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The Shelf2Life Native American Studies Collection is a unique set
of pre-1923 materials that explore the characteristics and customs
of North American Indians. From traditional songs and dance of the
Apache and Navajo to the intricate patterns of Arapaho moccasins,
these titles explore the symbolic meaning of Native American music
and art. Complex relationships between tribal groups and government
are also examined, highlighting the historic struggle for land
rights, while the retelling of ancient myths and legends emphasize
a belief in the interconnection of humans and nature and provide
readers with significant insight into a culture deeply rooted in
spirituality. The Shelf2Life Native American Studies Collection
provides an invaluable perspective into Native American culture and
politics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Twenty-seven entertaining, instructive tales include creation myths, animal fables, and stories of brave heroes, beautiful princesses, cruel giants, and other seemingly universal characters.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
In 1885, a genteel New England girl travelled to the western
frontier to open a school on the Great Sioux Reservation. For six
years, Elaine Goodale Eastman taught, hunted with, and lived among
the Lakotas, who were experiencing profound changes as buffalo
herds dwindled and they were forced to adjust to reservation life.
Her informative and sometimes poignant recollections of those years
tell much about the daily lives of the Lakotas and how they
grappled with challenges to their way of life. Goodale Eastman
witnessed the arrival and flowering of the Ghost Dance religion,
visited with Sitting Bull shortly before his death, and in December
1890 was at Pine Ridge, where she and her future husband, Dr.
Charles Eastman, cared for the survivors of the Wounded Knee
massacre. Sister to the Sioux bears witness to a critical and
tragic era in Lakota history and reveals the frequently
contradictory attitudes of outsiders drawn to them. Kay Graber is
also the editor of Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs, available in
a Bison Books edition. Theodore D. Sargent is a professor emeritus
at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is completing a
biography of Elaine Goodale Eastman.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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Wigwam Evenings (Paperback)
Charles A. Eastman, Elaine Goodale Eastman
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R702
R594
Discovery Miles 5 940
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The Shelf2Life Native American Studies Collection is a unique set
of pre-1923 materials that explore the characteristics and customs
of North American Indians. From traditional songs and dance of the
Apache and Navajo to the intricate patterns of Arapaho moccasins,
these titles explore the symbolic meaning of Native American music
and art. Complex relationships between tribal groups and government
are also examined, highlighting the historic struggle for land
rights, while the retelling of ancient myths and legends emphasize
a belief in the interconnection of humans and nature and provide
readers with significant insight into a culture deeply rooted in
spirituality. The Shelf2Life Native American Studies Collection
provides an invaluable perspective into Native American culture and
politics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
"Charles Eastman, in collaboration with his wife, Elaine Goodale
Eastman, has assembled in this collection a composite, condensed
sampling of his tribe's values, and presents them in a language
that is at once direct and engaging. To say these allegories are
'wise' begs the question; they are the distilled conclusions of
generations upon generations of Plains society and point to the
essence of what it is to be a decent, thoughtful, respectable human
being-a Sioux Tao told in prose a child of any culture, of any
time, can comprehend." Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939) was
a mixed-blood Sioux who became one of the best-known Indians of his
time. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth and a medical
degree from Boston University. From his first appointment as a
physician at Pine Ridge Agency; where he witnessed the events that
culminated in the Wounded Knee massacre, he sought to bring
understanding between Native and non-Native Americans. He wrote
eleven books, some, such as Sister to the Sioux (also available as
a Bison Book), in collaboration with Elaine Goodale Eastman. His
From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography
of an Indian, Indian Boyhood, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains,
Old Indian Days, and The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation are
all available as Bison Books.
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