indians

Alphabetical list of Indian terms with illustrations, pronunciation, variances of form or alternate spelling.

It is the autumn of 1839 and Lucy, an orphan, has come to live with her aunt and uncle, who run a mission school for Indians. Aunt Emma is stern and has rules for everything; she gives the students AMerican names and dresses them in drab mission clothes. Uncle Edward tells them that the old ways are gone, and now they must fit into the white man's world. Lucy cannot understand why the Indians are the ones who must do the changing.

History of the European conquest of the Americas from the Spanish in South America to the North American colonization and present day interventions.

Examines the Christian views of explorers Christopher Columbus and Hern?n Cort?s, arguing that evangelizing was one of their main reasons for coming to the New World and that this fact has been obscured by revisionist history; and also discusses the early Norse explorers and the Crusades.

John Bierhorst uses native testimony and native texts to show how "animal masters" and natural gardening protect the land from overuse, how living space is patterned, how human reproduction is controlled, and how the sun is viewed as the overlord of a closed energy system from which nothing may be removed without "payment".

Reveals the diverse cultures of the North and South American Indians before the coming of the Europeans as substantiated by the findings of archaeologists.