Author: Douglas R. Parks
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Keywords: indians, vol, north, american, anthropology, studies, narratives, arikara, traditional
Number of Pages: 684
Published: 1991-06
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0803236980
ISBN-13: 9780803236981

Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota with the Mandans and Hidatsas. Although their postcontact history and aspects of their culture are well documented, Douglas R. Parks’s monumental four-volume work Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians represents the first comprehensive attempt to describe and rec

Authors:Rachel Bonney, J. Anthony Paredes, Patricia Lerch, Ph
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Keywords: indians, american, contemporary, new, anthropologists, south
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0817310703
ISBN-13: 9780817310707

Authors:Robert H. Jackson, Edward Castillo,
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: indians, system, california, mission, colonization, franciscans, spanish, impact
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 1996-08-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0826317537
ISBN-13: 9780826317537

This ethnohistory, now in paperback, examines Indian life in the twenty-one missions Franciscans established in Alta California. In describing how the missions functioned between 1769 and 1848, the authors draw on previously unused sources to analyze change and continuity in Indian material culture and religious practices. The twin goals of Franciscans were to mold Indians into a work force that would produce surplus grain for military garrisons and to regulate their moral conduct and religious practices. The authors use production records to show the missions were quite effective in serving t

Authors:Herman Lehmann,  J. Marvin Hunter, Dale F. Gie
Publisher: University of New Mexico Pre
Keywords: among, indians, life, texan, captivity, story, nine, years
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1993-05-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0826314171
ISBN-13: 9780826314178

Here is a genuine Little Big Man story, with all the color, sweep, and tragedy of a classic American western. It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico during the 1870s. Adopted by a war chief, he was trained to be a warrior and waged merciless war on Apache enemies, both Indian and Euro-American. After killing an Apache medicine man in self-defense, he fled to a lonely hermitage on the Southern Plains until he joined the Comanches. Against his will, Lehmann was returned to his family in 1879. The final chapters relate his difficu

Author: Frederick E. Hoxie
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: indians, american, life, paleo, present, culture, native, north, encyclopedia, history
Number of Pages: 756
Published: 1996-11-20
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0395669219
ISBN-13: 9780395669211

Even as interest in the powerful, often tragic history of Native America grows, many books continue to perpetuate long-standing misconceptions of the past as well as the romantic steretypes often popularized today. Readers can now rely on Encyclopedia of North American Indians for an authentic and often surprising portrait of the complexities of the Native American experience. Written by more than 260 contemporary authorities, the volume features many Native American contributors - including eminent writers, tribal elders, scholars, and activists - with voices as distinct as their subjects, of

Author: Dagmar Wernitznig
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: europe, indians, cultures, present, american, pocahontas, appropriations, european, perceptions, native
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2007-06-21
List price: $57.00
ISBN-10: 0761836896
ISBN-13: 9780761836896

Europe’s Indians, Indians in Europe is an accessible and multidisciplinary synopsis of European iconographies and cultural narratives related to Native Americans. In this pioneering work, European fascination with and phantasmagorias of ’Indianness’ are comprehensively discussed, involving perspectives of history, literature, and cultural criticism

Authors:Robert Wauchope, Howard F. Cline, John B. Glass,
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: handbook, indians, middle, ser, amer, vol, american
Number of Pages: 439
Published: 1974
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0292701535
ISBN-13: 9780292701533