American Indians in the Pacific
Author: Thor Heyerdahl
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 821
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Author: Thor Heyerdahl
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 821
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert H. Ruby
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780806121130
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Author: Tom McFeat
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780886290580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the area. The Indian tribes of the North Pacific Coast / Franz Boas -- Primary forms of material culture : living and eating / John R. Jewitt -- Boatmanship / Gilbert Malcolm Sproat -- Nootka whaling / Philip Drucker -- Social organization. The social organization of the west coast tribes / Edward Sapir -- Social organization of the Haida / John R. Swanton -- The ancestral family of the Bella Coola / T.F. McIlwraith -- The potlatch. The potlatch / Franz Boas -- The nature of the potlatch / H.G. Barnett -- Fighting with property / Helen Codere -- Some variations on the potlatch / Philip Drucker -- Black market in prerogatives among the northern Kwakiutl / Ronald L. Olson -- Git-la'n Chief's potlatch / Viola Garfield -- Daniel Cranmer's potlatch / Helen Codere -- Lagius gives me a copper / Clellan S. Ford -- Rank and class: viewpoints. Rank, wealth, and kinship in Northwest Coast society / Philip Drucker -- Kwakiutl society : rank without class / Helen Codere -- Boas and the neglect of commoners / Verne F. Ray, Robert H. Lowie -- Private knowledge, morality, and social classes among the Coast Salish / Wayne Suttles -- Ceremonialism. The winter ceremonial / Franz Boas -- Charlie Nowell recalls the winter ceremonies / Clellan S. Ford -- Deviance and normality. Crime and punishment in Tlingit society / Kalervo Oberg -- The patterns of the culture / Philip Drucker -- The amiable side of Kwakiutl life : the potlatch and the play potlatch / Helen Codere -- The amiable side of Patterns of culture / Victor Barnouw -- Appendix. Culture element distributions / Philip Drucker.
Author: Vine Deloria, Jr.
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 2016-07-06
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1555917658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the white man. By the mid-1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr. tells the story of these tribes’ fight for survival, one that continues today.
Author: Ruth Underhill
Publisher: [Washington] : Education Division of the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA facsimile reprint of a 1945 report on the Northwest Indians, answering questions about who they are, what they eat, their housing, work, clothing, home life, government, religion, and status.
Author: Ella Elizabeth Clark
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780520239265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK50th anniversary edition of a perennial best seller. Tales from the oral tradition of the Indians in the Pacific Northwest.
Author: Ella E. Clark
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0520350960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of storytelling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure, still in print after fifty years.
Author: Robert H. Ruby
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780806124797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the centuries the Indians of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana have adapted their lifeways to their region’s radically different environments-an evolution that in some tribes continues to this day, as they conform to the demands of contemporary American society.
Author: Robert Thomas Boyd
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780870717987
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