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167 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm
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"The spiritual practices of Native Americans are as diverse and bountiful as the Nations themselves, renowned for their inextricable ties to nature and geographical location. Today, many Indigenous customs are still conflated and misunderstood, even throuogh their influence is seen and felt in every corner of the country."--
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Imagínese la escena: es 1836, y la incipiente República de Texas se encuentra al borde de un enfrentamiento histórico. Las fuerzas texanas, dirigidas por el valiente Sam Houston, están enzarzadas en una feroz lucha contra el poderoso ejército mexicano del general Santa Anna. El destino de Texas pende de un hilo.
La noticia se propaga como la pólvora por los asentamientos y pueblos, un susurro ominoso que infunde miedo en los corazones de todos...
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Excerpt: "The history of America is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Our forefathers had trails to make in new fields of government, of invention and in city building, but before all, smoothing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Their story will grow in interest as the years pass. Their deeds have already taken on something of the dim quality of heroic myths....
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Illinois 1000 is a quick dive into the lives of the English and the Indians of the Upper Midwest a thousand years ago.Building on The Year 1000 by British historians Robert Lacey and Danny Danzinger, the author moves from one side of the Atlantic to the other. The contrasts are as much from the past to the present as between the two very different cultures. 'Primitive' is often used to describe the Indians' way of life, and not without at least some...
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vii, 372 pages ; 25 cm
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"In a riveting investigation of the science and ecology of wildfires, journalist M. R. O'Connor ventures into some of the oldest, most beautiful, and remote forests in North America to explore the powerful and ancient relationship between trees, fires, and humans. Along the way, she describes revelatory research in the fields of paleobotany and climate science to show how the world's forests have been shaped by fire for hundreds of millions of years....
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256 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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"Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Recorded history and folklore. Lifesaving disinfectant. Forest-fire management. Our lives would be unrecognizable without these and countless other scientific discoveries and technological inventions from Indigenous North Americans. From transportation to civil engineering, hunting technologies to astronomy, and architecture to agriculture, Indigenous Ingenuity is an unforgettable introduction to...
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384 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps (1 folded) ; 31 cm
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"A map-by-map guide to the epic history of America. America: The Atlas is a superb depiction of the history of North America and the United States told through maps both old and new. It is a wide-ranging story of the continent -- from the early peoples who first settled the land thousands of years ago, to the present day....This edition also includes 32 pages of bonus material, featuring a timeline of American history, a guide to all fifty U.S. states,...
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Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Colony they founded. Written between 1620 and 1647, the journal describes the story of the Pilgrims from 1608, when they settled in the Netherlands through the 1620 Mayflower voyage, until the year 1647.
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Excerpt: "For that matter the whole west coast of Africa is called by the natives The White Man's Grave; and everywhere the fever stalks along the beach like a grim sentinel warning the stranger to stay away and ready to beat him into delirium and death if he lands. But the name, The White Man's Grave, is especially attached to several of the oldest of the coast settlements. Notable among these is Gaboon, in the French Congo, almost exactly at the...
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Anglo-Saxon Colonization Of Britain And America: Anglo-Saxon Hegemony? What's Next?Before Britain ruled the waves and colonized much of the world, the Anglo-Saxons colonized Britain.Britain then went on to colonize Australia, New Zealand, India, and much of Africa.A major British colonization was north America and it spawned the greatest superpower the world has ever seen, USA.How did all this happen?How did Anglo-Saxons become the global hegemon?What's...
12) Wandering stars
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"Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found...
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2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This Native-directed series reveals the beauty and power of today's Indigenous communities. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century. Each hour explores a core tenet of Native American heritage: the power of Indigenous design, how language and artistry fuel the soul, the diverse ways Native women lead, and the resilience of the...
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George Santayana stated: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
The best example of a country, from beginning to end, is Israel's history as told in the Bible. Because they did not follow God's commandments, they eventually lost their country for over two thousand years.
This book examines Israel's history and compares it to what we are doing in America today. There are several sins we are practicing today in America...
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Assault on a Culture by Charles E. Adams Jr. unravels the Anishinaabe culture and the forces and processes of environmental and anthropogenic origin that have caused the culture to evolve since the Indians first arrived on the continent approximately 12,000 years before the present (BP). This book examines a specific Indian culture that tells a story that is not well-known by members of the dominant society and even by many Anishinaabeg and it is...
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xiv, 205 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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In As We See It, Suzanne Newman Fricke invites readers to explore the work and careers of ten contemporary Native American photographers: Jamison Banks, Anna Hoover, Tom Jones, Larry McNeil, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Beverly Singer, Matika Wilber, William Wilson, and Tiffiney Yazzie. Inspired by As We See It, an exhibition of these artists' work cocurated by Fricke in 2015, the book showcases the extraordinary achievements of these groundbreaking...
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vii, 220 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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Manoomin, wild rice, also known as "the good berry," first drew the Anishinaabeg people to the Great Lakes region in search of the prophesied "food that grows on water." Honoring the sustenance they found in the place known as Mni Sota Makoce, The Good Berry Cookbook follows the Anishinaabeg through seasons and spaces to gather wild foods and contemplate connections among the people and their plant and animal relatives. Ethnobotonist Tashia Hart takes...
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"Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration continues to grip our attention. As a result, for more than a millennium the Vikings have traveled far and wide, not least across the turbulent seas of our minds and imaginations. The geographical reach of the Norse was extraordinary. For centuries medieval sagas, first recorded in Iceland, claimed that Vikings reached North America...
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207 pages ; 23 cm
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"Native America has confronted apocalypse for more than four hundred years. Choctaw elder Steven Charleston tells the stories of four Indigenous prophets who helped their people learn strategies for surviving catastrophe, using their lessons and wisdom as guidance for how we can face the uncertainty of the modern age"--
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