The Art Of The Great Lakes Indians

Author : Selwyn Dewdney,Kenneth E. Kidd
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1962-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442638235

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Indian Rock Paintings of the Great Lakes by Selwyn Dewdney,Kenneth E. Kidd Pdf

This book describes in word and illustration the results of an exciting quest on the part of its authors to discover and record Indian rock paintings of Northern Ontario and Minnesota. Numerous drawings were made from these pictographs at a hundred different sites; the originals range in age from four to five hundred years to a thousand, and were done with the simplest materials: fingers for brushes, fine clay impregnated with ferrous oxide giving the characteristic red paint. Where an overhanging rock protected a vertical face from dripping water or on dry, naked rock faces the Indians recorded the forest life with which they lived in intimate association—deer, caribou, rabbit, heron, trout, canoes, animal tracks—and also abstractions which puzzle and intrigue the modern viewer. Many of the paintings could only have been done from a canoe or a convenient rock ledge. Selwyn Dewdney travelled many thousands of miles by canoe to make the drawings of the pictographs which illustrate every page of this fascinating and attractive book. He provides also a general analysis of the materials used by the Indians, of their subject-matter and the artistic rendering given to it, and his artist's journal records in detail the sites he visited, the paintings he found at each, the comparisons among them that came to mind, the references to rock paintings in early literature of the Northwest. Kenneth E. Kidd contributes a valuable essay on the anthropological background of the area, linking the rock paintings with early cave art in, for example, France and Spain, describing the life of the Indians in the Shield country, and commenting on what the pictographs reveal of their makers' attitudes to their external world and of their thinking. This is a book which will appeal to a wide audience: to those interested in primitive art forms and in Canadian art in general, to all students of the early history of North America, to travellers who in increasing numbers follow the canoe trails of the Shield lakes and rivers.

Author : William J. Kubiak
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441241290

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Great Lakes Indians by William J. Kubiak Pdf

This illustrated guide introduces the cultures of 25 tribes of Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan stock. Includes 139 sketches and paintings, plus a map showing the locations of each tribe.

Author : Michigan State University. Museum
Publisher : East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Museum
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015071238508

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Sisters of the Great Lakes by Michigan State University. Museum Pdf

Author : Michael G Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780964997

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North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes by Michael G Johnson Pdf

This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars. During the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, these tribes took sides and became important allies of the warring nations. However, slowly the Indians were pushed westward by the encroachment of more settlers. This tension finally culminated in the 1832 Black Hawk's War, which ended with the deportation of many tribes to distant reservations.

Author : Flint Institute of Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Indian art
ISBN : UOM:39015006761699

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The Art of the Great Lakes Indians by Flint Institute of Arts Pdf

Author : Michael A. McDonnell
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374714185

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Masters of Empire by Michael A. McDonnell Pdf

A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux, the Anishinaabeg who lived along Lakes Michigan and Huron were equally influential. McDonnell charts their story, and argues that the Anishinaabeg have been relegated to the edges of history for too long. Through remarkable research into 19th-century Anishinaabeg-authored chronicles, McDonnell highlights the long-standing rivalries and relationships among the great tribes of North America, and how Europeans often played only a minor role in their stories. McDonnell reminds us that it was native people who possessed intricate and far-reaching networks of trade and kinship, of which the French and British knew little. And as empire encroached upon their domain, the Anishinaabeg were often the ones doing the exploiting. By dictating terms at trading posts and frontier forts, they played a crucial role in the making of early America. Through vivid depictions of early conflicts, the French and Indian War, and Pontiac's Rebellion, all from a native perspective, Masters of Empire overturns our assumptions about colonial America and the origins of the Revolutionary War. By calling attention to the Great Lakes as a crucible of culture and conflict, McDonnell reimagines the landscape of American history.

Author : William Vernon Kinietz,Antoine Denis Raudot
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : History
ISBN : 0472061070

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The Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615-1760 by William Vernon Kinietz,Antoine Denis Raudot Pdf

Book is based on the letters and journals of European traders, missionaries, and officials who visited the Huron, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi and Chippewa tribes between 1615 and 1760.

Author : Lorraine Pollock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Indian arts
ISBN : WISC:89097327456

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A Study of the Origins, Cultures, and Arts of the Indians of the Eastern United States and the Upper Great Lakes Region by Lorraine Pollock Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 051717247X

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Great Lakes Indians by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Penney
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588344526

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Before and after the Horizon by David Penney Pdf

This companion volume to an exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York reveals how Anishinaabe (also known in the United States as Ojibwe or Chippewa) artists have expressed the deeply rooted spiritual and social dimensions of their relations with the Great Lakes region. Featuring 70 color images of visually powerful historical and contemporary works, Before and After the Horizon is the only book to consider the work of Anishinaabe artists overall and to discuss 500 years of Anishinaabe art history.

Author : Michael G Johnson
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1849084599

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North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes by Michael G Johnson Pdf

The Great Lakes were the main arena for the fur trade in colonial North America, which drew European explorers and trappers deep into the northern USA and Canada from the 17th century onwards. The desire to control the supply of this luxury item sparked wars between Britain and France, as well as conflicts between rival tribes and the newly formed United States of America, which continued until 1840. The main tribes of the area were the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee. All were drawn into the conflicts throughout the Great Lakes region during the French-Indian War (1754-1763), as well as the American Revolution. These conflicts culminated in Black Hawk's War of 1832, as Native American tribes attempted to resist the loss of their lands to white settlers in what is now Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. The defeat of these tribes forever altered the climate of the central American states. This new addition to Osprey's coverage of Native American tribes details the growth of the fur trade in the Great Lakes area, the various skirmishes, battles and wars that were fought to control this vital trade and important trade area. With specially-commissioned plates, as well as photographs of locations and/or artifacts where available, expert author Michael Johnson also details the lives and material culture - including clothing, equipment and weaponry - of the local tribes themselves before their circumstances were irrevocably altered.

Author : Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1646 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0802058566

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Art Et Architecture Au Canada by Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson Pdf

Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

Author : Grace Caren Chaillier,Rebecca Tavernini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0984017909

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Voice on the Water by Grace Caren Chaillier,Rebecca Tavernini Pdf

Author : Zena Pearlstone
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art, Comparative
ISBN : 9780870993343

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Color and Shape in American Indian Art by Zena Pearlstone Pdf

"The current exhibition illustrates the gradual move from traditional design and restrained use of color to eclectic but exuberant design and hgih color during the period from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century."--Page 3.

Author : Richard White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139495684

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The Middle Ground by Richard White Pdf

An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study.