The Great Tree And The Longhouse

Author : Hazel W. Hertzberg
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Tree and the Longhouse written by Hazel W. Hertzberg and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1966 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Great Tree and The Longhouse" is a 122-page soft-bound collection of Native American history about the Iroquois culture in pre-Columbian times. The book is designed to present narrative reports about historical events for junior and senior high school students. Included are the description of the native Iroquois lands, and a report of the creation myth of the Iroquois. The book also presents descriptions of Iroquois delineations of forest and cleared land, concepts of time, roles for men and women and governing confederacy system. Included is information about the Iroquois interactions with European settlers and cultural changes up to the present. Sepia drawings and maps illustrate the material. A teacher's guide of background information and recommended questions is also included.

Author : Timothy John Shannon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670018970
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier written by Timothy John Shannon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrait of the Iroquois nation during colonial America offers insight into their formidable influence over regional politics, their active participation in period trade, and their neutral stance throughout the Anglo-French imperial wars. 15,000 first printing.

Author : William Nelson Fenton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806130033
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Law and the Longhouse written by William Nelson Fenton and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Law, a living tradition among the conservative Iroquois, is sustained by celebrating the condolence ceremony when they mourn a dead chief and install his successor for life on good behavior. This ritual act, reaching back to the dawn of history, maintains the League of the Iroquois, the legendary form of government that gave way over time to the Iroquois Confederacy. Fenton verifies historical accounts from his own long experience of Iroquois society, so that his political ethnography extends into the twentieth century as he considers in detail the relationship between customs and events. His main argument is the remarkable continuity of Iroquois political tradition in the face of military defeat, depopulation, territorial loss, and acculturation to European technology.

Author : James H Merrell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393319767
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into The American Woods written by James H Merrell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-01-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bloodshed and hatred of frontier conflict at once made go-betweens obsolete and taught the harsh lesson of the woods: the final incompatibility of colonial and native dreams about the continent they shared. Long erased from history, the go-betweens of early America are recovered here in vivid detail.

Author : Laurence M. Hauptman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887067549
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formulating American Indian Policy in New York State, 1970-1986 written by Laurence M. Hauptman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first descriptive analysis of how American Indian policies are made both at the statewide and at agency levels. Pertinent to all states, the study describes New York's historic policies and emphasizes that improving Indian lifestyles or attracting Indians to government employment is handicapped by their overall distrust of state intentions, a distrust caused by the continued impasse on American Indian land claims. Employing archival records never before used, as well as a plethora of interviews with state officials and American Indians over a fifteen-year period, Hauptman concludes that critical policy changes are needed to build lasting trust.

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140385045
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Longhouse written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ohkwa'ri overhears a group of older boys planning a raid on a neighboring village, he immediately tells his Mohawk elders. He has done the right thing—but he has also made enemies. Grabber and his friends will do anything they can to hurt him, especially during the village-wide game of Tekwaarathon (lacrosse). Ohkwa'ri believes in the path of peace, but can peaceful ways work against Grabber's wrath? "An exciting story that also offers an in-depth look at Native American life centuries ago." —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031300868X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition written by Bruce E. Johansen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-02-24 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating American Indian law and Native American political and legal traditions, this encyclopedia includes detailed descriptions of nearly two dozen Native American Nations' legal and political systems such as the Iroquois, Cherokee, Choctaw, Navajo, Cheyenne, Creek, Chickasaw, Comanche, Sioux, Pueblo, Mandan, Wyandot, Powhatan, Mikmaq, and Yakima. Although not an Indian law casebook, this work does contain outlines of many major Indian law cases, congressional acts, and treaties. It also contains profiles of individuals important to the evolution of Indian law. This work will be of interest to scholars in several fields, including law, Native American studies, American history, political science, anthropology, and sociology.

Author : Frank G. Speck
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512818798
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House written by Frank G. Speck and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his last years ethnohistorian Frank G. Speck turned to the study of Iroquois ceremonialism. This 1950 book investigates the religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American Revolution. In the 1930s and the 1940s Frank Speck observed the Midwinter Ceremony, the Cayuga thanksgiving for the blessings of life and health, performed in long houses on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. Collaborating with Alexander General (Deskáheh), the noted Cayuga chief, Speck describes vividly the rites and dances giving thanks to all spiritual entities. Of special interest are the medicine societies that not only prescribed herbs but used powerfully evocative masks in treating the underlying causes of sickness.

Author : Elsie Singmaster
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Journey written by Elsie Singmaster and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Long Journey" by Elsie Singmaster is a tale from two centuries ago. The story is derived from the experience of a German family. Their long journey started from South Germany to Mohawk Valley during Queen Anne's reign. The story is full of family adventures in the wild. Excerpt: "THE GROSS ANSPACH COW On the evening of the twenty-third of June, Conrad Weiser brought home, as was his custom, the Gross Anspach cow. The fact was, in itself, not remarkable, since it was Conrad's chief duty to take the cow to pasture, to guard her all day long, to lead her from one little patch of green grass to another, to see that she drank from one of the springs on the hillside, and to feed her now and then a little of the precious salt which he carried in his pocket. What made this twenty-third of June remarkable was the fact that this was Conrad's final journey from the pastures of Gross Anspach to Gross Anspach village."

Author : Daniel Hance Page
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483469204
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Americans and Their Achievements written by Daniel Hance Page and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST AMERICANS AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS brings to light contributions of the Native Americans that have been overlooked by the rest of the world almost as completely as these achievements have shaped some of the best aspects of life today. Developing about half of the world's food supply and the foundations of democratic government along with making major contributions to medicine and an ideal of the sacredness of the environment, the First Americans have provided the modern world with much of what is essential and beautiful in life.