This history is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the U.S. and Canada: Native Americans, First Nations and Arctic peoples. Highly personal book and based on years of first-hand research, this book introduces a deeply complex story, of myriad identities and determined ethnicities—from the desert Southwest to the high Arctic, from first contact between Europeans and Native Americans to the challenges of Native leadership today. King confronts the reader with the paradoxes, diversity and successes of Native North Americans. Their astonishing ingenuity and supple intelligence enabled, after centuries of suffering violence and dispossession, a striking level of recovery and optimism in the 21st century. Beautifully illustrated and filled with arresting stories, Blood and Land looks well beyond the "feathers-and-failure" narratives beloved by historians to show us Native North America as it was and is.

Blood and Land: The Story of Native North America

History

King, J.C.H.

Americas

Penguin Uk

This highly personal book, based on years of travel and first-hand research in North America, introduces a deeply complex story, of myriad identities and determined ethnicities—from the desert Southwest to the high Arctic, from first contact between Europeans and Native Americans to the challenges of Native leadership today. Instead of writing a chronological history, King confronts the reader with the paradoxes, diversity and successes of Native North Americans. Their astonishing ingenuity and supple intelligence enabled, after centuries of suffering both violence and dispossession, a striking level of recovery, optimism and autonomy in the 21st century. Beautifully illustrated and filled with arresting and surprising stories, Blood and Land looks well beyond the 'feathers-and-failure' narratives beloved by historians to show us Native North America as it was and is.

Allen Lane.

From the Big-Game Hunters who appeared on the continent as far back as 12,000 years ago to the Inuits plying the Alaskan waters today, the Native peoples of North America produced a culture remarkable for its vibrancy, breadth, and diversity--and for its survival in the face of almost inconceivable trials. This book is at once a history of that culture and a celebration of its splendid variety. Rich in historical testimony and anecdotes and lavishly illustrated, it weaves a magnificent tapestry of Native American life reaching back to the earliest human records. 
 A recognized expert in North American studies, Jonathan King interweaves his account with Native histories, from the arrival of the first Native Americans by way of what is now Alaska to their later encounters with Europeans on the continent's opposite coast, from their exchanges with fur traders to their confrontations with settlers and an ever more voracious American government. To illustrate this history, King draws on the extensive collections of the British Museum--artwork, clothing, tools, and artifacts that demonstrate the wealth of ancient traditions as well as the vitality of contemporary Native culture. These illustrations, all described in detail, form a pictorial document of relations between Europeans and Native American peoples--peoples as profoundly different and as deeply related as the Algonquians and the Iroquois, the Chumash of California and the Inuipat of Alaska, the Cree and the Cherokee--from their first contact to their complicated coexistence today.

First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America

Harvard University Press

Artificial curiosities from the northwest coast of America: Native American artefacts in the British Museum collected on the third voyage of Captain James Cook and acquired through Sir Joseph Banks

Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications

7.5 x 9.75 inch paperback, 96 numbered pages with many illustrations and images. British Museum paperback documenting the cultural change from 1600 to 1900 in northeastern North America.

Thunderbird and lightning: Indian life in northeastern North America, 1600-1900

Published for the Trustees of

First Peoples First Contacts - Native Peoples of North America /anglais

BRITISH MUSEUM

Ethnographic notes on the Maya of Belize, Central America (Working papers : General series - University of Cambridge, Centre of Latin American Studies ; no. 19)

University of Cambridge, Centre of Latin American Studies

A companion to an exhibition Coe is curating at the Museum from September to December 2003. He traces his education as an art collector, and other essays discuss marginality and intelligence in collecting Native American art, and appreciating Native American art in relation to history and text. The catalogue presents color photographs of baskets, weapons, ritual objects, pipes, and other items. Distributed in the US by Yale University Press under the ISBN 0-300-10187-2. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art

Coe, Ralph T.

Ostrowitz, Judith

Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

Arts & Photography

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Coe, Ralph T., King, J. C. H., Ostrowitz, Judith, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.)

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