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Las Guerras Apaches fueron el conflicto más largo librado por Estados Unidos, que se prolongó durante un cuarto de siglo y marcó la historia del suroeste americano y el norte de México. Una tierra de frontera inhóspita y desolada, infestada de bandoleros, donde cada planta tenía una púa, cada insecto un aguijón, cada pájaro una garra y cada reptil un colmillo: la Apachería. Durante más de dos décadas, los guerreros apaches, duros como...
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A compilation by Timothy K. Perttula including articles from Historical Archaeology. Topics include Colonial Perspectives, The Effects of Introduced Epidemic Diseases, and Case Studies in North America. For a complete Table of Contents, please view http://pastfoundation.org/lulu/2luxdo5.jpg, or visit the publication's homepage and click "preview" beneath the large image of the cover, which will display the first few pages of the book.
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"Beyond the Surface: Christopher Columbus and the Kaleidoscope of American Identity" invites readers on an enlightening journey through the intricate layers of history, culture, and identity that have shaped the Americas. In this captivating exploration, the book delves deep into the legacy of Christopher Columbus, unearthing the complex intersections of triumph and tragedy, discovery and displacement.With meticulous research and vivid storytelling,...
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The influence of globalization in the American Southwest is not a new or recent trend of the twentieth or twenty-first century. The phenomenon of globalization goes back centuries to the arrival of the first Spanish and the French, among others. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are only the most pronounced aspects of globilization but there are earlier influences as well. My study is a general overview.
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A fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists together
Properties of Empire shows the dynamic relationship between Native and English systems of property on the turbulent edge of Britain's empire, and how so many colonists came to believe their prosperity depended on acknowledging Indigenous land rights.
As absentee land speculators and hardscrabble colonists squabbled...
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The captivating story of four young people-English and Powhatan-who lived their lives between cultures
In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia's founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships-and became essential for the colony's survival. Their story...
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History is a tapestry woven with the threads of countless stories, cultures, and legacies. It is a journey through time, a window into the triumphs and tribulations of those who came before us. Within this grand narrative, there exists a chapter that is both unique and profound-the history of Native Americans in North America.This book, " Echoes of Ancestral Wisdom: A Journey Through Native American History," is an odyssey that takes you on a captivating...
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The American carnage is here. Hollyweird plays the slapping game (Will Smith and all that!). The Woke play the crying game. QAnon plays the game that no one sane can understand. Has America become a satirical show? Is a team of comedians running America? They're all into black comedy, the darker the humor the better, until no one can any longer distinguish comedy from tragedy. Do you want to come backstage, and see behind the scenes, see what's really...
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This true story begins on a combat air base in Saudi Arabia and recounts the saga of a clan of Alaskan Natives in the 1840s facing extinction due to attacks by a gigantic prehistoric bear. Told in a style reminiscent of 1960s pulp fiction, the author cleverly uses his plight as a technical trainer at a beseiged foreign garrison to recount a heroic legend heard long ago.
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Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history-the nineteenth century forced removal of Native Americans from their lands-through the story of Chief John Ross, who came to be known as the Cherokee Moses.
Son of a Scottish trader and a quarter-Cherokee woman, Ross was educated in white schools and was only one-eighth Indian by blood. But as Cherokee chief in the mid-nineteenth century,...
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This book is a tribute to the shamans of the Orinoco, those men who learned to bow to nature by using the multiple facets of the human mind. It is also the expression of a blood debt of more than five hundred years, for where many saw only charlatanism and deception, there was an elaborate tradition of wisdom, far ahead of its time, which vanished forever as a result of the violence that followed the discovery of America.
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Read the missing stories of DC's precolonial history.
Native Americans lived on the land that is now Washington, DC for several thousand years before English settlers arrived in the early 1600s. The Native people had villages, quarries and burial grounds throughout the city, ranging from what is now Rock Creek Park to the grounds of the White House. These sites speak of the history of the Anacostans and the preceding tribes who once walked the land...
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