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The Life of Ten Bears

Author : Thomas W. Kavanagh
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803286726

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The Life of Ten Bears is a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph "Joe A" Attocknie. Although various elements of Ten Bears's life (ca. 1790-1872) are widely known, including several versions of how the toddler Ten Bears survived the massacre of his family, other parts have not been as widely publicized, remaining instead in the collective memory of his descendants. Other narratives in this collection reference lesser-known family members. These narratives are about the historical episodes that Attocknie's family thought were worth remembering and add a unique perspective on Comanche society and tradition as experienced through several generations of his family. Kavanagh's introduction adds context to the personal narratives by discussing the process of transmission. These narratives serve multiple purposes for Comanche families and communities. Some autobiographical accounts, "recounting" brave deeds and war honors, function as validation of status claims, while others illustrate the giving of names; still others recall humorous situations, song-ridicules, slapstick, and tragedies. Such family oral histories quickly transcend specific people and events by restoring key voices to the larger historical narrative of the American West.

The Life of Ten Bears

Author : Thomas W. Kavanagh
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803286740

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The Life of Ten Bears is a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph “Joe A” Attocknie. Although various elements of Ten Bears’s life (ca. 1790–1872) are widely known, including several versions of how the toddler Ten Bears survived the massacre of his family, other parts have not been as widely publicized, remaining instead in the collective memory of his descendants. Other narratives in this collection reference lesser-known family members. These narratives are about the historical episodes that Attocknie’s family thought were worth remembering and add a unique perspective on Comanche society and tradition as experienced through several generations of his family. Kavanagh’s introduction adds context to the personal narratives by discussing the process of transmission. These narratives serve multiple purposes for Comanche families and communities. Some autobiographical accounts, “recounting” brave deeds and war honors, function as validation of status claims, while others illustrate the giving of names; still others recall humorous situations, song-ridicules, slapstick, and tragedies. Such family oral histories quickly transcend specific people and events by restoring key voices to the larger historical narrative of the American West.

Comanche Ethnography

Author : Thomas W. Kavanagh
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803220454

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In the summer of 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma, a team of six anthropologists met with eighteen Comanche elders to record the latter?s reminiscences of traditional Comanche culture. The depth and breadth of what the elderly Comanches recalled provides an inestimable source of knowledge for generations to come, both within and beyond the Comanche community. This monumental volume makes available for the first time the largest archive of traditional cultural information on Comanches ever gathered by American anthropologists. Much of the Comanches? earlier world is presented here?religious stories, historical accounts, autobiographical remembrances, cosmology, the practice of war, everyday games, birth rituals, funerals, kinship relations, the organization of camps, material culture, and relations with other tribes. Thomas W. Kavanagh tracked down all known surviving notes from the Santa Fe Laboratory field party and collated and annotated the records, learning as much as possible about the Comanche elders who spoke with the anthropologists and, when possible, attributing pieces of information to the appropriate elders. In addition, this volume includes Robert H. Lowie?s notes from his short 1912 visit to the Comanches. The result stands as a legacy for both Comanches and those interested in learning more about them.

Ten Bears To Destiny

Author : Keith D. Hickman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781452061023

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Ten Bears to Destiny is about two young couples that find love and friendship during the early days of the 1800s. A young boy named Josh Johnson, traveling with his parents to a new frontier in the west meets and falls in love with a young beautiful Indian girl, Golden Swan. But another young girl, Mary Lee McKenzie, traveling in the same wagon train with young Josh, falls in love with him. To this mixture, there is added a mythical Great Bear whom is regarded by the Indians, living near the place where the wagon train sojourned for a short period, as a protector of the forest. In this story the young Indian maiden, Golden Swan, seeks love and is drawn towards young Josh Johnson, but when a young brave from the tribe learns of her interest in him, he interferes and a contest ensues between the two boys, which is used to decide the fate of the four youths who are involved. As the story unfolds, the two girls, rival, fight, and become friends while the Indian village is attacked and destroyed by the Great Bear. This is the story of how the destiny of not just one person, but of many generations to come are changed by the bravery and strength of a single person. Then, as our story moves forward, we are lead into a modern day situation where another group of young people are set into a challenge of their own by their peer pressures. They too have the opportunity to change their futures, ....... and to learn a story of their past. This is a story of how two religions that are set next to each other, indirectly examined and ultimately leads the group of young people to follow the truth which is in Jesus Christ, and how a young Indian boy grows to become a mighty preacher among his people, leading many of them to Christianity. It is a story of destinies. The destiny that leads to the one true destiny of all who come to worship the one true God. Are you ready to ... Fulfill Your Destiny?

Ten Bears in a Bed

Author : John Richardson
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1562821571

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Nine bears fall out of bed one by one when the littlest bear says "Roll over!" Features pop-up and movable illustrations.

Country of the Cursed and the Driven

Author : Paul Barba
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496208354

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Country of the Cursed and the Driven by Paul Barba Pdf

A sweeping, comparative analysis of the slaving regimes of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo American communities in the Texas borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity

Author : Drucilla Cornell
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780823230129

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Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity by Drucilla Cornell Pdf

Introduction: Shooting Eastwood. Writing the showdown: what's left behind when the sun goes down -- Dancing with the double: reaching out from the darkness within -- Ties that bind: the legacy of a mother's love -- Psychic scars: transformative relationships and moral repair -- Parables of revenge and masculinity in Mystic river / Roger Berkowitz and Drucilla Cornell -- Militarized manhood: shattered images and the trauma of war -- Shades of recognition: privilege, dignity, and the hubris of white manhood -- Conclusion: the last take.

The Philosophy of the Western

Author : Jennifer L. McMahon,B. Steve Csaki
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813125916

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The Philosophy of the Western by Jennifer L. McMahon,B. Steve Csaki Pdf

The great German novelist Thomas Mann implored readers to resist the persistent and growing militarism of the mid-twentieth century. To whom should we turn for guidance during this current era of global violence, political corruption, economic inequality, and environmental degradation? For more than two millennia, the worldÕs great thinkers have held that the ethically Ògood lifeÓ is the highest purpose of human existence. Renowned political philosopher Fred Dallmayr traces the development of this notion, finding surprising connections among Aristotelian ethics, Abrahamic and Eastern religious traditions, German idealism, and postindustrial social criticism. In Search of the Good Life does not offer a blueprint but rather invites readers on a cross-cultural quest. Along the way, the author discusses the teachings of Aristotle, Confucius, Nicolaus of Cusa, Leibniz, and Schiller, in addition invoking more recent writings of Gadamer and Ricoeur, as guideposts and sources of hope during our troubled times. Among contemporary themes Dallmayr discusses are the role of the classics in education, proper and improper ways of spreading democracy globally, the possibility of transnational citizenship, the problem of politicized evil, and the role of religion in our predominantly secular culture. Dallmayr restores the notion of the good life as a hallmark of personal conduct, civic virtue, and political engagement, and as the road map to enduring peace. In Search of the Good Life seeks to arouse complacent and dispirited citizens, guiding them out of the distractions of shallow amusements and perilous resentments in the direction of mutual learning and civic pedagogyÑa direction that will enable them to impose accountability on political leaders who stray from fundamental ethical standards.

Unconventional Warriors

Author : Matthew B. Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781440835056

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Unconventional Warriors by Matthew B. Hill Pdf

Tracing the "American Guerrilla" narrative through more than one hundred years of film and television, this book shows how the conventions and politics of this narrative influence Americans to see themselves as warriors, both on screen and in history. American guerrillas fight small-scale battles that, despite their implications for large-scale American victories, often go untold. This book evaluates those stories to illumine the ways in which film and television have created, reinforced, and circulated an "American Guerrilla" fantasy—a mythic narrative in which Americans, despite having the most powerful military in history, are presented as underdog resistance fighters against an overwhelming and superior occupying evil. Unconventional Warriors: The Fantasy of the American Resistance Fighter in Television and Film explains that this fantasy has occupied the center of numerous war films and in turn shaped the way in which Americans see those wars and themselves. Informed by the author's expertise on war in contemporary literature and popular culture, this book begins with an introduction that outlines the basics of the "American Guerrilla" narrative and identifies it as a recurring theme in American war films. Subsequent chapters cover one hundred years of American "guerrillas" in film and television. The book concludes with a chapter on science fiction narratives, illustrating how the conventions and politics of these stories shape even the representation of wholly fictional, imagined wars on screen.

Dances with Wolves

Author : Michael Blake
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780449134481

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Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES.

Ten Bears

Author : Barbara Flores,Elena Castro,Eddie Hernandez
Publisher : Bebop Books
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Bears
ISBN : 162014381X

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"Learn to count with ten little bears." -- Publishers.

Native Nations

Author : Kathleen DuVal
Publisher : Random House
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525511045

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A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today “A feat of both scholarship and storytelling.”—Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Then, following a period of climate change and instability, numerous smaller nations emerged, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. From this urban past, egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. So, when Europeans showed up in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand—those having developed differently from their own—and whose power they often underestimated. For centuries afterward, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In Native Nations, we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutch—and influenced global markets—and how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to command much of the continent’s land and resources. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. ambitions. The Cherokees created institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory. In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant—and will continue far into the future.

Westerns

Author : Gary R. Edgerton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135765156

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For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Creators and consumers alike have utilized this story form in literature, painting, film, radio and television to explore questions of national identity and purpose. Westerns: The Essential Collection comprises the Journal of Popular Film and Television’s rich and longstanding legacy of scholarship on Westerns with a new special issue devoted exclusively to the genre. This collection examines and analyzes the evolution and significance of the screen Western from its earliest beginnings to its current global reach and relevance in the 21st century. Westerns: The Essential Collection addresses the rise, fall and durability of the genre, and examines its preoccupation with multicultural matters in its organizational structure. Containing eighteen essays published between 1972 and 2011, this seminal work is divided into six sections covering Silent Westerns, Classic Westerns, Race and Westerns, Gender and Westerns, Revisionist Westerns and Westerns in Global Context. A wide range of international contributors offer original critical perspectives on the intricate relationship between American culture and Western films and television series. Westerns: The Essential Collection places the genre squarely within the broader aesthetic, socio-historical, cultural and political dimensions of life in the United States as well as internationally, where the Western has been reinvigorated and reinvented many times. This groundbreaking anthology illustrates how Western films and television series have been used to define the present and discover the future by looking backwards at America’s imagined past.

Battles of Texas

Author : Joseph P. Regan LTC USAR (ret)
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9798369401736

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Battles of Texas by Joseph P. Regan LTC USAR (ret) Pdf

My book is an anthology of various battles fought in Texas from the year 1758 to 1874. The manuscript is directed at readers who have an interest in Texas or military history. I chose those battles I believe had the most dramatic impact on the course of Texas history. As a military historian, I focused on critical decisions by individual commanders. As much as possible, I tried to use the Battle Analysis System developed by the US Army Command and General Staff College to look at all aspects of a military engagement (strategy, leadership, weather and terrain, etc.) and how these influenced the battle.

Trends in Contemporary Ethical Issues

Author : Aidan E. Wurtzel
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1600214096

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This book presents theoretical and applied issues including ethical theory, moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. This book covers issues such as: biology and medicine, business, education, environment, government, mass media, science, agriculture and food production, and religion.