Download or read book Comanche Warriors and Butterflies written by Richard Ford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most enduring tales of the Old West is the story of John Parker and his sister, Cynthia Ann Parker, who were kidnapped by the Comanches in 1836 from Texas. Raised by their captors, they later became Comanches. Cynthia married Peta Nocona, chief of the Qwahadi Band, and had several children, including Quanah Parker, chief of the Comanches. Of John Parker, though, nothing further is known with certainty. However, legends of him still ride the wind. The most often heard relates how John Parker became a great warrior and traveled to Mexico with the Comanches on their yearly raids. These raids caused horrific and widespread damage and loss of life, from the Rio Grande, south, all the way to Queretaro and Guadalajara, deep in Mexico—an incredible distance of more than a thousand miles from the Comanche homeland. Even Mexico City lay in dread of being attacked. Hundreds of thousands of horses and cattle were taken as well as numerous hostages. During one such raid, John Parker took seriously ill and was left in the Chisos Mountains, just across the border in south Texas, to recuperate, along with a young Mexican woman, who the Comanches had taken hostage. They fell in love, married, and returned to Mexico, living happily there for many years. But there’s so much more to this story that yet rides the wind.
Download or read book The Butterflies Carried Him Home and Other Indian Tales written by Colette Gauthier Myles and published by The Mousetail Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of North American Indian legends from the Tewa, Kiowa, Chiricahua, Musquakie, and Menominee tribes.
Download or read book A British Butterfly Collector on the Texas Frontier written by James Kaye and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist is a young British butterfly collector who, working for the British Museum in London, collected the little-known butterflies and moths at the time in Texas in 1840. The collector teamed with a Spanish seorita to collect them across Texas when traveling in an ox-drawn covered wagon over rough and muddy roads and through the ranges of hostile Native Americans. The book is about their collections and, at times, hazardous adventures. The text is a natural history of the butterfly and moth species pictured. The book is also a history of pioneer Texas of the 1840s as well as the ethnology of Comanche Indians.
Download or read book The Tale of the Butterfly Warrior written by J.R. Patrick and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grey Eagle sits on a cloud in the heavens with other babies, children, and young-almost-adults who left the earthly world before their time. He can see his clan below, working the gardens, hunting, and fishing and going about daily tasks. He can see celebrations as well as everyday life. He can also see his mother, Green Willow. She is not the calm and loving person she was when he left the earthly world. He could see that she was in great pain and grieved for her lost son. "Listen to me, Mother," screamed Grey Eagle. Angry sparks flew from his fingers and caused fierce lightning bolts to streak across the heavens, only to become gentle fireflies dancing in the wind. Grey Eagle was unable to ease his mother's pain, and he became more and more irritated with the passing of time. His tears of frustration became gentle rain to cool his mother's face. His fists beat into the clouds and caused blinding snowstorms, but they became soft silken snowflakes silently kissing the ground and creating lacy mantles of white covering his mother's raven-black hair. Grey Eagle's pattern of hurt, anger, and deep frustration had been unchanged for many moons. Pleas and requests for help from the Great Spirit are a last resort for Grey Eagle and Green Willow, but will he listen?
Download or read book Stone Butterfly written by James D. Doss and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an elderly man is murdered and the suspect is an orphaned girl whose father was a childhood friend of the victim, Charlie Moon and FBI Special Agent Lila Mae McTeague take on the case. Martins Press.
Download or read book Nature Watch Big Bend written by Lynne M. Weber and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this information-packed, month-to-month guide to the wildlife, plants, and natural events that define the seasonal cycles in Big Bend National Park, naturalists Lynne and Jim Weber offer a richly illustrated guide to the natural rhythms of this beautiful and remote region in far West Texas. If you're on the lookout for deer in January, tracking hummingbirds in August, photographing wildflowers in September, or listening to frog choruses after a summer rain—the authors provide “Where to Watch” suggestions on when and how to see these and many other park inhabitants, from beavers and bats to lizards and dragonflies. Each chapter features a weather and temperature chart, photographs, and eye-catching illustrations by Lynne Weber. Whether you are a casual tourist or a frequent visitor to Big Bend, the authors hope that knowing what to look for during your stay in one of the nation’s largest national parks will heighten your awareness, sharpen your observation skills, and enhance your overall experience in this iconic Texas landscape.
Download or read book Dances of the Tewa Pueblo Indians written by Jill Drayson Sweet and published by School for Advanced Research Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great changes have swept the world of the Tewa Indian peoples of New Mexico since 1985, when this volume first appeared, including changes in relationships between Indian communities and the anthropologists who wish to study them. Returning to her classic work, anthropologist Jill D. Sweet revisits the ideas and the people who first inspired her love of the Tewa Pueblo dances. The Tewa have become increasingly sophisticated in managing tourism, including the new casinos, to ensure that it contributes to the persistence and even the revitalization of ancient ritual practices. This expanded edition reflects these changes by featuring the voices of Tewa dancers, composers, and others to explain the significance of dance to their understanding of Tewa identity and community. The author frames their words with her own poignant reflections on more than twenty years of study and friendship with these creative and enduring people.
Download or read book Tales of an Enchanted New Mexico written by Roger Martínez and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of an Enchanted New Mexico begins and ends with tales from Old New Mexico brought over dusty trails from Spain into the New World, and finally into Northern New Spain, ie, Northern New Mexico. Both La Llorona and Comadre Sebastiana have been adapted into short stories from the traditional mythological tales they are. The story of the Comanches is based in the late 1700’s, taken from the Comanche perspective as they lived their lives, and their interactions with local communities both Pueblo People and Spanish, and the government of their time. Manitou Bridge, the Taos Rio Grande Gorge Bridge story, as the Algonquian word manitou means, supernatural forces that permeate the world and in this case, brings animation to the major bridges in the story, as Manitou Springs in Colorado, by immersing oneself in the natural springs, one is animated.
Download or read book Trail of the Red Butterfly written by Karl H. Schlesier and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1807, Whirlwind, a Cheyenne Kit Fox headman, leads a search across New Spain, hoping to recover Stone, his twin, captured in a horse-raiding expedition. From the Colorado plains to the Camino Real, the trek is rooted in the author's anthropological research and draws on Juan Pedro Walker's 1805 map"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Indians Book written by Natalie Curtis Burlin and published by New York ; London : Harper and Brothers. This book was released on 1923 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indians Book written by Natalie Curtis Burlin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1968-01-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lore, music, narratives, dozens of drawings by Indians themselves from an authoritative and important survey of native culture among Plains, Southwestern, Lake, and Pueblo Indians. Standard work in popular ethnomusicology. Features 149 songs in full notation. Includes 23 drawings and 23 photos.
Download or read book In the Time of the Butterflies written by Julia Alvarez and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times) Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "This Julia Alvarez classic is a must-read for anyone of Latinx descent." —Popsugar.com "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." —People "Shimmering . . . Valuable and necessary." —Los Angeles Times "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” —St. Petersburg Times "Alvarez does a remarkable job illustrating the ruinous effect the 30-year dictatorship had on the Dominican Republic and the very real human cost it entailed."—Cosmopolitan.com
Download or read book PICTURE WRITING OF TEXAS INDIANS written by A.T. JACKSON and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indians Book written by Natalie Curtis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lore, music, narratives, dozens of drawings survey the native culture among Plains, Southwestern, Lake, and Pueblo Indians. Standard work in popular ethnomusicology. Features 149 songs in full notation, 23 drawings, and 23 photos.
Download or read book The Ormond Beach Mound East Central Florida written by Jesse David Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthropological Papers written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
