Author: Heard Museum. Gallery of Indian Art
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Category : Comanche painting
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Jeanne Snodgrass King
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: William C. Meadows
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080618602X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477

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Warrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To this day, these societies serve to maintain traditional Kiowa values, culture, and ethnic identity. Previous scholarship has offered only glimpses of Kiowa military societies. William C. Meadows now provides a detailed account of the ritual structures, ceremonial composition, and historical development of each society: Rabbits, Mountain Sheep, Horses Headdresses, Black Legs, Skunkberry /Unafraid of Death, Scout Dogs, Kiowa Bone Strikers, and Omaha, as well as past and present women’s groups. Two dozen illustrations depict personages and ceremonies, and an appendix provides membership rosters from the late 1800s. The most comprehensive description ever published on Kiowa military societies, this work is unmatched by previous studies in its level of detail and depth of scholarship. It demonstrates the evolution of these groups within the larger context of American Indian history and anthropology, while documenting and preserving tribal traditions.

Author: Jean Reith Schroedel
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ISBN: 0812252519
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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"This book is about attempts by states to limit the right of Native Americans to vote. The book covers law, legal cases, politics (especially at the state level), grassroots activism, history, and policy"--

Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408193507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics. He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner is just as great as his critics fear him to be, and a raspberry to Cool Britannia. A must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida, Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers.

Author: Patrick D. Lester
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806199368
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 701

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Includes "over three thousand names ... working from 1800 to the present. Typical entries list the artist's tribal affiliation and tribal name, birth and death dates, residence, publications, exhibits, awards, and honors." Also includes "passages of human interest" and "Excerpts from professional reviews and critical essays."

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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: Alberta Hannum
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Category : Navajo Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: William C. Meadows
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292705182
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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This study of Southern Plains military societies delineates comparatively and ethnohistorically the martial values embraced by the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache (KCA) since circa 1800, describing how military society structure, functions, and ritual symbols connect past and present.