Art of the American Indian Frontier
Title | Art of the American Indian Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Penney |
Publisher | Detroit Inst of Arts |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780295973180 |
Art of the American Indian Frontier examines an incomparable collection of nineteenth-century Native American art from the North American Woodlands, Prairie, and Plains. The collection resulted from the efforts of Milford G. Chandler and Richard A. Pohrt, whose early childhood fascination with the Indian frontier past evolved into a deep and comprehensive interest in Native American ceremonies, beliefs, and art. Though neither was wealthy or enjoyed the sponsorship of a museum, they traveled extensively early in the twentieth century, buying or trading for objects they could not resist. This volume presents the Detroit Institute of Art's Chandler-Pohrt collection with detailed documentation and commentary. Clothing and accessories of porcupine quill and buckskin, woven textiles, bags, beadwork, necklaces, rawhide paintings, smoking pipes, tools, vessels and utensils, pictographs, and visionary paintings are portrayed in 220 stunning color plates. Complementing the illustrations are essays dealing with historical context, ethnographic issues, and the lives and philosophies of the collectors.
The American Indian Frontier
Title | The American Indian Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | William Christie Macleod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 638 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Indians |
ISBN |
The American Indian Frontier
Title | The American Indian Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | William Christie Macleod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Civilization |
ISBN | 9780415143806 |
The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846
Title | The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846 PDF eBook |
Author | R. Douglas Hurt |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780826319661 |
A sweeping history of the cultural clashes between Indians and the British, Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans. A story of the contest for land and power across multiple and simultaneous frontiers.
The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890
Title | The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Utley |
Publisher | Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN |
"First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, is considered a classic for both students and scholars. For this revision, Utley includes scholarship and research that have become available in recent years."--BOOK JACKET.
The Wild Frontier
Title | The Wild Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | William M. Osborn |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2009-11-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307561178 |
The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world. In The Wild Frontier, William M. Osborn discusses the changing settler attitude toward the Indians over several centuries, as well as Indian and settler characteristics—the Indian love of warfare, for instance (more than 400 inter-tribal wars were fought even after the threatening settlers arrived), and the settlers' irresistible desire for the land occupied by the Indians. The atrocities described in The Wild Frontier led to the death of more than 9,000 settlers and 7,000 Indians. Most of these events were not only horrible but bizarre. Notoriously, the British use of Indians to terrorize the settlers during the American Revolution left bitter feelings, which in turn contributed to atrocious conduct on the part of the settlers. Osborn also discusses other controversial subjects, such as the treaties with the Indians, matters relating to the occupation of land, the major part disease played in the war, and the statements by both settlers and Indians each arguing for the extermination of the other. He details the disgraceful American government policy toward the Indians, which continues even today, and speculates about the uncertain future of the Indians themselves. Thousands of eyewitness accounts are the raw material of The Wild Frontier, in which we learn that many Indians tortured and killed prisoners, and some even engaged in cannibalism; and that though numerous settlers came to the New World for religious reasons, or to escape English oppression, many others were convicted of crimes and came to avoid being hanged. The Wild Frontier tells a story that helps us understand our history, and how as the settlers moved west, they often brutally expelled the Indians by force while themselves suffering torture and kidnapping.
How the Indians Lost Their Land
Title | How the Indians Lost Their Land PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart BANNER |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674020537 |
Between the early 17th century and the early 20th, nearly all U.S. land was transferred from American Indians to whites. Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers--time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.