Lewis Clark And The Indian Country

Author : Frederick E. Hoxie,Jay T. Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015074281281

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Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country by Frederick E. Hoxie,Jay T. Nelson Pdf

"Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country" broadens the scope of conventional study of the Lewis and Clark expedition to include Native American perspectives. Frederick E. Hoxie and Jay T. Nelson present the expedition s long-term impact on the Indian Country and its residents through compelling interviews conducted with Native Americans over the past two centuries, secondary literature, Lewis and Clark travel journals, and other primary sources from the Newberry Library s exhibit Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country. Rich stories of Native Americans, travelers, ranchers, Columbia River fur traders, teachers, and missionaries often in conflict with each other--illustrate complex interactions between settlers and tribal people. Environmental protection issues and the preservation of Native language, education, and culture dominate late twentieth-century discussions, while early accounts document important Native American alliances with Lewis and Clark. In widening the reader s interpretive lens to include many perspectives, this collection reaches beyond individual achievement to appreciate America s plural past."

Author : Frederick Hoxie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101595909

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This Indian Country by Frederick Hoxie Pdf

Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Native American history, has for years asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each semester to write down the names of three American Indians. Almost without exception, year after year, the names are Geronimo, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The general conclusion is inescapable: Most Americans instinctively view Indians as people of the past who occupy a position outside the central narrative of American history. These three individuals were warriors, men who fought violently against American expansion, lost, and died. It’s taken as given that Native history has no particular relationship to what is conventionally presented as the story of America. Indians had a history too; but theirs was short and sad, and it ended a long time ago. In This Indian Country, Hoxie has created a bold and sweeping counter-narrative to our conventional understanding. Native American history, he argues, is also a story of political activism, its victories hard-won in courts and campaigns rather than on the battlefield. For more than two hundred years, Indian activists—some famous, many unknown beyond their own communities—have sought to bridge the distance between indigenous cultures and the republican democracy of the United States through legal and political debate. Over time their struggle defined a new language of “Indian rights” and created a vision of American Indian identity. In the process, they entered a dialogue with other activist movements, from African American civil rights to women’s rights and other progressive organizations. Hoxie weaves a powerful narrative that connects the individual to the tribe, the tribe to the nation, and the nation to broader historical processes. He asks readers to think deeply about how a country based on the values of liberty and equality managed to adapt to the complex cultural and political demands of people who refused to be overrun or ignored. As we grapple with contemporary challenges to national institutions, from inside and outside our borders, and as we reflect on the array of shifting national and cultural identities across the globe, This Indian Country provides a context and a language for understanding our present dilemmas.

Author : Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307487452

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Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. Pdf

At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own unique answers; from Pulitzer prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, who offers a haunting essay evoking the voices of the past; to Debra Magpie Earling’s illumination of her ancestral family, their survival, and the magic they use to this day; to Mark N. Trahant’s attempt to trace his own blood back to Clark himself; and Roberta Conner’s comparisons of the explorer’s journals with the accounts of the expedition passed down to her. Incisive and compelling, these essays shed new light on our understanding of this landmark journey into the American West.

Author : James P. Ronda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803290198

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Lewis and Clark Among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition) by James P. Ronda Pdf

Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the gap between academic and general audiences.OCo"Choice""

Author : Thomas Power Lowry
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803229594

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Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Thomas Power Lowry Pdf

One of the greatest challenges faced by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804?6 Corps of Discovery expedition was that of medical emergencies on the trail. Without an attending physician, even routine ailments and injuries could have tragic consequences for the expedition?s success and the safety of its members. Of these dangers, the most insidious and potentially devastating was the slow, painful, and oftentimes fatal ravage of venereal disease. ø Physician Thomas P. Lowry delves into the world of nineteenth-century medicine, uncovering the expedition?s very real fear of venereal disease. Lewis and Clark knew they were unlikely to prevent their men from forming sexual liaisons on the trail, so they prepared for the consequences of encounters with potentially infected people, as well as the consequences of preexisting disease, by stocking themselves with medicine and the latest scientific knowledge from the best minds in America. Lewis and Clark?s expedition encountered Native peoples who experienced venereal disease as a result of liaisons with French, British, Spanish, and Canadian travelers and had their own methods for curing its victims, or at least for easing the pain it inflicted. ø Lowry?s careful study of the explorers? journals sheds new light on this neglected aspect of the expedition, showing in detail how sex and venereal disease affected the men and their mission, and describes how diverse peoples faced a common threat with the best knowledge and tools at their disposal.

Author : William Clark,Meriwether Lewis,Gary E. Moulton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Botany
ISBN : 0803228759

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August 25, 1804 - April 6, 1805 by William Clark,Meriwether Lewis,Gary E. Moulton Pdf

Author : Robert J. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313071843

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Native America, Discovered and Conquered by Robert J. Miller Pdf

Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they discovered. In the United States, the British colonists who had recently become Americans were competing with the English, French, and Spanish for control of lands west of the Mississippi. Who would be the discoverers of the Indians and their lands, the United States or the European countries? We know the answer, of course, but in this book, Miller explains for the first time exactly how the United States achieved victory, not only on the ground, but also in the developing legal thought of the day. The American effort began with Thomas Jefferson's authorization of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which set out in 1803 to lay claim to the West. Lewis and Clark had several charges, among them the discovery of a Northwest Passage—a land route across the continent—in order to establish an American fur trade with China. In addition, the Corps of Northwestern Discovery, as the expedition was called, cataloged new plant and animal life, and performed detailed ethnographic research on the Indians they encountered. This fascinating book lays out how that ethnographic research became the legal basis for Indian removal practices implemented decades later, explaining how the Doctrine of Discovery became part of American law, as it still is today.

Author : Meriwether Lewis,William Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Columbia River
ISBN : LCCN:64015500

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The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: Preface by the editor by Meriwether Lewis,William Clark Pdf

Lewis and Clark's Expedition from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean was the first governmental exploration of the "Great West." The history of this undertaking is the personal narrative and official report of the first white men who crossed the continent between and British and Spanish possessions.

Author : W. Dale Nelson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574411652

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Interpreters with Lewis and Clark by W. Dale Nelson Pdf

A frank portrayal of Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader, who, with his Shoshone Indian wife Sacagawea, joined the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803. While Sacagawea assumed legendary status as a "token of peace", Toussaint has been maligned in fiction and nonfiction alike.

Author : Sammye J. Meadows,Jana Prewitt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118068731

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Lewis and Clark For Dummies by Sammye J. Meadows,Jana Prewitt Pdf

The Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details of the journey that historians have gleaned from the group’s journals and maps, and also discusses what’s known of the Indian perspective of the expedition. Throughout the book, you find out about Jefferson’s western exploration from his earliest efforts to see the Corps assembled through the aftermath for the explorers, the tribes, and the United States. But the focus of Lewis & Clark For Dummies is on the period between Jefferson’s confidential letter to Congress requesting dollars to mount a western exploration (January 18,1803) and the expedition’s triumphant (and improbable) return to St. Louis (September 23, 1806): forty-two months that changed the world. Join Lewis and Clark as they recruit the Corps of Discovery, meet Sacagawea and various Indian tribes, and set off along the Missouri River on a thrilling, perilous journey. Lewis & Clark For Dummies also covers the following topics and more: The expedition’s people and places Jefferson’s fascination with the West Final preparations of Meriwether Lewis Weathering storms to launch the expedition The discomforts and dangers of the journey Making maps and writing reports A first look at the Pacific Ocean The story of Lewis and Clark doesn’t end with their return to St. Louis. This book will also lead you on an exploration of the fates and lessons of the Corps of Discovery. Find out what happened to Lewis, Clark, and many other key players after their famous journey. And examine the aftermath for the American Indians and the political and cultural ramifications for the United States. You’ll even find the resources you need to plan your own recreation of the expedition as you take the Trail yourself!

Author : Kris Fresonke,Mark Spence
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520937147

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Lewis & Clark by Kris Fresonke,Mark Spence Pdf

Two centuries after their expedition awoke the nation both to the promise and to the disquiet of the vast territory out west, Lewis and Clark still stir the imagination, and their adventure remains one of the most celebrated and studied chapters in American history. This volume explores the legacy of Lewis and Clark's momentous journey and, on the occasion of its bicentennial, considers the impact of their westward expedition on American culture. Approaching their subject from many different perspectives—literature, history, women's studies, law, medicine, and environmental history, among others—the authors chart shifting attitudes about the explorers and their journals, together creating a compelling, finely detailed picture of the "interdisciplinary intrigue" that has always surrounded Lewis and Clark's accomplishment. This collection is most remarkable for its insights into ongoing debates over the relationships between settler culture and aboriginal peoples, law and land tenure, manifest destiny and westward expansion, as well as over the character of Sacagawea, the expedition's vision of nature, and the interpretation and preservation of the Lewis and Clark Trail.

Author : Ellen Rodger
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778724107

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Lewis and Clark by Ellen Rodger Pdf

This fascinating new book follows Lewis and Clark and the members of their 1804 Corps of Discovery expedition on their famous trek to chart the American West, describing the effects of their encounters with various Native nations along the way. Spectacular illustrations, photographs, and a full-color map of their routes allow young readers to follow in their footsteps. An authentic recipe from life on the trail is included.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Regional Learning Project
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Native Homelands along the Lewis & Clark Trail by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dayton Duncan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803217242

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Scenes of Visionary Enchantment by Dayton Duncan Pdf

The author recalls his experiences and observations from his four trips along the route followed by the Corps of Discovery, revealing his own reflections--in the form of essays--on the meaning of their momentous journey across the American wilderness.

Author : Susan H. Munger
Publisher : Artisan Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1579652247

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Common to this Country by Susan H. Munger Pdf

A survey in watercolors and essays of the botanical discoveries of the Lewis and Clark expedition focuses on two dozen of the 178 new types of plants they found, placing each profiled plant in a historical context while noting its significance.