The Small Shall Be Strong: A History of Lake Tahoe's Washoe Indians, Paperback - Matthew S. Makley

Reducere. For thousands of years the Washoe people have lived in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the center of their lands sits beautiful Lake...

Reducere. Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region's original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the...

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Reducere. Lake Tahoe is the majestic mountain lake that spans the boundary line of California and Nevada. The lake s clarity and scenic beauty are legendary....

A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24 The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few...

This practical guide for children aged 7-11 combines proven cognitive behavioural therapy methods and fun and engaging activities, which are inters...

On September 10, 1813, the hot, still air that hung over Lake Erie was broken by the sounds of sharp conflict. Led by Oliver Hazard Perry, the Amer...

Reducere. Although the Montaukett were among the first tribes to establish relations with the English in the seventeenth century, very little has been writte...

A picture book about finding strength in unlikely places from the team behind the hugely popular New York Times bestseller Be Kind. When her gym cl...

Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdiscip...

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Reducere. Written from an Indian perspective, this text provides a history of the Lumbee Indians of southwestern North Carolina. Sections cover: the colonial...

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Reducere. In 1924, the United States began a bold program in public health. The Indian Service of the United States hired its first nurses to work among Indi...

Reducere. Jill Homer, a newspaper editor in Alaska, has an outlandish ambition: a 2, 740-mile mountain bike race from Canada to Mexico along the rugged Conti...

DescriptionMayim Bialik, star of The Big Bang Theory, puts her Ph.D. to work as she talks to teens about the science of growing up and getting ahea...

This is the second expanded edition of the Desolation Wilderness Fishing Guide. Information has been updated reflecting severe reduction of fish pl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rob SkibaWhat do the Mayan prophecies, the Aztec Calendar Stone, the symbols on America's Great Seal and the U.S. Capitol B...

Reducere. "One of the best tribal histories . . . the product of decades of study by a layman archeologist-historian. With a rich blend of archeology, anthro...

Reducere. Two hundred years ago, when the activities of the white man in North America were dominated by clashing imperial ambitions and colonial rivalry, th...

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This little book is here to send you some love. Packed with quotes to inspire you and statements full of compassion, this ink-and-paper hug will he...

In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform loca...

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Reducere. In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, wat...

Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands,...

Adeptly exploring the Gospel of Matthew as narrative, with attention given to underlying Old Testament influences, the authors of this New Beacon B...

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Reducere. It has often been said that humanity's history is a fabrication, littered with lies and omissions, but this has never been conclusively proven, unt...

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Reducere. The grand age of steamboats on Keuka Lake began in 1835 and was vital to the development of the region. The boats carried excursionists--Victorian ...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor John S. StrongIllustration(s): 9 halftones, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 352Collection: ...

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