Stabilization and Data Recovery Plan for High Rolls Cave (LA114103), Otero County, New Mexico
Title | Stabilization and Data Recovery Plan for High Rolls Cave (LA114103), Otero County, New Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Yvonne Roye Oakes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN |
Tobacco Use by Native North Americans
Title | Tobacco Use by Native North Americans PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph C. Winter |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780806132624 |
Recently identified as a killer, tobacco has been the focus of health warnings, lawsuits, and political controversy. Yet many Native Americans continue to view tobacco-when used properly-as a life-affirming and sacramental substance that plays a significant role in Native creation myths and religious ceremonies. This definitive work presents the origins, history, and contemporary use (and misuse) of tobacco by Native Americans. It describes wild and domesticated tobacco species and how their cultivation and use may have led to the domestication of corn, potatoes, beans, and other food plants. It also analyzes many North American Indian practices and beliefs, including the concept that Tobacco is so powerful and sacred that the spirits themselves are addicted to it. The book presents medical data revealing the increasing rates of commercial tobacco use by Native youth and the rising rates of death among Native American elders from lung cancer, heart disease, and other tobacco-related illnesses. Finally, this volume argues for the preservation of traditional tobacco use in a limited, sacramental manner while criticizing the use of commercial tobacco. Contributors are: Mary J. Adair, Karen R. Adams, Carol B. Brandt, Linda Scott Cummings, Glenna Dean, Patricia Diaz-Romo, Jannifer W. Gish, Julia E. Hammett, Robert F. Hill, Richard G. Holloway, Christina M. Pego, Samuel Salinas Alvarez, Lawrence A Shorty, Glenn W. Solomon, Mollie Toll, Suzanne E. Victoria, Alexander von Garnet, Jonathan M. Samet, and Gail E. Wagner.
Tobacco and Shamanism in South America
Title | Tobacco and Shamanism in South America PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Wilbert |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780300057904 |
An ethnography of magic-religious, medicinal and recreational tobacco use among nearly 300 native South American societies. Wilbert found that South American Indians use tobacco in many ways and that a close functional relation exists between tobacco and shamanism.
Prosperity Road
Title | Prosperity Road PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony J. Badger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807872925 |
Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina
Ecological Indian
Title | Ecological Indian PDF eBook |
Author | Shepard Krech |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393321005 |
Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Custer Died For Your Sins
Title | Custer Died For Your Sins PDF eBook |
Author | Vine Deloria |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2018-02-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501188232 |
Standing Rock Sioux activist, professor, and attorney Vine Deloria, Jr., shares his thoughts about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists in a collection of eleven eye-opening essays infused with humor. This “manifesto” provides valuable insights on American Indian history, Native American culture, and context for minority protest movements mobilizing across the country throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Originally published in 1969, this book remains a timeless classic and is one of the most significant nonfiction works written by a Native American.
The European and the Indian
Title | The European and the Indian PDF eBook |
Author | James Axtell |
Publisher | New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195029046 |
Drawing on a wide variety of source, Axtell explores the cultural adjustments that occurred when white Europeans met and attempted to 'civilize' the native Americans.