In this book on Indian cattle ranching, Peter Iverson describes a way of life that has been both economically viable and socially and culturally rewarding. Thus an Indian rancher can demonstrate...więcej »
After his remarkable eight-second ride at the 1996 Indian National Finals Rodeo, an elated American Indian world champion bullrider from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, threw his cowboy hat in the air...więcej »
This comparative history of the Southern Ute and Mountain Ute peoples demonstrates how two culturally and historically related tribes, living side by side in southwestern Colorado, have taken ve...więcej »
Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in Am...więcej »
In Common and Contested Ground, Theodore Binnema provides a sweeping and innovative interpretation of the history of the northwestern plains and its peoples from prehistoric times to th...więcej »
Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Lit...więcej »
Zawiera:około 40 000 angielskich terminów wyjściowych z polskimi odpowiednikamiterminy z zakresu chemii czystej i stosowanej, przemysłu chemicznego oraz pokrewnych gałęzi gospoda...więcej »
Słownik chemiczny polsko - angielski zawiera:- około 40 000 polskich terminów wyjściowych z angielskimi odpowiednikami- terminy z zakresu chemii czystej i stosowanej, przemysłu c...więcej »
Faces in the Moon is the story of three generations of Cherokee women, as viewed by the youngest, Lucie, a woman who has been able to use education and her imagination to escape the confines of ...więcej »
Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Czechs left their homelands in Bohemia and Moravia and came to the United States. While many settled in major American cities, others heade...więcej »
Zawiera 85000 haseł zilustrowanych blisko 15000 przykładówObejmuje angielszczyznę literacką, wyrażenia i zwroty potoczne, przysłowia, terminologię naukową i specjalistyczną różn...więcej »
"Few people might seem more prone to exploitation than Indians performing in Wild West shows. But by illuminating the continuing dance between objectification and agency, loss and resilience, and c...więcej »
A history of the famous cleft in the Rockies and an elegant plea for its preservation
Listen to an interview with the author.
Wallace Stegner called South Pass "one of the most deceptive and impr...więcej »
Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma's most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. From the 1960s into the 1980s, he operated out of Tulsa as a h...więcej »
This is the saga of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians' struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The Foxes occ...więcej »
Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor? What were the poems of a culture so different from our own?
In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuat...więcej »
Before European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the Lake Champlain and Connecticut River valle...więcej »
Challenge Windzer, the mixed-blood protagonist of this compelling autobiographical novel, was born at the beginning of the twentieth century "when the god of the great Osages was still dominate ove...więcej »
This is undoubtedly a remarkable book on a period of American history about which much has been written - the period of the Indian wars in the Northwest, from the close of the Civil War until the C...więcej »