Author: Andrew Santella
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 1432949616
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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This title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Plains region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778703686
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The plains region was home to many native nations. For hundreds of years, these peoples followed the giant, wandering herds of buffalo upon which they were dependent. Clear, informative text and beautiful illustrations help describe the cultures and the ways of life of the different native nations who called the plains their home.
Author: James William Daschuk
Publisher: University of Regina Press
ISBN: 0889772967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. " Clearing the Plains is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peoples. Daschuk shows how infectious disease and state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping, relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day. The prose is gripping, the analysis is incisive, and the narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. For days after reading it, I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow. This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest." -Elizabeth A. Fenn, author of Pox Americana "Required reading for all Canadians." -Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood "Clearly written, deeply researched, and properly contextualized history...Essential reading for everyone interested in the history of indigenous North America." -J.R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires
Author: Marie Powell
Publisher: Core Library
ISBN: 9781532111754
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"The Plains region stretches across the Midwest from Canada to Texas. [This book] features stories from several of the region's Native Nations, including the Lakota, Cree, and Siksika"--Publisher's website.
Author: Linda Lowery
Publisher:
ISBN: 1467779342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Before the Plains region of the United States was divided up into states, this land was home to twenty-eight unique American Indian nations. Explore the history of these nations and find out how their culture is still alive today.
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606243100
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Introduces the customs, languages, and traditional way of life of several Native nations that lived on the Great Plains of North America.
Author: Geoff Cunfer
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victims in this familiar cautionary tale of the American frontier. But as this volume of groundbreaking scholarship shows, the story of the bison’s demise is actually quite nuanced. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains brings together voices from several disciplines to offer new insights on the relationship between humans and animals that approached extinction. The essays here transcend the border between the United States and Canada to provide a continental context. Contributors include historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and Native American perspectives. This book explores the deep past and examines the latest knowledge on bison anatomy and physiology, how bison responded to climate change (especially drought), and early bison hunters and pre-contact trade. It also focuses on the era of European contact, in particular the arrival of the horse, and some of the first known instances of over-hunting. By the nineteenth century bison reached a “tipping point” as a result of new tanning practices, an early attempt at protective legislation, and ventures to introducing cattle as a replacement stock. The book concludes with a Lakota perspective featuring new ethnohistorical research. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains is a major contribution to environmental history, western history, and the growing field of transnational history.
Author: Gaylord Torrence
Publisher: Skira
ISBN: 9780847844586
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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"In this exhibition, you will discover objects produced by 135 artists; objects that offer an unprecedented view of the continuity of the aesthetic traditions of the Plains Indians, from the 16th to the 20th century."--Musée du quai Branly brochure.
Author: Ronald P. Koch
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806121376
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Assembles information on and photographs of the shirts, robes, moccasins, headdresses, and ceremonial clothing of various Plains Indian tribes, illuminating their history and culture
Author: John K. Manos
Publisher: Scott Foresman
ISBN: 9780328832958
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages :
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