Grandmother, Grandfather, and Old Wolf

Grandmother, Grandfather, and Old Wolf PDF Author: Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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A collection of 64 short tales that Native Americans in the Northwest shared with rancher and historian L. V. McWhorter at the beginning of the 20th century. Trafzer sets the context with his introduction, explains and comments in endnotes, and identifies the name and tribe of the teller and the date of the telling. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Grandmother, Grandfather, and Old Wolf

Grandmother, Grandfather, and Old Wolf PDF Author: Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Book Description
A collection of 64 short tales that Native Americans in the Northwest shared with rancher and historian L. V. McWhorter at the beginning of the 20th century. Trafzer sets the context with his introduction, explains and comments in endnotes, and identifies the name and tribe of the teller and the date of the telling. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Voice of the Old Wolf

Voice of the Old Wolf PDF Author: Steven Ross Evans
Publisher: Washington State University Press
ISBN: 1636820670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Lucullus V. McWhorter met and befriended Yakama and Nez Perce warriors in 1903, forming deep relationships and accumulating facts, stories, and perspectives that would otherwise have been irretrievably lost. Adopted as an honorary member of the Yakama tribe and given the name Old Wolf, he served as a stirring spokesman for non-treaty bands and captured prominent Nez Perce voices in his classic Western histories, Yellow Wolf (1940) and Hear Me, My Chiefs! (1952). Originally published in 1996, Voice of the Old Wolf is the only biography of Lucullus V. McWhorter (1860-1944). Author Steven Ross Evans focused on the Yakima area rancher’s unique roles as Nez Perce tribal historian and collector of traditional lore to help fill a significant gap in the chronology of Nez Perce history--the post 1880s to the 1940s, and assembled numerous excellent photographs, many previously unpublished. This edition includes a new foreword describing the vast McWhorter collection held by Washington State University.

Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest

Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest PDF Author: Robert Ross McCoy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135933391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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Book Description
This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework.

American Indian Medicine Ways

American Indian Medicine Ways PDF Author: Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816537178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Book Description
The book highlights American Indian spiritual leaders, miracle healings, and ceremonies that have influenced American history and shows their continued significance--Provided by publisher.

A Road Course in Early American Literature

A Road Course in Early American Literature PDF Author: Thomas Hallock
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817320830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst explores a two-part question: what does travel teach us about literature, and how can reading guide us to a deeper understanding of place and identity? Thomas Hallock charts a teacher’s journey to answering these questions, framing personal experiences around the continued need for a survey course covering early American literature up to the mid-nineteenth century. Hallock approaches literary study from the overlapping perspectives of pedagogue, scholar, unrepentant tourist, husband, father, friend, and son. Building on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s premise that there is “creative reading as well as creative writing,” Hallock turns to the vibrant and accessible tradition of American travel writing, employing the form of biblio-memoir to bridge the impasse between public and academic discourse and reintroduce the dynamic field of early American literature to wider audiences. Hallock’s own road course begins and ends at the Lowcountry of Georgia and South Carolina, following a circular structure of reflection. He weaves his journey through a wide swath of American literatures and authors: from Native American and African American oral traditions, to Wheatley and Equiano, through Emerson, Poe, and Dickinson, among others. A series of longer, place-oriented narratives explore familiar and lesser-known literary works from the sixteenth-century invasion of Florida through the Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the American Civil War. Shorter chapters bridge the book’s central themes—the mapping of cognitive and physical space, our personal stake in reading, the tensions that follow earlier acts of erasure, and the impossibility of ever fully shutting out the past. Exploring complex cultural histories and contemporary landscapes filled with ghosts and new voices, this volume draws inspiration from a tradition of travel, place-oriented, and literature-based works ranging from William Carlos Williams’s In the American Grain and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, Wendy Lesser’s Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books, and Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch. An accompanying bibliographic essay is periodically updated and available at Hallock’s website: www.roadcourse.us.

"That's What They Used to Say"

Author: Donald L. Fixico
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806159278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard “hvmakimata”—“that’s what they used to say”—a phrase Mvskokes and Seminoles use to end stories. In his latest work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke (as “Muskogee” is spelled in the Mvskoke language), and Seminole, invites readers into his own oral tradition to learn how storytelling, legends and prophecies, and oral histories and creation myths knit together to explain the Indian world. Interweaving the storytelling and traditions of his ancestors, Fixico conveys the richness and importance of oral culture in Native communities and demonstrates the power of the spoken word to bring past and present together, creating a shared reality both immediate and historical for Native peoples. Fixico’s stories conjure war heroes and ghosts, inspire fear and laughter, explain the past, and foresee the future—and through them he skillfully connects personal, familial, tribal, and Native history. Oral tradition, Fixico affirms, at once reflects and creates the unique internal reality of each Native community. Stories possess spiritual energy, and by summoning this energy, storytellers bring their communities together. Sharing these stories, and the larger story of where they come from and how they work, “That’s What They Used to Say” offers readers rare insight into the oral traditions at the very heart of Native cultures, in all of their rich and infinitely complex permutations.

The Girl who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales

The Girl who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales PDF Author:
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 1402732635
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
A collection of Native American stories arranged geographically.

Cashmere

Cashmere PDF Author: L. Burton Brender with the Cashmere Museum and Pioneer Village, foreword by Ray Schmitten
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467103667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Book Description
Cashmere, in the exact center of Washington State, has centuries of settler and Indian history. The Wenatchi called the area Nt'wt'c'kum, and it was later renamed Mission in honor of the work of Catholic priests Charles Marie Pandosy, Urban Grassi, and Stephen de Rougé. Mission then welcomed its first settler, Alexander Bartholomäus Brender; the future commander of the Civil War's Army of the Potomac, George McClellan; and the Great Northern Railway. In 1904, Judge James H. Chase led the town's rechristening as Cashmere. It grew from a frontier train stop into an established community with lush orchards and prominent enterprises like the Cashmere Valley Record, the Cashmere Valley Bank, and the Cashmere Museum. Today, its world-class goods and produce, like Aplets & Cotlets and Crunch Pak sliced apples, sit on store shelves internationally. Come explore this global community and still fiercely independent piece of the Pacific Northwest.

Native Universe

Native Universe PDF Author: Gerald McMaster
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426203350
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Book Description
This gorgeous volume draws from the vast archives of the National Museum of the American Indian, and features the voices and perspectives of some of the most prominent Native American scholars, writers, and activists. 350 color photographs.

Fighting Invisible Enemies

Fighting Invisible Enemies PDF Author: Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806164166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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Book Description
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 Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Native peoples reluctantly began to allow Western medicine into their communities. Fighting Invisible Enemies traces this transition among inhabitants of the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. What historian Clifford E. Trafzer describes is not so much a transition from one practice to another as a gradual incorporation of Western medicine into Indian medical practices. Melding indigenous and medical history specific to Southern California, his book combines statistical information and documents from the federal government with the oral narratives of several tribes. Many of these oral histories—detailing traditional beliefs about disease causation, medical practices, and treatment—are unique to this work, the product of the author’s close and trusted relationships with tribal elders. Trafzer examines the years of interaction that transpired before Native people allowed elements of Western medicine and health care into their lives, homes, and communities. Among the factors he cites as impelling the change were settler-borne diseases, the negative effects of federal Indian policies, and the sincere desire of both Indians and agency doctors and nurses to combat the spread of disease. Here we see how, unlike many encounters between Indians and non-Indians in Southern California, this cooperative effort proved positive and constructive, resulting in fewer deaths from infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. The first study of its kind, Trafzer’s work fills gaps in Native American, medical, and Southern California history. It informs our understanding of the working relationship between indigenous and Western medical traditions and practices as it continues to develop today.