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  • The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture

    With Comparative Material From Other Western Tribes

    de John C Ewers ...
    Many of the Smithsonian Institution's early studies, published since 1881 in such official publications as the Bureau of American Ethnology's reports and bulletins, have remained major sources of information on North American Indians.Describing how Blackfoot and Plains Indians obtained, cared for, and trained the horses that became integral to their culture, this book charts the importance of ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Blackfeet

    Raiders on the Northwestern Plains

    de John C. Ewers ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to the tribe, forcing them to rely in part on the U.S. government for sustenance. In this history of the Blackfeet, historian John C. Ewers relied on his own experience living among the Blackfeet as well ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Wild Frontier

    More Tales from the Remarkable Past

    de Pierre Berton ...
    Canada’s wild frontier—a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty—comes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians; Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the eccentric missionary; Sam Steele, the most famous of all Mounted Policemen; and Isaac Jorges, the 17th-century priest who courted ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    de James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Unsettling the Settler Within

    Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

    de Paulette Regan ...
    In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada's notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation. ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900

    de Sarah Carter ...
    The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what would later become Canada's prairie provinces.This wide-ranging survey draws on the wealth of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Painted Earth Temple

    de Heyoka Merrifield ...
    Series series The White Buffalo Woman Trilogy
    In this second volume of the White Buffalo Woman Trilogy, Heyoka Merrifield transports us back to ancient Europe as a mythical tribe of hunter-gatherers is forced on an odyssey away from Gaia's land and into the New World. Painted Earth Temple reveals the rites and rituals of a culture of antiquity showing us that their traditions have never been more pertinent than in today's modern age. The ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • End-of-Earth People

    The Arctic Sahtu Dene

    de Bern Will Brown ...
    A history of the "End-of-Earth" Native people of Canada’s far-North Sahtu region.Bern Will Brown, noted northern author, artist, photographer, and respected community leader living in Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, provides new insights and perspectives on the Sahtu Dene, the people referred to as the "Hareskin" in Alexander Mackenzie’s 1793 journal. Having lived among them for over sixty ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • My Life as an Indian

    The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet

    de J. W. Schultz ...
    A fascinating memoir of a white man who gained access to the private lives of the Blackfeet Indians.First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J. W. Schultz’s life as a young white man among the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory. Inspired by the journals of Lewis and Clark and George Catlin’s depictions of Indian life in his paintings, Schultz journeyed to the American ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories

    de Hugh A. Dempsey ...
    The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories by historian Hugh A. Dempsey presents tales from the Blackfoot tribe of the plains of northern Montana and southern Alberta. Drawn from Dempsey’s fifty years of interviewing tribal elders and sifting through archives, the stories are about warfare, hunting, ceremonies, sexuality, the supernatural, and captivity, and they reflect the Blackfoot worldview ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The New Buffalo

    The Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education

    de Blair Stonechild ...
    Post-secondary education, often referred to as “the new buffalo,” is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain that access to and funding for higher education is an Aboriginal and Treaty right, the Canadian government insists that post-secondary education is a social program for which they have limited ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Dancing with the Wheel

    de Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, Crysalis Mulligan ...
    The Native American philosophy behind the vision of the Medicine Wheel is that all things and beings on the earth are related and, therefore, must be in harmony for the earth to be balanced. Dancing with the Wheel teaches you how to apply this philosophy to your daily life through many practical exercises and ceremonies. These exercises will help you gain energy from the spirits, which can heal ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD