Book Description
Categorized into eight geographical regions, this encyclopedic reference examines the history, beliefs, traditions, languages, and lifestyles of indigenous peoples of North America.
Author : Anton Treuer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 142620664X
Categorized into eight geographical regions, this encyclopedic reference examines the history, beliefs, traditions, languages, and lifestyles of indigenous peoples of North America.
Author : Geoffrey Turner
Publisher : Poole [Eng.] : Blandfore Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Eskimos
ISBN : 9780713708431
Paiute, Seminole, Apache, Iroquois-their traditions, rituals and crafts are part of our heritage. This pocket encyclopedia, filled with more than 60 pages of full-color photos and illustrations and more than a hundred rare black-and-white photos of the 19th and early 20th centuries, brings you a stirring and exciting chronicle of history and culture.
Author : Harold E. Driver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022622130X
The art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. Indians of North America displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at the high points of their histories—a variation which was greater than that among the nations of Europe. For this second edition, Harold Driver made extensive revisions in chapter content and organization, incorporating many new discoveries and interpretations in archeology and related fields. He also revised several of the maps and added more than 100 bibliographical items. Since the publication of the first edition, there has been an increased interest in the activities of Indians in the twentieth century; accordingly, the author placed much more emphasis on this period.
Author : Peter F. Copeland
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486263038
Thirty-eight carefully researched, accurate illustrations of Seminoles, Mohawk, Iroquois, Crow, Cherokee, Huron, other tribes engaged in hunting, dancing, cooking, other activities. Authentic costumes, dwellings, weapons, etc. Royalty-free. Introduction. Captions.
Author : Philip Kopper
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 1988-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780895990181
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.
Author : George Catlin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780142437506
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
Author : Robert James Muckle
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442603569
In this thoughtful book, Robert J. Muckle provides a brief, thematic overview of the key issues facing Indigenous peoples in North America from prehistory to the present.
Author : David Hamilton Murdoch
Publisher : DK Children
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9780756610821
A look at the varied and fascinating cultures of the North American Indian.
Author : Alvin M. Josephy
Publisher : Pimlico
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2005-02
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9781844138265
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.
Author : Carl Waldman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438126719
Presents an illustrated reference that covers the history, culture and tribal distribution of North American Indians.