The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians, Paperback - L. Adolph Dial

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

Reducere. Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--th...

Reducere. With more than 50, 000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malin...

Reducere. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William CrononForeword by: John DemosAfterword by: William CrononThe book that launched environmental history now updated. ...

Reducere. This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preserva...

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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Reducere. "A style that is verve itself." -- New York Times "A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism." -- Chicago Daily Tribune...

Reducere. "Land of Nakoda" is a vivid account of the history, legends, customs, crafts, and ceremonies of the Assiniboine Indians of the northern plains. Fir...

Reducere. Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whi...

Reducere. Founded in 1834 by a small group of Quakers protesting human slavery in the South, Westfield and Washington Township served as an important home st...

Reducere. Patrick Henry, working with more than one thousand unpublished autobiographical pages written by key rescuers and with documents, letters, and inte...

Reducere. Crossroads of the continent, Land of Lincoln, hub of commerce--or, as Charles Dickens viewed it, a landscape "oppressive in its barren monotony"--I...

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...

Founded in 1834 by a small group of Quakers protesting human slavery in the South, Westfield and Washington Township served as an important home st...

Reducere. The Indians of California, in their ethnographic present, offered the widest cultural range to be found in any area of the United States. In the no...

Reducere. An ALA Notable Children's Book and a Booklist Editors' Choice, about one young man's memories of the land he called home.The land I love was lost t...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From USA TODAY bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a "masterpiece" (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge,...

DescriptionPencils You Should Know traces the evolution of pencils over time and across the globe. From the humble, handcrafted pencil of the 19th ...

Reducere. Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peacefu...

A history of food in Australia spanning 65, 000 years.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Paul van ReykIllustration(s): 110 illustrations, 80 in co...

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. This census set concerns six districts (Wakpamini, White Clay, Porcupine, Wounded Knee, Medicine Root and Pass Creek) of the Pine Ridge Agency, Sou...

Eduardo Galeano writes: These pages, written in bursts, disorderly, jubilant and desperate, tell of the adventures and misfortunes of the man who h...

Reducere. What do we really know about the Aryan migration theory, and why is that debate so hot? Why did the people of Khajuraho carve erotic scenes on thei...

Reducere. Fed up with an outlaw existence, Calico Jack Rackam swears off the pirate life, until he meets Anne Bonny, a woman who would as soon stab a man as ...

Reducere. In America the El Camino Real was an important road that began in Mexico City, where the king's representative would be, and ended at the north end...

Reducere. Buying and selling land can be a complicated endeavor. There are dozens of details that must be researched with many choices to make prior to closi...

Reducere. In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument wi...

Martin Luther's foundational bringing about of a schism towards Protestantism is considered in terms of its impact on art, sexuality, print culture...

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...

Reducere. What if the history of America's largest Indian nation is actually a polite modern fiction, one invented by "anthropologists and other friends"? In...

Reducere. What are the Kushtaka? There are incredible stories of the sinister Kushtaka or "land otter man" as it is known by the Tlingit's all throughout Sou...

Reducere. Taken mainly from Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. 60 halftones from photographs; 98 drawings, maps, and sketches.

Reducere. The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of...

Reducere. Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume I: The Impact of American Indians on Western Politics a...

Reducere. Arqtiq: A Study Of The Marvels At The North Pole This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation an...

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An important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the bo...

Reducere. In Land of Milk and Money, Alan I Marcus examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Looking spec...

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