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 Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans from Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War - $35.99
As far back as colonial times, Native individuals and communities have fought alongside European and American soldiers against common enemies. Medicine Bags and Dog Tags is the story of these Native men and women whose military service has defended ancient homelands, perpetuated longstanding warrior traditions, and promoted tribal survival and sovereignty. Drawing on a rich array of archival records and oral traditions, Al Carroll offers the most complete account of Native veterans to date and is the first to take an international approach, drawing comparisons with Native veteran traditions in Canada and Mexico. He debunks the “natural warrior” stereotype as well as the popular assumption that Natives join the military as a refuge against extreme poverty and as a form of assimilation. The reasons for enlistment, he argues, though varied and complex, are invariably connected to the relative strengths of tribal warrior traditions within communities. Carroll provides a fascinating look at how the culture and training of the American military influenced the makeup and tactics of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s and 1970s and how, in turn, Natives have influenced U.S. military tactics, symbolism, and basic training. |  Santana: War Chief of the Mescalero Apache - $14.94
Until the publication of this volume, Santana, among the most brilliant of all Apache chiefs, has been virtually unknown in recorded history. Known in his early years as the most cunning and vicious of the Mescalero leaders waging war against the Anglo invaders, it is ironic that Santana's most notable contribution related to making peace rather than war. Anonymity is often the fate of peacemakers. Santana understood in the 1860s, earlier than most of his contemporaries, that the probable ultimate result of continued struggle with the white man was the annihilation of his people. Recognizing that he would be among the first to die as punishment for his warlike behavior, he disappeared into the mountains for 8 years, until the heat was off and the Army's attention was focused on a new generation of war chiefs. After his reappearance, he led his followers into peace to prevent their annihilation as a people and negotiated for them a reservation in their traditional homeland in the Sacramento mountains of south-central New Mexico. Santana needed a friend from whom he could learn about the ways of the white world and who would intercede for him with the alien culture. He found that friend in J. H. Blazer, who operated a mill, La Manquina, later to become known as Blazer's Mill, on the Rio Tularoso at a site one-half mile downstream from the present-day Mescalero Agency. After their tension-fraught initial meeting in late 1867 or early 1868, the two men learned to like and respect one another and developed an abiding friendship that lasted until Santana's death from pneumonia in the winter of 1877. The manuscript itself contains both accounts of J.H. Blazer's interactions with Santana and descriptions of certain aspects of Mescalero life and culture supplied from the experience of the author, A.N. Blazer, son of J.H., and from stories told him by his Mescalero acquaintances, some of whom were contemporaries of Santana. This is not an academic history. Any reader expecting such an account will be disappointed. Many of the events and conversations related herein cannot be verified because they come from the memories of people who had no written language (and who, it should be noted, had far better memories as a result). What is presented here is a very cogent account, verifiable in many important particulars, of a remarkable man and certain aspects of the Mescalero culture which spawned and shaped him. Santana was a remarkable man for any age or time. Recognizing his own limitations in dealing with an Anglo juggernaut bent on overwhelming and destroying his culture and his people, he was able to step outside his cultural heritage of war and conquest and use his exceptional skills as a tactician, negotiator and leader to find a way to preserve both with a minimum of bloodshed. In this age of increasingly violent cultural and religious conflicts in many parts of the world, surely his story deserves substantial recognition.
|  How Spirit Dog Made the Milky Way: A Retelling of a Cherokee Legend (Read-It! Readers) - $12.31
A Cherokee couple spends their days fishing and making cornmeal. When a giant dog steals their cornmeal, the neighbors all gather to help. Find out how this Cherokee legend explains the creation of the Milky Way.
|  Texistani : Indo-Pak Food from a Texas Kitchen - $10.00
This book starts with information on types of spices, dry goods, utensils, and any other foods you may need to have on hand to prepare the recipes. The recipes themselves are listed by category (appetizer, dessert, etc.); any extra information, "tricks" or "shortcuts" are noted in the individual recipe. The recipes include descriptions of how the finished dishes should look. A "must" for any epicurean.
|  Rez Dogs Eat Beans: And Other Tales - $16.13
A ?Boomer Generation? Indian, raised on the reservation in the past, writing of the evolution of Indians today. Ancestors and traditions color today?s world.
|  Sun Dogs and Eagle Down: The Indian Paintings of Bill Holm - $20.10
Bill Holm is internationally recognized as a leading expert on Northwest Coast, Plateau, and Plains Indian art. As curator emeritus of Native American art at the Burke Museum, professor emeritus of art history at the University of Washington, and author of numerous books and articles, including the classic work "Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form", he has established an unparalleled reputation as a scholar, teacher, and craftsman. For many years he has also produced detailed paintings that draw on his ethnographic expertise to recreate the settings in which the old Native American art objects were used.This eagerly awaited book makes available for the first time 49 full-color reproductions of Bill Holm's paintings of traditional Indian scenes, produced from the 1950s to the present. Also included are some of the small watercolors and drawings Holm has made on envelopes, and several of his three-dimensional pieces, some of which were created in part as props for the paintings. In addition to being visually compelling, the pictures provide a wealth of ethnographic detail, from the eagle down scattered by the Kwakiutl to welcome important guests, to the sun dogs - bright spots near the horizon that mimic the sun - featured in myths from many northern tribes. A lengthy descriptive caption by the artist accompanies each painting.Steven Brown's essay offers a rich balance of scholarly information, sensitive critical analysis of individual works, and warmly personal anecdotes. He positions Holm's scholarship in terms of his development as a fine artist, interweaving Holm's curatorial activities and art historical writings with his corpus of paintings. Lloyd Averill's concise, extensively researched chronology is packed with useful and interesting information. He provides in addition a complete bibliography of works by and about Bill Holm. His chronology includes Holm's long relationship with the Kwakwaka'wakw and with coastal Natives, his association with Bill Reid and the 'Northwest Coast renaissance', and his involvement with the restoration and re-issuing of the 1914 Edward Curtis movie, now titled "In the Land of the War Canoes".Steven C.Brown is associate curator of Native American art at the Seattle Art Museum. He is the author of "Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century". Lloyd J. Averill is senior lecturer emeritus in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. He is the author, with Daphne Morris, of "Northwest Coast Native and Native-Style Art: A Guidebook for Western Washington".
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