Author: Clark WisslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
North American Indians of the Plains
Author: Clark WisslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains
Author: Loretta FowlerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231117005
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From where--and what--does water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? Water from Heaven presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen needed to form H2O originated in the nuclear reactions in the interiors of stars, asking whether microcomets may be replenishing our world's oceans, and explaining how the Moon and planets set ice-age rhythms by way of slight variations in Earth's orbit and rotation. The book then takes the measure of water today in all its states, solid and gaseous as well as liquid. How do the famous El Niño and La Niña events in the Pacific affect our weather? What clues can water provide scientists in search of evidence of climate changes of the past, and how does it complicate their predictions of future global warming? Finally, Water from Heaven deals with the role of water in the rise and fall of civilizations. As nations grapple over watershed rights and pollution controls, water is poised to supplant oil as the most contested natural resource of the new century. The vast majority of water "used" today is devoted to large-scale agriculture and though water is a renewable resource, it is not an infinite one. Already many parts of the world are running up against the limits of what is readily available. Water from Heaven is, in short, the full story of water and all its remarkable properties. It spans from water's beginnings during the formation of stars, all the way through the origin of the solar system, the evolution of life on Earth, the rise of civilization, and what will happen in the future. Dealing with the physical, chemical, biological, and political importance of water, this book transforms our understanding of our most precious, and abused, resource. Robert Kandel shows that water presents us with a series of crucial questions and pivotal choices that will change the way you look at your next glass of water.
Plains Indians
Author: Andrew SantellaPublisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 1432949616
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
This title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Plains region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.
Handbook of North American Indians
Author: North American Indians of the Plains
Author: Clark WisslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arte indigena - Norteamerica
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The North American Indians of the Plains
Author: Clark WisslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
American Plains Indians
Author: Jason HookPublisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781841761213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The adoption of a horse culture heralded the golden age of the Plains Indians - an age that was abruptly ended by the intervention of the white man, who forced them from their vast homelands into reservations in the second half of the 19th century. Jason Hook's fascinating text explores the culture of the American Plains Indians, covering all aspects of their society from camp life to the art of war, in a volume packed with fascinating illustrations and photographs, including eight striking full page colour plates by Richard Hook.
Native Peoples of the Plains
Author: Linda LoweryPublisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 1512422614
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A long time ago, before the Plains region of the United States was divided up into states such as Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, this land was home to American Indians. Twenty-eight unique Indian nations built homes and gathered food in the Plains. They spoke distinct languages, set up political systems, and made art. They used the natural resources available in their region in order to thrive. • The Wichita lived in houses made of grass. From the outside, they looked like giant haystacks. • Omaha and Ponca people wore caps made from eagleskin. • Lakota men carved flutes to play songs for the girls they hoped to marry. Many American Indians still live in the Plains region. Explore the history of these various nations and find out how their culture is still alive today.
The Horse and the Plains Indians
Author: Dorothy Hinshaw PatentPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547125518
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced horses to the Great Plains, and how horses became, and remain, a key part of the Plains Indians' culture.
The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis
Author: Edward S. CurtisPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803215122
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The traditional cultures of the Indians of the Great Plains?Lakotas, Cheyennes, Wichitas, Arikaras, Crows, Osages, Assiniboins, Comanches, Crees, and Mandans, among others?are recalled in stunning detail in this collection of photographs by Edward S. Curtis (1868?1952). Curtis is the best-known photographer of Native Americans because of his monumental work, The North American Indian (1907?1930), which consists of twenty portfolios of large photogravures and twenty volumes of text on more than eighty Indian groups in the West. He took pictures of Plains Indians for over twenty years, and his photographs reflect both prevailing attitudes about Indians and Curtis's own vision of differences among the Native peoples whom he photographed. ø Curtis's photographs have exerted an enduring influence?both positive and negative?on mainstream American culture. They have inspired countless books, articles, and photographic exhibitions, and they continue to appear on posters, postcards, and other souvenirs. Accompanying the remarkable array of images in this book are essays by leading scholars that place the photographs within their proper critical, cultural, and historical contexts. The scholars contributing to this work are Martha H. Kennedy, Martha A. Sandweiss, Mick Gidley, and Duane Niatum.