Tribes On The Hill

Author : Jack Weatherford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313391033
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribes on the Hill written by Jack Weatherford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1985-03-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing, witty, and altogether fascinating story of the tribal customs and rituals that help shape our nation's laws. The Washingtonian Sharp, funny and ultimately disquieting. The Washington Book Review

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lao Hill Tribes written by Stephen Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their highly distinctive cultures and ethnic diversity, very little is known about Laos's hill tribes. In this book, Stephen Mansfield offers an in-depth examination of these little-studied tribes and their fragile micro-cultures.

Author : Jack Weatherford
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 089789071X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribes on the Hill written by Jack Weatherford and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1985-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing, witty, and altogether fascinating story of the tribal customs and rituals that help shape our nation's laws. The Washingtonian Sharp, funny and ultimately disquieting. The Washington Book Review

Author : S. Pony Hill
Publisher : Backintyme
ISBN 13 : 0939479346
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strangers in Their Own Land written by S. Pony Hill and published by Backintyme. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harsh "racial" segregation during the Jim Crow era prevented South Carolina's Indian groups from assimilating. Due to their three-fold genetic admixture, they were labeled with such fanciful names as Red Bones, Brass Ankles, Croatans, Turks, and "not real Indians at all." For generations, South Carolina's remaining Indians struggled to avoid reduction to the oppressed social status of "Negroes." Their desperation eventually fostered anti-Black sentiment within some of the groups, an affliction that still infects a few of the older community members. Generations have passed since the Jim Crow era. Today, the Palmetto State's Indians focus less on imagined "racial purity" and more on the welfare of their communities, preserving their customs, and honoring their ancient traditions. Much work remains to be done by and for all of the tribal groups of South Carolina. The tribes strive to convert state recognition, which now serves only as a morale booster, into a true vehicle to promote tribal educational, economic, and healthcare improvement. South Carolina's state-recognized tribes are now hard at work to accomplish this goal. "When the author has spent many years traveling to Indian communities around the Southeast and talking to Indian elders, as Pony Hill has done, he must be admired not only for his authenticity, but also for his scholarship. This book, then, is where an authentic perspective is enhanced by thorough scholarship." -- John H. Moore, Ph.D, Anthropology Department, University of Florida. S. Pony Hill: was born in Jackson County, Florida. He holds a degree in Criminal Justice from Keiser University, Dean's List, Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society member. He was previously a contract researcher for federal recognition grants under Administration for Native Americans and for members of the United Ketowah Band, Cherokee Nation and Sumter Band of Cheraw, specializing in Southeastern Indian documentation. He is the author of "Patriot Chiefs and Loyal Braves" available online. Mr. Hill currently lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Author : Edward Lazarus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803279872
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Hills White Justice written by Edward Lazarus and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Hills/White Justice tells of the longest active legal battle in United States history: the century-long effort by the Sioux nations to receive compensation for the seizure of the Black Hills. Edward Lazarus, son of one of the lawyers involved in the case, traces the tangled web of laws, wars, and treaties that led to the wresting of the Black Hills from the Sioux and their subsequent efforts to receive compensation for the loss. His account covers the Sioux nations? success in winning the largest financial award ever offered to an Indian tribe and their decision to turn it down and demand nothing less than the return of the land.

Author : Jason D. Hill
Publisher : Bombardier Books
ISBN 13 : 1682617319
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Have Overcome written by Jason D. Hill and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been more than fifty years since the Civil Rights Act enshrined equality under the law for all Americans. Since that time, America has enjoyed an era of unprecedented prosperity, domestic and international peace, and technological advancement. It’s almost as if removing the shackles of enforced racial discrimination has liberated Americans of all races and ethnicities to become their better selves, and to work toward common goals in ways that our ancestors would have envied. But the dominant narrative, repeated in the media and from the angry mouths of politicians and activists, is the exact opposite of the reality. They paint a portrait of an America rife with racial and ethnic division, where minorities are mired in a poverty worse than slavery, and white people stand at the top of an unfairly stacked pyramid of privilege. Jason D. Hill corrects the narrative in this powerfully eloquent book. Dr. Hill came to this country at the age of twenty from Jamaica and, rather than being faced with intractable racial bigotry, Hill found a land of bountiful opportunity—a place where he could get a college education, earn a doctorate in philosophy, and eventually become a tenured professor at a top university, an internationally recognized scholar, and the author of several respected books in his field. Throughout his experiences, it wasn’t a racist establishment that sought to keep him down. Instead, Hill recounts, he faced constant naysaying from so-called liberals of all races. His academic colleagues did not celebrate the success of a black immigrant but chose to denigrate them because this particular black immigrant did not embrace their ideology of victimization. Part memoir, part exhortation to his fellow Americans, and, above all, a paean to the American Dream and the magnificent country that makes it possible, We Have Overcome is the most important and provocative book about race relations to be published in this century.

Author : Achille Bonito Oliva
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 : 9788884911384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Tribes written by Achille Bonito Oliva and published by Skira. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the work of 20th century avant-gardes and traces their influence in late 20th century art.

Author : Paul White Lewis
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500974728
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peoples of the Golden Triangle written by Paul White Lewis and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the mysterious region of Southeast Asia known as the Golden Triangle has exerted a powerful hold over the Western imagination. Today it continues to figure in world news because of the infamous traffic in opium and heroin. Yet this fascinating area is also of considerable interest for a different reason: within it live six culturally distinct peoples - the Karen, Hmong, Mien, Lahu, Akha and Lisu - struggling to maintain the integrity of their beliefs and way of life against all the pressures of the rapidly changing society around them.

Author : Edward Anderson
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 9781604690811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plants and People of the Golden Triangle written by Edward Anderson and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2009-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the half million people living in the remote mountains of Northern Thailand, survival is dependent upon the forest. This study, based on extended field research, identifies more than 1,000 plant species, with particular emphasis on medicinal plants and their uses. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.

Author : Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Century of Dishonor written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: