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This major contribution to young adult genealogy studies helps create ethnic pride, self-esteem, and awareness of the extraordinary accomplishments each ethnic group has brought to the American experience. Designed for use in grades 6-12, this important new series explores the creation of the American people while promoting the use and understanding of solid research techniques. Oryx American Family Tree Series enhances the social studies curriculum--especially the thematic strands in the New Curriculum Standards for Social Studies-- * culture, time, continuity, and change * people, places and environment * individual development and identity * individuals, groups, and institutions * power, authority, and governance * global connections While using the volumes in this series, young adults experience a uniquely personalized opportunity to practice the historians craft as they learn how to collect data, obtain and evaluate documents and sources, use the latest electronic tools for researching, and conduct and record eyewitness accounts of historical events in family life. The volumes carefully describe the challenges unique to researching each ethnic group or region. Also explained are the "why" and "how" of tracing their roots if users are adopted or come from nontraditional families. Also, each book in the series provides basic historical and cultural background information. As young adults explore their cultural heritage, they gain self-esteem, personal identity, and ethnic pride. Each volume in the Oryx American Family Tree Series is packed with hundreds of annotated bibliographic references for print, electronic, and media sources, as well as many helpful organizations. Every book is lavishly illustrated with 4-color and black and white photographs throughout and features a glossary and an index. The series is published in sturdy 6" x 9" casebound volumes of approximately 200 pages printed on acid-free paper. ... Read more

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This fascinating work reaches back through time from 2004 to 1769 and includes seven generations of Noyes P. Greene's ancestors. The seed for this work was planted when the author and her husband, Noyes, discovered through DNA testing that his direct female line was Native American and all of his grandmothers, back seven generations, lived near the Pequot Reservation. In fact, all of his direct grandmothers were born and raised in the town of Ledyard near the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation. This unexpected discovery led the author to six years of active research that resulted in the wealth of genealogical data preserved on these pages.The majority of this book is set in New London County, located in the southeastern corner of the state of Connecticut; specifically, the town of Ledyard and the surrounding towns of Groton, North Stonington, Stonington and Preston. The direct maternal surnames that are discussed in the book are: Willcox/Wilcox, Pierce, Main, Brown and Holdridge. The major genealogical mystery examined in this book is Hannah Brown, born 1769, who married Nathan Holdridge. There are three scenarios given on possible parents for her. An examination of the Maternal DNA process and test results that linked Noyes' to his Native American ancestors and a brief history of the Pequot Tribe during colonial times precede the chapters devoted to genealogy. A biographical sketch of each grandmother includes: her date and place of birth; the date and place of marriage; her place of residence; her date of death, place of death and place of burial; the name of her spouse and the names of her children. The author also included any information she could find on spouses and children and how they lived. Spouses' families are discussed if they have any bearing on a Native American connection. Indices, Noyes P. Greene's maternal DNA certificates, photographs, maps, appendices, sources and abbreviations add to the value of this work. ... Read more

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Part of Gale's Genealogical Sourcebook series, NativeAmerican Genealogical Sourcebook provides historicalgenealogical data specific to Native Americans. The Sourcebookprovides:

* Emigration or migration history
* Basic genealogical records
* Directory of genealogical sources of information
And more

Also includes comprehensive author, title and subject indexes. ... Read more

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Here's a rare view back in time to when the West was truly wild, all brought to life with three-dimensional photographs that make you feel as if you are actually there: cowboys driving cattle on the range, Wild West towns, the Grand Canyon and other landmarks, and Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest with their totem poles to Southwestern pueblo cities and prairie teepees. ... Read more

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Spectacular 3D
I really love this book. The viewer is built into the front cover, so you hold that up while you turn the pages. You have to relax your eyes and then all of a sudden they kick in and you are seeing wonderful 3D images of the past. I went through the whole book right away but I know it is one that I will be getting out every so often to see the pictures again. I also have the other 5 of these books and have enjoyed all of them. I highly recommend this book if you want to see wonderful 3D images.

takes you back
These photos take you back more than any movie ever could. You are looking at the real people in the same viewing method used at the time. We leave them on the coffee table, everyone picks them up and is enthralled.

Living history for an excellent price
All of the books in this series are great. As a stereocard maker and enthusiast, I was excited about the release of these books.
Good points: Excellent price! Excellent construction with the fold out viewer in the cover and excellent graphics giving it an 'antique' feel. Some very rare views are presented that would cost a fortune to purchase. The descriptions originally printed on the card's verso are reproduced here on the preceding page to each image so that they can be viewed and read all at once... And, did I mention the excellent price?
Weak points: Some cards which already suffered from poor image quality are made 'grainy' by the halftone printing. A few of the images are not in 3D. A few images have the left and right images reversed. While the original cards may have been this way, the least they could have done was correct them or note the error in the descriptions.
Still, these few and minor weaknesses do not detract from the overall quality of the books. Nothing can really describe seeing historical moments and people in 3D.These books should be in classrooms. I look forward to the next 2 releases in the series. ... Read more

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Flags of the Native peoples of the United States proudly display symbols of tribal traditions, art and culture. In Native American Flags, Donald T. Healy and Peter J. Orenski present an encyclopedic look at the flags and histories of 183 Native American tribes throughout the United States.Listing Indian nations alphabetically, this fully indexed reference includes both federally recognized tribes and other groups, and offers an image of each tribe's flag and a map of their location within the United States.Each entry includes a brief summary of the tribe's history, presents information on contemporary Indian peoples, and describes and illustrates in detail the symbolism and imagery of each Native American flag.A gallery of color plates includes full-color representations of 192 historic and contemporary Native flags.

The authors visited over two-dozen reservations and surveyed more than 250 tribal governments, working closely with them to produce this authoritative volume.A portion of their original research on Native American flags was published in Raven, the journal of the North American Vexillological Association, an organization devoted to the scientific study of flags.This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes more than fifty new flags and accompanying tribal listings and full-color representations of each flag. Carl Waldman's foreword places the flags within the context of Indian history, mythology, and art, and shows how Native American flags have become powerful symbols of Native unity and tribal sovereignty.Native American Flags is ideally suited for libraries, American studies and civics programs, flag enthusiasts, and the globe-spanning audience of people interested in enjoying and preserving the American Native heritage. ... Read more

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Nation upon one Nation
Accurate reference book on America Indian Nation Flags. With concise information on each nation.

Respectfully yours,
Elder Shaman George Son of Sea Shell Ramos
The Jatibonicú Taino Tribal Nation of Boriken
Tekesta Tribe of Bimini (Florida)

Discover the Native Americans through their flags !
This fascinating book lists almost 200 U.S. Indian tribal flags arranged in alphabetical order. Every flag design, before being described and analyzed in detail, is introduced by a map locating the Tribe within the U.S. The text, rich in detail and well-documented from Native sources, is further illustrated by a set of 192 color plates, allowing full appreciation of these flags. You are invited to plunge into Indian lives and beliefs: the harmony between man and nature, wisdom, religious feelings, attachment to earth ... Through flags, the book allows you to discover a fascinating and ancient people, whose spiritual richness is only equaled by their diversity. It pays homage to Indian traditions, art and culture. Don't hesitate to buy this book, it will be an exciting adventure! ... Read more

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Absolutely the "Bible" of Cherokee Genealogy. New, 336 page2nd Edition, partially in four color. If the information in thisremarkable new book doesn't lead a person to proof of their Cherokeeroots, nothing can! ... Read more

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Cherokee Proud
It is a great book for those that are trying to look up thier indian relatives

Wonderful!!!
It was stupendus!! No problems at all!!!

Thank You!
Alice Helton Smith

Cherokee Proud
I found this book very clear and informative. I know one of my great-grand parents was Cherokee but have found tracing that branch of the family tree very difficult. The records come to a dead stop in Tennessee. Thanks to Mr. McClure's hard work I now have different avenues to take in my search.

Tony Mack McClure's book, Cherokee Proud
This is a must have for those who are serious into looking into their Native American Ancestry. Its a great book!!

herokee Proud
I think it is a great information guide to help people finding their Cherokee heritage.I discovered that I am related to the author. ... Read more

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After finding his four Huron lines who came from Ontario, Canada, and who took refuge in Quebec with the help of the Jesuit priests around 1640, genealogist Paul J. Bunnell, renowned for his books on Loyalist ancestors, felt compelled to make this primary and secondary source information available to help others find their Native American connections. Persecuted by the Iroquois for trading with the French, the Huron, who had numbered around 20,000 were reduced to 2,000 by the year 1640, nearly wiping them out. Many of these Native Americans (First Nation) along with other tribes and clans of the Iroquois Nation, including all the Acadian coastal tribes, married into French families who settled areas of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island (St. Jean), Newfoundland, Maine, and other upper colony states, including some territories farther west. This book covers mostly the Eastern Canada and Upper New England areas, but does pick up some Miami/Detroit and a few other tribes west of the above-mentioned areas. Although this is not a perfect and complete collection, there are many families listed here that have thousands of descendants today. This book is in an easy-to-use alphabetical format with all the main surnames shown in bold print. ... Read more

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Cowlitz are a Coast Salish group of southwestern Washington who are defined by where they are from, their line of descent, and their level of prestige vis-_-vis other groups along the coast and in the interior. In this book, Darleen Fitzpatrick probes the interconnection between culture and the boundaries that surround it, suggesting that Coast Salish ideology, which centers upon a class/prestige system and a code of ethics, links social structure with culture. ... Read more

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From the landings of the first European colonists tonineteenth century histories to 1950s film westerns, Native Americanshave been portrayed with unquestioned prejudice and ugly bias. Itwould not be until the 1970s that history scholars would begin toseriously demand a change in how Native Americans were viewed andtheir lifeways studied.The search for a full understanding of NorthAmerica’s numerous groups of native peoples and their contributions toU.S. history continues. This volume explores the Indian –non-Indianinteractions from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries,with a focus on military encounters.

The essays are arranged in a roughly chronological order, beginningwith early contacts in 1609 between the Lenape and Dutch in theDelaware region, and the Mohawks and French in New France. TheWiechquaeskeck of southwestern Connecticut also deal with the Dutch inGovernor Willem Kieft’s War in the early to mid-seventeenthcentury. The Abenaki (1694), Shawnee (1791), and the southeasternUnited States tribes (mid-nineteenth century) deal with incursionsonto their lands. The final essay looks at the St. Albert MountedRifles, a corps of the Canadian Militia, in 1885, which was composedmostly of Metis men.

In these essays, the Native Americans, whether working with the whitesor against them, are active participants in constructing their livesunder the impact of the early European arrivals and their descendants.2003, 5.5 x 8.5, illus., maps, index, paper, 240 pp.

H2360 - A 4073HB
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The bulk of the data in this research aid falls in the 18th and 19th centuries, but some of the entries are in the 17th century. Tribes mentioned in the book are Aquinah, Brothertown, Christiantown, Dartmouth, Deep Bottom, Dudley, Hassanamisco, Herring Po ... Read more

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Concentrates on three Scots in the Americas of the 1800s - Hugo Reid, Alexander Ross and Charles McKenzie - their thoughts and activities through their journals, business records and news reports. ... Read more

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An extraordinary family journey
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative is the true-life memoir of author Linda Tate's journey to learn more about her Cherokee-Appalachian heritage. Refusing to sugar-coat the domestic violence, poverty, and discrimination that have left their effects on the lives of Tate's Cherokee-Appalachian relatives, Power in the Blood also tells stories of individual and communal strength in the face of adversity. Tate embarked on exhaustive research through archives, libraries, and courthouses to track down distant relatives (all descended from her great-great-grandmother Louisiana), and in the process helped orchestrate family reunions with swapped stories that unearthed her family's forgotten past. An extraordinary family journey, highly recommended especially for Native American memoir shelves.

A Stunning Read
I was stunned by Linda Tate's deft interweaving of memoir, family research, and psychological mystery.She gracefully balances personal with Appalachian history.Her memoir reads like a novel, right down to an unexpected twist of the plot that takes the reader by surprise just before the end of the book.

Power in the Story
Brutal honesty... Paragon of persistence... Blazing versatility... Role model for all family historians... These are a few of the cryptic notes I jotted as I read Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative, by Linda Tate. I was struck by the impact of the basic story, and my appreciation deepened as I considered the craft and research involved in writing this gripping six generation tale.

Linda's brutal honesty was fascinating. She tip-toed into it, occasionally letting silence speak louder than words. Early in the story she alluded to things that happened with her father in secret places. She never specifically filled in those details, but later disclosures gave more substance to assumptions. Two accounts, written as heavily researched interpretations of the lives of the grandmother she dimly remembered with the greatest affection and that grandmother's grandmother, were even more explicit, based on collective family memories and legends. Linda was brutally honest about her own thoughts and reactions as understanding of her family history unfolded in unexpected ways.

A recurring dream of searching for her grandmother and never quite finding hersparked the beginning of her research in 1988. Her book was published in 2009, twenty-one years later. She spent most of those years doing research, both academic and on-site, fitting it piece-meal into a busy academic career. The research paid off in a literary masterpiece rich withlayers and facets.

Which leads to versatility of both voice and content. When she wrote of her early childhood, she wrote with the voice of a young child. That voice matured as the story progressed. When she wrote in the voices of her grandmothers, their personalities were distinctly evident through the choice of words as well as the dialect she used to good effect as she wrote. I had the sense of sitting on the front stoop listening to these women muse about the past. The fictionalized parts were every bit as vivid and compelling as accounts of her own experience. She has done an amazing job of blending fact and fiction, always making it clear where the boundaries lie without letting those boundaries intrude.

In addition to the story content, Linda includes extensive backstory, explaining how she did her research, lending additional credibility and authenticity to inherently powerful stories. The research also served as the framework for weaving in rich detail about the history of relations between white settlers and the native population of Appalachian Tennessee and Kentucky, and the inbred culture of "The Land Between the Rivers" where her forebears settled after being driven out of the family homeland up the Cumberland River farther east in Tennessee.

As the book recounts stories of brutal abuse, it gives testimony to the generation-spanning damage this behavior causes as well as the strength of the human spirit and its ability to endure and transcend. It's also a testimony to the shackle-shattering power of shedding light on the past to replace fear and shame withhealing, hope and reconciliation for new generations.

The story is worth a read for its own sake. Family historians and memoirists will derive added value from the fine example of craft.

What an education
This was such a great book. The way it was written, with stories of the past and present juxtaposed, really kept it moving along and held my interest.And I really appreciated how much effort (and emotional resilience) it must have taken the author to pull this book together - how many difficult conversations with family members, plus all the research about the area (including the interesting Applachian speech patterns she captures so well).

I read it several months ago, but the stories of life in the region keep coming back to me - the tiny cabins, the hard labor, the conservation, the reliance on family. There are a lot of different takeaways one could carry away from this book, but for me the timing of reading it during such difficult economic times is a helpful reminder that there is much I can do without.

Weavings
I liked this book because it reminds me of the incredible power of imagination, especially when applied with care, compassion and courage, to illuminate and heal. ... Read more

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What has nourished native peoples on this continent since time immemorial, say the editors of this volume, are wellsprings of creativity. "Down at the source," Havasupai singer Dan Hanna assures us, "a spring will always be there." The creative wellspring of American Indian culture is well represented in this anthology, a compilation of stories, songs, poems, and other writings taken from twenty-five years of Sun Tracks: An American Literary Series. Editors Larry Evers and Ofelia Zepeda have gathered the contributions of nineteen Native Americans in compiling this collection. Some are stories from oral traditions, others are autobiographical writings, and some are songs or poems. But all are contemporary, and all have as a unifying element a strong central theme in Native American writing: home places. Some of the contributors define the home place as a center of established values, while others speak of its cultural or physical geography. Healing powers are often found at home places. Home is a place to defend against those who would reduce it to insignificance, a place to reclaim, or a place reclaimed but not yet realized. One writer recalls a home that must be pulled from deep beneath the waters of the Columbia River. By listening to these stories of home places, the reader can gain a new appreciation of the contemporary verbal expressions of Native American communities. Home Places, note the editors, "asks you to listen to Native American signers, storytellers, and writers, and in this way to celebrate the wellsprings of creativity that continue to flow from the home places in Native America." ... Read more

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What's in a name? Native Americans believe names have great significance and choose them carefully. This new addition to Element's Earth Quest series helps readers understand their life purpose and potential through understanding their names. Conatins an A-Z list of interpretations. ... Read more

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Indian names
These are the names of the people who are now gone and some that are made up from the people of the tribe and family. ... Read more

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Was the relationship between English settlers and NativeAmericans in the New World destined to turn tragic? This bookinvestigates how the newcomers interacted with Algonquian groups inthe Chesapeake Bay area and New England, describing the role thatoriginal Americans occupied in England’s empire during the criticalfirst century of contact.

Michael Leroy Oberg considers the history of Anglo-Indian relations intransatlantic context while viewing the frontier as a zone whereneither party had the upper hand. He tells how the English pursuedthree sets of policies in America--securing profit for their sponsors,making lands safe from both European and native enemies, and"civilizing" the Indians--and explains why the British settlersfound it impossible to achieve all of these goals.

Oberg places the history of Anglo-Indian relations in the early Chesapeake and New England in a broad transatlantic context while drawing parallels with subsequent efforts by England as well as its imperial rivals--the French, Dutch, and Spanish--to plant colonies in America. Dominion and Civility promises to broaden our understanding of the exchange between Europeans and Indians and makes an important contribution to the emerging history of the English Atlantic world. ... Read more

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Concise historical Review
Oberg's historical review of the indians interactions with the first settles is complete and easy to understand. ... Read more

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Generally the annuity rolls are made up of five rolls, one corresponding with each of the four counties that made up the Chicksaw Nation, and one roll of the Chickasaws living in the Choctaw Nation.In addition to other information. each entry contains t ... Read more

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Not restricted to writings about military conflict, this anthology presents student researchers with the words of both Natives and non-Natives on a wide range of conflicts and bitterly contested issues involving Native American experiences and rights.

Deploying an extensive array of sources, including newspaper reports, congressional documents, government documents, and Indian tribal sources, Competing Voices from Native America: Fighting Words is divided into chapters, each of which highlights a conflict or controversy and presents the opposing views of Native Americans and non-Native Americans. Key issues explored include spirituality and human relationship to nature and land. Events presented range from "Discovery," through the period of conflict beginning in 1676 and extending to the beginning of the 19th century, to Indian Removal, the termination of the federal trusteeship relationship of the U.S. government and Indian peoples, and major recent developments.

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The Guion Miller Roll was made to distribute over one million dollars to all Eastern Cherokee that were alive on 28 May 1906, who could prove that they were members of the Eastern Cherokee tribe at the time of the treaties of 1835, 1836 and 1845, or were ... Read more