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The Story of the American Indian

by Paul Radin. 396 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Paul Radin

Publisher:

   Liveright Publishing

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1944
Subjects:   Indians Of North America, Indians, Indians Of South America, Mayas--Antiquities
Table of contents
COLORED PLATES
Zapotec Gold Ornament Frontispiece FACING PAGE
Pre-Aztec Jar 26
Pre-Aztec Polychrome Vase 90
Mosaic Inlay Handle of Aztec Sacrificial Knife 106
Page from the Dresden Codex Depicting the End of the World 218
Quetzalcoatle--from an Ancient Aztec Codex 250
Inscription Rock in Southwest--Ruins of Mesa Verde 50
Maya Palace--Temple of the Cross, Palenque 51
Stone Stelæ from Copan 66
Plan of the Main Temple of the Aztecs--Representation of Ordinary Human Sacrifice 67
Maya Sculptured Lintels 82
Stone Figure of Deity--Pottery Incense Burner from Salvador 83
House Posts, Comox Tribe 98
Diorite Head of Huitzilopochtli's Sister 99
Wooden Cups from Xuzco 130
Peruvian Mummy--Quipu and Method of Tying Knots 131
Poncho from Titicaca--Pre-Incan Tapestry--Poncho from Pachacamac 146
Nasca Pots 147
Pots in Shape of Corn and Gourds--Nasca Pot Representing Conventionalized Mummy Carrying Coca Leaves 162
Pachacamac Pottery Depicting Man Extracting Sand Fleas from His Foot--Pot in Shape of Sandal--Pot Depicting Man Carrying Jar 163
Pots Representing Musicians--Pot Representing Personified Bat--Pots Representing Personified Corn 178
Acoma Masked Dancer--Acoma Masked Dancer Impersonating a Deer 179
Acoma Deity Called Rainbow Brother 210
Blackfoot Warriors--Ute Indians Dancing in Taos Pueblo 211
Iroquois Wooden Masks 226
Mandan Indians Hunting Herd of Bison Under Mask of White Wolf Skins--Mandan Village--Mandan Surrounding a Herd of Bison 227
Chiefs of a Woodland Tribe--Hidatsa Dog Dance--Mandan Chief 322
Northwest Coast House--Haida Totem Poles 323
Grave Posts 338
Blackfoot Chief--Alignment of Blackfoot Tipis 339
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Conquistador in Chains: Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas
Book by David A. Howard; University of Alabama Press, 1997
Subjects: America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish, Explorers--America--Biography, Explorers--Spain--Biography, Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans, Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar--16th cent
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Indians of the Andes: Aymaras and Quechuas
Book by Harold Osborne; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952
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Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida
Book by Jerald T. Milanich, Charles Hudson; University Press of Florida, 1993
Subjects: Florida--Discovery And Exploration--Spanish, Indians Of North America--First Contact With Europeans--Florida, Indians Of North America--Florida, Soto, Hernando De--Ca. 1500-1542
...AND THE INDIANS OF FLORIDA...States of America on acid-free...University of North Florida...and South America, claiming...toward the north. Perhaps word of lands in...Or perhaps Indians captured...that these Indians made, de...west coast of Florida...Honda to the north Ranjel...eastern North America was established...
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American Indians of the Southwest
Book by Bertha P. Dutton; University of New Mexico Press, 1983
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Southwest, New
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The Bringing of Wonder: Trade and the Indians of the Southeast, 1700-1783
Book by Michael P. Morris; Greenwood Press, 1999
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Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America
Journal article by Mark Blumler; The Geographical Review, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America (Book)--Book reviews
...1992). Krech argues convincingly that American Indian understanding of the environment was animist, not ecological. Many Indians learned to see the environment, and...Use of tobacco was widespread in North and South America. In the latter...
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Too Small a Place: The Removal of the Willamette Valley Indians, 1850-1856
Journal article by Ronald Spores, Boyd; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 17, 1993
Subjects: Indians Of Central America, Indians Of Mexico, Indians Of North America
...with other Native Americans, however, the nineteenth...the culmination of their tenure as...and the removal of Indians. By the end of the...from the region north of the Columbia...defend the rights of American Indians. In April and...the Indian bands of the Willamette...the Cascades. The Indians, for their part...lands between the north and south forks...
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Voices, Interpretations, and the 'New Indian History': Comment on the American Indian Quarterlys Special Issue on Writing About American Indians
Journal article by Devon A. Mihesuah; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 20, 1996
Subjects: Indians Of Central America, Indians Of Mexico, Indians Of North America
...Reflections on the Ethnohistory of Early Colonial North America," Journal of American Studies 16 ( August 1982 ): 243-54...to comprehend a vital component of writing about Indians: how they view the world and history...
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The Indians America Loves to Love and Read: American Indian Identity and Cultural Appropriation
Journal article by Kathryn W. Shanley; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 21, 1997
Subjects: Indians Of Central America--Periodicals
...Policy: A Usurpation of Indigenous Sovereignty in North America," in The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance...describing the experiences and histories of urban Indians and some reservation groups. 56. Sollors...
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The Question of Regional Bands and Subtribes Among the Pre-Conquest Pai (Hualapai and Havasupai) Indians of Northwestern Arizona
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Subjects: Indians Of Central America, Indians Of Mexico, Indians Of North America
...Hualapai and Havasupai) Indians of Northwestern Arizona...of Yuman-speaking Indians, conventionally grouped...become northwest and north-central Arizona...single social field of thirteen regional...Handbook of Nortb American Indians , Volume...Walapai". In Handbook of North American Indians . Vol. 10: Southwest...Havasupai". In Handbook of North American Indians . Vol 10: Southwest...
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Reaping the Whirlwind: "I Do Not Admit That a Great Wrong Has Been Done to the Red Indians of America or the Black People of Australia by the Fact That a Stronger Race, a Higher Grade Race, Has Come in and Taken Its Place" -Winston Churchill to the Palestine Royal Commission, 1937
Magazine article by Baffour Ankomah; New African, May 2009
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Among the Cree Indians of Canada
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Llamathons Catch on in the Mountains of North America
Magazine article by Terry Price; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 46, September 1994
Subjects: Llamas--Competitions
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The Beagle's Native Son: Among the Observations of Charles Darwin on His Famous Voyage Is the Strange Story of Jemmy Button, a Yamana Indian Taken from South America to England and Later Returned to His Homeland
Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 57, May-June 2005
Subjects: Button, Jemmy, Darwin, Charles--Research, Evolution (Biology)--Research, Evolution--Research, Native South Americans--Biography, South American native peoples--Biography, Tierra del Fuego
...he picked them up on his previous South American tour, served Darwin as the raw material...Elleparus name change), in the home territory of the Alakaluf tribe. As Fitzroy wrote of...at its midway point, a party of Yamaha Indians approached the ship to trade. Fitzroy...of men to leave the fine regions of the north and to enter on one of the most inhospitable...
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Buffaloed: Fighting the Truth about American Indians
Magazine article by John J. Miller; National Review, Vol. 52, October 9, 2000
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...most brutal acts in U.S. history. Most Americans know this intuitively, but theyd rather...choose simply to feel sorry for the Indians living today. This aura of victimhood has won Indians a whole series...Its becoming increasingly clear that Indians inflicted an enormous amount of damage on this Edenic symbol of wild North America. In his recent book The Ecological...
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FROM UTOPIA TO HELL ON EARTH; When White Men First Colonised America, They Found Gentle, Civilised Indians Happy to Share Their Land of Plenty. So Why DID This Idyll Turn So Quickly into a Nightmare of Torture, Massacre and Cannibalism?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 6, 2007
...brutally slaughtered hundreds of thousands of American Indians in the West Indies and news of this was spreading up the Eastern seaboard...islands known as the Outer Banks off the coast of North Carolina - by the time John White arrived as...
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Buffalo Bel; Move over Calamity Jane - Bel Mooney Rides into Town to Find There's More to South Dakota Than Cowboys and Indians
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 30, 2006
...pioneers, Native American wisdom, prairie...conjure up a picture of magnificent Mount...the Lakota Sioux Indians to say: The white...loop, taking us north to Spearfish and...fascinating culture. NORTH of Rapid City, Spearfish...displays of pioneer, American Indian, ranch and...essential to Plains Indians for food and clothing...
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Students Step into World of the Incas; TRAVEL: South America Trip a Life-Changing Experience
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), May 28, 2008
Subjects: Travel
...Students Step into World of the Incas; TRAVEL: South America Trip a Life-Changing...stay with the Taquile Indians on Lake Ticicca. It was...the history and culture of each country. "What a...their first trip to South America. "Fears, illness, doubts...
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Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 7, 2007
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Costner's Heartfelt Epic Resurfaces; Documentary on Indians
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 18, 2004
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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Catawba , Indigenous People of North America
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...America k to b , Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic...D. S. Brown, The Catawba Indians (1966); C. M. Hudson, The...Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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