Lincoln and the Indians

Lincoln and the Indians PDF Author: David Allen Nichols
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873518764
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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"With a new preface by the author"--P. [1] of cover.

Lincoln and the Indians

Lincoln and the Indians PDF Author: David Allen Nichols
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873518764
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Book Description
"With a new preface by the author"--P. [1] of cover.

Lincoln and Native Americans

Lincoln and Native Americans PDF Author: Michael S. Green
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809338254
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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"This book traces Lincoln's family history, his early years, and how they shaped--and may have shaped--his attitudes toward Native Americans"--

Native American Renaissance

Native American Renaissance PDF Author: Kenneth Lincoln
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520054578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
Lincoln presents the writing of today's most gifted Native American authors, against an ethnographic background which should enable a growing number of readers to share his enthusiasm. Lincoln has lived with American Indians, knows them, and is respected by them; all this enhances his book.

38 Nooses

38 Nooses PDF Author: Scott W. Berg
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307389138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year In August 1862, after suffering decades of hardship, broken treaties, and relentless encroachment on their land, the Dakota leader Little Crow reluctantly agreed that his people must go to war. After six weeks of fighting, the uprising was smashed, thousands of Indians were taken prisoner by the US army, and 303 Dakotas were sentenced to death. President Lincoln, embroiled in the most devastating period of the Civil War, personally intervened to save the lives of 265 of the condemned men, but in the end, 38 Dakota men would be hanged in the largest government-sanctioned execution in U.S. history. Writing with uncommon immediacy and insight, Scott W. Berg details these events within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people and the subsequent United States–Indian wars, and brings to life this overlooked but seminal moment in American history.

Lincoln and Citizenship

Lincoln and Citizenship PDF Author: Mark E. Steiner
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809338122
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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"This book is about citizenship, or membership in a political community, and Lincoln's evolving understanding of who belonged and who didn't belong in that community between 1837 and 1865"--

Indi'n Humor

Indi'n Humor PDF Author: Kenneth Lincoln
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195361652
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Drawing upon history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges "wooden Indian" stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native American peoples. Moving from tribal culture to interethnic literature, Lincoln covers the traditional Trickster of origin myths, historical ironies, Euroamericans "playing Indian," feminist Indian humor at home, contemporary painters and playwrights reinventing Coyote, popular mixed-blood music and Red English, and three Native American novelists, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and N. Scott Momaday. Indi'n Humor documents and interprets the contexts of laughter among Native Americans, as they see and are seen by the rest of the world. The study comes to focus comically on the poets, visual artists, playwrights, and novelists who make up the cultural renaissance of the past twenty years.

Fugitive Poses

Fugitive Poses PDF Author: Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803296220
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Book Description
Native sovereignty, Gerald Vizenor contends, is not possessed but expressed. It emerges not from practicing vengeful and exclusionary policies and politics, or by simple recourse to territoriality, but by turning to Native transmotion, the forces and processes of creativity and imagination lying at the heart of Native world-views and actions. Overturning long-held scholarly and popular assumptions, Vizenor offers a vigorous examination of tragic cultures and victimry.

Savage Conversations

Savage Conversations PDF Author: LeAnne Howe
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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“Savage Conversations takes place somewhere in between its sources, between sanity and madness, between then and now, between the living and the dead. It pushes past the limitations of textual sources for telling indigenous history and accounts of insanity.” —Barrelhouse Reviews May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln’s claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face and scalp. She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium. Her hauntings may be a reminder that in 1862, President Lincoln ordered the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas in the largest mass execution in United States history. No one has ever linked the two events—until now. Savage Conversations is a daring account of a former first lady and the ghosts that tormented her for the contradictions and crimes on which this nation is founded.

Reimagining Indians

Reimagining Indians PDF Author: Sherry Lynn Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195157273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Book Description
Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn to Indian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful about modern American culture, these writers produced a body of work that celebrates Indian cultures, religions, artistry, and simple humanity. Although these writers were not academically trained ethnographers, their books represent popular versions of ethnography. In revealing their own doubts about the superiority of European-American culture, they sought to provide a favorable climate for Indian cultural survival in a world indisputably dominated by non-Indians. They also encouraged notions of cultural relativism, pluralism, and tolerance in American thought. For the historian and general reader alike, this volume speaks to broad themes of American cultural history, Native American history, and the history of the American West.

Blood Will Tell

Blood Will Tell PDF Author: Katherine Ellinghaus
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623037X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Book Description
A study of the role blood quantum played in the assimilation period between 1887 and 1934 in the United States.