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Author : Earle Rice, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1560063475
Describes the everyday life of the Native Americans living on the Great Plains before the coming of the Europeans, covering their religion, social customs, government, and art.
Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803290938
David J. Wishart's Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first contact with Europeans to land dispossession to claims cases, and much more, Wishart takes a wide-angle look at one of the most significant groups of people in the country. Myriad internal and external forces have profoundly shaped Indian lives on the Great Plains. Those forces--the environment, religion, tradition, guns, disease, government policy--have written their way into this history. Wishart spans the vastness of Indian time on the Great Plains, bringing the reader up to date on reservation conditions and rebounding populations in a sea of rural population decline. Great Plains Indians is a compelling introduction to Indian life on the Great Plains from thirteen thousand years ago to the present.
Author : Lisa Sita
Publisher : Running Press Book Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Indians
ISBN : 0762400730
Explore the lives and legends of the peoples who inhabited the Great Plains of the United States.
Author : Mary Englar
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736843159
"A brief introduction to Native American tribes of the Great Plains, including their social structure, homes, food, clothing, and traditions"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Loretta Fowler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0231117000
From where--and what--does water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? Water from Heaven presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen needed to form H2O originated in the nuclear reactions in the interiors of stars, asking whether microcomets may be replenishing our world's oceans, and explaining how the Moon and planets set ice-age rhythms by way of slight variations in Earth's orbit and rotation. The book then takes the measure of water today in all its states, solid and gaseous as well as liquid. How do the famous El Niño and La Niña events in the Pacific affect our weather? What clues can water provide scientists in search of evidence of climate changes of the past, and how does it complicate their predictions of future global warming? Finally, Water from Heaven deals with the role of water in the rise and fall of civilizations. As nations grapple over watershed rights and pollution controls, water is poised to supplant oil as the most contested natural resource of the new century. The vast majority of water "used" today is devoted to large-scale agriculture and though water is a renewable resource, it is not an infinite one. Already many parts of the world are running up against the limits of what is readily available. Water from Heaven is, in short, the full story of water and all its remarkable properties. It spans from water's beginnings during the formation of stars, all the way through the origin of the solar system, the evolution of life on Earth, the rise of civilization, and what will happen in the future. Dealing with the physical, chemical, biological, and political importance of water, this book transforms our understanding of our most precious, and abused, resource. Robert Kandel shows that water presents us with a series of crucial questions and pivotal choices that will change the way you look at your next glass of water.
Author : Daniel J. Gelo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351718127
This book provides a thorough and engaging study of Plains Indian life. It covers both historical and contemporary aspects and contains wide and balanced treatment of the many different tribal groups, including Canadian and southern populations. Daniel J. Gelo draws on years of ethnographic research and emphasizes that Plains societies and cultures are continuing, living entities. The second edition has been updated to take account of recent developments and current terminology. The chapters feature a range of illustrations, maps, and text boxes, as well as summaries, key terms, and questions to support teaching and learning. It is an essential text for courses on Indians of the Great Plains and relevant for students of anthropology, archaeology, history, and Indigenous studies.
Author : George Catlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Hunting
ISBN : BL:A0026168865
Author : Paul Howard Carlson
Publisher : TAMU Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046902881
For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trade goods, shifting migration patterns, disease pandemics, and other events associated with extensive European contact led to a peak of Plains Indian influence and success in the early nineteenth century. Ironically, that same European contact ultimately led to the devolution of traditional Plains Indian society, and by 1870 most Plains Indian peoples were living on reservations. In The Plains Indians Paul H. Carlson charts the evolution and growth of the Plains Indians through this period of constant change. Carlson examines, among other aspects of these tribal groups, the horse and bison culture, the economy and material culture, trade and diplomacy, and reservation life. In its examination of cultural change, The Plains Indians relies heavily on Indian voices and stresses an Indian viewpoint. Carlson argues that the Plains Indians were neither passive recipients of these cultural changes nor helpless victims. They took what was new and adapted it to and integrated it into their own culture. Even when faced with a significantly altered life on the reservations, the Plains Indians, "without abandoning their cultural base[,] . . . adopted sedentary lifeways and shifted toward new life patterns, new sodalities, and different characteristics of community." Carlson also investigates the role of the environment in the lives of the plains tribal groups. The ecological exploitation of bison was an integral part of their society; both their material and spiritual worlds depended on bison. The Plains Indians, while not living in perfect harmony with the environment, to some extent adjusted their hunting practices, religious ceremonies, and social organization to the seasons, the bison, and other environmental factors, such as the herding requirements of their horses. The Plains Indians is a clear, well written narrative history of the Plains Indians during a vital and well known era in Indian and American history. Those interested in Indian anthropology and history will value this cohesive overview of Plains Indian society and culture.
Author : Michael Bad Hand Terry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0431042438
This series looks at history in a lively manner for children. Each book portrays the way of life of people from the past in colour photographs of real objects. This work looks at a Plains Indian village.
Author : Maximilian Wied (Prinz von),Karl Bodmer
Publisher : New York : Dutton
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002679945
A firsthand historical adventure and unmatched documentary record of the continent's proudest native Americans.
Author : Deborah Kops
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9781450907040
Learn about the traditional ways of life of some of the region's first people. See how horses and the loss of the buffalo changed their lives. How did settlers and people traveling west affect the Native Americans of the Plains? Find out how they live today.
Author : James William Daschuk
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889772960
In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. " Clearing the Plains is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peoples. Daschuk shows how infectious disease and state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping, relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day. The prose is gripping, the analysis is incisive, and the narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. For days after reading it, I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow. This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest." -Elizabeth A. Fenn, author of Pox Americana "Required reading for all Canadians." -Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood "Clearly written, deeply researched, and properly contextualized history...Essential reading for everyone interested in the history of indigenous North America." -J.R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires
Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803247877
"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have
Author : Emma I. Hansen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123360617
The story of the Native peoples of the Great Plains--including the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Lakota, Shoshone, Blackfeet, Kiowa, Pawnee, Arikara, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Crow tribes-- is integral to the history and heritage of the American West. These buffalo-hunting and horticultural people once dominated the vast open region of the Great Plains, west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, that stretches from present-day Canada to Texas. The Native people of the Plains found this vast, harsh land rich in resources, with tall grass prairies abundant with herds of buffalo and other grazing animals and fertile river valleys that supported farming. Economic practices were intertwined with spiritual ceremonial activities and core beliefs about the people's relationships to the land, sky, and universe. The magnificent arts of Plains Indian people also had such spiritual underpinnings, which, together with their historical and cultural contexts, can provide greater insight into and appreciation of their tribal significances. Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 images of objects from traditional feather bonnets to war shirts, bear claw necklaces, pipe tomahawks, beadwork, and quillwork, as well as archival photographs of historical events and individuals and photographs of contemporary Native life, Memory and Vision is a comprehensive examination of the environments and historic forces that forged these cultures, and a celebration of their ongoing presence in our national society.
Author : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547125510
Tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced horses to the Great Plains, and how horses became, and remain, a key part of the Plains Indians' culture.
