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Indigenous War Painting Of The Plains Volume 283 - An Illustrated History

de Arni Brownstone

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 In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art - narrating war exploits in large-scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. This book offers the first comprehensive look at this important North American art form.
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The Rise And Fall Of An Officer Corps - The Republic Of China Military, 1942-1955

de Eric Setzekorn

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 For a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the makings of a professional, apolitical military force. The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps tells the story of that moment in the military history of modern China - how it came to be, why it ultimately failed, and what it meant for China at home and abroad.
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The Oneida Indians In The Age Of Allotment, 1860-1920

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 Sixteen WPA narratives included in this volume tell of Oneida struggles during the Civil War and in boarding schools; of reservation leaders; and of land loss and other hardships under allotment. This book is a unique collaborative effort between one Native American community and academics to present a detailed picture of the Oneida Indian past.
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Kiowa Military Societies - Ethnohistory And Ritual

de William C. Meadows

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 Previous scholarship has offered only glimpses of Kiowa military societies. William Meadows now provides a detailed account of the ritual structures, ceremonial composition, and historical development of each society, as well as past and present womenâ€™s groups.
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Strike Fear In The Land - Pedro De Alvarado And The Conquest Of Guatemala, 1520â€“1541

de Christopher H. Lutz, W. George Lovell e Wendy Kramer

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 Reexamines the Spanish conquest of Guatemala to give us a greater appreciation of indigenous involvement in it, and sustained opposition to it. The authors develop a fresh perspective on Pedro de Alvarado as well as the alliances forged with native groups that facilitated Spanish objectives.
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Codex Chimalpahin - Society And Politics In Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, And Other Nahua Altepetl In Central Mexico, Volume 2

de Don Domingo De San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin

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 Volume two of the Codex Chimalpahin represents heretofore-unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and dynastic records, it furnishes detailed histories of the formation and development of Nahua societies and polities in central Mexico over an extensive period.
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Nahuatl Theater - Nahuatl Theater Volume 1: Death And Life In Colonial Nahua Mexico

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 Presents seven dramas from the first truly American theatre. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these plays survive only in later copies. In this volume, Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart offer faithful transcriptions of the Nahuatl as well as new English translations of these remarkable dramas.
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Tonkawa Texts - A New Linguistic Edition

de Harry Hoijer

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 Much of what is known about Tonkawa - an "isolate" language, related to no others - comes to us through the stories collected and translated by anthropologist Harry Hoijer. In this volume, Thomas R. Wier provides translations for each line of text along with morphological analysis of each Tonkawa word.
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Columns Of Vengeance - Soldiers, Sioux, And The Punitive Expeditions, 1863â€“1864

de Paul N. Beck

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 Offers a reappraisal of the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the US Army's response to the Dakota War of 1862. Whereas previous accounts have approached the Punitive Expeditions as a military campaign of the Indian Wars, Beck argues that the expeditions were also an extension of the Civil War.
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From Cochise To Geronimo - The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874â€“1886

de Edwin R. Sweeney

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 In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the US government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin Sweeney offers a definitive history of the turbulent period between Cochise's death and Geronimo's surrender in 1886.
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A Creek Warrior For The Confederacy - The Autobiography Of Chief G. W. Grayson

de G. W. Grayson

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 Possibly the only written account of a 19th-century American Indian leader, this life of George Washington Grayson (a Confederate officer during the Civil War) offers insights into Creek life and politics. Baird has sought to make the work accessible to a wider audience in this edition.
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Mapping Indigenous Land - Native Land Grants In Colonial New Spain

de Ana Pulido Rull

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 Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used as evidence in litigation over the allocation of land. This book explores how, as persuasive and rhetorical images, these maps did more than simply record the disputed territories for lawsuits.
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Ioway Life - Reservation And Reform, 1837â€“1860

de Greg Olson

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 Offers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways' efforts to retain their tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha Agency. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and correspondence from the agency's files and Presbyterian archives, Olson offers a compelling case study in US colonialism and Indigenous resistance.
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The Darkest Period - The Kanza Indians And Their Last Homeland, 1846â€“1873

de Ronald D. Parks

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 Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe's original homeland.
Pocahontas'S People - The Powhatan Indians Of Virginia Through Four Centuries

de Helen C. Rountree

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 Spanning four centuries, this history traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with Spanish missionaries in 1750, through to their present-day way of life and relationship with the state of Virginia and the Federal Government.
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Maya History And Religion

de J. Eric S. Thompson

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The Cheyenne Way - Conflict And Case Law In Primitive Jurisprudence

de E. Adamson Hoebel e Karl N Llewellyn

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The Pawnee Indians

de George E. Hyde

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The Quiche Mayas Of Utatlan - The Evolution Of A Highland Guatemala Kingdom

de Robert M. Carmack

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 Offers a full account of the QuichÃ©s, the most powerful Maya group in the Guatemala highlands at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The QuichÃ©s ruled from the city they built on the highland plains, to which they gave the splendid name K'umarcaaj, but which became known throughout the Maya world as UtatlÃ¡n.
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The Isthmian Script Volume 284 - Deciphering Ancient Mesoamerican Writing

de Martha J. Macri

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Chief Daniel Bread And The Oneida Nation Of Indians Of Wisconsin Volume 241

de L. Gordon Mclester e Laurence M. Hauptman

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The Pequots In Southern New England - The Fall And Rise Of An American Indian Nation

de James D. Wherry e Laurence M. Hauptman

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 This collection of essays commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Pequot War, which culminated in the almost complete destruction of the tribe by Massachusetts Puritans in 1637.
Naskapi - The Savage Hunters Of The Labrador Peninsula

de Frank G. Speck

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Between The Floods Volume 282 - A History Of The Arikaras

de Mark Van De Logt

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 The creation story of the SahniÅ¡, or Arikara, people begins with a terrible flood, sent by the Great Chief Above to renew the world. This book tells the story of this Great Plains nation from its mythic origins to the modern era, tracing the path of the Arikaras through the oral traditions and oral histories that preserve and illuminate their past.
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