Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Hardcover - David R. M. Beck

DescriptionUnfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposi...

Reducere. The Menominee Indians, or "wild rice people, " have lived for thousands of years in the region that is now called Wisconsin and are the oldest Nati...

Reducere. What came to be known as the World's Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's 1492 landfall ...

Reducere. Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of t...

Reducere. From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding...

It's 1893, and Lorraine Williams can't wait to attend the Chicago World's Fair and see her idol, the Black opera singer Sissieretta Jones. But when...

Reducere. In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry. These conflicts, known as the Be...

An examination of the concept and practice of contemporary tribal sovereignty which proposes that tribal self-determination might be better pursued...

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The fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white America...

Reducere. The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removin...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): David M. SchneiderNumber of pages: 148Publication date: 1980Dimensions: 155 x 229 x 9Cover typ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

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Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into in...

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Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalities--MexiGuatamalans, CubanRicans, and others--an impo...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryHistoryBetween 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression ...

Reducere. Milwaukee is an Algonquin word meaning "the gathering place." Wisconsin's 11 American Indian tribes have long gathered in the city, contributing to...

Reducere. Placing American Indians in the center of the story, Restoring a Presence relates an entirely new history of Yellowstone National Park. Although ne...

Frederick Douglass dismissed Myrtilla's plan to open a school for African American girls in the slaveholding South as "reckless, almost to the poin...

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In Broken Icarus, author David Hanna tracks the inspiring trajectory of aviation leading up to and through the World's Fair of 1933, as well as the...

In Seeing Red, Cari M. Carpenter examines anger in the poetry and prose of three early American Indian writers: S. Alice Callahan, Pauline Johnson,...

Reducere. DescriptionChicago's World's Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago World's Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacul...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Paul R. DeslandesIllustration(s): 16 color plates, 104 halftonesNumber of pages: 432Publicatio...

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One of a series of popular turn-of-the-century international expositions, the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 emphasized Western Hemisphere product...

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Outsmart the traps that are holding you back from success Trap Tales is your guide to avoiding the seven obstacles that ensnare people every day. W...

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

DescriptionCo-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand ar...

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