North American Indians

North American Indians

Author: George Catlin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-02-24

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780142437506

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From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.” A one-volume edition of Catlin's journals Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin's incomparable paintings


Atlas of the North American Indian

Atlas of the North American Indian

Author: Carl Waldman

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1438126719

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Presents an illustrated reference that covers the history, culture and tribal distribution of North American Indians.


Meet the North American Indians

Meet the North American Indians

Author: Elizabeth Ann Payne

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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A brief survey of life in five North American Indian tribes--Makah, Hopi, Creek, Penobscot, and Mandan--at the time Columbus arrived in the New World.


North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction

North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Theda Perdue

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0195307542

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This book begins with the emergence of peoples in North America and traces their stories to the beginning of the early twenty-first century. The narrative rests on the premise that indigenous nations retain sovereign rights, and it explores the ways in which contests over those rights shaped their histories.


North American Indian

North American Indian

Author: David Hamilton Murdoch

Publisher: DK Children

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780756610821

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A look at the varied and fascinating cultures of the North American Indian.


Encyclopedia of North American Indians

Encyclopedia of North American Indians

Author: Frederick E. Hoxie

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 9780395669211

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A reference guide to Native American history, culture, and life contains contributions by more than 260 experts, and includes articles on present-day community life, treaties, and the status of women


North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes

North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes

Author: Michael G Johnson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-02-20

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1780964994

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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.


500 Nations

500 Nations

Author: Alvin M. Josephy

Publisher: Pimlico

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9781844138265

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This is the stirring, epic story of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited North America for more than 15,000 years and of their centuries-long struggle with the Europeans. It is a story of friendship, treachery, courage and war, beginning when Columbus disembarked at Hispaniola among the Arawaks in 1492, and comes to a climax when the last groups of Sioux were moved onto a reservation following the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.We meet men and women, heroes and villains through their own words, their lives recreated from memory, memoir, and ancient documents: Massasoit, whose greeting to the Mayflower pilgrims - 'Welcome, Englishmen' - was given in their own language; Pocahontas, whose father's intervention on behalf of John Smith ironically changed the course of her life; Deganawida, known as the Peace Maker, whose Great Law laid the foundation for the confederacy among the five nations of the Iroquois, which in turn may have influenced the colonists' fledging efforts at confederation; Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet; Tecumseh, the charismatic Shawnee leader; Satanta, who led the Kiowa resistance; Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce; Cochise and Geronimo of the Apaches; Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse of the Sioux...Written by the celebrated historian Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., lavishly illustrated with nearly 500 paintings, woodcuts, drawings, photographs, and Indian artifacts, this thrilling and beautiful book shows us the many worlds of North America's Indians, as we have never seen them before.


North American Indians

North American Indians

Author: Douglas W. Gorsline

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 1978-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780808551508

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Illustrates and describes the lifestyles of the great Indian tribes that inhabited the continental United States


NA INDIANS

NA INDIANS

Author: Philip Kopper

Publisher: Smithsonian

Published: 1988-09-17

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780895990181

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Recreates the cultures of the ancestors of today's Indian peoples--their religions, customs, tools, weapons, arts, architecture and scientific knowledge--on the basis of evidence from archaeological sites both large and small, bringing to life the North America of edges previously relegated to a kind of historical limbo.