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Peoples of the Northwest Coast

Author : Kenneth M. Ames
Publisher : New York : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500281109
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Peoples of the Northwest Coast written by Kenneth M. Ames and published by New York : Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extending some 1,400 miles from Alaska to northern California, America's Northwest Coast is one of the richest and most distinct cultural areas on earth. The region is famous for its magnificent art--masks, totem poles, woven blankets--produced by the world's most politically and economically complex hunters and gatherers. As this pioneering account shows, the history of settlement on the Northwest Coast stretches back some 11,000 years. With the stabilization of sea levels and salmon runs after 4000 B.C., many of the region's salient features began to emerge. Salmon fishing supported rapid population growth to a peak over 1,000 years ago. The spread of rain forest made available trees such as red cedar that could be turned into vast houses and seaworthy canoes. Large households and permanent villages emerged alongside slavery and a hereditary nobility. Warfare became epidemic, initially hand to hand but later characterized by the development of fortresses and the bow and arrow. Art evolved from simple carvings and geometric designs 5,000 years ago to the specialized crafts of the modern era. Written by noted experts and profusely illustrated, this is an essential reference for scholars and students of Native American archaeology and anthropology as well as travelers to the region.

The Coast Salish Peoples

Author : Frank W. Porter
Publisher : Chelsea House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coast Salish Peoples written by Frank W. Porter and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1989 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Coast Salish Indians of the Northwest.

Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico

Author : Alan R. Sandstrom
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081655045X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico by : Alan R. Sandstrom

Download or read book Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico written by Alan R. Sandstrom and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long, the Gulf Coast of Mexico has been dismissed by scholars as peripheral to the Mesoamerican heartland, but researchers now recognize that much can be learned from this region’s cultures. Peoples of the Gulf Coast—particularly those in Veracruz and Tabasco—share so many historical experiences and cultural features that they can fruitfully be viewed as a regional unit for research and analysis. Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico is the first book to argue that the people of this region constitute a culture area distinct from other parts of Mexico. A pioneering effort by a team of international scholars who summarize hundreds of years of history, this encyclopedic work chronicles the prehistory, ethnohistory, and contemporary issues surrounding the many and varied peoples of the Gulf Coast, bringing together research on cultural groups about which little or only scattered information has been published. The volume includes discussions of the prehispanic period of the Gulf Coast, the ethnohistory of many of the neglected indigenous groups of Veracruz and the Huasteca, the settlement of the American Mediterranean, and the unique geographical and ecological context of the Chontal Maya of Tabasco. It provides descriptions of the Popoluca, Gulf Coast Nahua, Totonac, Tepehua, Sierra Ñähñu (Otomí), and Huastec Maya. Each chapter contains a discussion of each group’s language, subsistence and settlement patterns, social organization, belief systems, and history of acculturation, and also examines contemporary challenges to the future of each native people. As these contributions reveal, Gulf Coast peoples share not only major cultural features but also historical experiences, such as domination by Hispanic elites beginning in the sixteenth century and subjection to forces of change in Mexico. Yet as contemporary people have been affected by factors such as economic development, increased emigration, and the spread of Protestantism, traditional cultures have become rallying points for ethnic identity. Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico highlights the significance of the Gulf Coast for anyone interested in the great encuentro between the Old and New Worlds and general processes of culture change. By revealing the degree to which these cultures have converged, it represents a major step toward achieving a broader understanding of the peoples of this region and will be an important reference work on these indigenous populations for years to come.

Northwest Coast Indian Art

Author : Bill Holm
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295999500
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Northwest Coast Indian Art written by Bill Holm and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book. The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists are admired today as among the great achievements of the world�s artists. The painted and carved wooden screens, chests and boxes, rattles, crest hats, and other artworks display the complex and sophisticated northern Northwest Coast style of art that is the visual language used to illustrate inherited crests and tell family stories. In the 1950s Bill Holm, a graduate student of Dr. Erna Gunther, former Director of the Burke Museum, began a systematic study of northern Northwest Coast art. In 1965, after studying hundreds of bentwood boxes and chests, he published Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form. This book is a foundational reference on northern Northwest Coast Native art. Through his careful studies, Bill Holm described this visual language using new terminology that has become part of the established vocabulary that allows us to talk about works like these and understand changes in style both through time and between individual artists� styles. Holm examines how these pieces, although varied in origin, material, size, and purpose, are related to a surprising degree in the organization and form of their two-dimensional surface decoration. The author presents an incisive analysis of the use of color, line, and texture; the organization of space; and such typical forms as ovoids, eyelids, U forms, and hands and feet. The evidence upon which he bases his conclusions constitutes a repository of valuable information for all succeeding researchers in the field. Replaces ISBN 9780295951027

If You Lived with the Indians of the Northwest Coast

Author : Anne Kamma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439260770
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book If You Lived with the Indians of the Northwest Coast written by Anne Kamma and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An addition to a popular history series presents a child's eye view of the Native American cultures of America's northern Pacific coast, showing their housing, clothing, social structure, religious customs, occupations, and more. Original.

Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast

Author : Janey Levy
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1482447983
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast written by Janey Levy and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The native peoples of the northwest coast are often known by the totem poles they create. Made from cedar trees, totem poles were painted bright colors and featured both animal and human forms. Why these amazing pieces of art are created is just one of the interesting details readers will learn about the many native peoples who lived in modern-day Alaska, Oregon, Washington, northern California, and British Columbia. The main content features many social studies curriculum topics, including customs, clothing, and spirituality of native peoples. Full-color photographs and historical images enhance each chapter as specific native groups are highlighted throughout the book.

Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast

Author : Jeff Oliver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816527878
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast written by Jeff Oliver and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nordamerika - Kolonialzeit - Landschaft - Raumkonzepte - soziale Konstruktion.

Northwest Coast Indians

Author : Mir Tamim Ansary
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 9781588103505
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Northwest Coast Indians written by Mir Tamim Ansary and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These book focus on Native American culture by examining geographic and cultural groupings as well as the major nations and tribes within each area.

From Time Immemorial

Author : Diane Silvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book From Time Immemorial written by Diane Silvey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence

Author : Robert Thomas Boyd
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295978376
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (783 download)

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Book Synopsis The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence by : Robert Thomas Boyd

Download or read book The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence written by Robert Thomas Boyd and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1700s, when Euro-Americans began to visit the Northwest Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse cultures--among them the Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinookans--with a population conservatively estimated at over 180,000. A century later only about 35,000 were left. The change was brought about by the introduction of diseases that had originated in the Eastern Hemisphere, such as smallpox, malaria, measles, and influenza. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence examines the introduction of infectious diseases among the Indians of the Northwest Coast culture area (present-day Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade Mountains, British Columbia west of the Coast Range, and southeast Alaska) in the first century of contact and the effects of these new diseases on Native American population size, structure, interactions, and viability. The emphasis is on epidemic diseases and specific epidemic episodes. In most parts of the Americas, disease transfer and depopulation occurred early and are poorly documented. Because of the lateness of Euro-American contact in the Pacific Northwest, however, records are relatively complete, and it is possible to reconstruct in some detail the processes of disease transfer and the progress of specific epidemics, compute their demographic impact, and discern connections between these processes and culture change. Boyd provides a thorough compilation, analysis, and comparison of information gleaned from many published and archival sources, both Euro-American (trading-company, mission, and doctors' records; ships' logs; diaries; and Hudson's Bay Company and government censuses) and Native American (oral traditions and informant testimony). The many quotations from contemporary sources underscore the magnitude of the human suffering. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence is a definitive study of introduced diseases in the Pacific Northwest. For more information on the author go to http: //roberttboyd.com/

Keeping it Living

Author : Douglas Deur
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0774812672
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Keeping it Living written by Douglas Deur and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping It Living brings together some of the world'smost prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures to examinetraditional cultivation practices from Oregon to Southeast Alaska. Itexplores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camasplots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia,estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia,wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berryplots up and down the entire coast. With contributions from a host of experts, Native American scholarsand elders, Keeping It Living documents practices ofmanipulating plants and their environments in ways that enhancedculturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes howindigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 speciesof plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwaterbogs.

Indians of the Northwest Coast

Author : Philip Drucker
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] Natural History Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Indians of the Northwest Coast written by Philip Drucker and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] Natural History Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the Indians who lived from Yakutat Bay in Alaska to northern California, profuse illustrations and vivid narrative reconstruct a unique native culture of aboriginal America.

Algonquians of the East Coast

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Algonquians of the East Coast written by Time-Life Books and published by Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In memory of Steven M. Claborn given by Tamela Claborn.

The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse

Author : Tsim D. Schneider
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542538
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse written by Tsim D. Schneider and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As an Indigenous scholar researching the history and archaeology of his own tribe, Tsim D. Schneider provides a unique and timely contribution to the growing field of Indigenous archaeology and offers a new perspective on the primary role and relevance of Indigenous places and homelands in the study of colonial encounters"--

Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast

Author : Hilary Stewart
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781926706368
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast written by Hilary Stewart and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold, inventive indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and complexity. It is also composed of basically simple elements which, guided by a rich mythology, create images of striking power. In Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, Hilary Stewart introduces the elements of style; interprets the myths and legends which shape the motifs; and defines and illustrates the stylistic differences between the major cultural groupings. Raven, Thunderbird, Killer Whale, Bear: all the traditional forms are here, deftly analyzed by a professional writer and artist who has a deep understanding of this powerful culture.

Cedar

Author : Hilary Stewart
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781926706474
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Cedar written by Hilary Stewart and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mighty cedar of the rainforest came a wealth of raw materials vital to the early Northwest Coast Indian way of life, its art and culture. For thousands of years these people developed the tools and technologies to fell the giant cedars that grew in profusion. They used the rot-resistant wood for graceful dugout canoes to travel the coastal waters, massive post-and-beam houses in which to live, steam bent boxes for storage, monumental carved poles to declare their lineage and dramatic dance masks to evoke the spirit world. Every part of the cedar had a use. The versatile inner bark they wove into intricately patterned mats and baskets, plied into rope and processed to make the soft, warm, yet water-repellent clothing so well suited to the raincoast. Tough but flexible withes made lashing and heavy-duty rope. The roots they wove into watertight baskets embellished with strong designs. For all these gifts, the Northwest Coast peoples held the cedar and its spirit in high regard, believing deeply in its healing and spiritual powers. Respectfully, they addressed the cedar as Long Life Maker, Life Giver and Healing Woman. Photographs, drawings, anecdotes, oral history, accounts of early explorers, traders and missionaries highlight the text.

Art of the Northern Tlingit

Author : Aldona Jonaitis
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295962672
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Art of the Northern Tlingit written by Aldona Jonaitis and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the art-related theories of American and European scholars, artists, historians and social scientists, which are then refocused on Tlingit art and culture. Illustrated with 70 black and white photographs.