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Hosteen Klah Hosteen Klah Franc Johnson Newcomb Navaho medicine man and sand painter Hosteen Klah bridged the long span from the old days of tribal greatness and warfare to the new days of change and adjustment. Thus the story of Klah told here is… OL1372166W
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4 Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4 Frederick Webb Hodge This handbook “…contains a descriptive list of the stocks, confederacies, tribes, tribal divisions and settlements north of Mexico, accompanied with the various names by which these have been known, … OL1617328W
Pre-Columbian America Pre-Columbian America Kathleen Kuiper From the Mayan calendar to the Toltec architecture at Chiche n Itza , the bequests of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations have endured long after the societies that created them declined. The intellec… OL16947925W
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz,Laural Merlington,Debbie Reese,Jean Mendoza Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once … OL17640485W
America before the European invasions America before the European invasions Alice Kehoe,Alice Beck Kehoe America had fifteen thousand years of history before Christopher Columbus kicked-off centuries of European invasions. This book tells the story of the American Indian nations and their world before t… OL19923497W
Architecture's odd couple Architecture's odd couple Hugh Howard "In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867-1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (19… OL20030063W
Cast in deathless bronze Cast in deathless bronze Donald Tunnicliff Rice "In 1898, when war with Spain seemed inevitable, Andrew Summers Rowan, an American army lieutenant from West Virginia, was sent on a secret mission to Cuba. He was to meet with General Calixto García… OL20060205W
Prehistoric America Prehistoric America Betty Jane Meggers "Based on the chapter entitled Prehistoric New World cultural development, which is included in volume III of the History of mankind: cultural and scientific development." OL2300464W