American Indians | American Indians
Feb.18.2012
(This reprint volume does not contain an index; if you need an index, get the reprint volume that shows the Charles M. Russell painting on the cover.)
The earliest European perception of California was of a wonderful land of mystery and plenty, a Terrestrial Paradise. California would become a...
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Nov.28.2010
Describes the Northwest Coast Indian tribes and documents their history and challenges in their own words, from early creation stories to the present day.
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Oct.19.2008
Alexander Anderson had dreams of getting rich quick. When lured by his brother John to seek adventure in the California gold fields, sells his Virginia farm, packs up his family and heads west cross-country in a covered wagon along the unmarked trails.
Heavy hearted and compelled to make the...
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Mar.20.2008
Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they "discovered." In the United States, the...
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Feb.17.2008
In this eagerly awaited book, the cultural anthropologist Peter N. Jones brings fifteen years and over twenty-five projects to bear on one of the more controversial questions in contemporary American anthropology and American Indian studies. Are contemporary American Indian tribes of the American...
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