Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon
Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon

Author: Dwight A. Smith

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9780875952055

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Handsome illustrations of more than two hundred bridges, including Columbia River Scenic Highway bridges, covered bridges, and magnificent coastal bridges.

Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes

Author: Carl Waldman

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1438110103

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A comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia which provides information on over 150 native tribes of North America, including prehistoric peoples.

All Our Relations
All Our Relations

Author: Winona LaDuke

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2017-01-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1608466612

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How Native American history can guide us today: “Presents strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos.” —Whole Earth Written by a former Green Party vice-presidential candidate who was once listed among “America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty” by Time magazine, this thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community. “Moving and often beautiful prose.” —Ralph Nader “Thoroughly researched and convincingly written.” —Choice

The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians

Author: Don Whereat

Publisher: Don Whereat

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9781937493035

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A history of the Confederated tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians. Indians of the Oregon Coast. A compilation of 12 years of research and 60 articles written by the author, Don Whereat. Also includes individual articles written by Dr. Stephen Dow Beckham, Patty Whereat Phillips, Reg Pullman, Ron Thomas, and Melody Caldera. Book cover painting by Pam Stoehsler.

A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians
A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians

Author: Thomas Biolsi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-03-10

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1405182881

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This Companion is comprised of 27 original contributions by leading scholars in the field and summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. Surveys the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture Each chapter provides definitive coverage of its topic, as well as situating ethnographic and ethnohistorical data into larger frameworks Explores anthropology’s contribution to knowledge, its historic and ongoing complicities with colonialism, and its political and ethical obligations toward the people 'studied'