e-Book TEN YEAR UPPER CANADA (The Garland library of narratives of North American Indian captivities) download

Contains a narrative of an unusual journey down the Humbolt river and a touching story about Chilsipee, a young Blackfoot girl found wounded after a battle who became a pet of the trappers.

Contains a narrative of an unusual journey down the Humbolt river and a touching story about Chilsipee, a young Blackfoot girl found wounded after a battle who became a pet of the trappers. After the rendevous of 1837, Isaac returned home to Pennsylvania and became a school teacher and lived quietly.

Captivity narratives are usually stories of people captured by enemies whom they consider uncivilized, or whose beliefs and customs they oppose

Captivity narratives are usually stories of people captured by enemies whom they consider uncivilized, or whose beliefs and customs they oppose. The best-known captivity narratives in North America are those concerning Europeans and Americans taken as captives and held by the indigenous peoples of North America. These narratives (and questions about their accuracy) have had an enduring place in literature, history, ethnography, and the study of Native peoples.

Throughout the 1970s, Garland Publishers issued a series of Indian captivity narrative reprints that dated from 1682 to 1962. Below are the 111 volumes in the series and Cornell University Library's holdings for the titles within each volume. CUL Holdings (see notes at bottom of page).

Ridout, Thomas, d. 1829, Indian captivities. University of North Carolina. New York : Garland Pub. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; ; china.

4 Van Der Beets, ‘The Indian Captivity Narrative as Ritual’, pp. 548–62, sees this ‘archetypal journey of initiation’ through the stages of abduction, transformation by ordeal and adoption, and eventual return as the unifying principle of the genre.

Honesty and good faith in the intercourse of the Indians. Joined in my hunting grounds by some Naudoways, from Lower Canada. CHAPTER X Presence of mind and self-devotedness in an Indian mother. Sufferings from hunger. Hospitality of the Crees. Practice of medicine. Conversation of a chief.

Twenty-two years of this period have elapsed since I entered on the duties .

book by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.

relative to Indian affairs : journals to treaties ( ) Captivity narratives .

relative to Indian affairs : journals to treaties ( ) Captivity narratives, memoirs and artworks portraying life among American Indians such as Mary and I: forty years with the Sioux (. 887) by Stephen Riggs and George Catlin s North American Indian portfolio (. 844) Dictionaries and vocabulary books such as A pocket vocabulary of terms alphabetically arranged (1822) from English to Ojibwa. With several complementary themes, American Indian Histories and Cultures is the ideal companion to The American West

Handbook of North American Indians.

Handbook of North American Indians. Planning for the handbook series began in the late 1960s and work was initiated following a special congressional appropriation in fiscal year 1971. To date, 15 volumes have been published.