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Indian Creek Table in Brown $443.00 102800 Coordinating Items Sold Separately Features: -Casual style. Color/Finish: -Brown finish. Assembly Instructions: -Assembly required…. |
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Indian Creek Table in Cherry $599.00 102801 Coordinating Items Sold Separately Features: -Casual style. Color/Finish: -Cherry finish. Assembly Instructions: -Assembly required…. |
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Map of North and South Carolina Photo Mugs An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontiers, showing…mountains, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, sandbanks and soundings on the coasts; with the roads and Indian paths as well as the boundary or provincial lines… from actual surveys by Henry Mouzon and others. In use during the American Revolutionary War….. |
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Live At the World Cafe, Vol. 21: In the Cards $14.99 This CD features 18 tracks recorded live at WXPN’s World Cafe studio in Philadelphia: (1) David Gray – Ain’t No Love; (2) Soulive – She’s Hooked; (3) Josh Rouse – It’s the Nighttime; (4) Brandi Carlile – What Can I Say; (5) Richard Thompson – The Hots for the Smarts; (6) John Butler Trio – Zebra; (7) Campbell Brothers and John Medeski – Frammin’; (8) Nickel Creek – When in Rome; (9) Madeleine Peyr… |
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Whiskey Before Breakfast THIS IS A VINYL RECORD ALBUM BY NORMAN BLAKE CALLED “WHISKEY BEFORE BREAKFAST”, & IT’S ON THE ROUNDER LABEL #0063 IN STEREO, & CAME OUT IN 1976. IT CONTAINS (14) ACOUSTIC FINGER-PICKIN’ BLUES TUNES LIKE: “HAND ME DOWN MY WALKING CANE, UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE, SIX WHITE HORSES, SALT RIVER, OLD GRAY MARE, DOWN AT MYLOW’S HOUSE, SLEEPY EYED JOE/INDIAN CREEK, ARKANSAS TRAVELER, THE GIRL I LEFT IN SUNNY… |
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Pow Wow Jammin $9.99 … |
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Creek [VHS] $19.95 … |
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The Beauty and Magic of the North Fork Long Island, NY $34.99 Turn back time. Experience the magic of this year round wonderland. Find out why the North Fork is such a special place to residents and vacationers. Drive through historic hamlets from Riverhead to Orient and experience: 1) History of the North Fork 2) The Vineyards 3) Farm Country 4) Fishing and Boating 5) Lighthouses 6) Beaches and Scenery 7) Aerial Shots… |
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Esther Shea: The Bear Stands Up A portrait of Tlingit Indian elder Esther Shea of the Tongass Bear Clan. She dedicated her life to teaching the language, songs, and values of Tlingit traditional life in Southeast Alaska. This is Esther’s story, her journey from the land and sea. As a child she was sent away to mission school and forced to keep her culture locked inside. Many years later she set out to rediscover her cultural ide… |
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Sticker Decal Graphic – Wall Rock Climber Indian Creek Guide Crag A833 GraphicsR Decals are Die-Cut, this means they do not have a backing and use transfer material for installation as shown in the video. They can be applied to any hard surface. You will receive the decal as shown in the gallery image (the black portion). The overall size depends on the style of decal you are purchasing. Some decals are more square in size so the height and width are relatively prop… |
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1812: The Rivers of War $7.99 In this extraordinary new alternate history, Flint begins a dramatic saga of the North American continent at a dire turning point, forging its identity and its future in the face of revolt from within, and attack from without in the War of 1812.From the Publisher:Eric Flint’s acclaimed 1634: The Galileo Affair was a national bestseller from one of the most talked-about voices in his field. Now, in this extraordinary new alternate history, Flint begins a dramatic saga of the North American continent at a dire turning point, forging its identity and its future in the face of revolt from within, and attack from without.In the War of 1812, U.S. troops are battling the British on the Canadian border, even as a fierce fight is being waged against the Creek followers of the Indian leader Tecumseh and his brother, known as The Prophet. In Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte’s war has become a losing proposition, and the British are only months away from unleashing a frightening assault on Washington itself. Fateful choices are being made in the corridors of power and on the American frontier. As Andrew Jackson, backed by Cherokee warriors, leads a fierce attack on the Creek tribes, his young republic will soon need every citizen soldier it can find.What if – at this critical moment – bonds were forged between men of different races and tribes? What if the Cherokee clans were able to muster an integrated front, and the U.S. government faced a united Indian nation bolstered by escaping slaves, freed men of color, and even influential white allies?Through the remarkable adventures of men who were really there – men of mixed race, mixed emotions, and a singular purpose – The Rivers of War carries us in this new direction, brilliantly transforming an extraordinary chapter of American history.With a cast of unforgettable characters – from James Monroe and James Madison to Sam Houston, Francis Scott Key, and Cherokee chiefs John Ross and Major Ridge |
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A Fine Dark Line $1.01 The time is the summer of 1958. The place is Dewmont, Texas, a town that the great American postwar boom has somehow passed by. A sad, hollow beat trails the kids who tune into rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like thin molasses. For blissfully ignorant thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell, the end of innocence comes with his discovery of an old trove of passionate yet troubled love letters that lead him to a long-ago house fire and the tragic deaths of two very different young women. Obsessed with investigating their fates, Stanley finds a guide and mentor in black, elderly Buster Lighthouse Smith, a retired Indian Reservation policeman who now runs the projector at the drive-in theater owned by Stanley’s parents. The laconic Buster tutors Stanley on the finer points of Sherlock Holmes, the blues, and life’s lost dreams. But not every buried thing stays dead. And in one terrifying night of rushing creek water and thundering rain, an arcane, murderous force will suddenly rise from the past to threaten the boy – and test the limits of Buster’s strength and wisdom. In the end the old man teaches Stanley a lesson that will haunt him always, about the forever short distance between living flesh and the dust from which it came. |
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A Gazetteer Of Indian Territory $16.85 Indian Territory refers to those remaining southwest lands that had become home, primarily, to the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole) following their removal from the southeastern states in 1833. Indian Territory is bounded on the north by Kansas, on the east by Arkansas, on the south by Texas, and on the west by Oklahoma. The bulk of this book consists of an alphabetical list of 2,100 place names, scattered through Indian Territory. The place names range from villages, to railway stations, to bodies of water, and to other natural formations. Each place name is identified in relation to the Indian nation on whose reservation it could be found and with reference to Indian Nation atlas sheets published separately by the U.S. Geological Survey. |
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A Historical Analysis of the Creek Indian Hillabee Towns $22.86 A Historical Analysis of the Creek Indian Hillabee Towns |
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African Americans and Native Americans in the Creek and Cherokee Nations, 1830s to 1920s $148 Illuminating the historical development of race relations from African American, Cherokee, and Muskeg (Creek) points of views, this book weaves a rich tapestry from oral history accounts, manuscript census schedules, and ethnohistorical literature. The Cherokee and Creek tribes were two of the largest in the Southeast and their forcible removal to Indian Territory affected tens of thousands of Africans and Native Americans This innovative study describes Creek and Cherokee social organization and culture change in the early 19th century, uses oral accounts to examine the impact of Removal on black-Indian relations, and analyzes Creek-black Indian political alliances during the Green Peach War and the anti-allotment Crazy Snake Uprising. Two chapters contain analyses of samples from federal manuscript census schedules of 1900 and 1910, describing demographics, intermarriage patterns, and education The study also links African American and European American immigration to race relations in Creek and Cherokee history between 1880 and 1920, consulting many sources that have not been used before. The comparison between the neighboring Cherokees and Creeks in the Indian Territory shows different approaches to similar problems, documenting culture change that affected the two societies. The census figures at the beginning of the century are analyzed in terms of four population segments: black Indians, including freedmen, and post-1880 black immigrants, so-called fullbloods, and (white-Indian) mixed-bloods. The study shows how these categories became metaphors for political and social outlooks and attitudes about race and native Americans. The book ends with a detailed, comprehensive bibliography containing primary and secondary sources with guides to their locations. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley 1994; revised with new preface and index) |
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After Wounded Knee $29.78 On a cold winter’s morning more than a century ago, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry attacked and killed more than 260 Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. In the aftermath, the broken, twisted bodies of the Lakota people were soon covered by a blanket of snow, as a blizzard swept through the countryside. A few days later, veteran army surgeon John Vance Lauderdale arrived for duty at the nearby Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Shocked by what he encountered, he wrote numerous letters to his closest family members detailing the events, aftermath, and daily life on the Reservation under military occupation. He also treated the wounded, both Cavalry soldiers and Lakota civilians. What distinguishes After Wounded Knee from the large body of literature already available on the massacre is Lauderdale’s frank appraisals of military life and a personal observation of the tragedy, untainted by self-serving reminiscence or embellished newspaper and political reports. His sense of frustration and outrage toward the military command, especially concerning the tactics used against the Lakota, is vividly apparent in this intimate view of Lauderdale’s life. His correspondence provides new insight into a familiar subject and was written at the height of the cultural struggle between the U.S. and Lakota people. Jerry Green’s careful editing of this substantial collection, part of the John Vance Lauderdale Papers in the Western Americana Collection in Yale University’s Beinecke Library, clarifies Lauderdale’s experiences at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. |
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All in a Day’s Work $49.95 Over 100 color photographs vividly portray the people and places of the southeastern Adirondacks as seen by a Glens Falls family physician who has spent over twenty years practicing rural medicine in such places as Bolton Landing, Warrensburg, North Creek, Indian Lake, Long Lake, Wells, and Speculator. The book is a breathtaking collection of Adirondack landscapes taken along Dr. Daniel Way’s travels, mingled with portraits of his patients taken in their homes and the many stories that reveal the full spectrum of humor, sorrow, wonder and stress that constitutes the doctor-patient relationship. The book’s patient population includes trappers, war heroes, matriarchs, lumbermen, Great Camp residents, hermits, and transplanted flatlanders, and their stories will leave the reader enriched while enjoying views of Adirondack rivers, mountains, lakes, and forests. |
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American Exodus: A Historical Novel about Indian Removal $33.95 For some two hundred years, Americans took land from the Native Americans by duplicity, threats, broken treaties, and force. A young man named John Ross-dignified, educated, and one-eighth Cherokee-cultivates the favor of powerful congressmen and stymies all land removal efforts from the presidencies of James Madison to John Quincy Adams.At the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, Cherokee allies save Andrew Jackson from certain defeat in the fight against Creek warriors. When Jackson is propelled to the presidency in 1828, pressure to expand territory for slavery results in Jackson”s Indian Removal Act of 1830.In 1838, U.S. troops force the Cherokee from their homes and into prison camps. In one of the worst winters on record, Ross leads the Cherokee removal to present day Oklahoma. Despite all efforts, Ross cannot avoid his people from being drawn into the vortex of the Civil War. American Exodus tells his story. |
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American Exodus: A Historical Novel about Indian Removal $23.95 For some two hundred years, Americans took land from the Native Americans by duplicity, threats, broken treaties, and force. A young man named John Ross-dignified, educated, and one-eighth Cherokee-cultivates the favor of powerful congressmen and stymies all land removal efforts from the presidencies of James Madison to John Quincy Adams. At the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, Cherokee allies save Andrew Jackson from certain defeat in the fight against Creek warriors. When Jackson is propelled to the presidency in 1828, pressure to expand territory for slavery results in Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830. In 1838, U.S. troops force the Cherokee from their homes and into prison camps. In one of the worst winters on record, Ross leads the Cherokee removal to present day Oklahoma. Despite all efforts, Ross cannot avoid his people from being drawn into the vortex of the Civil War. American Exodus tells his story. |
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An Angry Drum Echoed $18.95 Born Coosaponakeesa to a Creek mother and an English father, she skillfully straddled two worlds: her Indian heritage and the English way of life. Through her influence with the Indian tribes, Mary encouraged the chiefs to meet with General Oglethorpe in Savannah, leading to the peaceful establishment of an English colony in Indian territory. Although she won the esteem of the English settlers, she eventually became a thorn in the side of the newly formed colonial government. After ten years without pay for her diplomatic and interpretive services, she led her Creek tribesmen in a relentless march through the streets of Savannah to demand justice. |
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An Angry Drum Echoed $13.95 Born Coosaponakeesa to a Creek mother and an English father, she skillfully straddled two worlds: her Indian heritage and the English way of life. Through her influence with the Indian tribes, Mary encouraged the chiefs to meet with General Oglethorpe in Savannah, leading to the peaceful establishment of an English colony in Indian territory. |
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And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes $29.95 Debo’s classic work tells the tragic story of the spoliation of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole nations at the turn of the last century in what is now the state of Oklahoma. After their earlier forced removal from traditional lands in the southeastern states–culminating in the devastating ‘trail of tears’ march of the Cherokees–these five so-called Civilized Tribes held federal land grants in perpetuity, or as long as the waters run, as long as the grass grows. Yet after passage of the Dawes Act in 1887, the land was purchased back from the tribes, whose members were then systematically swindled out of their private parcels. The publication of Debo’s book fundamentally changed the way historians viewed, and wrote about, American Indian history. Writers from Oliver LaFarge, who characterized it as a work of art, to Vine Deloria, Jr., and Larry McMurtry acknowledge debts to Angie Debo. Fifty years after the book’s publication, McMurtry praised Debo’s work in the New York Review of Books : The reader, he wrote, is pulled along by her strength of mind and power of sympathy. Because the book’s findings implicated prominent state politicians and supporters of the University of Oklahoma, the university press there was forced to reject the book in …. for fear of libel suits and backlash against the university. Nonetheless, the director of the University of Oklahoma Press at the time, Joseph Brandt, invited Debo to publish her book with Princeton University Press, where he became director in 1938. |
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Apron Strings and Broken Arrows $15.95 Auburn Jackson was alone, ignorant, and pregnant, but not unBibled. She had sinned and was punished with a brain-damaged child to raise in the impoverished wilds of West Virginia. But she had spunk and the guile of the street-smart, and she believed in the innate goodness in all. So armed, Auburn guts out a nursing degree while caring for her child, only to see him die like his father in a mine. Thinking to redeem herself from God”s wrath, Auburn takes a nursing job for handicapped youth on Hatteras Island and finds happiness and fulfillment for a time. She revels in loving an Indian child from her own birthplace on Knapps Creek.No good deed goes unpunished, the sage says and Auburn is not immune. Marriage, an in-wedlock child, and a happy home are not in God”s plan for her redemption in this love story. |
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Apron Strings and Broken Arrows $25.95 Auburn Jackson was alone, ignorant, and pregnant, but not unBibled. She had sinned and was punished with a brain-damaged child to raise in the impoverished wilds of West Virginia. But she had spunk and the guile of the street-smart, and she believed in the innate goodness in all. So armed, Auburn guts out a nursing degree while caring for her child, only to see him die like his father in a mine. Thinking to redeem herself from God”s wrath, Auburn takes a nursing job for handicapped youth on Hatteras Island and finds happiness and fulfillment for a time. She revels in loving an Indian child from her own birthplace on Knapps Creek.No good deed goes unpunished, the sage says and Auburn is not immune. Marriage, an in-wedlock child, and a happy home are not in God”s plan for her redemption in this love story. |
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Archaeological Salvage in the Walter F. George Basin of the Chattahoochee River in Alabama $32 Wesley R. Hurt, Edward B. Kurjack, and Fred Lamar Pearson Jr., along with their mentor David L. DeJarnette, worked out a viable cultural chronology of the Chattahoochee River Valley region from the earliest Paleoindian and Archaic foragers to the period of early European-Indian contact. They excavated key sites, including the Woodland period Shorter Mound, the protohistoric Abercrombie village, and Spanish Fort Apalachicola, in addition to a number of important Creek Indian town sites of the eighteenth century. |
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Black Gun, Silver Star $149.33 In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as one of eight notable Oklahomans, the most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country. That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Black Gun, Silver Star tells Bass Reeves’s story for the first time, sifting through fact and legend to discover the truth about one of the most outstanding peace officers in late-nineteenth-century America and perhaps the greatest lawman of the Wild West era.Bucking the odds ( I m sorry, we didn t keep black people s history, a clerk at one of Oklahoma s local historical societies answered to a query), Art T. Burton traces Reeves from his days of slavery to his soldiering in the Civil War battles of the Trans-Mississippi Theater to his career as a deputy U.S. marshal out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, beginning in 1875 when he worked under Hanging Judge Isaac C. Parker. Fluent in Creek and other southern Native languages, physically powerful, skilled with firearms, and a master of disguise, Reeves was exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws and his exploits were legendary in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Black Gun, Silver Star restores this remarkable figure to his rightful place in the history of the American West. |
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Black, White, And Indian $26.39 Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices–to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship–wereoften necessarily guided by the harsh economic realities imposed by the country’s racial hierarchy. Few families in American history embody this struggle to survive the pervasive onslaught of racism more than the Graysons. Like many other residents of the eighteenth-century Native American South, where Black-Indian relations bore little social stigma, Katy Grayson and her brother William–both Creek Indians–had children with partners of African descent. As the plantation economy began to spread across their nativeland soon after the birth of the American republic, however, Katy abandoned her black partner and children to marry a Scottish-Creek man. She herself became a slaveholder, embracing slavery as a public display of her elevated place in America’s racial hierarchy. William, by contrast, refused toleave his black wife and their several children and even legally emancipated them. Traveling separate paths, the Graysons survived the invasion of the Creek Nation by U.S. troops in 1813 and again in 1836 and endured the Trail of Tears, only to confront each other on the battlefield during the Civil War. Afterwards, they refused to recognize each other’s existence. In 1907, when Creek Indians became U.S. citizens, Oklahoma gave force of law to the family schism by defining some Graysons as white, others as black. Tracking a full five generations of the Grayson family and basinghis account in part on unprecedented access to the forty-four volume diary of G. W.Grayson, the one-time principal chief of the Creek Nation, Claudio Saunt tells not only of America’s past, but of its present, shedding light on one of the most contentious issues in Indian politic |
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Buy the Chief a Cadillac $14.95 In spare, honest, and picturesque language, Rick Steber sets this Spur Award-winning novel on the Klamath Indian reservation in 1961 just days before the tribe’s termination by the U. S. government. Each tribal member received a $43,000 settlement from the government in return for the Klamath’s 1-million acre reservation and the end of the Klamath’s tribal status. Buy the Chief a Cadillac explores life on the reservation for three brothers — the alcoholism, violence, greed, and madness — brought on by the white man’s treatment of the tribe, and each brother’s response to the termination settlement. Creek, college-bound and disgusted with reservation life, wants to take his money and run toward success in the white man’s world. Chief, who represents the worst of reservation life, plans to spend his money on a new Cadillac and as much booze as he can possibly drink. Pokey, keeper of the Klamath traditions, plans on refusing the government payout and staying on his people’s land. The brothers’ separate plans send them on course for a deadly collision when the government money finally arrives. |
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Canoeing Adventures in Northern Illinois: Apple River to Zuma Creek $15.95 In this book you will find descriptions of over 1500 miles on 59 rivers and creeks in Northern Illinois. You will also discover the Indian villages and early settlers and their stories. The author spent over ten years exploring these unique watersheds. From the Mighty Mississippi to smallest canoeable creek, it has all been covered in Canoeing Adventures in Northern Illinois. |
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Chadron $21.99 Over 150 years ago, the area now known as Chadron was vast, open grassland. Nearby water sources, Chartran Creek and Bordeaux Creek, were named for the French fur traders whose main customers were nomadic tribes the French called the Sioux. When gold was discovered in the Black Hills, the area quickly changed. The military outposts Fort Robinson and Camp Sheridan were established to control Indian Agencies for Red Cloud”s and Spotted Tail”s bands. Cattle replaced buffalo on the rich grasslands. The railroad pushed its way west, and the rest, as they say, is history. |
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Chateau Ste. Michelle Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 $14.99 Sourced from Columbia Valley vineyards in eastern Washington including our Cold Creek, Canoe Ridge Estate and Indian Wells vineyards. Our goal with the Columbia Valley Cabernet is to highlight concentrated Washington red fruit in an accessible style. This is our inviting Cab with plenty of complexity and structure with silky tannins. It’s also very versatile with food–try it with beef, pork or pasta. |
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Cherokee Messenger $24.95 He is wise; he has something to say. Let us call him ”A-tse-nu-sti, ” the messenger. This is the story of Reverend Samuel Austin Worcester (1798-1859), messenger and missionary to the Cherokees from 1825 to 1859 under the auspices of the American Board of Foreign Missions (Congregational). One of Worcester”s earliest accomplishments was to set Sequoyah”s alphabet in type so that he and Elias Boudinot could print the bilingual Cherokee Phoenix. After removal to Indian Territory, he helped establish the Cherokee Advocate, edited by William Ross, and issued almanacs, gospels, hymnals, bibles, and other books in the Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw languages. He served the Cherokee in numerous roles, including those of preacher, teacher, postmaster, legal advisor, doctor, and organizer of temperance societies. His story is the Cherokee story, and in the foreword to this new edition, William L. Anderson discusses Worcester”s life among the Cherokee. |
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Cherryville $21.99 Cherryville, originally called White Pine, was renamed for the cherry trees lining the Old Post Road leading into town. It is located in the rolling hills of the Carolina Piedmont. The village was spun from the wilderness during the mid-1700s, when Scots-Irish and German immigrants settled the area around Beaver Dam and Indian Creeks. These settlers brought with them their languages, religions, music, and customs. The German tradition of shooting in the New Year with muskets and black powder continues today after 250 years. The area was a hotbed of Tory activity during the Revolutionary War, with Col. John Moore, the notorious Tory who was defeated at the Battle of Ramseur”s Mill, living on Indian Creek. With the advent of the railroad in the 1860s, the first cotton mill in 1891, and the international firm of Carolina Freight Carriers Corporation in 1932, Cherryville has grown into a sophisticated, modern town. |
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Chinnubbie and the Owl Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations, and Oral Traditions Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations, and Oral Tr $16.33 Through he died at the age of thirty-four, the Muscogee (Creek) poet, journalist, and humorist Alexander Posey (1873-1908) was one of the most prolific and influential American Indian writers of his time. This volume of nine stories, five orations, and nine works of oral tradition is the first to collect these entertaining and important works of Muscogee literature. Many of Posey’s stories reflect trickster themes; his orations demonstrate both his rhetorical prowess and his political stance as a Progressive Muscogee; and his works of oral tradition reveal his deep cultural roots. Most of these pieces, which first appeared between 1892 and 1907 in Indian Territory newspapers and magazines, have since become rarities, many of the original pieces surviving only as single clippings in a few archives. While Muscogee oral tradition greatly influenced Posey’s prose, his work was also infused with the Euro-American influences that formed much of his literary education. As this collection demonstrates, Posey used his knowledge of Euro-American literature and history to help write works that championed his own people at a time of profound oppression at the hands of the United States government. Posey’s vivid literary style merges rich regional humor with Muscogee oral tradition in a way that makes him a unique figure in American Indian literature and politics. Chinnubbie and the Owl brings these works of great literary, cultural, and historical value to a new generation of readers. |
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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Ok $21.99 Choctaw are the largest tribe belonging to the branch of the Muskogean family that includes the Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole. According to oral history, the tribe originated from Nanih Waya, a sacred hill near present-day Noxapater, Mississippi. Nanih Waya means productive or fruitful hill, or mountain. During one of their migrations, they carried a tree that would lean, and every day the people would travel in the direction the tree was leaning. They traveled east and south for sometime until the tree quit leaning, and the people stopped to make their home at this location, in present-day Mississippi. The people have made difficult transitions throughout their history. In 1830, the Choctaw who were removed by the United States from their southeastern U.S. homeland to Indian Territory became known as the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. |
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Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818-1918 $19.95 The present-day Choctaw communities in central Mississippi are a tribute to the ability of the Indian people both to adapt to new situations and to find refuge against the outside world through their uniqueness. Clara Sue Kidwell, whose great-great-grandparents migrated from Mississippi to Indian Territory along the Trail of Tears in 1830, here tells the story of those Choctaws who chose not to move but to stay behind in Mississippi. As Kidwell shows, their story is closely interwoven with that of the missionaries who established the first missions in the area in 1818. While the U.S. government sought to civilize Indians through the agency of Christianity, many Choctaw tribal leaders in turn demanded education from Christian missionaries. The missionaries allied themselves with these leaders, mostly mixed-bloods; in so doing, they alienated themselves from the full-blood elements of the tribe and thus failed to achieve widespread Christian conversion and education. Their failure contributed to the growing arguments in Congress and by Mississippi citizens that the Choctaws should he moved to the West and their territory opened to white settlement. The missionaries did establish literacy among the Choctaws, however, with ironic consequences. Although the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830 compelled the Choctaws to move west, its fourteenth article provided that those who wanted to remain in Mississippi could claim land as individuals and stay in the state as private citizens. The claims were largely denied, and those who remained were often driven from their lands by white buyers, yet the Choctaws maintained their communities by clustering around the few men who did get title tolands, by maintaining traditional customs, and by continuing to speak the Choctaw language. Now Christian missionaries offered the Indian communities a vehicle for survival rather than assimilation. |
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Council Bluffs, (IA) $21.99 During the 1830s, a path appeared where Indian Creek flowed out of the loess hills at Caldwell”s Potawatomi village and led west across the Eight-Mile Prairie. A decade later, that path became Broadway through Mormon Kanesville where California-bound 49ers found anything for sale. Kanesville became Council Bluffs after 1852 as Broadway spread from Mud Hollow and Old Town past the Fourth Street Angle across a sea of prairie grass and sun-flowers to the ferries on the Big Muddy, the Missouri River. More changes came with the Northwestern, Union Pacific, and Illinois Central Railroads as Broadway evolved into the route of four U.S. highways. People went to work at World Radio, Woodward”s, and Omaha Standard, and notorious mobster Meyer Lansky ran greyhounds where stock cars later raced at Playland Park while teenagers cruised for hamburgers and entertainment. |
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Creek Country $26.95 A culture in crisis Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition. Creek Country presents a compelling portrait of a culture in crisis, of its resiliency in the face of profound change, and of the forces that pushed it into decisive, destructive conflict. Ethridge begins with the arrival of U.S. Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins, whose tenure among the Creeks coincided with a period of increased federal intervention in tribal affairs, growing tension between Indians and non-Indians, and pronounced strife within the tribe. In a detailed description of Creek town life, the author reveals how social structures were stretched to accommodate increased engagement with whites and blacks. The Creek economy, long linked to the outside world through the deerskin trade, had begun to fail. Ethridge details the Creeks’ efforts to diversify their economy, especially through experimental farming and ranching, and the ecological crisis that ensued. Disputes within the tribe culminated in the Red Stick War, a civil war among Creeks that quickly spilled over into conflict between Indians and white settlers and was ultimately used by U.S. authorities to justify their policy of Indian removal. |
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Creek Indian History $36.04 George Stiggins, a Creek Indian half blood living in Alabama, wrote this history more than 150 years ago. Raised in the white culture by his father, an English trader, Stiggins nevertheless lived in close contact with the Creeks because his mother was a full blood of the Natchez tribe, part of the Creek Confederacy. |
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Creek Indian Medicine Ways $29.95 In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, Jordan traces the written accounts of Mvskoke religion from the eighteenth century to the present in order to historically contextualize Lewis’s story and knowledge. This book is a collaboration between anthropologist and medicine man that provides a rare glimpse of a living religious tradition and its origins. |
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Creek Indian Medicine Ways $21.95 In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, Jordan traces the written accounts of Mvskoke religion from the eighteenth century to the present in order to historically contextualize Lewis”s story and knowledge. This book is a collaboration between anthropologist and medicine man that provides a rare glimpse of a living religious tradition and its origins. |
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Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier $40.24 Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in the southeastern United States during the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Called Indian countrymen at the time, these intermarried white men moved into their wives’ villages in what is now Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. By doing so, they obtained new homes, familial obligations, occupations, and identities. At the same time, however, they maintained many of their ties to white American society and as a result entered the historical record in large numbers. Creeks and Southerners studies the ways in which many children of these relationships lived simultaneously as Creek Indians and white Southerners. By carefully altering their physical appearances, choosing appropriate clothing, learning multiple languages, embracing maternal and paternal kinsmen and kinswomen, and balancing their loyalties, the children of intermarriages found ways to bridge what seemed to be an unbridgeable divide. Many became prominent Creek political leaders and warriors, played central roles in the lucrative deerskin trade, built inns and taverns to cater to the needs of European American travelers, frequently moved between colonial American and Native communities, and served both European American and Creek officials as interpreters, assistants, and travel escorts. The fortunes of these bicultural children reflect the changing nature of Creek-white relations, which became less flexible and increasingly contentious throughout the nineteenth century as both Creeks and Americans accepted a more rigid biological concept of race, forcing their bicultural children tochoose between identities. |
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Crying Blood $15.02 Praise for Crying Blood… Powerful as a blue norther sweeping across the Creek Nation…gripping. -Carolyn HartShaw Tucker, his brother James, and their sons go hunting in 1915. Instead of a quail, Shaw”s dog, Buttercup, flushes an old boot…containing the bones of a foot. Buttercup then leads the men to a shallow grave and a skeleton with a bullet hole in the skull. That night, a pair of moccasin-clad legs brushes by Shaw”s tent flap. He realizes that someone is following him.He captures a young Creek Indian boy called Crying Blood, and ties the boy up in the barn, but while he is left alone, someone thrusts a spear through Crying Blood”s heart. The local law is on the killer”s trail, but Shaw Tucker has a hunch….Donis Casey is a former teacher, academic librarian, and entrepreneur. She lives in Arizona with her husband, poet Donald Koozer.www.doniscasey.com |
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David Crockett: Hero of the Common Man $4.83 Perhaps no other figure in American history is more shrouded in myth and legend than David ( Davy ) Crockett, the Tennessee frontiersman whose death at the Alamo in 1836 ensured his place in the Valhalla of American heroes.Crockett himself was responsible for much of the folklore about his life. A gregarious, fun-loving man, he was more than capable of spinning tall tales over a horn of liquor. The truth of his life, as William Groneman emphasizes in this book, was far more fascinating than the myth. David Crockett was a true self-made man who left home at the age of twelve. His adventures–hunting and exploring, serving as a soldier under Andrew Jackson in the Creek Indian War of 1813, a political career that took him to the United States Congress, an incessant search for elbow room that drew him to Texas-these were the real fabric of a heroic life.In writing of the historical Crockett, Groneman, a world authority on the Alamo and its defenders, dispels the myths to uncover the genuine hero. He writes at length of the defense of the Alamo, describes how Crockett’s reputation and heroism have been tainted by revisionist historians, and presents new evidence that the Tennessean actually left the Alamo during the siege to bring in reinforcements. Although safely outside the walls, he fought his way back in to rejoin his friends for the final, fatal, battle. |
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Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815 $19.95 Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815 |
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Florida Place Names $21.4 – Origin and meaning of the name of every county and most incorporated cities in Florida– The Indian names in Florida, often fancifully translated, actually described places in terms useful to the Indians, for example, cow ford, rabbit creek, and fallen tree — Paints a rich historical portrait of the state and reveals the dreams, memories, and sense of humor of Floridians– A great addition to your collection of Florida history books |
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General Stand Watie’s Confederate Indians $19.95 This is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie was recruited in Indian Territory by Albert Pike to fight the Union forces on the western front. He organized the First Cherokee Rifles on July 29, 1861, and was commissioned a colonel. In 1864, after battling at Wilson”s Creek and Pea Ridge, he became brigadier general. Watie was the last Confederate general to lay down his arms in surrender, two months after Appomattox. In his foreword, Brad Agnew discusses Watie”s role in the Civil War and his reception by later historians. |
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Great Indian Wars $9.98 Exclusively licensed for Mill Creek Entertainment by award-winning production company Centre Communications, this series is truly one of a kind and is sure to satisfy history buffs and documentary enthusiasts. This DVD set also includes bonus features containing biographies, timelines, rare photographs and maps! The year 1540 was a crucial turning point in American history. The Great Indian Wars were incited by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado when his expedition to the Great Plains launched the inevitable 350-year struggle between the white man and the American Indians. From that point forward, the series of battles between the military and civilian forces of the United States and the native American Indians began when blood was shed and ultimately tens of thousands of lives were lost on both sides. The Battle of Tippicanoe, the Battle of Horseshoe Band, all three Seminole Wars and the Battle of Little Big Horn were some of the most important conflicts that led up to the last massacre, the Battle of Wounded Knee, where America’s landscape would be forever changed! |
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Halfbreed $25 The amazing life of George Bent spanned one of the most exciting epochs in the nation’s history. A survivor of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, he rode with the ferocious Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, and became a negotiator for whites and adviser to tribal leaders. He hobnobbed with legends Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, and George Custer, and fought side-by-side with great Indian leaders. |
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I Dreamt I Was in Heaven – The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang $10.99 Hanging Judge Isaac C. Parker; Notorious half-black, half-Indian outlaw Cherokee Bill; one-quarter Cherokee gentlemen bandit Henry Starr, relative of the notorious Belle Starr; and the worst of them all-half black, half Creek Indian Rufus Buck. These real-life historical figures collided during the fateful summer of 1895. In lawless Indian Territory the end of an era approached. The U.S. government continued to co-opt Indian land for settlement. Judge Isaac C. Parker”s judicial tyranny over the entire 74,000 square mile Indian Territory was coming to an end. Against this background, the multi-racial, teenaged Rufus Buck Gang–the last and most notorious of the Indian Territory badmen–embarked on their vicious, childish, and deadly 13-day rampage that shocked even this lawless land. In I Dreamt I Was in Heaven-The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang, famous, historical figures dance with fictional characters to create a turn-of-the-century tapestry of violence and innocence, love and betrayal, butchery and grace–mirroring and chafing against the backdrop of a burgeoning United States, and a disappearing American West. |
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Indian Creek Chronicles $14 Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm”s account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West”s premier voices. |
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Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls: Complete History of the Massacre of Sixteen Whites on Indian Creek, Near Ottawa, Illinois (1915) $20.95 And Sylvia Hall And Rachel Hall As Captives In Illinois And Wisconsin During The Black Hawk War, 1832. |
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Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783 $24.95 Armed with Bible and primer, missionaries and teachers in colonial America sought, in their words, to Christianize and civilize the native heathen. Both the attempts to transform Indians via schooling and the Indians’ reaction to such efforts are closely studied for the first time in Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783. Margaret Connell Szasz’s remarkable synthesis of archival and published materials is a detailed and engaging story told from both Indian and European perspectives. Szasz argues that the most intriguing dimension of colonial Indian education came with the individuals who tried to work across cultures. We learn of the remarkable accomplishments of two Algonquian students at Harvard, of the Creek woman Mary Musgrove who enabled James Oglethorpe and the Georgians to establish peaceful relations with the Creek Nation, and of Algonquian minister Samson Occom, whose intermediary skills led to the founding of Dartmouth College. The story of these individuals and their compatriots plus the numerous experiments in Indian schooling provide a new way of looking at Indian-white relations and colonial Indian education. |
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Indian Lake, Hamilton County $19.99 The village of Indian Lake was formally founded in 1858, during a time when many small communities were springing up in the Adirondacks as a result of the lumber industry. In 1889, Dr. Thomas C. Durant established a branch of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad that connected Saratoga Springs and North Creek. Through the later part of the 19th century and early-20th century, the Adirondack Mountains became a paradise destination for the rich and famous. Indian Lake, which began as a stopover for Blue Mountain Lake and Raquette Lake, quickly grew into a tourist center in its own right because of its ideal location and beauty. Indian Lake, Hamilton County is a pictorial journey through the golden age of this region, a haven of beauty and nature. |
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Indian Tribes of Oklahoma $29.95 Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as Indian Country. For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright”s A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma as the authoritative source for information on the state”s Native peoples. Now Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years. |
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Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898 $36.37 The decades-long military campaign for the American West is an endlessly fascinating topic, and award-winning author Jerome A. Greene adds substantially to this genre with Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898. Greene’s study presents the first comprehensive collection of veteran (primarily former enlistedsoldiers’) reminiscences. The vast majority of these writings have never before seen wide circulation.Indian War Veterans addresses soldiers’ experiences throughout the area of the trans-Mississippi West. As readers will quickly discover, the depth and breadth of coverage is truly monumental. Topics include recollections of fighting with Custer and the mutilation of the dead at Little Bighorn, the Fetterman fight, the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, battles at Powder River and Rosebud Creek, fighting Crazy Horse at Wolf Mountains, Geronimo and the Apache wars, the Ute and Modoc wars, Wounded Knee, and much more. The remembrances also include selections as diverse as Christmas at Fort Robinson, Service with the Eighteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and Chasing the Apache Kid. These carefully drawn recollections derive from a wide array of sources, including manuscript and private collections, veterans’ scrapbooks, obscure newspapers, and private veterans’ statements. A special introductory essay about Indian war veterans contains new material about their post-service organizations all the way into the 1960s.Complimenting the riveting entries are dozens of previously unpublished photographs. Readers will additionally find a gallery of never-before-seen full-color plates displaying a wide variety of Indian War Veterans’ badges, medals, andassociated materials.No other book discusses the post-army lives of these men or presents their recollections of army life as thoroughly as Greene’s Indian War Veterans. This groundbreaking study will appeal to lay readers, historians, site visitors and interpreters, Civil War and Indian |
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Ishi’s Brain $40.79 A chronicle of the search for the truth about the life and death of a legendary Native American. This absorbing new portrait of Ishi, wild man of Deer Creek, museum curiosity, and last of his tribe, will appeal to anyone interested in Native America, a story of science and scandal, and the life and legend of California’s most famous Indian. |
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John Sevier As a Commonwealth Builder $19.33 This is the sequel to The Rear-Guard of the Revolution, published in 1886 under Gilmore’s pseudonym, Edmund Kirke. In the first volume Gilmore traced the career of John Sevier (1745-1815) the popular Tennessee frontiersman, land speculator, and politician, from his arrival in the Tennessee country in the early 1770s until the end of the American Revolution. In this volume, originally published din 1887, Gilmore continued the chronicle of Sevier’s life from 1783 until his death near Fort Decatur, Alabama.Following the Revolutionary War, the American Congress asked the states with western lands to cede those lands to the national government. When North Carolina ceded its western territory in April 1784, the independent-minded settlers in the eastern portion of the ceded territory formed the de facto State of Franklin later that year. Though Sevier was initially opposed to the separate statehood movement, eh was elected the first governor of Franklin in March 1785.As the only governor of Franklin, Sevier led the Franklinites through four years as they created a state government, established a militia, created new counties, provided for the levying of taxes, and negotiated a treaty with the Cherokee Indians. But the lack of Congressional support for Franklin, a general war with the Cherokees, and the presence of an anti-Franklin faction led by John Tipton spelled doom for the abortive state.After North Carolina ratified the Constitution in 1789, Sevier was elected to the first Congress. In 1796 the ever-popular Sevier was elected the first governor of the new state of Tennessee. Following six terms as governor (1796-1801, 1803-1809) and one term in the state legislature, Nolichucky Jack was elected to three consecutive term sin Congress. Sevier died while serving as a commissioner appointed to determine the boundary between Georgia and Creek Indian territory in Alabama. |
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Killed by Indians 1871 $20 This tough, unforgettable novel tells the true story of Britt Johnson, an African-American folk hero who made long and incredibly difficult searches for Indian captives, and the other people whose lives were shattered by the Elm Creek raid. . . A revelation. –Scott Zesch, author of The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier. |
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Kingdom of Weeds: An Oklahoma Prince Dreams of an All-Indian State $30.95 In 1640, French explorer LaSalle wasastonished to find a royal NativeAmerican kingdom northeast of NewOrleans. Moving along the social andpolitical wire, many of that Nachay tribeowned plantations with both white andblack slaves by the early 1700s. Onehundred and fifty years later, Major EliasPaix and his wife, Princess Melissa, along with the chief of the tribe, sold theirplantations to purchase a paddle steamerand supplies in order to establish a newtown as the capital of an all-Indian state.Paix fought for the South alongsideRobert E. Lee, and after the war hetraveled with Chief Mather to establishthe town of Yellow Creek. A few yearslater Prince Dell, son of the Major andMelissa, sets off on the expedition at agefourteen. He exhibits unwavering dutyto his tribe and has to cope with thefallout from a hasty decision made indisobedience, the loss of a beloved familymember, and white men encroachingupon this new settlement. In fulfilling hisunique punishment, Dell embarks upon apolitical career that may just facilitatemuch-needed unity among the Nachaytribe and other Indians. |