Luke knows his Iñupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students -- Eskimo, Indian, White -- line up on different s…
Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans.
Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans.
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the waysBrazil's native peoples shaped their own histories.
Native Brazil: beyond the convert and the cannibal, 1500-1900
by Langfur, Hal
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The earliest European accounts of Brazil's indigenous inhabitants focused on the natives' startling appearance and conduct-especially their nakedness and cannibalistic rituals-and on the process of converting them to Christianity. This volume contributes to the unfinished task o…
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories.
A descendant of The American Indian Experience, this compelling anthology showcases the work of sixteen specialists. Those chapters retained from the original volume have been carefully revised to make them more accessible to the average undergraduate, while six entirely new and…
[This] is an introductory work, presenting a profile of the relationship between American Indians and Europeans, and later Americans, from the early sixteenth century onward. Its intent is to provide college students and general readers a clear overview of significant aspects of…