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Books About Native Americans: Guns, Germs, and Steel, Faces in the Moon, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Paul Goble
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-20.
ISBN 9781156406069
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Guns, Germs, and Steel, Faces in the Moon, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Paul Goble, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, Greengrass Pipe Dancers, Black Elk Speaks, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995, Red Earth, White Lies, a Little Matter of Genocide, Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters, the Essential Charles Eastman, the Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways, Who Will Tell My Brother?, God Is Red: a Native View of Religion, the Sacred Hoop, Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions. Excerpt: Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (full title Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley: Comprising the Results of Extensive Original Surveys and Explorations ) by Americans Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis is a landmark in American scientific research, the study of the prehistoric Mound builders of North America, and the early development of archaeology as a scientific discipline. Published in 1848, it was the first volume of the Smithsonian Institution 's Contributions to Knowledge series, and the Institution's first publication. The book had 306 pages, 48 lithographed maps and plates, and 207 wood engravings .Davis and Squier Edwin Davis was born in 1811 in Hillsboro, Ohio , just a few miles from Chillicothe and the many mounds and earthworks of the Scioto River valley. Seeing these features as a young man led to his deep curiosity about them. At the time, archaeology was not yet a viable career option. Davis explored the mounds while a student at Kenyon College and wrote a paper on the subject which he read at his commencement. Daniel Webster , an early member of the American Antiquarian Society , heard the paper and encouraged Davis to continue his rese
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Books About Native Americans: Guns, Germs, and Steel, Faces in the Moon, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Paul Goble
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