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The Civilization of the American Indian volume 173
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University of Oklahoma Press
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This third edition includes the recent economic, political, and cultural developments that affect the native communities, as well as other contemporary issues such as Indian gaming and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. All entries include information on tribal history, location, demographics, and cultural traditions.
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The Civilization of the American Indian volume 158
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University of Oklahoma Press
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©1981.
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English
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 104
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University of Oklahoma Press
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English
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This tribal history of the Spokane Indians begins with an account of their early life in the Pacific Northwest central plateau region before the arrival of white settlers and fur traders in the eighteenth century. It then describes in harrowing detail the U.S. government's encroachment on their lands and the subsequent enforced settlement of Spokane people on reservations. The volume concludes with a presentation of twentieth-century developments,...
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[1989].
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English
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"Seekers after wisdom have always been drawn to American Indian ritual and symbol. This history of two nineteenth-century Dreamer-Prophets, Smohalla and Skolaskin, will interest those who seek a better understanding of the traditional Native American commitment to Mother Earth, visionary experiences drawn from ceremony, and the promise of revitalization implicit in the Ghost Dance. To white observers, the Dreamers appeared to imitate Christianity...
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The civilization of the American Indian volume 120
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[2005]
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English
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"Before, during, and after the encroachment of white settlers, the Cayuse Indians were a powerful tribe, inhabiting a vast Pacific Northwest region between the Cascade and Rocky mountains. Today their community, now consisting of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla confederation of tribes, is growing stronger both economically and culturally." "One event in particular has been used to characterize the Cayuse people in popular literature - the 1847...
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 138
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[1976]
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English
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University of Nebraska Press
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©2010
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English
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"In 1953 young surgeon Robert H. Ruby began work as the chief medical officer at the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He began writing almost daily to his sister, describing the Oglala Lakota people he served, his Bureau of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day-to-day life on the reservation."--Inside jacket
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[1996]
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English
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This richly detailed, well-documented history describes the life of the Squaxin spiritual leader John Slocum and the growth in the Pacific Northwest of his Indian Shaker Church (not to be confused with eastern Shakerism). Students of Native American religion and Christianity will find this a moving story both of assimilation and of the curing that is the Shaker Church's reason for being. The Indian Shaker movement began in 1882 when the charismatic...
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Northwest historical volume 17
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A.H. Clark Co
Pub. Date
1993.
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English
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