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The Invented Indian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 607

The Invented Indian

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This is an explosive collection of essays, written by leading scholars of North American Indians, most of them heavily involved in service and applied work, often on behalf of Indian clients, communities, and organizations. In an area saturated with deadening, consciously politicized orthodoxy, these seventeen essays aim at nothing less than the reconstruction of our understanding of the American Indian-past and presentThe volume examines in careful, accurate but uncompromising ways the recent construction of the prevailing conventional story-line about ""America's most favored underclass."" The first eight essays introduce the volume and treat a variety of specific invented traditions conce...

The Prairie People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 566

The Prairie People

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In addition to reprinting the full text of Clifton's extraordinary ethnohistory, this expanded edition features a new essay offering a narrative of his continuing professional and personal encounters, since 1962, with this enduring native community. -- ‡c From back cover.

The Potawatomi
  • Language: en

The Potawatomi

Examines the history, changing fortunes, and current situation of the Potawatomi Indians. Includes a picture essay on their crafts.

The Pokagons, 1683-1983
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

The Pokagons, 1683-1983

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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I Was Monty Double
  • Language: en

I Was Monty Double

This memoir offers a fascinating account of the author's experience serving as a double for General Bernard Montgomery during World War II. Filled with intrigue and suspense, this book is a riveting look at the world of espionage and the sacrifices made by those who served their country. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Pleasure and Piety
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

Pleasure and Piety

  • Categories: Art

"The exhibition is organized by the Centraal Museum Utrecht; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation."--Title page verso.

I Will Hold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

I Will Hold

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-06
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  • Publisher: Penguin

The incredible true story of Clifton B. “Lucky” Cates, whose service in World War I and beyond made him a legend in the annals of the Marine Corps. Cates knew that he and his small band of marines were in a desperate spot. Before handing the note over to a runner, he added three words that would resound through Marine Corps history: I WILL HOLD. From the moment he first joined the Marine Reserves of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, Clifton B. Cates was determined to make his mark as a leader. Little did he know what he would truly accomplish in his legendary career. Not as well-known as his contemporaries such as Alvin C. York, his fame would not come from a single act of...

People of Three Fires
  • Language: en

People of Three Fires

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Being and Becoming Indian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Being and Becoming Indian

These biographies are quite fascinating as accounts of human experience, and they are thoroughly revealing as illustrations of what it has meant to be 'Indian' in a divided and changing world. -- from Back Cover.

The Plains of Mars
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

The Plains of Mars

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Presents European war prints, dated 1500 to 1825, from the collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation.