Native American History
From Lakota Woman to Black Elk Speaks, Being the Life Story Of a Holy Man Of the Oglala Sioux, from Empire Of the Summer Moon to Parabola - the Magazine Of Myth and Tradition - Volume Xv, Number 2, May 1990,
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Lakota Woman is an autobiographical book by Mary Brave Bird, formerly Mary Crow Dog, a Sicangu Lakota from the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota. She describes her childhood and young adulthood, which included many historical events associated with the American Indian Movement. Lakota Woman describes Brave Bird's participation in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties and the 1973 Indian Occupation at Wounded Knee.
Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary...
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The dramatic events of the final half-century of conflict between Indians and whites in the American West.
In this unique collection, some thirty Hopi elders reveal for the first time in written form the Hopi world-view.
JACK WEATHERFORD holds the DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota and an honorary position at Chinggis Khaan University in Mongolia. In 2007 he received the Order of the Polar Star, the highest award for service to the Mongol Nation of Genghis Khan.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by American writer Dee Brown is a history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century, and their displacement and slaughter by the United States federal government. It was first published in 1970 to generally strong reviews, although scholars criticized it on several grounds. Published at a time of increasing American Indian activism, the book was on the bestseller list for more than a year.
Unabridged CDs, 11 CDs, 14 hours Read by TBA The bestselling author of Mayflower revisits one of the most iconic and misunderstood stories of the American West.
by Martin F and Dee Brown Schmitt
Two hundred and seventy authentic photographs and sketches and a running narrative of rare simplicity and power make up this story of the struggle between the United States and the western Indian tribes which chose to fight rather than to go tamely on reservations. The pictures have been brought together from many sources, and for the first time present a contemporary pictorial record of the chiefs, the scouts, the historic Army posts, battles and skirmishes, from Red Cloud's attack on Fort Phil Kearny...
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Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary...
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JACK WEATHERFORD holds the DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota and an honorary position at Chinggis Khaan University in Mongolia. In 2007 he received the Order of the Polar Star, the highest award for service to the Mongol Nation of Genghis Khan.
Unabridged CDs, 11 CDs, 14 hours Read by TBA The bestselling author of Mayflower revisits one of the most iconic and misunderstood stories of the American West.
T.R. Fehrenbach was born in San Benito, Texas in 1925 and graduated from Princeton University in 1947. He has been a contributor to many publications, including Esquire, The Atlantic, The Saturday Evening Post, and The New Republic. He is the author of the best-selling Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans and Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico, among other works. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Lillian.
In this unique collection, some thirty Hopi elders reveal for the first time in written form the Hopi world-view.
The dramatic events of the final half-century of conflict between Indians and whites in the American West.