Travois
Travois

Author: J. Whitebird

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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Most of the poets were born and raised in Texas; a few have spent enough time to have their souls baptized by " The call of Texas rivers."

Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians

Author: David J. Wishart

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0803298625

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Until the last two centuries, the human landscapes of the Great Plains were shaped solely by Native Americans, and since then the region has continued to be defined by the enduring presence of its Indigenous peoples. The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians offers a sweeping overview, across time and space, of this story in 123 entries drawn from the acclaimed Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, together with 23 new entries focusing on contemporary Plains Indians, and many new photographs. ø Here are the peoples, places, processes, and events that have shaped lives of the Indians of the Great Plains from the beginnings of human habitation to the present?not only yesterday?s wars, treaties, and traditions but also today?s tribal colleges, casinos, and legal battles. In addition to entries on familiar names from the past like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, new entries on contemporary figures such as American Indian Movement spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog and activists Russell Means and Leonard Peltier are included in the volume. Influential writer Vine Deloria Sr., Crow medicine woman Pretty Shield, Nakota blues-rock band Indigenous, and the Nebraska Indians baseball team are also among the entries in this comprehensive account. Anyone wanting to know about Plains Indians, past and present, will find this an authoritative and fascinating source.

Rediscovering the Prairies
Rediscovering the Prairies

Author: Norman Henderson

Publisher: TouchWood Editions

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781894898362

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In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the scene. In Rediscovering the Prairies, Norman Henderson, a leading scholar of the world's great temperate grasslands, revives the earlier modes of prairie travel. He journeys along 325 kilometres of Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley by dog and travois (the wooden rack pulled by dogs and horses used by First Nations to transport belongings), then by canoe, and finally by horse and travois. Henderson's often humourous descriptions of his attempts to find and train a dog and a horse highlight the difficulties involved in recreating traditional travel methods. Henderson interweaves his own adventures with the exploits of earlier travellers, such as La Vérendrye, Alexander Henry and Peter Fidler, and the experiences of fur traders and others who struggled across this strange and forbidding landscape. His captivating account will foster a better appreciation for, and a deeper understanding of, the natural and human history of the Canadian prairies.

Sticks, Stones, and Shadows
Sticks, Stones, and Shadows

Author: Martin Isler

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780806133423

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What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have driven so many to so great, and often so dangerous, an effort? Was the motivation religious or practical? Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this book presents an original approach to the subject of pyramid building. It reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. It examines Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky. Here the author also asks and answers questions virtually ignored for the last century. He discloses, for example, the ancient use of shadows, now denigrated to the ornamental back-yard sundial, but once an important tool for telling the height of an object, geographical directions, the seasons of the year, and the time of day. He also reinterprets the ancient "stretching of the cord" ceremony, which once was thought to have only religious significance but here is shown as the means of establishing the sides of a pyramid.

Author: Snafu The Elder

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006-04-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0595387195

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"Love Stories for Men" is required reading for men. Passion and action fill stories set from twelve-hundred-years ago to the present. Trust, betrayal, uncertainty, happiness, hope, and fear are all here. From the high seas to the East Coast, the American Plains to Afghanistan, and the Dakotas to California, swordsmen, beggars, nurses, Indians, and soldiers fall in love in these fast-paced, romantic tales that have been cleverly disguised as magnificent exploits. "Love Stories for Men" is an incomplete collection-and as long as men dream and love, it will always be incomplete. But Snafu The Elder has compiled an entertaining set of stories that may leave you emotional. So get a handkerchief or tissue and be prepared to wipe away a few tears-but laughs and adventure also await you in "The Water Carrier," "The Witch of No Man's Land," "Queen of the Coast," and many more one-of-a-kind stories!