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 | The two volume set contains detailed information on the Native Americans of Georgia and the Southeast. The major sections are a General History article giving an overview of Native American history the area; A dictionary section contans an A to Z listing of the tribes of the area and biographies of important Native Americans; a discussion of the history of broken treaties with Native Americans. Illustrations and maps are included in this valuable reference work. (less) | $225  A1Books |
|  | This work contains information on Native Americans of Delaware and the surrounding area. The major sections are a General History article. A dictionary (A to Z listing) of entries on tribes and biographies of important Native Americans of the area. A section on the Treaties and a discussion on the broken Indian treaties in the U.S. (less) | $129 A1Books |
|  | The relationship between North American Indians and Europeans, friendly at first, took a violent turn with the kidnapping of natives by mariners, and conflict flared as the frontier line moved north from Mexico and west from the Atlantic coast settlements. Heard presents brief articles in dictionary arrangement about Indian tribes and leaders, explorers, missionaries, traders, settlers, soldiers, battles, treaties, and other topics in the frontier history of the present U.S. from the arrival of the first seafarers to the end of the Indian wars. The work is divided regionally. Vol.I, published in 1987, related events in the Southeastern Woodlands. Vol.II, published in 1990, is devoted to the Northeastern Woodlands. Vol.III covers the Great Plains. Vol. IV will describe events in the Far West. The final volume will include a general index, bibliography, and chronology. (less) | $50 A1Books |
|  | One of the more complex and widespread rituals practiced by Native American groups focused on the calumet, a sacred pipe with a feathered shaft. The Calumet Ceremony was a powerful ritual through which members of another tribe were adopted. It also promoted social unity within tribes and facilitated contact and trade between them. Perhaps the most detailed description of a Calumet Ceremony was recorded near the turn of the century by ethnographer Alice C. Fletcher. Fletcher witnessed the Hako, a version of the Calumet Ceremony practiced by the Chaui clan of the Pawnee. With the invaluable assistance of Tahirussawichi, a Pawnee Ku'rahus or ceremonial leader, and renowned Indian scholar James R. Murie, himself a Pawnee, the author describes in marvelous detail the intricate rhythm and structure of the ceremony. Each song of the Hako is transcribed, translated, interpreted by the Pawnee Ku'rahus, and later analyzed by the author. Fletcher concludes that the Hako promised longevity, fertility, and prosperity to individuals and worked to insure friendship and peace between clans and tribes. The Hako, originally published in 1904, is introduced by Helen Myers, an associate professor of music at Trinity College and the ethnomusicology editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. (less)Kessinger Publishing - 9781428646636 | $21 - $34  3 Merchants |
|  | "When The Rez Sisters was first performed in 1986, Canadian and American audiences took note of this new and offbeat play by Native North American playwright Tomson Highway. A Cree Native of Manitoba, Canada, Highway wanted to make life on the reservation (or 'the rez') seem ""cool"" and ""show and celebrate what funky folk Canada's Indian people really are."" His goals were met with this play, which received high praise (winning the Dora Mavor Award for best new play in Toronto's 1986-87 theater season and being named a runner-up for the Floyd F. Chalmers Award for the outstanding Canadian play of 1986). The Rez Sisters also proved to be a commercial success, playing to sold-out audiences during a cross-Canada tour from October to February of 1988. Audiences found Highway's portrait of seven ""rez sisters"" to be, as William Peel called them in Canadian Theatre Review, ""a striking cast of characters who reveal both blemishes and beauty"" and who ""possess, on the whole, great human dignity."" The play spans a summer in 1986, when seven women (all related by birth or marriage) decide to travel to Toronto to participate in ""THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD."" Each woman offers the audience a different attitude toward life on the reservation-as well as their individual dreams of escaping it. From Pelajia Patchnose, who hopes to win enough money to bring paved roads to ""Wasy"" (their reservation), to Emily Dictionary, an ex-biker whose rough-and-ready outlook creates...." (less) | $7 iChapters |
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