North American Indians of the Plains
Author | : Clark Wissler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Clark Wissler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Andrew Santella |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1432949616 |
This title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Plains region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.
Author | : Clark Wissler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Arte indigena - Norteamerica |
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Author | : Clark Wissler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Theda Perdue |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2010-08-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780199746101 |
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. They describe hunting practices among different tribes, how some made the gradual transition to more settled, agricultural ways of life, the role of kinship and cooperation in Native societies, their varied burial rites and spiritual practices, and many other features of Native American life. Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they settled in and adapted to so successfully. Most importantly, the authors stress how Native Americans have struggled to maintain their sovereignty--first with European powers and then with the United States--in order to retain their lands, govern themselves, support their people, and pursue practices that have made their lives meaningful. Going beyond the stereotypes that so often distort our views of Native Americans, this Very Short Introduction offers a historically accurate, deeply engaging, and often inspiring account of the wide array of Native peoples in America. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
Author | : Clark 1870-1947 Wissler |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2016-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781371903923 |
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Author | : David J. Wishart |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803290934 |
David J. Wishart's Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first contact with Europeans to land dispossession to claims cases, and much more, Wishart takes a wide-angle look at one of the most significant groups of people in the country. Myriad internal and external forces have profoundly shaped Indian lives on the Great Plains. Those forces--the environment, religion, tradition, guns, disease, government policy--have written their way into this history. Wishart spans the vastness of Indian time on the Great Plains, bringing the reader up to date on reservation conditions and rebounding populations in a sea of rural population decline. Great Plains Indians is a compelling introduction to Indian life on the Great Plains from thirteen thousand years ago to the present.
Author | : Jason Hook |
Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781841761213 |
The adoption of a horse culture heralded the golden age of the Plains Indians - an age that was abruptly ended by the intervention of the white man, who forced them from their vast homelands into reservations in the second half of the 19th century. Jason Hook's fascinating text explores the culture of the American Plains Indians, covering all aspects of their society from camp life to the art of war, in a volume packed with fascinating illustrations and photographs, including eight striking full page colour plates by Richard Hook.
Author | : Lucille Wood-Trost |
Publisher | : San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781560066279 |
The Native American tribes of the Great Plains had rich and varied lifestyles until the coming of Europeans. Despite the many destructive forces focused upon them after that time, Plains Indian people have not only survived but are moving into the new century with renewed hope, determination, and pride.
Author | : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547125518 |
Tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced horses to the Great Plains, and how horses became, and remain, a key part of the Plains Indians' culture.