Native Americans: 22 Books on History, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies
History, Mythology, Ceremonies, Languages, and Indigenous VoicesBy Lewis Spence, John Wesley Powell, James Owen Dorsey, Charles C. Royce, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Washington Matthews, Garrick Mallery, Cyrus Thomas, Clay MacCauley, Edward S. Curtis, James Mooney, Alexander Scott Withers, Franz Boas, Elias Johnson, Erminnie A. Smith, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Joseph Kossuth Dixon, John Heckewelder, William C. Reichel, Black Hawk, Charles M. Scanlan, William John McGee, John G. Bourke
Length225h 59m
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Native Americans: 22 Books on History, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies gathers historical narratives, ethnographic observations, tribal traditions, linguistic inquiries, biographies, and documentary accounts into a capacious, if critically uneven, archive of Indigenous life in North America. Its range extends from creation stories and ceremonial practices to warfare, diplomacy, territorial dispossession, and language, with especially compelling materials preserving oral traditions and first-person historical testimony. Read together, these texts reveal both the richness of Native intellectual and cultural worlds and the assumptions of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century disciplines that recorded them. The contributors include antiquarians, historians, linguists, anthropologists, government investigators, and Indigenous voices, notably Black Hawk. Figures associated with the formative development of American anthropology and ethnology bring methods of classification, field observation, and comparative study, while historical writers frame Native-settler relations through often contested national narratives. This diversity makes the volume valuable not as a seamless account, but as a record of changing encounters among Indigenous communities, colonial institutions, and scholarly knowledge production. This collection rewards readers seeking a broad introduction to Native American history and cultural study, provided it is approached with attention to source, mediation, and historical bias. Its many genres invite productive comparison, offering educational breadth and a sustained dialogue between Indigenous testimony, linguistic evidence, mythology, and archival interpretation.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length225 hrs 59 mins
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Publish dateDec 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Mythology of Cherokee, Iroquois, Navajo, Siouan and Zuñi
2Native Americans: 22 Books on History, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies
3General History
4The North American Indian
5Foreword
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6General Introduction
7Historical Sketch
8Homeland and Life
9Mythology - Creation Myth
10Medicine and Medicine-Men
11The Messiah Craze
12Puberty Rite
13Dance of the Gods
14The Jicarillas
15Home and General Customs
16Mythology - Creation Myth
17Miracle Performers
18Origin of Fire
19The Navaho
20Home Life, Arts, and Beliefs
21History
22Mythology - Creation Myth
23Miracle Performers
24Legend of the Happiness Chant
25Legend of the Night Chant
26Ceremonies—The Night Chant
27Maturity Ceremony
28Marriage
29Appendix
30Tribal Summary - The Apache
31The Jicarillas
32The Navaho
33Southern Athapascan Comparative Vocabulary
34The Cherokee Nation of Indians
35Introductory
36Material Provisions
37Fernando de Soto's Expedition
38Early Traditions
39Early Contact with Virginia Colonists
40Early Relations with Carolina Colonists
41Mention by Various Early Authors
42Territory of Cherokees at Period of English Settlement
43Population
44Old Cherokee Towns
45Expulsion of Shawnees by Cherokees and Chickasaws
46Treaty Relations with the Colonies
47Treaty Relations with the United States
48Proceedings at Treaty of Hopewell
49Material Provisions
50Causes of Dissatisfaction with the Boundary of 1785
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