Drummers and Dreamers
Author: Click Relander
Publisher:
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Smowhala, the prophet, and his nephew, Puck Hyah Toot, the last prophet of the nearly extinct tribe called Wanapums.
Author: Click Relander
Publisher:
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Smowhala, the prophet, and his nephew, Puck Hyah Toot, the last prophet of the nearly extinct tribe called Wanapums.
Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13: 0544102290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this acclaimed picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female drummers.
Author: Robert H. Ruby
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002-05-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780806134307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seekers after wisdom have always been drawn to American Indian ritual and symbol. This history of two nineteenth-century Dreamer-Prophets, Smohalla and Skolaskin, will interest those who seek a better understanding of the traditional Native American commitment to Mother Earth, visionary experiences drawn from ceremony, and the promise of revitalization implicit in the Ghost Dance. To white observers, the Dreamers appeared to imitate Christianity by celebrating the sabbath and preaching a covenant with God, nonviolence, and life after death. But the Prophets also advocated adherence to traditional dress and subsistence patterns and to the spellbinding Washat dance. By engaging in this dance and by observing traditional life-ways, the Prophets claimed, the living Indians might bring their dead back to life and drive the whites from the earth. They themselves brought heaven to earth, they said, by “dying, going there, and returning,” in trances induced by the Washat drums. The Prophets’ sacred longhouses became rallying points for resistance to the United States government. As many as two thousand Indians along the Columbia River, from various tribes, followed the Dreamer religion. Although the Dreamers always opposed war, the active phase of the movement was brought to a close in 1889 when the United States Army incarcerated the younger Prophet Skolaskin at Alcatraz. Smohalla died of old age in 1894. Modern Dreamers of the Columbia plateau still celebrate the Feast of the New Foods in springtime as did their spiritual ancestors. This book contains rare modern photographs of their Washat dances. Readers of Indian history and religion will be fascinated by the descriptions of the Dreamer-Prophets’ unique personalities and their adjustments to physical handicaps. Neglected by scholars, their role in the important pan-Indian revitalization movement has awaited the detailed treatment given here by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown.
Author: Scott M. Thompson
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780295979434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thompson reproduces, describes, and discusses a remarkable series of drawings by an anonymous Indian artist who fought with Chief Joseph and later reached Canada. The drawings, in red, blue, and black pencil, include portraits of principal participants in the war, battle scenes, and views of Nez Perce camp life. 60 color illustrations.
Author: Clark Crouch
Publisher: Clark Crouch
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 0962443867
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An award-winning author's fourth book of western and cowboy poetry contains 65 original poems which capture the viewpoints, biases, and philosophies that were shaped by the Great Depression and years of drought in the sand hills of Nebraska.
Author: Jerome A. Greene
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780917298820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people's epic struggle to survive in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by a noted frontier military historian and reviewed by members of the Nez Perce tribe, this is the most definitive treatment of the Nez Perce War to date.
Author: John Howard Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-02-05
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0197533752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The United States has long thought of itself as exceptional--a nation destined to lead the world into a bright and glorious future. These ideas go back to the Puritan belief that Massachusetts would be a "city on a hill," and in time that image came to define the United States and the American mentality. But what is at the root of these convictions? John Howard Smith's A Dream of the Judgment Day explores the origins of beliefs about the biblical end of the world as Americans have come to understand them, and how these beliefs led to a conception of the United States as an exceptional nation with a unique destiny to fulfill. However, these beliefs implicitly and explicitly excluded African Americans and American Indians because they didn't fit white Anglo-Saxon ideals. While these groups were influenced by these Christian ideas, their exclusion meant they had to craft their own versions of millenarian beliefs. Women and other marginalized groups also played a far larger role than usually acknowledged in this phenomenon, greatly influencing the developing notion of the United States as the "redeemer nation." Smith's comprehensive history of eschatological thought in early America encompasses traditional and non-traditional Christian beliefs in the end of the world. It reveals how millennialism and apocalypticism played a role in destructive and racist beliefs like "Manifest Destiny," while at the same time influencing the foundational idea of the United States as an "elect nation." Featuring a broadly diverse cast of historical figures, A Dream of the Judgment Day synthesizes more than forty years of scholarship into a compelling and challenging portrait of early America.
Author: Mike Grosso
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0544707362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“This book is the song of my middle-school heart.”—Michelle Schusterman, author of the I Heart Band! series Sam knows she wants to be a drummer. But she doesn’t know how to afford a drum kit, or why budget cuts end her school’s music program, or why her parents argue so much, or even how to explain her dream to other people. But drums sound all the time in Sam’s head, and she’d do just about anything to play them out loud—even lie to her family if she has to. Will the cost of chasing her dream be too high? An exciting new voice in contemporary middle grade, Mike Grosso creates a determined heroine readers will identify with and cheer for.
Author: Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0816537178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book highlights American Indian spiritual leaders, miracle healings, and ceremonies that have influenced American history and shows their continued significance--Provided by publisher.
Author: William Willard
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2020-06-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1496219007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rising from the Ashes explores continuing Native American political, social, and cultural survival and resilience with a focus on the life of Numiipuu (Nez Perce) anthropologist Archie M. Phinney. He lived through tumultuous times as the Bureau of Indian Affairs implemented the Indian Reorganization Act, and he built a successful career as an indigenous nationalist, promoting strong, independent American Indian nations. Rising from the Ashes analyzes concepts of indigenous nationalism and notions of American Indian citizenship before and after tribes found themselves within the boundaries of the United States. Collaborators provide significant contributions to studies of Numiipuu memory, land, loss, and language; Numiipuu, Palus, and Cayuse survival, peoplehood, and spirituality during nineteenth-century U.S. expansion and federal incarceration; Phinney and his dedication to education, indigenous rights, responsibilities, and sovereign Native Nations; American Indian citizenship before U.S. domination and now; the Jicarilla Apaches’ self-actuated corporate model; and Native nation-building among the Numiipuu and other Pacific Northwestern tribal nations. Anchoring the collection is a twenty-first-century analysis of American Indian decolonization, sovereignty, and tribal responsibilities and responses.