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Book The Bloody Shirt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Budiansky
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780670018406
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Bloody Shirt written by Stephen Budiansky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in a fast-paced analysis that traces the period as reflected by the careers of two Union officers, a Confederate general, a northern entrepreneur, and a former slave.

Book The War Shirt

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  • Author : Bently Spang
  • Publisher : Rigby
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780763556976
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book The War Shirt written by Bently Spang and published by Rigby. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dirty Shirt

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  • Author : John Ware
  • Publisher : Page d'Or
  • Release : 2020-11-25
  • ISBN : 9781913825041
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Dirty Shirt written by John Ware and published by Page d'Or. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When unassuming American tourist Daniel Wyndham arrived in Tralee, he was searching for whatever strain of Irish mysticism inspired W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. But instead of a Celtic Twilight he found the hard-drinking redcoats of the Royal Munster Fusiliers - the Dirty Shirts. Ireland was on the brink of civil war, Europe was on the brink of world war, and Wyndham was about to find out what the heroes and fighting men of Irish legend looked like in the twentieth century.

Book The War For Missouri

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  • Author : Wayne Klinckhardt
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2010-07-09
  • ISBN : 1453535063
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book The War For Missouri written by Wayne Klinckhardt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conversational look at the Civil War as it occurred in Missouri. After years of border warfare with Kansas, all Missouri wanted was to be left alone. While the states in the east were choosing sides for a fight that would become more than they bargained for, Missouri wanted to remain neutral. When the call came from Washington for Missouri to provide 10,000 volunteers to man Mr. Lincoln’s war against the south, due to her southern roots Missouri refused. When the U.S. invaded Missouri she no longer had a choice, she had to defend herself.

Book 100  Cotton

Download or read book 100 Cotton written by Helen Walters and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 % COTTON is pure inspiration. It showcases some of the most innovative work from the inernational T-shirt design scene - a unique place where graphics meet fashion.

Book To Live and Die in the West

Download or read book To Live and Die in the West written by Jason Hook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apocalyptic clashes of culture between the land-hungry whites and the American Indians, which reached their climax in the latter half of the nineteenth century, were among the most tragic of all wars ever fought. These conflicts pitted one civilization against another, neither able to comprehend or accommodate the other. To the victor went domination of the continent, to the vanquished the destruction of their way of life. This volume describes those who took part in these wars, focusing on the Plains Indians such as the Sioux and the Cheyenne, the Apache peoples of the south-west, and their implacable foe, the US Cavalry.

Book Artifacts from Nineteenth Century America

Download or read book Artifacts from Nineteenth Century America written by Elizabeth B. Greene and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents both nationally significant objects and ordinary items from everyday life to provide insight into 19th century American society, showing readers how the production, design, function, and use of these objects can inform our understanding of the period. Artifacts from 19th Century America examines a broad array of objects representing various aspects of 19th century American society. The objects have been chosen to illuminate daily life in a number of categories including cooking, entertainment, grooming, clothing and accessories, health, household items, religious life, work, and education. The book's 53 entries include a brief introduction to the background of the object, when and why it was made, and who used it, followed by a detailed description of the object itself. Finally, each entry provides a deep dive into the object's significance and how the object reveals clues about the social, political, economic, and intellectual life of the society in which it was produced and utilized. Students and general readers alike will not only learn about the time period but also learn to use the skills of material culture theory and method, including how to draw meaningful conclusions from each object about their historical context and significance.

Book Crazy Horse

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  • Author : Kingsley M. Bray
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780806139869
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Crazy Horse written by Kingsley M. Bray and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts—and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies—to expose the real Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect but a modest, reflective man whose courage was anchored in Lakota piety. Kingsley M. Bray has plumbed interviews of Crazy Horse's contemporaries and consulted modern Lakotas to fill in vital details of Crazy Horse's inner and public life. To this day, Crazy Horse remains a compelling symbol of resistance for modern Lakotas. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life is a singular achievement, scholarly and authoritative, offering a complete portrait of the man and a fuller understanding of his place in American Indian and United States history.

Book Visiting with the Ancestors

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  • Author : Laura Peers
  • Publisher : Athabasca University Press
  • Release : 2016-09-29
  • ISBN : 1771990376
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Visiting with the Ancestors written by Laura Peers and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had remained ever since. Exhibiting the shirts at the museums was, however, only one part of the project undertaken by Laura Peers and Alison Brown. Prior to the installation of the exhibits, groups of Blackfoot people—hundreds altogether—participated in special “handling sessions,” in which they were able to touch the shirts and examine them up close. The shirts, some painted with mineral pigments and adorned with porcupine quillwork, others decorated with locks of human and horse hair, took the breath away of those who saw, smelled, and touched them. Long-dormant memories were awakened, and many of the participants described a powerful sense of connection and familiarity with the shirts, which still house the spirit of the ancestors who wore them. In the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume is the story of an effort to build a bridge between museums and source communities, in hopes of establishing stronger, more sustaining relationships between the two and spurring change in prevailing museum policies. Negotiating the tension between a museum’s institutional protocol and Blackfoot cultural protocol was challenging, but the experience described both by the authors and by Blackfoot contributors to the volume was transformative. Museums seek to preserve objects for posterity. This volume demonstrates that the emotional and spiritual power of objects does not vanish with the death of those who created them. For Blackfoot people today, these shirts are a living presence, one that evokes a sense of continuity and inspires pride in Blackfoot cultural heritage.

Book The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore

Download or read book The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore written by Ernest Thompson Seton and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American West

Download or read book The American West written by Anne McEvoy and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at what was worn by pioneers and settlers as well as Native Americans as the West opened up.

Book The Dreadful River Cave

Download or read book The Dreadful River Cave written by James Willard Schultz and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The African Wars

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  • Author : Chris Peers
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2011-01-26
  • ISBN : 1844687627
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book The African Wars written by Chris Peers and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military history of native sub-Saharan African armies during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, exploring their training, weapons, tactics and more. In The African Wars, Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and sub-tropical Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His pioneering and authoritative study describes in vivid detail the organization and training of African warriors, their weapons, their fighting methods and traditions, and their tactics. He concentrates on the campaigns mounted by the most successful African armies as they struggled to defend themselves against the European scramble for Africa. Resistance was inconsistent, but some warlike peoples fought long and hard—the Zulu victory over the British at Isandhlwana is the best known but by no means the only occasion when the Africans humiliated the colonial invaders.

Book Navajo Beadwork

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  • Author : Ellen K. Moore
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2019-03-14
  • ISBN : 081654008X
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Navajo Beadwork written by Ellen K. Moore and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunset. Fire. Rainbow. Drawing on such common occurrences of light, Navajo artists have crafted an uncommon array of design in colored glass beads. Beadwork is an art form introduced to the Navajos through other Indian and Euro-American contacts, but it is one that they have truly made their own. More than simple crafts, Navajo beaded designs are architectures of light. Ellen Moore has written the first history of Navajo beadwork—belts and hatbands, baskets and necklaces—in a book that examines both the influence of Navajo beliefs in the creation of this art and the primacy of light and color in Navajo culture. Navajo Beadwork: Architectures of Light traces the evolution of the art as explained by traders, Navajo consultants, and Navajo beadworkers themselves. It also shares the visions, words, and art of 23 individual artists to reveal the influences on their creativity and show how they go about creating their designs. As Moore reveals, Navajo beadwork is based on an aggregate of beliefs, categories, and symbols that are individually interpreted and transposed into beaded designs. Most designs are generated from close observation of light in the natural world, then structured according to either Navajo tradition or the newer spirituality of the Native American Church. For many beadworkers, creating designs taps deeply embedded beliefs so that beaded objects reflect their thoughts and prayers, their aesthetic sensibilities, and their sense of being Navajo—but above all, their attention to light and its properties. No other book offers such an intimate view of this creative process, and its striking color plates attest to the wondrous results. Navajo Beadwork: Architectures of Light is a valuable record of ethnographic research and a rich source of artistic insight for lovers of beadwork and Native American art.

Book The River of Life

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  • Author : Michael Marchand
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2013-10-29
  • ISBN : 3110275880
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The River of Life written by Michael Marchand and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability defines the need for any society to live within the constraints of the land's capacity to deliver all natural resources the society consumes. This book compares the general differences between Native Americans and western world view towards resources. It will provide the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a sustainability portfolio designed by indigenous peoples. This book introduces the ideas on how to link nature and society to make sustainable choices. To be sustainable, nature and its endowment needs to be linked to human behavior similar to the practices of indigenous peoples. The main goal of this book is to facilitate thinking about how to change behavior and to integrate culture into thinking and decision-processes.

Book Commerce Reports

Download or read book Commerce Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Woodcraft

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  • Author : Ernest Thompson Seton
  • Publisher : Digital Antiquaria
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 1580573223
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Woodcraft written by Ernest Thompson Seton and published by Digital Antiquaria. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterfully-crafted eBook is an abridged version of Seton's "Woodcraft." Fully-illustrated with Seton's own drawings, this edition contains the key chapters on Indian life and lore, campcraft, games, and scouting. (It lacks only the chapters on forestry, woods medicine, natural history, and mushrooms.)Seton was the Chief of the Woodcraft Indians, which was merged into the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. Seton himself became Chief Scout of the United States.A superb resource for Scouters, as Seton presents topics and activities which are still of great interest to boys of all ages.(252 pages, illustrated, 6.6Mb - fully printable)