Scalpdancers

Scalpdancers
Author: Kerry Newcomb
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312986193

One man was an outcast among his people. The other had found his home on the open seas. They came from halfway around the world to meet. And their journey had just begun... In 1814, Lost Eyes is exiled by his small Blackfoot tribe, blamed for the death of a young hunter and doomed to a life of lonely wandering. Halfway around the world, in a harbor in the Portuguese colony of Macao, a seafaring Cornishman watches his own ship go up in flames against the night sky-and then must make a desperate voyage across the Pacific to America. There, Morgan Penmerry will meet a native Blackfoot being led by visions and by dreams. Both men know what it means to love a woman. Both men know what it means to have a mortal enemy-and to stand alone. Now, in a gathering storm of violence and hate, each will trust the other with his life and soul... Scalpdancers is Kerry Newcomb's crowning achievement of adventure storytelling. From the high seas to the towering mountains of the American Northwest, this is an epic tale of two men, two cultures, and one vision becoming real-in a saga of honor, courage and blood ...

The Life of Ten Bears

The Life of Ten Bears
Author: Thomas W. Kavanagh
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803285507

31. Miscellaneous Religious Matters -- 32. Fragmentary and Incomplete Narratives -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Francis Joseph Attocknie -- About Thomas W. Kavanaugh

Over a Century of Moving to the Drum

Over a Century of Moving to the Drum
Author: Johnny Arlee
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780917298578

For over a hundred years, the Arlee Fourth of July Celebration, or Powwow, on the Flathead Indian Reservation has brought people together to honor the traditions of the Salish. Over a Century of Moving to the Drum: Salish Indian Celebrations on the Flathead Indian Reservation, by Salish teacher and spiritual advisor Johnny Arlee, offers a tribute to this longstanding event. Lavishly illustrated with pen and ink sketches of powwow scenes and photographs of powwows in the 1940s, the main narrative is based on interviews Arlee conducted with Salish elders in the 1970s. Excerpts of the interviews--and interviews with modern powwow participants--round out the volume.

Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians

Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians
Author: James Lee Humfreville
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780811728140

A lieutenant with the 9th U.S. Cavalry, the "Buffalo Soldiers, " offers his observations on all aspects of Plains Indian life. His views were sometimes simplistic but unfailingly sympathetic. 180 photos.

The Cherokee People

The Cherokee People
Author: Thomas E. Mails
Publisher: Council Oak Books
Total Pages: 405
Release: 1992
Genre: Cherokee Indians
ISBN: 0933031459

This book depicts the Cherokees' ancient culture and lifestyle, their government, dress, and family life. Mails chronicles the fundamentals of vital Cherokee spiritual beliefs and practices, their powerful rituals, and their joyful festivals, as well as the story of the gradual encroachment that all but destroyed their civilization.

The North American Indian: The Tiwa. The Keres

The North American Indian: The Tiwa. The Keres
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 490
Release: 1926
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN:

"[A] comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes of the United States and Alaska that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive customs and traditions. The value of such a work, in great measure, will lie in the breadth of its treatment, in its wealth of illustration, and in the fact that it represents the result of personal study of a people who are rapidly losing the traces of their aboriginal character and who are destined ultimately to become assimilated with the 'superior race.' It has been the aim to picture all features of the Indian life and environment--types of the young and the old, with their habitations, industries, ceremonies, games, and everyday customs ... Though the treatment accorded the Indians by those who lay claim to civilization and Christianity has in many cases been worse than criminal, a rehearsal of these wrongs does not properly find a place here"--General introduction.

Indian Dances of North America

Indian Dances of North America
Author: Reginald Laubin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1989
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780806121727

Descriptions of the dances, costumes, body decorations, and musical accompaniment supplement information on the cultural background of Indian dancing