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The magnificent art and decorative craftsmanship of the Indian tribes of North America appear in all of their colonial variety and complexity in this superb volume. Examples are included of the work of every major region in the areas now comprising the United States and Canada, of most of the numerically important or artistically pre-eminent tribes, and all of the major techniques employed by Indian artists. No reader of this book can long continue...
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An ingenious cross between a glossary, a dictionary, and an encyclopedia, this book is a unique word book covering every aspect of Native American culture. Entries provide brief definitions, information about language usage, specific references in Native American history, alternate spellings and numerous cross-references to related subjects.
10) Gods of war, gods of peace: how the meeting of native and colonial religions shaped early America
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"Based on extensive historical research and consultation with numerous Native American and other knowledgeable sources, Gods of War, Gods of Peace offers a revelatory new understanding of early America, as it broadens the scope of our knowledge and deepens our understanding of the complex process by which we came to be Americans. Only by seeing how the stories of Native American and newcomer entwine can we fully appreciate the exceptional origins...
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There is no question that native cultures in the New World exhibit many forms of mathematical development. This Native American mathematics can best be described by considering the nature of the concepts found in a variety of individual New World cultures. Unlike modern mathematics in which numbers and concepts are expressed in universal mathematical notation, the numbers and concepts found in native cultures occur and are expressed in many distinctive...
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A countryless woman: the early feminista -- The 1986 Watsonville Women's Strike: a case of Mexicana activism -- The ancient roots of machismo -- Saintly mother and soldier's whore: the leftist/Catholic paradigm -- In the beginning there was Eva -- La Macha: toward an erotic whole self -- Brujas and curanderas: a lived spirituality -- Un Tapiz: poetics of conscientizacin̤ -- Toward the mother-bond principle -- Resurrection of the dreamers.
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Volume 1 of most complete account of Indian picture writing ever with 1,290 illustrations and 54 additional plates (total in set) depicting inscriptions on stone, bone, skins, feathers, quills, shells, earth, copper, wood, fabrics, pottery, and even the human body. Symbols of trade, war, peace, traditions, custom, history, games, more.
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The story of the American Indians has, until now, been told as a 500-year tragedy, a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases, followed by steady retreat, defeat, and diminishment. Yet the true story begins much earlier, and its final recent chapter adds a major twist. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a longtime student of Indian history and culture, tells a radically new story, thanks...
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Jenkins offers an account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. He charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions, considering everything from the 19th-century American obsession with "Hebrew Indians" and Lost Tribes, to the early 20th-century cult of the Maya as bearers of the...
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This sweeping account traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Colin G. Calloway depicts Indian country west of the Appalachians to the Pacific, with emphasis on conflict and change. Calloway's narrative includes: the first inhabitants and their early pursuit of big-game animals; the diffusion of corn and how it transformed American Indian...
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