Book Description
The follow-up to A Dance called America, this real-life family saga spans two continents, several centuries, and more than 30 generations to link Scotland's clans with the native peoples of the American West.
Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The follow-up to A Dance called America, this real-life family saga spans two continents, several centuries, and more than 30 generations to link Scotland's clans with the native peoples of the American West.
Author : Petra Wittke-Rüdiger
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9042025964
The contributors to this collection approach the subject of the translation of cultures from various angles. Translation refers to the rendering of texts from one language into another and the shift between languages under precolonial (retelling/transcreation), colonial (domestication), and postcolonial (multilingual trafficking) conditions.
Author : McGraw-Hill, Glencoe
Publisher : Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2001-01-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780078229237
Glencoe's new collection of ethnic anthologies gives students access to a wealth of literature written by some of the best classic authors and the finest contemporary voices. Each anthology, organized thematically into five relevant themes, combines literature and art as powerful expressions of the group's cultural story. Glencoe Native American Literature features the works of writers like William Least Heat-Moon, Leslie Marmon Silko, Michael Dorris, N. Scott Momaday, and many more!
Author : Ryan Littrell
Publisher : Ryan Littrell
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 098834100X
An anonymous letter, found at the bottom of a box of black-and-white pictures, reveals the first clues about the author's grandmother's family story, and soon those clues lead him to a country graveyard and a long-lost cousin. As one hint leads to the next, from the 19th century back into the 18th, he discovers his family's place in a people's tragic struggle.
Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Random House
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1845968476
Millions of Scots have left their homeland during the last 400 years. Until now, they have been written about in general terms. Scottish Exodus breaks new ground by taking particular emigrants, drawn from the once-powerful Clan MacLeod, and discovering what happened to them and their families. These people became, among other things, French aristocrats, Polish resistance fighters, Texan ranchers, New Zealand shepherds, Australian goldminers, Aboriginal and African-American activists, Canadian mounted policemen and Confederate rebels. One nineteenth-century MacLeod even went so far as to swap his Gaelic for Arabic and his Christianity for Islam before settling down comfortably in Cairo. This gripping account of Scotland's worldwide diaspora is based on unpublished documents, letters and family histories. It is also based on the author's travels in the company of today's MacLeods - some of them still in Scotland, others further afield. Scottish Exodus is a tale of disastrous voyages, famine and dispossession, the hazards of pioneering on faraway frontiers. But it is also the moving story of how people separated from Scotland by hundreds of years and thousands of miles continue to identify with the small country where their journeyings began.
Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0199712891
In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents. In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common. Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples--remnants of a barbaric past--and eventually forced from their ancestral lands as their traditional food sources--cattle in the Highlands and bison on the Great Plains--were decimated to make way for livestock farming. In a familiar pattern, the cultures that conquered them would later romanticize the very ways of life they had destroyed. White People, Indians, and Highlanders illustrates how these groups alternately resisted and accommodated the cultural and economic assault of colonialism, before their eventual dispossession during the Highland Clearances and Indian Removals. What emerges is a finely-drawn portrait of how indigenous peoples with their own rich identities experienced cultural change, economic transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing power of the British and American empires.
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Page : 1816 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 1908
Category : United States
ISBN :
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Humanities
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Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1595583262
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0857907751
A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America,' he's told. In his introduction to this new edition of his classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea, historian James Hunter reflects on what led him to embark on travels and researches that took him across a continent. To Georgia, North Carolina and Montana; to Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario and the Mohawk Valley; to prairie farms and great cities; to the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia and Washington State. This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World. The story of how soldiers, explorers, guerrilla fighters, fur traders, lumberjacks, railway builders and settlers from Scotland's glens and islands contributed so much to the USA and Canada. It is the story of how a hard-pressed people found in North America a land of opportunity.