2,912円 Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region’s original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the United Statesーthe Poospatuck Reservationーis located in Suffolk County, the densely populated eastern extreme of the greater New York area. The Unke...

661円 • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS Introduction I. The numerals in the Dresden Codex II. Conclusions III. The writing Signification of the characters Symbols of animals &c. Symbols of deities

777円 The author of The Journey of Crazy Horse presents a legendary battle through the eyes of the Lakota The saga of Custer's Last Stand, has become ingrained in the lore of the American West, and the key players Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and George Armstrong Custer have grown to larger-than-life pro...

661円 THE ABORIGINES OF NEWFOUNDLAND LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE AT ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND. BY THE HON. JOSEPH NOAD, Surveyor-General Excerpt Of the various theories advanced on the origin of the North American Indians, none has been so entirely satisfactory as to command a gene...

3,310円 Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where anthropologists’ and historians’ needs intersect is ethnohistory. The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the teaching an...

562円 In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaimーas well as the devotion of readers worldwide. When he died in 1990, Maclean le...

260円 This volume contains the complete text of two books about the important contributions of two ethnic groups whose exemplary military service during the United States Civil War are not as well known as they should be: African-Americans and Native Americans. The two complete works included in thi...

2,122円 New York Times Bestseller Named one of the best books of the year by: Parade The Guardian Kirkus Library Journal The true story behind the classic Western The Searchers by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer Glenn Frankel that the New York Times calls "A vivid, revelatory account of John Ford's 1956 mas...

827円 Walk along side of three of the most amazing Native American Women as they journey across the United Sates: Sacagawea, Watkuese and Marie Dorion, whose adventures are intertwined. Each lived on the edge,loved family and friends and led the way with wisdom and action. You will be inspired by this ...

1,491円 Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage. They bowed their heads to give thanks. The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but soon it became a matter of su...

3,310円 Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditiona...

4,775円 At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, wo...