Reducere. Short Stories from the bestselling author of The Outsiders, plus exclusive interviews A teenager when she first gained fame, now a seasoned writer,...
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Reducere. Probably no Native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book, which is now in i...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe Far Reaches of Empire chronicles the half century of Anglo-American efforts to establish dominion in Nova Scotia, an important Frenc...
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Reducere. DescriptionImagine the North American Indians as astronomers carefully watching the heavens, charting the sun through the seasons, or counting the ...
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Reducere. DescriptionThis tribal history of the Spokane Indians begins with an account of their early life in the Pacific Northwest central plateau region. I...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign...
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Reducere. One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. I...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Angie DeboHere is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the...
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Reducere. Loren Miller was one of the nation's most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimin...
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Reducere. In the late 1880s, John A. Anderson, a young Swedish-born settler near Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, bought a camera with earnings from carpentry work. ...
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Reducere. This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photog...
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Reducere. The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939-1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-e...
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Reducere. Perhaps no Indian leader of the mid-nineteenth century was as well known in his time as the great Lakota Sioux Red Cloud. Although his fame later w...
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Reducere. War Dance at Fort Marion tells the powerful story of Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Arapaho chiefs and warriors detained as prisoners of war by the...
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Reducere. Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliati...
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Reducere. Seekers after wisdom have always been drawn to American Indian ritual and symbol. This history of two nineteenth-century Dreamer-Prophets, Smohalla...
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Reducere. The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affect...
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Reducere. In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they...
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Reducere. Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Elec...
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Reducere. Side by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830's was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alaba...
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Reducere. Spur AwardsEveryone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as a...
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Reducere. In this new and enlarged edition of his popular book, the author has added not only a number of new entries but also new information to existing en...
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Reducere. While Adolf Hitler's National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects ...
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Reducere. For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earn...
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Reducere. As the Quincentennial Celebration of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America approaches, interest in the voyage, and in the questions surroundi...
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Reducere. In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous...
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Reducere. In the 140 years since the defeat of George Armstrong Custer and his troops at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, scholars and other visitors have ...
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Reducere. Originally designed for facilitators as a training handbook complete with exercises and tools to assist white people address racism, this book guid...
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Reducere. Placing American Indians in the center of the story, Restoring a Presence relates an entirely new history of Yellowstone National Park. Although ne...
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Reducere. Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great S...
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Reducere. 2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau o...
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Reducere. Despite the popular assumption that Native American cultures in New England declined after Europeans arrived, evidence suggests that Indian communi...
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Reducere. A much-neglected source of first-hand views on the Battle of the Little Bighorn is presented in this third and final volume of Indian testimony col...
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Reducere. The Potawatomi Indians were the dominant tribe in the region of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and southern Michigan during the seventeenth and earl...
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Reducere. Nothing can change the terrible facts of the Sand Creek Massacre. The human toll of this horrific event and the ensuing loss of a way of life have ...
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Reducere. In 1863, the thirteen-year-old boy who would come to be called Comanche Jack was sent to the well to fetch water. Instead, he joined a wagon train ...
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Reducere. Although most Romans lived outside urban centers, the core of Roman civilization lay in its cities. Throughout the empire these cities--modeled as ...
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Reducere. For members of the U.S. Army's "Task Force Faith" and the First Marine Division, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir is an epic story of survival, coura...
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Reducere. Over the course of his military career, George Crook developed empathy and admiration for American Indians both as foes and as allies. As Paul Magi...
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Reducere. Like America itself, the architecture of the United States is an amalgam, an imitation or an importation of foreign forms adapted to the natural or...
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Reducere. During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenou...
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Reducere. 2018 Texas State Historical Association's Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Best Book on Texas county and local historyThe notorious Parr family manipulate...
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Reducere. Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped f...
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Reducere. Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders o...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon HunnerA social history of New Mexico's "Atomic City" Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the commu...
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Reducere. Few places provided a more storied backdrop for key events related to the high plains Indian wars than had Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Established in ...
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Reducere. This is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the...
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Reducere. -In his first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, noted playwright Tomson Highway tells the story of two Cree brothers who were severely abused at a Cath...
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Reducere. Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It ...
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Reducere. In places like the valley town of Alma, once known to Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, and through the dusty streets of San Antonio, where Conrad ...
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Reducere. By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph G. Rosa"James Butler Hickok, generally called 'Wild Bill, ' epitomized the archetypal gunfighter, that half-man, hal...
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Reducere. The history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nation's found...
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Reducere. On November 27, 1868, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer attacked a Southern Cheyenne village along the Washita River ...
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Reducere. After years of working with at-risk youth, Chicana social worker Rosa Medina leaves Los Angeles's gang-ridden barrios and street violence to settle...
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Reducere. In the past, an excavated musket ball might simply have been catalogued as either a "spherical lead bullet" or an "impacted bullet." But each recov...
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Reducere. The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories by historian Hugh A. Dempsey presents tales from the Blackfoot tribe of the plains of northern Montan...
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Reducere. Description Indigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the language and culture of the students' community and incorporate them ...
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