This is an account of the five tribes - Onandagas, Senecas, Mohawks, Oneidas and Cayugas - who together made up the Iriquois nation, from their origins in prehistory to their dispersal and confinement after the American Revolution. At the time of the first post-Viking contacts with Europeans, the League of the Iriquois, founded by Hiawatha at the ...
A guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. This volume attempts to relate Iroquois cosmology to cultural themes by showing the inherent spiritual power of plants and how the Iroquois traditionally have used, and continue to use, plants as remedies.
"The Archaeology of North America" tells the fascinating story of how archaeologists investigate the orgins and prehistory of American Indians. More than 12,000 years ago, people we know as Paleo-Indians traveled from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge that no longer exists. Archaeologists excavating at rock shelters and other sites across the ...
This book features 16 songs from the new musical on Broadway, based on the popular 1984 movie. Includes the hits: Almost Paradise -- Footloose -- The Girl Gets Around -- Holding Out for a Hero -- I Confess -- I'm Free -- Let's Hear It for the Boy -- more. Contains new songs written specifically for the Broadway production, and a special 8-page ...
This timely volume offers a compilation of twenty-four articles covering a wide spectrum of topics in Iroquoian archaeology. Culled from leading publications, these essays collectively represent the current state of knowledge and research in the field. A comprehensive research bibliography with more than 500 entries will be a key resource for ...
With general introductions, and in some cases, new translations, this collection comprises all of the 38 principle narratives, written from 1634 to 1810, describing the Mohawk valley and its Iroquois inhabitants. It provides a detailed look at an American Indian nation.
This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology. Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Succinct, streamlined chapters present an extensive groundwork for supplementary material, or serve as a core ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gustav Lubbe Verlag
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9783785701911ISBN:3785701918
Description: As New in Fine jacket. Text is in German, but it appears from the many pictures to be a book of the art of the Indians of North America. 272 pp includes Index and Bibliography. Tight binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Blue cloth cover with white lettering is as new. Jacket with Mask has a few stopped tears. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: HB
Publisher: The Viking Press
Date Published: 1976
Description: Maps, b&w, colour photos. V. sl. bumped & soiled; else nf in sl. scuffed & soiled, vg dj. 4to pp. 272. A study of the early American Indian tribes, and their way of life, as encountered by the first European explorers. read more
Description: *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* First Edition, 519 pp., Paperback, ex library, else text clean and binding tight. read more
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