Henry Thoreau And John Muir Among The Native Americans

Author : Richard F. Fleck
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1941821626
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Native Americans written by Richard F. Fleck and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No two persons in the United States have written with as much passion and power about the bond between human beings and the natural world as Thoreau of WALDEN and Muir of MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA. For both, Native Americans best exemplified the innate need of the human spirit to merge with the primal wilderness. This is the first book to treat together and in depth these two great students of our natural America to explore Native American influence on the development not only of their—but America’s—natural philosophies and environmental awareness.

Author : Daniel Lee Henry
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602233306
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Across the Shaman's River written by Daniel Lee Henry and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one of Alaska’s last Indigenous strongholds, shut off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and a naturalist. Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alaska, the Tlingits had successfully warded off the Anglo influences that had swept into other corners of the territory. This Native American tribe was viewed by European and American outsiders as the last wild tribe and a frustrating impediment to access. Missionaries and prospectors alike had widely failed to bring the Tlingit into their power. Yet, when naturalist John Muir arrived in 1879, accompanied by a fiery preacher, it only took a speech about “brotherhood”—and some encouragement from the revered local shaman Skandoo’o—to finally transform these “hostile heathens.” Using Muir’s original journal entries, as well as historic writings of explorers juxtaposed with insights from contemporary tribal descendants, Across the Shaman’s River reveals how Muir’s famous canoe journey changed the course of history and had profound consequences on the region’s Native Americans. “The product of three decades of thought, research, and attentive listening. . . . Henry shines a bright light on events that have long been shadowy, half-known. . . . Now, thanks to careful scholarship and his access to Tlingit oral history, we are given a different perspective on familiar events: we are inside the Tlingit world, looking out at the changes happening all around them.” —Alaska History

Author : Mark David Spence
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198027982
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispossessing the Wilderness written by Mark David Spence and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal. The first study to place national park history within the context of the early reservation era, it details the ways that national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.

Author : Richard F. Fleck
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians written by Richard F. Fleck and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished selections from Thoreau's "Indian Notebooks" and from Muir's notes on Indians of the western United States bring alive their fascinations. In a larger sense, this book shows the Indian influence on the development not only of their -- but America's -- natural philosophies and environmental awareness."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael P. Branch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780820325477
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Roots written by Michael P. Branch and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Roots is an unprecedented anthology of outstanding early writings about American nature--a rich, influential, yet critically underappreciated body of work. Rather than begin with Henry David Thoreau, who is often identified as the progenitor of American nature writing, editor Michael P. Branch instead surveys the long tradition that prefigures and anticipates Thoreau and his literary descendants. The selections in Reading the Roots describe a diversity of landscapes, wildlife, and natural phenomena, and their authors represent many different nationalities, cultural affiliations, religious views, and ideological perspectives. The writings gathered here also range widely in terms of subject, rhetorical form, and disciplinary approach--from promotional tracts and European narratives of contact with Native Americans to examples of scientific theology and romantic nature writing. The volume also includes a critical introduction discussing the cultural, scientific, and literary value of early American nature writing; headnotes that contextualize all authors and selections; and a substantial bibliography of primary and secondary sources in the field. Reading the Roots at last makes early American landscapes--and a range of literary responses to them--accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

Author : Alda Balthrop-Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108890458
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoreau's Religion written by Alda Balthrop-Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau's Religion presents a ground-breaking interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's most famous book, Walden. Rather than treating Walden Woods as a lonely wilderness, Balthrop-Lewis demonstrates that Thoreau's ascetic life was a form of religious practice dedicated to cultivating a just, multispecies community. The book makes an important contribution to scholarship in religious studies, political theory, English, environmental studies, and critical theory by offering the first sustained reading of Thoreau's religiously motivated politics. In Balthrop-Lewis's vision, practices of renunciation like Thoreau's can contribute to the reformation of social and political life. In this, the book transforms Thoreau's image, making him a vital source for a world beset by inequality and climate change. Balthrop-Lewis argues for an environmental politics in which ecological flourishing is impossible without economic and social justice.

Author : Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807073784
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Long as Grass Grows written by Dina Gilio-Whitaker and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy. Throughout 2016, the Standing Rock protest put a national spotlight on Indigenous activists, but it also underscored how little Americans know about the longtime historical tensions between Native peoples and the mainstream environmental movement. Ultimately, she argues, modern environmentalists must look to the history of Indigenous resistance for wisdom and inspiration in our common fight for a just and sustainable future.

Author : Phoebe S. K. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195372417
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camping Grounds written by Phoebe S. K. Young and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camping Grounds narrates a quintessentially American tradition of sleeping outdoors, from the Civil War to the present, that will appeal to academics, outdoor enthusiasts, and general readers alike.

Author : Richard F. Fleck
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0871089823
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Rims to Mountains High written by Richard F. Fleck and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by his ranger days in Rocky Mountain National Park more than forty five years ago as well as more recent rambles, Richard Fleck has created these descriptive essays that take readers from shimmering desert heat to snowy summits. Fleck has expanded his acclaimed book Breaking Through the Clouds (2004) to create a new book that concentrates on the intermountain American West. This edition includes counterpoint experiences in the desert, canyon lands, and dry prairie far below the summits of the lofty peaks, such as Death Valley, Grand Gulch, Grand Canyon, and the Great Sand Dunes. His literary model was Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire and his intent is to involve readers with an equally potent but different kind of natural reality. Fleck says, “After all, do not mountains rise out of deserts and dry lands? Mountains and surrounding deserts should not be separated.” The mountains are a constant source of spiritual renewal for this author, enabling him to become more aware and whole.

Author : Robert Acquinas McNally
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496239199
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cast Out of Eden written by Robert Acquinas McNally and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: