizenship and movements for equality, and the fundamental question of what it means to be an American. Contributors are Chris Andersen, Juliana Barr, David R. M. Beck, Jacob Betz, Paul T. Conrad, Mikal Brotnov Eckstrom, Margaret D. Jacobs, Adam Jortner, Rosalyn R. LaPier, John J. Laukaitis, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Robert J. Miller, Mindy J. Morgan, Andrew Needham, Jean M. O'Brien, Jeffrey Ostler, Sarah M. S. Pearsall, James D. Rice, Phillip H. Round, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and Scott Manning Stevens.

Book Indian Tribes of North America

Download or read book Indian Tribes of North America written by Thomas Loraine McKenney and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Directory of Native American Tribes of the United States

Download or read book Directory of Native American Tribes of the United States written by Jess Lujan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Through a Native Lens

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  • Author : Nicole Strathman
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2020-03-19
  • ISBN : 0806167068
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Through a Native Lens written by Nicole Strathman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is American Indian photography? At the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Curtis began creating romantic images of American Indians, and his works—along with pictures by other non-Native photographers—came to define the field. Yet beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, American Indians themselves started using cameras to record their daily activities and to memorialize tribal members. Through a Native Lens offers a refreshing, new perspective by highlighting the active contributions of North American Indians, both as patrons who commissioned portraits and as photographers who created collections. In this richly illustrated volume, Nicole Dawn Strathman explores how indigenous peoples throughout the United States and Canada appropriated the art of photography and integrated it into their lifeways. The photographs she analyzes date to the first one hundred years of the medium, between 1840 and 1940. To account for Native activity both in front of and behind the camera, the author divides her survey into two parts. Part I focuses on Native participants, including such public figures as Sarah Winnemucca and Red Cloud, who fashioned themselves in deliberate ways for their portraits. Part II examines Native professional, semiprofessional, and amateur photographers. Drawing from tribal and state archives, libraries, museums, and individual collections, Through a Native Lens features photographs—including some never before published—that range from formal portraits to casual snapshots. The images represent multiple tribal communities across Native North America, including the Inland Tlingit, Northern Paiute, and Kiowa. Moving beyond studies of Native Americans as photographic subjects, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how indigenous peoples took control of their own images and distinguished themselves as pioneers of photography.

Book The Illustrated Directory of the Old West

Download or read book The Illustrated Directory of the Old West written by William C. Davis and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 19th-century America, the great surge westward by settlers eager to open up the frontiers and take advantage of the natural resources of the unknown mountains and plains was a fabulous adventure, filled with excitement and often fraught with danger. This story is detailed in this readable, illustrated directory, which includes many specially commissioned photographs of the weapons, homesteaders' implements, gold-diggers' and cowhands' tools and equipment, and general artefacts of the native peoples and those who were to usurp them from their lands.

Book The Gift of the Face

Download or read book The Gift of the Face written by Shamoon Zamir and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as a series of twenty volumes and portfolios, the work contains more than two thousand photographs intended to document the traditional culture of every Native American tribe west of the Mississippi. Many critics have claimed that Curtis's images present Native peoples as a "vanishing race," hiding both their engagement with modernity and the history of colonial violence. But in this major reappraisal of Curtis's work, Shamoon Zamir argues instead that Curtis's photography engages meaningfully with the crisis of culture and selfhood brought on by the dramatic transformations of Native societies. This crisis is captured profoundly, and with remarkable empathy, in Curtis's images of the human face. Zamir also contends that we can fully understand this achievement only if we think of Curtis's Native subjects as coauthors of his project. This radical reassessment is presented as a series of close readings that explore the relationship of aesthetics and ethics in photography. Zamir's richly illustrated study resituates Curtis's work in Native American studies and in the histories of photography and visual anthropology.

Book The Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America written by Michael Johnson and published by Booksales. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive, illustrated overview of Native American tribes throughout North America.