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21) The Indians
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Lavishly illustrated account of the lives, religion, customs, sports, homes, horses and history of the Indian tribes of the American West.
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Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known "discoveries" of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus. Menzies offers a revolutionary new alternative to the "Beringia" theory of how humans crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, and provides a wealth of staggering claims, that hold fascinating and astonishing...
27) Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies : Annual conference : Western proceedings (1943- )
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Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
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1943
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English
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A history of US volume 1
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Oxford University Press
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English
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Presents an overview of the origin and development of the United States from the Ice Age to 1600, with an emphasis on pre-Columbian Native Americans, and the arrivals of explorers and conquistadors.
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Moving with the seasons, the Utes covered vast areas of Colorado and surrounding states. Summer would find the tribes in the high country of the Rockies. In the fall, attention turned to gathering food and supplies and preparing for the harsh season ahead. Winters were spent in the semi-arid country of northern New Mexico and Utah, trading with neighbors. Springtime would find the various groups heading back to the high country of the Rockies. The...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work...
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A novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man...
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Four-year-old John Butler is captured by the Delaware Indians and is adopted by one of the tribes leaders. Suddenly, after 11 years among the Delaware people, he is forced to return to his original home and parents by the Bouquet military expedition of 1765. But his deep love for and loyalty to his Indian parents and his cousin, Half Arrow, is his reason for rejecting the white man's civilization.