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1.
Warrior Dreams: The Martial Arts and the American Imagination
Contributors:
Publisher:
Bergin & Garvey 1994
Subjects:
Martial Arts--United States--Sociological Aspects
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...of life.Myths of the American warrior persist in our imagination because...integralpart of social life. The American warrior finds his place in the world, hissense...The question ofthe role of the woman warrior and an exploration of myths and...
2.
Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War
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Publisher:
Westview Press 2000
Subjects:
Women Soldiers--Benin--History--19th Century
Women, Fon
Benin--History, Military--19th Century
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...often away on long campaigns, and this was theirdomain. An occasional woman, especially among the Seneca, wentto war with the men, and an occasional woman warrior won highhonors for her bravery, but these were exceptions. The great majorU...
3.
Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer
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Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 1931
Subjects:
Wooden Leg, 1858-1940
Cheyenne Indians
Cheyenne Indians--Wars, 1876
Indians of North America--Montana
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
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...Cheyennes, but wereburied by the white people. The hanging was atMiles City, I believe.Black Coyote's wife, the woman warrior at theRosebud battle, died while he was in jail. Chey­ennes made signs to him from a distance, through thejail...
4.
Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans
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Publisher:
Routledge 2003
Subjects:
Koan--Early Works To 1800
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would think that a woman warrior dressed in man's clothes would be a man?' Doi said: 'Well then, is Benzaiten a male dressed as a female?' The teacher...
5.
Red Crow, Warrior Chief
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Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 1980
Subjects:
Red Crow
Siksika Indians--History
Siksika Indians--Kings And Rulers--Biography
Kainah Indians--History
Kainah Indians--Kings And Rulers--Biography
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...Crow putforward the name of Blackfoot Old Woman, leader of the Black Elksband. A one-time warrior of renown, he was one of the first men on...careful to control the extent ofBlackfoot Old Woman's influence, permitting him to speak for...
6.
The Way of the Warrior: Stories of the Crow People
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 2003
Subjects:
Crow Indians--History
Crow Indians--Biography
Oral Tradition--Montana
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...Top of the Mountain also had a woman along. He had taken her fromher...worthy of the womanor that the woman was not the sole property of...the wife-taker, while for a woman, running offwith another man...the loser.There were several warrior societies, with the Foxes and...
7.
Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan
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Publisher:
Stanford University 1992
Subjects:
Samurai--History
Japan--History, Military--To 1868
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...00ADzawa, also married a local woman, as did Toyozawa's sonMurao...who can be identified as a warrior in contemporarysources.37The...four different princes. The warrior line be­gan with Kammu...most successful of the four warrior lines were the descen­dants...
8.
The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of Animals in Early Greek Religion
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 2000
Subjects:
Goddesses, Greek
Nudity--Religious Aspects
Animals--Religious Aspects
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...thus seems to be an integral part of the warrior ideology of Archaic Greece where even...the top panel.38 Below is a man and woman sharing a stringed instrument and a wreath...from the spear of one. At the bottom, a warrior is about to kill a child which is forced...
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The Heart of the Warrior: Origins and Religious Background of the Samurai System in Feudal Japan
Contributors:
Publisher:
Japan Library 1994
Subjects:
Bushido
Samurai--Conduct Of Life
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...such as bushi no kokorogiwa (the warrior'sheart or spirit), chugs no...together with other terms which the warrior nobility em­ployed about their...Confucian FiveRelations demanded that a woman, as the inferior in anyrelationship...
10.
Mary, Mother and Warrior: The Virgin in Spain and the Americas
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Publisher:
University of Texas Press 2004
Subjects:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Latin America--History
Latin America--Religious Life and Customs
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Spain--History
Spain--Religious Life and Customs
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...powerful. It is seen as a paradox to some that a woman with a shadysexual past, a lower-class woman carrying the stigma of illegitimacy, wouldbe...volume, Eva Perón wasboth mother and warrior, powerful in her own right while claiming...
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