[bksvol-discuss] Submission
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "BookShare" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:52:37 -0400
Hi everyone,
I've just submitted the following...
The Mammoth Book of Native Americans by Jon E. Lewis
I've done all the usual pre-validation, although all the dialect and the
names in the various languages may drive a spell checker crazy! The book is
mine and I can rescan any pages necessary.
Description:
Today Native Americans make up less than one percent of the U.S.
population but represent half the languages and cultures in the nation.
In this superbly readable new single-volume history, Jon E. Lewis
provides a fresh view of America's indigenous peoples, their society,
culture, and religion - everything from the land-based spirituality of
their early creation myths, the 88 uses to which the Sioux put the flesh
and bones of the buffalo, the custom of berdache (men adopted as
women), right through to the recent rise of Indian Pride.
The full story of these tribal peoples takes us from their dramatic early
entry into North America out of the now submerged continent of
Beringia, to the "forgotten wars" of the 16th and 17th centuries which wiped
many tribes from the face of the East Coast, and the late struggles of the
Cheyenne and the Comanche. We are shown not just the terrible nature of
their genocide, but their whole way of life and the dark side of
their own culture that led to cannibalism in some tribes, and the part
they played in the decimation of North America's buffalo herds. Forced
to adapt or become merely onlookers to modern American society, some
remarkable success stories are now emerging.
Deborah
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