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The nineteenth century American frontier comes alive for students and interested readers in this unique exploration of westward expansion. This study examines the daily lives of ordinary men and women who flooded into the Trans-Mississippi West in search of land, fortune, a fresh start, and a new identity. Their daily life was rarely easy. If they were to survive, they had to adapt to the land and modify every aspect of their lives, from housing to transportation, from education to defense, from food gathering and preparation to the establishment of rudimentary laws and social structures. They also had to adapt to the Native Americans already on the land—whether through acculturation, warf...
A collection of essays on conflicting aspects of the expansion of the American West discusses such topics as the exploitation of Native Americans and of natural resources, freedom, opportunity, and greed
Biographic Memoirs: Volume 79 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.
Literature is often assumed to be monolingual: publishing rights are sold on the basis of linguistic territories and translated books are assumed to move from one “original” language to another. Yet a wide range of contemporary literary works mix and meld two or more languages, incorporating translation into their composition. How are these multilingual works translated, and what are the cultural and political implications of doing so? In Literature in Motion, Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential to resist conventions of form and dominant narratives about...
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"Three Respected Native American Women weave together a Healing Blanket that will warm your heart and heal your spirit: Oshki memengwaa spins a love story with an urgent environmental message that crosses the boundaries of culture, life and death. Ni o gishic goo ikwe shares how the traditional way of life and values help her to be a good, strong Anishinaabe-Ikwe. Migizikwe offers an intimate look into the hearts of the Ojibwe people thorugh exquisite examples of native American art and poetry."-- Publisher's info taken from back cover.
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."