From The Heart: Voices of the American Indian - Couverture souple

Miller, Lee

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0712673571 ISBN 13 : 9780712673570

Editeur : Pimlico, 1997

Synopsis

FROM THE HEART introduces us to a new pantheon of heroes - men and women of the five hundred Indian nations that have been eradicated over the past five hundred years. In this book Lee Miller presents a running oral history of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries as experienced by the natives of the American continent. Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake. I will tell you all about our people, and then you can judge whether an Indian is a man or not. . . What I have to say will come from my heart, and I will speak with a straight tongue, ' Chief Joseph, Nez Perce. Lee Miller was the writer and head of research for the television series based on 500 Nations - the acclaimed history of North American Indians. In FROM THE HEART she retieves the voices of Indian people over five centuries and weaves them into an alternative history of the continent. By doing so she introduces us to the grandeur and diversity of the nations who held the land before the first Europeans set foot in it. Here is the testimony of more than 250 Indian civilizations -of the Aztec king Moctezuma, the Seminole leader Osceola, Tecumseh, Cochise, Sitting Bull, Geronimo and Sarah Winnemucca - and of the white men who fought, betrayed and, on rare occasions, defended them.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake. I will tell you all about our people, and then you can judge whether an Indian is a man or not. . . What I have to say will come from my heart, and I will speak with a straight tongue, ' Chief Joseph, Nez Perce. Lee Miller was the writer and head of research for the television series based on 500 Nations - the acclaimed history of North American Indians. In FROM THE HEART she retieves the voices of Indian people over five centuries and weaves them into an alternative history of the continent. By doing so she introduces us to the grandeur and diversity of the nations who held the land before the first Europeans set foot in it. Here is the testimony of more than 250 Indian civilizations -of the Aztec king Moctezuma, the Seminole leader Osceola, Tecumseh, Cochise, Sitting Bull, Geronimo and Sarah Winnemucca - and of the white men who fought, betrayed and, on rare occasions, defended them.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lee Miller, an enthnohistorian and screenwriter, is of Eastern Cherokee and Kaw heritage. She has a master's degree in anthropology from Johns Hopkins University. She was writer and Head of Research for the TV series 500 Nations - based on the book by Alvin Josephy (available from Pimlico) - and also served as consultant for the BBC TV series Land of the Eagle. She is founder of the Native Learning Foundation which seeks to establish culture and language schools on Indian reservations in America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pimlico
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712673571
• ISBN 13: 9780712673570
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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