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Book The North American Indian  The Nootka  The Haida

Download or read book The North American Indian The Nootka The Haida written by Edward S. Curtis and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The North American Indian  Volume 11   The Nootka  The Haida    Paperbound

Download or read book The North American Indian Volume 11 The Nootka The Haida Paperbound written by and published by Classic Books Company. This book was released on with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The North American Indian  The Nootka  The Haida

Download or read book The North American Indian The Nootka The Haida written by Edward S. Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes of the United States and Alaska that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive customs and traditions. The value of such a work, in great measure, will lie in the breadth of its treatment, in its wealth of illustration, and in the fact that it represents the result of personal study of a people who are rapidly losing the traces of their aboriginal character and who are destined ultimately to become assimilated with the 'superior race.' It has been the aim to picture all features of the Indian life and environment--types of the young and the old, with their habitations, industries, ceremonies, games, and everyday customs ... Though the treatment accorded the Indians by those who lay claim to civilization and Christianity has in many cases been worse than criminal, a rehearsal of these wrongs does not properly find a place here"--General introduction.

Book The Nootka  The Haida

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward S. Curtis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9780403084357
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Nootka The Haida written by Edward S. Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The North American Indian

Download or read book The North American Indian written by Frederick Webb Hodge and published by . This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The North American Indian

Download or read book The North American Indian written by Frederick Webb Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales of the North American Indians

Download or read book Tales of the North American Indians written by Stith Thompson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVNearly 100 myths and legends of heroes, journeys to the other world, animal wives and husbands, and even biblical subjects include "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" (Seneca), "The Star Husband" (Ojibwa), "Crossing the Red Sea" (Cheyenne), and scores more. /div

Book The North American Indian

Download or read book The North American Indian written by Frederick Webb Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Library of Congress presents an online exhibit of the published photogravure images from the volumes of "The North American Indian" by American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952). Curtis portrayed the traditional customs and lifestyles of eighty Indian tribes.

Book Handbook of North American Indians

Download or read book Handbook of North American Indians written by William C. Sturtevant and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples.

Book North American Indians  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book North American Indians A Very Short Introduction written by Theda Perdue and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. They describe hunting practices among different tribes, how some made the gradual transition to more settled, agricultural ways of life, the role of kinship and cooperation in Native societies, their varied burial rites and spiritual practices, and many other features of Native American life. Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they settled in and adapted to so successfully. Most importantly, the authors stress how Native Americans have struggled to maintain their sovereignty--first with European powers and then with the United States--in order to retain their lands, govern themselves, support their people, and pursue practices that have made their lives meaningful. Going beyond the stereotypes that so often distort our views of Native Americans, this Very Short Introduction offers a historically accurate, deeply engaging, and often inspiring account of the wide array of Native peoples in America. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

Book Indians of North America

Download or read book Indians of North America written by Fiona Reynoldson and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1997 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Indians of North America, this text is part of the Foundation History series which provides simplified versions of topics in the Heinemann History Study Units series. In each student book, the content has been reduced and the text simplified to meet the needs of less able students.

Book The Native Americans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert F. Spencer
  • Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book The Native Americans written by Robert F. Spencer and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1977 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the various groupings of American Indians and their cultural development.

Book From the Hands of a Weaver

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacilee Wray
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2014-01-07
  • ISBN : 0806188405
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book From the Hands of a Weaver written by Jacilee Wray and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, Native artists on Olympic Peninsula, in what is now northwestern Washington, have created coiled and woven baskets using tree roots, bark, plant stems—and meticulous skill. From the Hands of a Weaver presents the traditional art of basket making among the peninsula’s Native peoples—particularly women—and describes the ancient, historic, and modern practices of the craft. Abundantly illustrated, this book also showcases the basketry collection of Olympic National Park. Baskets designed primarily for carrying and storing food have been central to the daily life of the Klallam, Twana, Quinault, Quileute, Hoh, and Makah cultures of Olympic Peninsula for thousands of years. The authors of the essays collected here, who include Native people as well as academics, explore the commonalities among these cultures and discuss their distinct weaving styles and techniques. Because basketry was interwoven with indigenous knowledge and culture throughout history, alterations in the art over time reflect important social changes. Using primary-source material as well as interviews, volume editor Jacilee Wray shows how Olympic Peninsula craftspeople participated in the development of the commercial basket industry, transforming useful but beautiful objects into creations appreciated as art. Other contributors address poaching of cedar and native grasses, and conservation efforts—contemporary challenges faced by basket makers. Appendices identify weavers and describe weaves attributed to each culture, making this an important reference for both scholars and collectors. Featuring more than 120 photographs and line drawings of historical and twentieth-century weavers and their baskets, this engaging book highlights the culture of distinct Native Northwest peoples while giving voice to individual artists, masters of a living art form.

Book Since the Time of the Transformers

Download or read book Since the Time of the Transformers written by Alan D. McMillan and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines over 4000 years of culture history of the related Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah peoples on western Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula. Using data from the Toquaht Archaeological Project, McMillan challenges current ethnographic interpretations that show little or no change in these peoples’ culture. Instead, by combining historical evidence, recent archaeological data, and oral traditions he demonstrates conclusively that there were in fact extensive cultural changes and restructuring in these societies in the century following contact with Europeans.

Book The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians

Download or read book The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians written by Carol F. Jopling and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indians of the Northwest Coast

Download or read book Indians of the Northwest Coast written by Philip Drucker and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an outstanding authority and profusely illustrated, this is a comprehensive study of the Indians that lived from Yakutat Bay in Alaska to the northern coast of California. Originally published in the Anthropological Handbooks Series of The American Museum of Natural History, this volume vividly recreates the complexities and attainments of this unique culture of aboriginal America. The author first describes the land, people, and prehistory of the area and then considers each aspect of the culture: social structures and marriage customs, economy and technology, religion, rituals, art, wars, and feuds. Philip Drucker, an authority on the ethnology of the Pacific Coast, was educated at the University of California and was formerly with the Bureau of American Ethnology of The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Illustrated with over 70 drawings

Book Everyday Life of the North American Indians

Download or read book Everyday Life of the North American Indians written by Jon Manchip White and published by Buccaneer Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: