Impressions of India by Mark Mattison, spouse of an American diplomat during his stay (1999-2000) in India.
The Indian Wars of the Plains provided some of the bitterest battles and some of the most dramatic action in the history of warfare. Here is the dramatic story of the Plains Indians.
... Indians to recapitulate their Wild West performance experience. Indian actors who simply acted like themselves in front of the camera were more believable than white actors in redface—or so some critics ... Indians in Unexpected Places.
Report (p.1-10) is followed by an Appendix ([ii]+532 p.) containing letters, field dispatches, and military orders on the progress of the Indian Wars in 1862-65, and depositions and letters from...
He was seconded by Little Wolf and Standing Elk, two of his bravest warriors, and by High Wolf, who was a medicine man and a Dreamer. Of High Wolf Captain Bourke said: “He had been proud to wear as his pet decoration a necklace of human ...
Whether the soldier is speaking for himself or through the author in his role as commentator-historian, this is the first documented account of the mass personality of the rank and file during the Indian Wars, and is only incidentally a ...
“Nay, lad. A testament translated into Scottish Gaelic, the very first translation to beprinted. James Stuartof Killin,and his assistant, Dugal Buchanan ofRannoch, publishedthis testament in Edinburghseven years ago in ...
Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stereotypes. That's why some images of Indians can be so unexpected and disorienting: What is...
The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades.