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The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth

Book by Martin Barker, Roger Sabin; University Press of Mississippi, 1995

Subjects:

Canon (Literature), Cooper, James Fenimore--1789-1851--Appreciation--United States, Cooper, James Fenimore--1789-1851--Film And Video Adaptations, Cooper, James Fenimore--1789-1851--Last Of The Mohicans, Fiction, Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Literature And Society--United States--History, Mohegan Indians In Literature, Myth In Literature, Popular Culture--United States--History, Social Values In Literature, United States--History--French And Indian War, 1755-1763--Literature And The War

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...attention, then, the myth of the frontier moves...Significance of the Frontier to American History." His argument...purposes, now closed. American history, therefore...a man in the Spanish American War. 22 From Cooper...Conflict with the Indians had provided the test and measure of early Americans. Indians had been worthy...
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The American West: The Invention of a Myth

Book by David H. Murdoch; Welsh Academic Press, 2001

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Frontier And Pioneer Life--West (U.S.)--Public Opinion, Myth--Social Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, National Characteristics, American, Public Opinion--United States--History--20th Century, West (U.S.)--Civilization--20th Century--Public Opinion, West (U.S.)--In Mass Media

Collections: History, Entire Library

...social document: social factors in the American frontier play Theater Studies 1975...New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier 1776-1890 New York, 1976...Charles L.P. Silet, eds. The Pretend Indians: Images of Native Americans in the Movies Ames, Iowa, 1980 Baumann...
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The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden: The Central Myth in the American Novel since 1830

Book by David W. Noble; Braziller, 1968

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Adam--(Biblical Figure)--In Literature, American Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Gardens In Literature, Myth In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...paradoxical, that Americans should use an English myth to define their independence...barred by the French and Indians. Suddenly, the frontier...protect the Anglo- Americans against their enemies...hands of the attacking Indians. This act
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Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains?

Book by Devon A. Mihesuah; University of Nebraska Press, 2000

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Anthropological Ethics--United States, Cultural Property--Government Policy--United States, Cultural Property--Repatriation--United States--Philosophy, Human Remains (Archaeology)--Law And Legislation--United States, Human Remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--United States, Indians Of North America--Antiquities--Law And Legislation, Indians Of North America--Material Culture, United States--Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act

Collections: History, Philosophy, Entire Library

by studying Indian remains they are attempting...prehistoric human biology. American Indians, however, seeing that...albeit interesting, "myths. 14 I have been active...about repatriation among American Indians and those who...goods in chapter 5, "American Indians, Anthropologists...
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The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Book by Susan Scheckel; Princeton University Press, 1998

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American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Indians In Literature, Indians In Popular Culture--North America, Indians Of North America--Public Opinion, Nationalism--United States, Public Opinion--United States, United States--Politics And Government--19th Century, United States--Race Relations

Collections: History, Entire Library

...but what many Americans feared would...War still left Americans without that...the history and myths of American Indians could provide...parallels between the American Indians and the...2 He urged Americans to incorporate...

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Journal Articles on: americans indians myths

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First Death in the Fourth World: Teaching the Emergence Myth of the Hopi Indians

Journal article by Peter G. Beidler; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 19, 1995

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Indians Of Central America--Periodicals

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...Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa...Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and...People." American Indian Quarterly7 : 69...information on the Hopi Indians is daunting. Laird...the Hopi emergence myth or the various versions...shows that the "myths" change in ways...shows that the Hopi myths are "life-and...the Hopi emergence myth leave out the story...
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Myths and Stereotypes about Native Americans: Most Non-Indians Don't Know a Great Deal about the First Peoples of the Americas, Mr. Fleming Avers. but What's Worse Is That Much of What They Do "Know" Is Wrong

Journal article by Walter C. Fleming; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 88, 2006

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Native American culture--Analysis, Native Americans--Analysis, Native Americans--Culture, Native Americans--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Stereotypes about Native Americans: Most Non-Indians...Fleming WHEN IT comes to Americans knowledge about Native American (1) culture and...exactly true, but most Americans are not very familiar...they may believe that Indians are at one with nature...plans, or teaching Indian children. Many of these myths may seem ridiculous...almost daily basis. Myth 1. Native Americans...
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Harvest Ceremony: Beyond the Thanksgiving Myth: The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian

Journal article; Social Education, Vol. 70, 2006

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Native American culture--Study and teaching, Native Americans--Culture, Native Americans--Study and teaching, Sociology--Study and teaching, Thanksgiving Day--History

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...Beyond the Thanksgiving Myth: The Smithsonian Institution...National Museum of the American Indian. This lesson was originally...Museum of the American Indian, and has been adapted...customary for horticultural Indian people to have ceremonies...in Cape Cod Bay, the Indians of southern New England...
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Myth Launchings and Moon Landings: Parallel Realities in Susan Power's the Grass Dancer

Journal article by Lee Schweninger; Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 16, 2004

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Native North Americans, Novels, Schweninger, Lee, Source studies, Technological change, United States, Writers

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Myth Launchings and Moon...on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North...what she calls "the Indian community," I intend...may well be Native American just as some non...while expressing the myths and superstitions of the American Indians."15 In an effort...Prologue," from a non-Indian perspective when Henry...childhood about vengeful Indians . . . a beautiful woman...
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"Manabozho": A Native American Resurrection Myth

Journal article by Nancy Tenfelde Clasby; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, 1993

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Myth in literature--Analysis, Native American literature--Analysis, Resurrection--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...a Native American resurrection...cycles of sacred myth, vehicles for...exist among the Indian nations, they...But I am an Indian. I think about...breath.... We Indians live in a world...psychology interpret myths as expressions...Journal of American Folklore 103...Ancient Myths and Modern Man...Clackamas Chinook Myth." Swann 129...in American Indian Mythology...North American Indians. First Series...

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Magazine Articles on: americans indians myths

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Native Americans vs. Environmentalists

Magazine article by Jeff Minerd; The Futurist, Vol. 34, May 2000

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Environmental movement--Race relations, Environmentalists--Race relations, Krech, Shepard, III--Research, Native Americans--Environmental policy, The Ecological Indian: Myth and Reality (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Native Americans vs. Environmentalists...Jeff Minerd American Indians battle ecologists...stereotypes. Native Americans are fighting...Ecological Indian: Myth and Reality...fact, Native Americans have had...and other Indian tribes. The Osage Indians of Oklahoma...shows that American Indians were...
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AMERICAN INDIANS: Trading Old Stereotypes for New

Magazine article by Anthony Layng; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 129, July 2000

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Native Americans--Portrayals, Native North Americans--Portrayals, Political correctness--Social aspects, Stereotype (Psychology)--Usage, Stereotypes--Usage

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...European model on Native American culture, a cause...Although a majority of Americans no longer speak of "the vanishing Indian," one frequently...There are no more real Indians." It is true that...National Museum of the American Indian attracts a large audience...totally new appraisal of Indians. That whites used...current image of Native Americans. For example, the new Indian museums in New York...
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Faith in the Face of Skepticism: The Pilgrims, the Indians, and the Truth about the First Thanksgiving

Magazine article by Ii Joe Wolverton; The New American, Vol. 25, November 23, 2009

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Mayflower Compact, 1620, Native Americans--Religious aspects, Pilgrims (American colonists), United States history

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...great republic are mere myths, factually inaccurate...conundrum. Enter the Indians. It is true, as we...the Pilgrims and the Indians sat down together and...sensational account of Indian atrocities told to the...tarried in Holland. The Indians, they were told...momentous greetings in American history. One Friday...
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Myths of War

Magazine article by Clifford D. May, Alykhan Velshi; The American Spectator, Vol. 39, October 2006

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Iraq War-2003, Poverty, Religion, State of the Union Address, Terrorism, Truces & cease fires

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Myths of War by Clifford D...ten most pernicious myths now embedded in the popular imagination. Myth #7: Poverty Breeds...Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, was brought...people, including 17 Americans; and of the U.S...Beirut, which killed 241 American servicemen. In 1983...from Chechnya, and the Indians will run from Kashmir...
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A Non-Myth Myth

Magazine article by Burnle Yoseph Schumpert; The New American, Vol. 26, January 18, 2010

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A Non-Myth Myth. by Burnle Yoseph Schumpert In the...Thanksgiving shared by the Pilgrims and the American Indians. While I generally agree with the...Texas Send your letters to: THE NEW AMERICAN, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI...

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Newspaper Articles on: americans indians myths

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Moving Past the Myths: American Indian Seminar Focuses on Educating

Newspaper article by Gerald Mizejewski; The Washington Times, June 24, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Moving past the myths: American Indian seminar...to go back to Native American history . . . Were...conference on "The American Indian Experience and...integrating the Native American experience into curricula...misinformation about the first Americans, and discussed present...from the scalping of Indian people that began here...directed toward American Indians." While presenting...
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A True Picture of First Thanksgiving: Painting Leaves out Centuries of Myths

Newspaper article by Peter F. Stevens; The Washington Times, November 27, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...out centuries of myths by Peter F. Stevens...Thanksgiving of American myth. The realities...deer. As for any Americans today who believe...have sent modern Americans dashing from the...dreams. * * * Other myths shroud the first...have portrayed the Indians in headdresses...colonist-to-Indian ratio at the landmark...from rendering American Indian women in...
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Lost While Searching for the 'Oregon Trail': PBS WANDERS AWAY INTO THE MYTH

Newspaper article by Woody West; The Washington Times, April 28, 1996

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Oregon Trail

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...new history" of the American West. "In Search...aim to replace one myth with another - and national myths are not at all without...in the view of most Americans, as we define rights...to impose this new myth, the Indians must be denatured...and a denigration of Indian culture, which does...Learning to hunt on American farms came right after...
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Mexico in Myth and Reality

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, March 25, 2000

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Mexico

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Mexico in myth and reality by Joanna...laws on the conquered. Indians still burn offerings...superhighway show how Mexican Americans carry their icons with...important to the ancient Indians. Luis Zarate humorously...enveloping, nurturing myths that become a kind of...because she is part-Indian that she is the Madonna...poverty. Another powerful myth is of the two volcanoes...
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The Eclipse: Myths and Legends; Amanda Kelly Looks at the Stories Created to Explain the Eclipses

Newspaper article by Amanda Kelly; Sunday Mirror (London, England), July 18, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Eclipse: Myths and Legends; Amanda...Eclipses. by Amanda Kelly Myths and legends interpreting...high officials. THE INDIANS India also subscribed...brother and sister. THE AMERICANS For native Americans the theme of sibling...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: americans indians myths

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Natives, North American

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...The American Indian Historical Society, The American Museum of Natural...works on Native Americans. For some general...The Native Americans (1965); C. Wissler, Indians of the United...Josephy, The Indian Heritage of...Rachlin, American Indian Mythology...History of the Indians of the United...
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Pawnee

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...pone , Native North Americans whose language belongs...stock (see Native American languages ). At one...resembled other Native Americans of the Plains area...an elaborate set of myths and rituals. Their...U.S. army in the Indian wars as well as protecting...depredations of other Native Americans. Pawnee population...Hyde, The Pawnee Indians (rev. ed. 1973...

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