Encounters with Star People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encounters with Star People write by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke. This book was released on 2012-11. Encounters with Star People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A noted American Indian researcher offers up a collection of intimate narratives of encounters between contemporary American Indians and the Star People.
Sky People
Sky People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sky People write by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke. This book was released on 2014-12-22. Sky People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, author of Encounters With Star People, vowed as a teenager to follow in the footsteps of two 19th-century explorers, John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, who brought the ancient Maya cities to the world’s attention. Dr. Clarke set out on a seven-year adventure (from 2003 through 2010) through Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico, collecting stories of encounters, sky gods, giants, little people, and aliens among the indigenous people. She drove more than 12,000 miles, visiting 89 archaeological sites (Stephens and Catherwood visited only 44) and conducting nearly 100 individual interviews. The result is an enthralling series of unique, original, true stories of encounters with space travelers, giants, little people, and UFOs. Sky People may very well change the way you perceive and experience the world.
Encounters at the Heart of the World
Encounters at the Heart of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encounters at the Heart of the World write by Elizabeth A. Fenn. This book was released on 2014-03-11. Encounters at the Heart of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how these Native American people thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes, and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her own encounters at the heart of the world.
Space Age Indians
Space Age Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Space Age Indians write by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke. This book was released on 2019-05-17. Space Age Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Indians born during the Space Age relate their amazing and sometimes bizarre encounters with the Star People.
White People, Indians, and Highlanders
White People, Indians, and Highlanders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook White People, Indians, and Highlanders write by Colin G. Calloway. This book was released on 2008-07-03. White People, Indians, and Highlanders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents. In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common. Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples--remnants of a barbaric past--and eventually forced from their ancestral lands as their traditional food sources--cattle in the Highlands and bison on the Great Plains--were decimated to make way for livestock farming. In a familiar pattern, the cultures that conquered them would later romanticize the very ways of life they had destroyed. White People, Indians, and Highlanders illustrates how these groups alternately resisted and accommodated the cultural and economic assault of colonialism, before their eventual dispossession during the Highland Clearances and Indian Removals. What emerges is a finely-drawn portrait of how indigenous peoples with their own rich identities experienced cultural change, economic transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing power of the British and American empires.
