Literary History Of The American West So to speak of a native American literature might have two meanings. If theAmerican west is any indication, nothing could be further from the truth. http://www2.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/html/wl0011.html
Extractions: It's going along. Now all will remain as it is. I F WE ARE to speak of the literature of the American West, we must speak first of the native American literatures, for each of the two or three hundred tribal communities living in the West has invested this land with traditions of story and song. The reciprocal relationship between man and the land is a common denominator for all native literature. The land is our source, and here, in Mary Austin's phrase, "the land sets the limit." Within the limits the land sets, it remains for man to imagine ways of seeing and talking about it, ways of knowing it. First Born emerges from the land only to turn back and create it with story and song. The Papago communities who join together to tell of First Born invest the land with meaning. They make the land into a cultural landscape. Cultural landscapes are social and cumulative. They are the natural result of a process which has been carried on for centuries in native communities on this continent. Cultural landscapes are made whenever communities of people join words to place. They enable man to feel a sense of place, to hear the darkness rub the water.
Extractions: Volcanic History From: Wood and Kienle, 1990, Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada: Cambridge University Press, 354p., p.146-148, Contribution by Charles A. Wood The American West is one of the most unusual volcanic provinces on Earth. It is an extraordinary wide region of contemporaneous volcanism, stretching 1,800 kilometers (approximately 1,120 miles) from east of the Rocky Mountains to the west of the Cascades (103 degrees to 123 degrees West). It encompasses a very wide variety of volcanic landforms and diverse rock compositions, with the only consistency being small basalt fields that are scattered throughout the whole vast region. Intriguingly, except for the Cascadian segment, there is no currently active
United States Collections Post 1776 Several thousand American books and parts of journals continue to be such asrare works of the early Midwest, west coast and Southern publishers; http://www.bl.uk/collections/oes/oesusa.html
Extractions: document.write(''); Home Collections Americas print ... Canadian Collections 'What a powerful influence such a collection of American literature will have on the British character. It will have a tendency to soften down his prejudice against our country by enlightening his ignorance, and will thereby greatly facilitate his return to moderation, modesty and charity' - Henry Stevens, American bibliographer Introduction History of the Collections Scope of the Collections Further Resources ... Enquiries The British Library holds one of the richest collections of American printed books outside of the United States of America, covering all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, and actively collects new material. The United States Collections select, acquire and make available items published within the United States of America after 1776, regardless of the language of publication. These pages outline the history and scope of the collections and provide a guide to US materials held elsewhere in the British Library . These include the following: Document supply services (including many microform collections)
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Government-sponsored Native American Sites And Programs us Department of Agriculture native American Links 2000 souls on the Westcoast of Hudson Bay. All of this in a community which is 85% Inuit and where http://lone-eagles.com/na-gov.htm
Extractions: A federal inter-agency Native American website that provides information for Native American communities. Code Talk is hosted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Native American Programs. Native American and Alaskan Native links - http://www.codetalk.fed.us/AI_AN_links.html Many outdated links.
Extractions: Now is the time to plant many of the wildflowers that are part of the "rainforest" in our area of the planet - the prairie. The time to reaffirm our faith that there will indeed be a future. A time to remind ourselves that each of us has the right and the responsibility to create a little spot of health on an ailing planet. A time to do our part, in the hope that our children and our children's children might have a chance to experience the joys of watching the earth wake up from a long winter's rest to flower into a beautiful spring. This Fall , to encourage responsible beauty on your land, we're offering you a savings on bulk orders of any of the seven wildflowers shown at left . Order 10 pounds or more of any these individual species and get a 10% discount - Lazy Daisy, Annual Winecup, Huisache Daisy, Cutleaf Daisy, ... Prickly Poppy, or Plains Coreopsis.
Carolyne's Native American Genealogy - Native American History This section provides a short lesson on native American history and tribalconnections The Westcoast. Despite Balboa s discovery of the Pacific Ocean, http://www.angelfire.com/tx/carolynegenealogy/page10history.html
Extractions: Search: Lycos Angelfire Movie Clips Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next Are you trapped in a Frame? LIBERATE YOURSELF! You'll have access to the entire site! A Little Native American History The history of the Americas did not begin in 1492. By the time Christopher Columbus arrived in what he thought was a group of islands off the coast of India, the land from what is now Alaska, south to the tip of the South American continent, was already inhabited - and had been for at least 10,000 years. For some time, anthropologists have concluded that Native Americans are of Asiatic or Mongoloid descent, having arrived on the continents across a land bridge from Asia. There are also some anthropologists and archealogists that believe mankind developed in the Americans and then used the land bridge to populate the rest of the world. For the purpose of this web page, we will focus on the fact that the Americas were populated before Lief Erikson or Columbus arrived and leave the "who came first" question to others. When explorers realized a "New World" had been found, there were more than 600 tribes spread through the area now designated the continental United States. Communication between tribes was difficult or, in some cases, impossible because more than 300 distinctly different languages were in use. The population at the time of "discovery" is extremely underestimated at around one million, with most of the natives living along or near the eastern seaboard.
