The Indians Knew

Author : Tillie S. Pine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indians Knew written by Tillie S. Pine and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes simple inventions used by the American Indians to make their life comfortable; tells how these same processes are applied to develop more sophisticated inventions today; and includes simple experiments to duplicate early Indian technology.

Author : Tillie S. Pine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indians Knew written by Tillie S. Pine and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anton Treuer
Publisher : Borealis Books
ISBN 13 : 0873518624
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask written by Anton Treuer and published by Borealis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treuer, an Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist, answers the most commonly asked questions about American Indians, both historical and modern. He gives a frank, funny, and personal tour of what's up with Indians, anyway.

Author : David H. DeJong
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739124451
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "If You Knew the Conditions" written by David H. DeJong and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If You Knew the Conditions' examines the inadequacies of the healthcare provided to American Indians by the Indian Medical Service. DeJong argues that, while Congress and the Indian Service had a responsibility to provide meaningful and relevant medical services to American Indians, parsimonious appropriations and indifference to American Indian conceptions of well-being limited the effectiveness of Indian medical services.

Author : Paul Chaat Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816656010
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything You Know about Indians is Wrong written by Paul Chaat Smith and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in "the Indian business." Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into the political radicalism of the 1970s, working with the American Indian Movement until it dissolved into dysfunction and infighting. Afterward he lived in New York, the city of choice for political exiles, and eventually arrived in Washington, D.C., at the newly minted National Museum of the American Indian ("a bad idea whose time has come") as a curator. In his journey from fighting activist to federal employee, Smith tells us he has discovered at least two things: there is no one true representation of the American Indian experience, and even the best of intentions sometimes ends in catastrophe. Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong is a highly entertaining and, at times, searing critique of the deeply disputed role of American Indians in the United States. In "A Place Called Irony," Smith whizzes through his early life, showing us the ironic pop culture signposts that marked this Native American's coming of age in suburbia: "We would order Chinese food and slap a favorite video into the machine--the Grammy Awards or a Reagan press conference--and argue about Cyndi Lauper or who should coach the Knicks." In "Lost in Translation," Smith explores why American Indians are so often misunderstood and misrepresented in today's media: "We're lousy television." In "Every Picture Tells a Story," Smith remembers his Comanche grandfather as he muses on the images of American Indians as "a half-remembered presence, both comforting and dangerous, lurking just below the surface." Smith walks this tightrope between comforting and dangerous, offering unrepentant skepticism and, ultimately, empathy. "This book is called Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, but it's a book title, folks, not to be taken literally. Of course I don't mean everything, just most things. And 'you' really means we, as in all of us."

Author : R. Gross
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780590025140
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indians Knew written by R. Gross and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1979-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes simple inventions used by the American Indians to make their life comfortable; tells how these same processes are applied to develop more sophisticated inventions today; and includes simple experiments to duplicate early Indian technology.

Author : James Leitch Wright
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803298057
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Only Land They Knew written by James Leitch Wright and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unsurpassed history of the Native peoples of the southern United States, J. Leitch Wright Jr. describes Native lives, customs, and encounters with Europeans and Africans from late prehistory through the nineteenth century.

Author : Darius B. Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Months Among Indians written by Darius B. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448188563
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak. In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, featuring poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy. 'Excellent in every way' Neil Gaiman Illustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney.

Author : Alexandra Fuller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073522336X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quiet Until the Thaw written by Alexandra Fuller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel from the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Leaving Before the Rains Come. “Awe inspiring . . . An ardent, original, and beautifully wrought book.” —The New York Times Book Review Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, are pitted against each other as their tribe is torn apart by infighting. Rick chooses the path of peace and stays; You Choose, violent and unpredictable, strikes out on his own. When he returns, after three decades behind bars, he disrupts the fragile peace and threatens the lives of the entire reservation. A complex tale that spans generations and geography, Quiet Until the Thaw conjures, with the implications of an oppressed history, how we are bound not just to immediate family but to all who have come before and will come after us, and, most of all, to the notion that everything was always, and is always, connected.