Fighting Invisible Enemies: Health and Medical Transitions Among Southern California Indians, Hardcover - Clifford E. Trafzer

Reducere. Native Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian...

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. Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience beca...

From astronomy to psychology, this beautifully illustrated chronology presents the most important and groundbreaking milestones in science. Award-w...

DescriptionMark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the ab...

In this thought-provoking re-examination of the hypothesis of linguistic relativity, Sean O'Neill looks closely at the Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk peopl...

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Reducere. Constance Goddard Du Bois (1889-1934) was an American novelist and an ethnographer, writing extensively between 1899 and 1908 about the native peop...

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The tally of Texas lawmen killed during the state s first sixty-five years of organized law enforcement is truly staggering. From Texas Rangers the...

Reducere. The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford And...

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Reducere. Alvin Fernald is back Not only back, but he finds himself in the middle of a mystery as exciting and hilarious as The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin...

Reducere. Enjoy this Dan Jones' classic which contains a fast-paced narrative of his many journeys across the American West, the difficult and sometimes secr...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Ethnobotany of the California Indians, revised, updated, expanded, from the First Edition (2003), is a compilation of 1, 343 plants ...

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Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology and immunology, the author intersperses obvious historical m...

Reducere. Lawlessness in Texas did not end with the close of the cowboy era. It just evolved, swapping horses and pistols for cars and semiautomatics. From P...

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Reducere. Do you know Southern California? SoCal attracts people from all over the world--even little monstersDid you know that? Monsters are masters of camo...

Surfing, unlike many sports, requires no teams, rules, regulations, scores, or stadiums full of spectators. Surfing instead encapsulates personal t...

Reducere. Texas' most famous fighting man, James (Jim) Bowie, a descendant of the fierce natives of the Scottish Highlands, gets the full treatment in Cliffo...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Clifford E HarwoodNumber of pages: 116Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 205 x 13Cover type: Paperback...

Known for its sunshine and sandy beaches filled with bathing beauties and musclemen, Southern California is a Mediterranean-climate haven for winte...

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Reducere. This information-packed guide describes patterns of village life, and covers such subjects as Indian tools and artifacts, hunting techniques, and f...

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Surfing, unlike many sports, requires no teams, rules, regulations, scores, or stadiums full of spectators. Surfing instead encapsulates personal t...

Reducere. Dick Dale & the Del-Tones began holding weekend dances at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California, in the summer of 1960. Over the next year ...

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Reducere. In a real-life version of Little Big Man comes the Indian-captive narrative of Herman Lehmann. Captured as a boy in 1870, he lived for nine years a...

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Covering such subjects as astronomy, magnetism, optics, sound, heat, mechanics, waves, and electricity, the book provides a rich source of material...

Reducere. ``Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An ap...

Reducere. Used throughout the world since earliest times as a common means of communication, sign language was particularly well developed among the Plains I...

Reducere. Herman Lehmann may be the most famous person taken captive by Indians in Texas. Snatched from his family's home in Loyal Valley in May 1870, at abo...

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Reducere. Travel author Horace Kephart discusses the culture of Appalachia he observed while living in a mountain cabin for several months at the start of th...

In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's ...

This is a detailed account of Lee's captivity among the Comanches in the 1850s and his escape through the mountains back to white civilization.

Reducere. DescriptionOn one Indian summer Friday night, things happen that change the course of hundreds of lives.In Winston-Salem, a tobacco and mill town i...

Reducere. This book is an autobiographical account of the author's hospitalization and the abuses he suffered. In 1900 he was first confined to a private men...

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Reducere. When it was originally released, Thriving in Transitions: A Research-Based Approach to College Student Success represented a paradigm shift in the ...