Legends of the Delaware Indians and Picture Writing

Legends of the Delaware Indians and Picture Writing

Richard Calmit Adams

11,72 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Pantianos Classics
Año de edición:
1905
ISBN:
9781789874662
11,72 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

The folklore of the Delaware Indians is fascinating for its imagery and affinity with the natural world - this illustrated book contains several of the finest legends and folk stories.Richard Calmit Adams mixes in stories of heroic prowess and bravery against the day-to-day life of the Delawares. The introductory verse features an elderly Native American man sharing some of the stories of his tribe with children; as well as talking about traditional life and everyday living, he keeps the narration entertaining with a series of legends told between the Delaware tribes for centuries. Although most of the tales are short, they are evocatively written and provide life lessons and cultural insight.Adams’ retelling of the tribal folklore is greatly helped by more than forty illustrations. These depict characters in the stories, scenes of daily life, and traditional drawings and artworks concerning the hunt. Many of the legends concern animals, whom the Delawares considered to be significant representations of the natural world, with the most mighty or beautiful creatures considered to carry magical powers and blessings. After death, their bones and tusks were kept by the tribes for good fortune.

Artículos relacionados

  • Choctaw Language and Culture
    Henry Willis / Marcia Haag
    Building on the foundations laid by the first volume of Choctaw Language and Culture, this follow-up text presents a more advanced linguistic study of Oklahoma Choctaw, accompanied by short stories and anecdotes written by Choctaws in their native language.The book is organized around twelve texts with translations, each followed by a grammar lesson, a vocabulary section that a...
    Disponible

    38,64 €

  • Cherokee Cavaliers
    Edward Everett Dale / Gaston Liston
    The two hundred letters which from the colorful mosaic of this story of the Cherokee tell for the first time, in the Indian’s own words, of more than forty years in the history of the old Cherokee Nation. These letters, found in three great trunks in Oklahoma by Edward Everett Dale, and here brought together, in collaboration with Gaston Litton, in sequence and with the necessa...
    Disponible

    17,00 €

  • Indigenous Peoples and Borders
    Sheryl Lightfoot
    The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together the fields of border studies, human rights, international relations, and Indigenous studies, it features a wide range of voices from across academia, public policy, and civil society. ...
    Disponible

    38,69 €

  • The Politics of Kinship
    Mark Rifkin
    What if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of family, including notions of kinship, recast Indigenous and other forms of collective self-organization and self-determination as disruptive racial tendencies in need of state conta...
    Disponible

    38,84 €

  • Defend the Sacred
    Michael D. McNally
    The remarkable story of the innovative legal strategies Native Americans have used to protect their religious rightsFrom North Dakota’s Standing Rock encampments to Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks, Native Americans have repeatedly asserted legal rights to religious freedom to protect their sacred places, practices, objects, knowledge, and ancestral remains. But these claims have ...
  • Plants and Animals in the Yoeme World
    Felipe S. Molina / Richard S. Felger
    This is a book about plants and animals in the Yoeme world, including the Yoem Bwiara in Sonora, Mexico, and that region of south-central Arizona where Yoeme communities formed during the diasporas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We document more than 415 plant species and over 600 kinds (taxa) of animal life, and describe from historical and first-person accounts ma...

Otros libros del autor

  • A Brief History Of The Delaware Indians (1906)
    Richard Calmit Adams
    ''A Brief History of the Delaware Indians'' is a historical book written by Richard Calmit Adams in 1906. The book provides an overview of the Delaware Indians, also known as the Lenape people, who were one of the most prominent Native American tribes in the northeastern region of the United States. The author explores the history, culture, and traditions of the Delaware Indian...
    Disponible

    22,03 €