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Author : Clark Wissler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book North American Indians of the Plains written by Clark Wissler and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Loretta Fowler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231117005
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains written by Loretta Fowler and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From where--and what--does water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? Water from Heaven presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen needed to form H2O originated in the nuclear reactions in the interiors of stars, asking whether microcomets may be replenishing our world's oceans, and explaining how the Moon and planets set ice-age rhythms by way of slight variations in Earth's orbit and rotation. The book then takes the measure of water today in all its states, solid and gaseous as well as liquid. How do the famous El Niño and La Niña events in the Pacific affect our weather? What clues can water provide scientists in search of evidence of climate changes of the past, and how does it complicate their predictions of future global warming? Finally, Water from Heaven deals with the role of water in the rise and fall of civilizations. As nations grapple over watershed rights and pollution controls, water is poised to supplant oil as the most contested natural resource of the new century. The vast majority of water "used" today is devoted to large-scale agriculture and though water is a renewable resource, it is not an infinite one. Already many parts of the world are running up against the limits of what is readily available. Water from Heaven is, in short, the full story of water and all its remarkable properties. It spans from water's beginnings during the formation of stars, all the way through the origin of the solar system, the evolution of life on Earth, the rise of civilization, and what will happen in the future. Dealing with the physical, chemical, biological, and political importance of water, this book transforms our understanding of our most precious, and abused, resource. Robert Kandel shows that water presents us with a series of crucial questions and pivotal choices that will change the way you look at your next glass of water.
Author : Andrew Santella
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1432949616
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)
Download or read book Plains Indians written by Andrew Santella and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Handbook of North American Indians written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clark Wissler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book North American Indians of the Plains written by Clark Wissler and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Lowery
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
ISBN 13 : 1512422614
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Native Peoples of the Plains written by Linda Lowery and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long time ago, before the Plains region of the United States was divided up into states such as Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, this land was home to American Indians. Twenty-eight unique Indian nations built homes and gathered food in the Plains. They spoke distinct languages, set up political systems, and made art. They used the natural resources available in their region in order to thrive. • The Wichita lived in houses made of grass. From the outside, they looked like giant haystacks. • Omaha and Ponca people wore caps made from eagleskin. • Lakota men carved flutes to play songs for the girls they hoped to marry. Many American Indians still live in the Plains region. Explore the history of these various nations and find out how their culture is still alive today.
Author : Clark Wissler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The North American Indians of the Plains written by Clark Wissler and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason Hook
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841761213
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (612 download)
Download or read book American Plains Indians written by Jason Hook and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547125518
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The Horse and the Plains Indians written by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Theda Perdue
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199746101
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (461 download)
Download or read book North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction written by Theda Perdue and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803290934
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Great Plains Indians written by David J. Wishart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Edward S. Curtis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803215122
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (151 download)
Download or read book The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis written by Edward S. Curtis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional cultures of the Indians of the Great Plains?Lakotas, Cheyennes, Wichitas, Arikaras, Crows, Osages, Assiniboins, Comanches, Crees, and Mandans, among others?are recalled in stunning detail in this collection of photographs by Edward S. Curtis (1868?1952). Curtis is the best-known photographer of Native Americans because of his monumental work, The North American Indian (1907?1930), which consists of twenty portfolios of large photogravures and twenty volumes of text on more than eighty Indian groups in the West. He took pictures of Plains Indians for over twenty years, and his photographs reflect both prevailing attitudes about Indians and Curtis's own vision of differences among the Native peoples whom he photographed. ø Curtis's photographs have exerted an enduring influence?both positive and negative?on mainstream American culture. They have inspired countless books, articles, and photographic exhibitions, and they continue to appear on posters, postcards, and other souvenirs. Accompanying the remarkable array of images in this book are essays by leading scholars that place the photographs within their proper critical, cultural, and historical contexts. The scholars contributing to this work are Martha H. Kennedy, Martha A. Sandweiss, Mick Gidley, and Duane Niatum.
Author : Clark 1870-1947 Wissler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781372934445
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (344 download)
Download or read book NORTH AMER INDIANS OF THE PLAI written by Clark 1870-1947 Wissler and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucille Wood-Trost
Publisher : San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books
ISBN 13 : 9781560066279
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (662 download)
Download or read book Native Americans of the Plains written by Lucille Wood-Trost and published by San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Rickman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486244709
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Plains Indians Coloring Book written by David Rickman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1983-08-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty black-and-white drawings representing aspects of the culture and society of the Plains Indians.
Author : Peter Goodchild
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569765030
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Survival Skills of the North American Indians written by Peter Goodchild and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive review of Native American life skills covers collecting and preparing plant foods and medicines; hunting animals; creating and transporting fire; and crafting tools, shelter, clothing, utensils, and other devices. Step-by-step instructions and 145 detailed diagrams enable the reader to duplicate native methods using materials available in local habitats. A new foreword, introduction, and index complement the practical information offered.
Author : James D. Keyser
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806842
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Plains Indian Rock Art written by James D. Keyser and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plains region that stretches from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and the Sioux. Its rolling grasslands and river valleys have nurtured human cultures for thousands of years. On cave walls, glacial boulders, and riverside cliffs, native people recorded their ceremonies, vision quests, battles, and daily activities in the petroglyphs and pictographs they incised, pecked, or painted onto the stone surfaces. In this vast landscape, some rock art sites were clearly intended for communal use; others just as clearly mark the occurrence of a private spiritual encounter. Elders often used rock art, such as complex depictions of hunting, to teach traditional knowledge and skills to the young. Other sites document the medicine powers and brave deeds of famous warriors. Some Plains rock art goes back more than 5,000 years; some forms were made continuously over many centuries. Archaeologists James Keyser and Michael Klassen show us the origins, diversity, and beauty of Plains rock art. The seemingly endless variety of images include humans, animals of all kinds, weapons, masks, mazes, handprints, finger lines, geometric and abstract forms, tally marks, hoofprints, and the wavy lines and starbursts that humans universally associate with trancelike states. Plains Indian Rock Art is the ultimate guide to the art form. It covers the natural and archaeological history of the northwestern Plains; explains rock art forms, techniques, styles, terminology, and dating; and offers interpretations of images and compositions.
