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  • Hardship to Homeland

    Pacific Northwest Volga Germans

    by Richard D. Scheuerman, Clifford E. Trafzer ...
    Hardship to Homeland recounts Volga Germans’ unique story in a saga that stretches from Germany to Russia and across the Atlantic. Burdened by war and debt, life was extremely difficult for impoverished European peasants until a former German princess came to power. Seeking to increase borderland population, provide a buffer against Ottoman Empire incursions, and bring agricultural ingenuity to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America

    Strong Women, Resilient Nations

    by Emily Molesworth-Teipe, Meranda Roberts, Michelle Lorimer, Hal Hoffman, Christie Time Firtha, Kimberly Norris Guererro, Daisy Ocampo, Benjamin T. Jenkins, Lisa Riggan, Kevin Whalen0, Jordan Cohen1, Robert D. Miller2, Jeffrey Allen Smith3, Sarah Wolk FritzGerald4, Clifford E. Trafzer6, Brendan Lindsay7, Amanda K. Wixon8 ...
    This book offers twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women. The lives of women found her contributed significantly to their people and people everywhere. The book presents Native women of action and accomplishments in many areas of life. This work highlights women during the modern era of American history, countering past stereotypes ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Strong Hearts and Healing Hands

    Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920–1950

    by Clifford E. Trafzer ...
    In 1924, the United States began a bold program in public health. The Indian Service of the United States hired its first nurses to work among Indians living on reservations. This corps of white women were dedicated to improving Indian health. In 1928, the first field nurses arrived in the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California. These nurses visited homes and schools, providing public health ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Fighting Invisible Enemies

    Health and Medical Transitions among Southern California Indians

    by Clifford E. Trafzer ...
    Native Americans long resisted Western medicine—but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Native peoples reluctantly began to allow Western medicine into their communities. Fighting Invisible Enemies traces this transition among inhabitants of the Mission Indian Agency of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Chemehuevi Song

    The Resilience of a Southern Paiute Tribe

    by Clifford E. Trafzer ...
    Series series Indigenous Confluences
    The Chemehuevi of the Twenty-Nine Palms tribe of Southern California stands as a testament to the power of perseverance. This small, nomadic band of Southern Paiute Indians has been repeatedly marginalized by European settlers, other Native groups, and, until now, historical narratives that have all too often overlooked them.Having survived much of the past two centuries without rights to their ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • American Indian Medicine Ways

    Spiritual Power, Prophets, and Healing

    Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer ...
    Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans in their relationships with each other and the natural world. Many American Indians—past and present—have had the ability to use power to access ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest

    by Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, Cary C Collins ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Medicine Ways

    Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans

    by Donna L. Akers, Edward D. Castillo, Jean A. Keller, Todd Benson, Nancy Reifel, Jerome M. Levi, Brooke Olson, Felicia Schanche Hodge, Linda Burhansstipanov, Eric Henderson, Troy Johnson, Holly Tomren, Jeanette Hassin, Robert S. Young ...
    Series series Contemporary Native American Communities
    Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of factors that actually contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in Medicine Ways ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Series Book 3 - ReVisioning History
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  • Colonel Roosevelt

    by Edmund Morris ...
    Series Book 3 - Theodore Roosevelt
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account.”—Fred Kaplan, The Washington PostThis biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and ... Read more

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  • The Great Influenza

    The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

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  • The Freemasons In America:

    Inside Secret Society

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