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Often portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson (1809–68) has become in recent years a historical pariah—a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist. Many historians now question both his reputation and his place in the pantheon of American heroes. In Kit Carson and the Indians, Tom Dunlay urges us to reconsider Carson yet again. To Dunlay, Carson was simply a man of the nineteenth century whose racial views and actions were much like those of his contemporaries.
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In-depth Analysis of a Complex Personality.......2006-11-07
This is an excellent book and is highly recommended for anyone wanting to learn about Kit Carson, especially his relationship with Native Americans in general and the Navajo in particular. I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico where Carson is often denegrated, particularly in regards to his treatment of the Navajo. While Dunlay's book is not an easy read, it does a good job of presenting and discussing the activities and achievements of Kit Carson within the context of his times, analyzing all facets of his life. He was a complex man who lived in changing times.
Compelling, charismatic study.......2006-09-30
An authoritative and spellbinding examination into the life of our great frontiersman Christopher Carson.
Dunlay delves into every crevice, explores behind and under every rock and examines every shred of research to justify Carson's character toward the American Indian. The premise here is to thwart the image of Kit Carson as an "Indian-hater", racist and genocide advocator. The author has done just that.
Yes, in his youth Kit had killed numerous Indians, but only when warranted. Oftentimes it was kill or be killed from the 1820's to early 1840's. There were good Indians and bad. There were good whites and bad. When the mountain man came west, he was another 'tribe' who had battles to fight.
Later in life when Carson became Indian agent, scout, soldier and superintendent of Indian affairs, his entire demeanor towards the Native American changed dramatically. He did support violence but only to the few hostiles. All told he was there to protect and save the Indians from extermination by white encroachment.
His continued and tireless efforts of feeding and clothing hundreds upon hundreds of Indians, promoting the reservation system to separate whites from Indians in order to suppress troubles between the two cultures, etc. are conclusive evidence of his caring.
I read his autobiography several years ago and thought I was well informed, but these memoirs conclude in 1856. Much more happened to Kit (and the nation) up until his death in 1868. This book by Dunlay covers his entire life.
An absorbing and significant read.
tour de force.......2005-11-08
This is a thoroughly researched and balanced treatise on Kit Carson and his complex relationship with Native Americans. Recommended!!!
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Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer?
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Presentism Fails Again.......2007-08-30
In the historical profession the term "Presentism" denotes writing a history book or article using the values of the present to judge the events of the past. For instance, apologists for the Confederacy--called neo-Confederates--have attempted to rewrite Civil War history. They attempt to prove--from their modern perspective--that slavery was wrong and had nothing to do with the outbreak of the Civil War because the "noble" leaders of the Confederacy could not have fought for so evil a cause. Much better to claim that they fought for states rights. Similar attitudes damn Presidents Washington and Jefferson for holding slaves despite the fact that abolition was an idea that had barely appeared in the American consciousness of their time. Similarly, other "presentists" damn the whites for taking land from the Indians at a time when taking land from aboriginal inhabitants any where in the world was then the norm. One wonders what sins our generation will be condemned for two or three centuries in the future because we did not have the wisdom to see that far ahead.
In this vein, R.C. Gordon-McCutchan, as editor of "Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer" has collected essays from modern scholars who have done their best to place Carson in his correct time and place. In short these authors have tried to let Carson live by the standards of the mid-19th Century rather than those of the 20th (the book was published in 1996).
Carson lived in a time and place where, since 1607, the Navajo raided first the Spanish, then Mexicans and finally the Americans. During this long period the Navajo also raided the resident Hopi, Pueblo, and Zuni, whose urban-agricultureal life produced a wealth worth stealing. There is some irony in the fact that both the archaeological and historical evidence clearly shows the Navajo were themselves invaders of the area.
The Americans were simply another group to raid as were any other non Navajos of the area. Kit Carson, as a man of the 19th Century, was in reality just carrying on an established pattern, and he did it, according to the research in this book, in a remarkably--for the time-- humane manner. The Navajo rendidtions of his cruelty are mainly, according to this book, legends that were spawned in the 1970 through the 1990s. They were not part of the Navajo opinion of the 1860s,
Timothy R. Roberts Ph.D (Univesity of Missouri 1976)
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Beautifully Illustrated. Vivid accounts of the every day life, inner character, and peculiar customs of all, Indian tribes of the far west. Also accurate description of the country. Modoc Indians and the modoc war.
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Kit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family life thanks largely to Carson's own guardianship of his privacy. After almost four decades devoted to researching Kit Carson's personal life, Marc Simmons provides information here to further our understanding of Carson.
Carson's first wife, Waa-Nibe, an Arapaho, died in 1838, after the couple had been together only three years. His second wife, Making-Out-Road, was a formidable Cheyenne woman who divorced him after fourteen months. Three years later, in 1843, Carson married Josefa Jaramillo, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Taos family. Seven of their children survived, and the couple also adopted several Indian children in the course of their long marriage that ended when Josefa died after the birth of her seventh baby.
Viewing Kit Carson's career as a husband and father sheds new light on the life choices he made. The changing economy of the 1840s made it increasingly difficult for a trapper and scout to support a growing family. Carson's years as an Indian agent in the 1850s provided him stability although he was never able to spend as much time with his family as any of them would have liked and he was never able to bring in a comfortable income.
The Kit Carson Simmons portrays offers a welcome change from recent politicized interpretations of Carson's actions.
After almost four decades devoted to researching Kit Carson's personal life, Simmons provides information about Carson's family life, including as much as can be determined about his three wives.
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The Domestic Life of an American Frontiersman .......2007-10-10
Nobody in his era survived more adventures and did more hard traveling than Kit Carson. His dispatch duties during the Mexican War totalled 16,000 miles -- most of that by horseback. In the first six years of his marriage to his third wife, he spent only six months at home in Taos. Carson was restless, and also uniquely qualified to play a major role in the far-flung events taking place across the Western U.S.
That is by way of saying that Carson was hardly domesticated. Based on very limited information this book looks into Carson's life with his three wives. With the first, Waa-nibe, an Arapahoe woman, he seems to have enjoyed domestic bliss. After she died he took up residence with Making Out Road, a beautiful and willful Cheyenne woman in what proved to a relationship from hell. After escaping from -- or being thrown out of the teepee by -- Making Out Road, he married Josefa, a Mexican woman of respectable family from Taos.
It was apparently a good marriage -- although Carson was rarely there and, moreover, never earned any money. In the census of 1850, when he was 41 years old, the value of his property totalled just over $200. Carson, however, apparently was a loving and responsible parent. He put his half-Arapaho daughter in school in Missouri and raised not only his own children in Taos but adopted several Indian orphans.
This is a good book, as much about the comings and goings of Kit Carson, as it is about his family relationships. The author tells of the fate of his wives and children and has included a number of photographs of family members. There's a large literature about Carson and little information about him that has not already been explored, but this book gives a different slant on his life than other biographies.
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The Whole Kit Carson Story.......2004-04-26
Kit Carson lived a life that many young men would have liked to have lived. He seemingly was in all the right places at the time that a nation was being born. He grew from a simple kid to being an American Patriot.
Simmons book cpatures the real Kit Carson, the man, the family, the life and times--it is not a novel, it contains 35 pages of documented footnotes--by one of the best historians of the west.
At a time when the slave trade was still happening, he raised several Indian children, along with his own, by buying the kids from the slave traders. It is a book that helps anyone understand time and place. The book has been nominated for a national award.
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To Die in Dinetah: The Dark Legacy of Kit Carson
John A. Truett
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Legendary scout Kit Carson's sassy daughter Adaline, or Falling Star, as her Arapaho mother called her before succumbing to cholera, is mute with grief. Her widowed father has left her with his racist, cruel relatives until he returns from his Rocky Mountain expedition. But her cousins' treatment of her is more than she can bear. Instead of allowing her to go to school, they force her to work as a servant in the schoolhouse. Due to her "half-breed" status, she is barely considered human. Her mixed heritage causes her plenty of internal confusion, as well.
"I'm a mix, I reckon, of white and red blood, and also a jumbled love for free roaming and the Fruits of Civilization, which is what Doc Hempstead calls reading, writing, and geography."
Adaline's intelligence and sensitivity keep her alive when her impulsiveness provokes her to run away to find her father. Her bravery and gritty frontier resourcefulness rival her father's, but her compassion is all her own.
In this lively and touching account, Mary Pope Osborne has fictionalized the life of Kit Carson's real but little-known daughter. Osborne is the renowned author of the very popular Magic Tree House series, as well as many other books for children and young adults, including a collection of yarns about American folk heroes called American Tall Tales. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter
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Adaline Falling Star, daughter of the legendary scout Kit Carson and his Arapaho wife, embarks on a harrowing wilderness journey in search of her father - and discovers herself.
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a heroine caught between two worlds and the past and the present.......2007-06-10
A young girl who is of both white and Native American parentage is forced to live with her prejudiced, white Christian relatives after the death of her Arapaho mother and after her father, Kit Carson, leaves on a trek into the wilderness. Eventually, Adaline Falling Star escapes from this oppressive and misunderstanding environment and treks out to find her father. It a beautifully written story about a child caught between two worlds, being part of both and part of neither. She's also caught between her past with her parents and her future. She also faces a dilemma when she bonds with a mutt (also of mixed parentage), and eventually faces the same problem as her parents who abandoned her: live in the past or the present. It's a powerful, thoughtful, and beautiful young adult novel with a strong, feisty, intelligent, and tragic heroine. Based on a true story. Grade: B+
Adeline Falling Star.......2006-03-25
After the death of her mother, Adaline is sent to St. Louis by her father to live with her cousins so he can explore the West. Adaline is a wild and adventurous girl and she does not like living with her "civilized" cousins. She is treated so harshly that she runs away and tries to find her way back to where her mother's people live. During her journey, Adeline meets a lovable homeless dog and she and the little dog face many obstacles and challenges that they must overcome. Adaline Falling Star was written by Mary Pope Osborne. The author portrays the characters very well. By the end of the book they feel as if they are real. Although it was very descriptive, Adaline Falling Star was slightly boring at times. It is a good book but would not be described as a page-turner. Somebody who likes reading realistic fiction might enjoy this book.
Adaline Falling Star.......2006-03-25
Victoria Zinsmeyer
Adeline Falling Star
By: Mary Pope Osborne
11 year old, motherless Adaline finds herself living very far from home. While her father, the famous scout Kit Carson is exploring the west (which Adaline always dreamt of doing) she is in St. Louis at her cousin Silas' school. Adaline and her father think she is going to be learning there, but instead Adaline is introduced as a mute child (even though she isn't) and is made official "wood hauler and dirt sweeper". Because of Adaline's diverse heritage, she is teased and made fun of. The teachers completely overlook Adaline's intellectual ability. Finally a young girl named Lillian pushes Adaline over the edge. When Adaline finds out that her father just might have abandoned her, she shows her grief by nearly killing herself. Then she decides to run away. While Adaline is running away, she finds a dog. The two of them join together to make a great team.
In this book Mary Pope Osborne does an amazing job describing the feelings of her characters and gives great images of the characters' surroundings. Mary Pope Osborne does not use quotation marks making it hard to tell the difference if a character is speaking or thinking. In this story Mary Pope Osborne varies her style depending on the scene. At times her descriptions are shocking and graphic. For example, in one of Adaline's dreams, she dreams that bugs are eating her up. At other times her writing is a bit dull and monotonous.
The theme in this book is that it is important to take chances for the things you want in life. Adaline wants to see her father so she takes the chance of running away to see her father again.
Make a Wish.......2005-03-01
In this book Adaline (the main character) is a troubled girl who is forced to live with her cousins in Colorado and she does not like living there and she has problems with her uncle Jon and he is very upset with her and she decides to try to commit suicide and she failed so she just decides to run away and she goes far far into he woods and she goes into a cave and she is living there for a while then she gets so mad at her dad form sending her there in the first place and that her unclemade her mad like that that she cuts all of ehr hair off. she then cuts it all off. then she goes to bed then the next day she finds another cave and she goes looking around in there and she then discovered a stone with the shape of a bear. she then picks it up and she was holding it then all of a sudden she heard a loud bang and she gets scared. she looks down the cave and she sees an indian wit h a big drum and she goes down there to meet him......I really liked this book because it was really mysterious and you never knew what was going to happen next.It was one of my favorite books of all time.
Get to know someone before you judge them........2004-11-08
The main characters,Kit Carson the dad of Adaline.John C.Fremont the friend of Kit Carson.Adaline Carson the daughter of Kit Carson and Caddie Carson.Ben Fort is Adaline's grandpa and Silas Fort is her grandma which they are Mexican.Doc Hempstead helped Caddie have Adaline.She born at Horse Creek in Missouri.She has to go with relatives in St.Louis.They treat her bad.They called her skinny and bastered,all because of her race.They did'nt like her mother before she died.
Adaline did'nt even get to know her mother because her mother died a week after she was born,because she had a disease,she did'nt get the care from the hospital.
Her grandparents that she had to move with,They thought her mother was a trapp and that's why she had that disease.They also thought Adaline was goanna be like her mother.Adaline wasn't like her mother she only looked like her.Arapaho people were concered bad people.
My opinion of this book is strong.I used to judge people because people used to judge me.
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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Grass Singing, Indian bride of Kit Carson
Maudie Robinson
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My Father, Bertrand Russell
Katharine Tait
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A wonderful book!.......1999-06-07
Writing with some of the clarity of her father and a perhaps a bit more emotional realism, Katharine Tait gives readers a nuanced and intimate look into the personal life of the great philosopher. Despite her anger, ambivalence, and frustrations, she clearly loved her father immensely. Anyone interested in Russell the man will find this book utterly absorbing.
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MY FATHER BERTRAND RUSSELL.
Katharine. Tait
Manufacturer: NY, Harcourt, 1975. 211 pp., illus. Fine copy of first edition in dust jacket.
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Fad diets, weight-loss gimmicks, and get fit quick exercise machines abound, but none provide lasting results. Too quickly people fall off these diets, stop using the latest machine, and lapse back into their unhealthy habits. The clutter of diet options and conflicting advice leaves us all the more confused. Imagine if you could follow a simple, straightforward ten-step plan to a healthier life from the worlds leading medical experts? The Mayo Clinic Plan is culled from MAYO CLINICs current research and world-renowned medical experts, and includes the keys to healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle that are easy to follow. From achieving your optimal weight through eating the right foods and watching portions (and not necessarily carbs!!) to the incredible health benefits of incorporating exerciseor any physical activityinto your weekly life, the important new findings on the impact of sleep, and much more, youll feel a difference quickly by following these steps.
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A Great Place to Start.......2007-10-01
Mayo Clinic has produced a book that is a great place to start for learning about a healthy lifestyle. It has helpful quizzes to assess your health in different areas. I wish it had more depth; that is why I can only give it four stars. It lays a good foundation, but leaves you wishing for more details.
Ten Steps to Better Health.......2006-02-21
The Mayo Clinic Plan is a 10-step program laid out in detail to improve your overall health. In a set of quizzes, you can analyze your health and take steps to make it better
1. Health Assessment, fitness, eating habits and risky behaviors (alcohol, tobacco and risky activities like driving without a seatbelt.)
2. Exercise: basics of aerobic, core and strength training and frexibility are outlined. What to do about injuries.
3. Eating: The Mayo Clinic Healthy Pyramid, how to plan meals.
4. Dieting, basically food portion control and eating from the pyramid.
5. Tobacco--how to get quit of it.
6. An on-course assessment, medical tests to consider.
7. Your spiritual and emotional health, whether religious or attitudinal.
8. Stress--how to manage it.
9. Mind and Body Recharge--insomnia, taking a break
10. How to live safely--seatbelts, responsible drinking, safe sex. chemicals in the home, sunscreen and household safety (remember how many accidents happen at home? A huge percentage.)
Summary: A nicely complete book with many useful charts, quizzes and bits of information. Use this as a roadmap for total health and you won't go far wrong.
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Don't think you'll get the Mayo Clinic Instant Weight-Loss Diet in this book--there's no such thing. Instead, you get the information that the esteemed Mayo Clinic physicians and dietitians give their patients about weight control. There's no doctor-speak here: every point is explained simply and clearly, organized with frequent bold headings for easy skimming, and illustrated with helpful charts.
Mayo Clinic on Healthy Weight is divided into three parts: "Getting Motivated," "How to Lose Weight," and "When You Need More Help," including medications and surgery. The information is highly individualized, encouraging you to identify your unique challenges, eliminate your overeating triggers, and try new foods. The authors set the record straight about low-carb diets ("people do not gain weight on high-carbohydrate diets unless they are eating excess calories") and low-fat diets ("low-fat does not necessarily mean low-calorie"). They prompt you instead to use the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid to eat moderate portions of a varied, nutritious diet, emphasizing lower-calorie foods that make you feel full because they contain fiber and/or water.
Mayo Clinic on Healthy Weight has plenty of extras that make the book interesting and instructive: how to read a food label; recipe ingredient substitutions; eight luscious-looking, illustrated recipes; the number of calories burned during various exercises; and tricks for changing bad habits.
The Mayo Clinic is one of the country's most prestigious medical institutions, with more than 2,000 physicians and scientists in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Scottsdale, Arizona. This book doesn't offer shortcuts or fad diets--just the truth about weight loss, as the experts understand it. --Joan Price
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For more than 30 years various versions of the so-called "Mayo Clinic Diet" have surfaced in many forms and places, promising to peel off pounds magically. These diets did not originate at Mayo Clinic.
Now, for the first time, Mayo Clinic offers a safe and effective program to help you achieve and maintain the weight that is right for you.
The book emphasizes a lifestyle approach that combines a healthy diet along with exercise to result in a 1- to 2- pound loss each week that is considered safe and effective. The goal is to achieve long-term changes in your food selections and exercise habits that you can maintain for life.
This new book from nutrition experts at Mayo Clinic includes a step-by-step 12-week program to get you started on achieving your healthy weight. The program applies the principles of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid to help you make better decisions about what to eat and find ways to add enjoyable exercise to your daily life. Rather than focusing on fat or carbohydrates, Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight for Everybody emphasizes the three factors that scientific data link to weight and health--calorie content, a healthy variety of foods and physical activity.
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Excellent Plan for Everybody.......2007-01-30
Whether or not you need to lose weight, this book is an excellent guide to healthy eating for life. The recipes are so easy that we're able to incorporate them into our everyday menus easily. We're all getting out 5-a-day, and then some! For weight maintenance, all you need to do is add a few more portions of some food groups. Even without reading the book, you can open up to the menu pages and start right away. You can also follow this plan on a tight budget since there aren't any hard to find or expensive ingredients. Between the eating plan and very helpful exercise goals, this has got to be the easiest way to get or stay healthy I've ever seen.
This book saved my life.......2006-06-11
I can't say enough good things about this book. I had tried everything. I was fairly successful on the Body for Life program, but it took too much time. All I did on that program was eat and workout. I have a life. I need time for my family, work, continuing education and other activities. When I saw my life suffering at the expense of my body, I had to compromise the Body for Life program. I then ballooned back up to being obese. My doctor tried to talk me into a gastric bypass because my weight was getting so bad. This book from the Mayo Clinic gave me a diet that was very easy and had a lot of great food. I haven't even been tempted to wander from this program at all. The variety of food has filled my food addiction while also taking the weight off of me. I have been continually losing weight and my doctor is not worried about me at all now. She even just filled out a physical report stating that I am in very good health.
If you want good food, good health and time for a real life, this is the only book for you.
healthy eating.......2006-03-16
I have found this book helpful for reworking my eating plans and just improving health. It is fairly comprehensive and I think it is probably the kind of material you would get if you went to a nutritionist. If you want to lose weight sensibly I would recommend it.
Takes some dedication.......2006-03-08
I've fought my weight my whole life. I've always been afraid of "fad" diets or diets that exclude one particular food. I think they are not a healthy way to lose weight. Everyone kept telling me to "eat a balanced diet" but no one explained what that meant. People talk about saturated fats, trans fats, etc and I felt like they were speaking a foreign language. My friends would count calories or carbs and would become frustrated. I didn't want to do any of that.
I bought the "Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight for Everybody" when we moved and I had plenty of time for a "project". It is a 12 week program designed to get you into the habit of eating healthy. The first three weeks were a lot of work and took a lot of dedication. I had to weigh and measure everything. After the first three weeks, my eyes adjusted and were able to do the measurments without the scale and cups. Some of the recipes are a lot of prep and there is a lot of cutting of vegi's and fruits. My husband and my 2 teenage kids didn't mind the changes (except brown rice) so after the first 3 weeks "learning curve", it all worked out well. I lost 25 lbs in 12 weeks and I never even got into the exercise part. After the 12 weeks, I stopped tracking my number of servings for 3 months. I still ate the same foods and made sure I didn't eat "A LOT" or high calorie foods. I stopped losing weight but I didn't gain it all back either. I have started tracking my servings again and have started working on the exercise. I have set my goal to lose another 25 lbs in the next 12 weeks.
I agree with everyone else here that the information is presented in a way that is easy to understand and explains it all. The book gets indepth but it is presented in a way that if you don't care what "trans fat" is, you can skip that part. I've even gien this book as presents to friends and family. I bought the cookbook too but I don't like that one.
mayo clinic healthy weight for everybody.......2006-02-26
This book has been an excellent help to my family. We have not had any trouble adjusting to the menus and it has been very helpful to us by changing our eating habits. I would recommend this book to anyone who needs help with losing weight. The menus are easy to follow and prepare and the recipes are very tasty.
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Great, comprehensive book.......2005-03-15
I found this book to be a great overview of fitness. The authors base their information on medical literature, but distill it to a level useful to the general public. Definitely worth getting.
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A sensuous journey of color, scent, and flavor through five regions, here are some of the best-loved Native American dishes adapted for modern kitchens.
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Re level of accurate knowledge of pre-contact Indn foods.......2007-01-06
We Indigenous of this Turtle Island GAVE potatoes, tomatoes, & similar to the world, so where those who reviewed this book got the wild idea that we didn't have those things is beyond me. Maybe they'er wannabe Caucasians with the standard paternalistic view of us 'poor ignerent savajs'. As for honey - we had that, too, as did most of the rest of the world. We gave over 200 different foods alone to the rest of the world.
It's high time someone took note of that from outside the Indn world, & got the rest of the sophomores off their high horses.
We didn't have noodles - those came from China. We made dumplings.
We didn't eat our food raw - we cooked it. We did have spices, but not the same ones that lost Italian creep was looking for.
Duwahleh! These people who say such things as were said about us Indns should subscribe to the ancient teaching (from everyone's culture) that "if you keep your mouth shut, folks might think you're a fool, but if you open it & pour out inaccurate paternalistic garbage, you will remove any doubt".
Good food.......2004-06-11
The recipes are quite good. I would like to weigh in, however, on the issue of the 'traditionality' of the various dishes included here. An earlier reviewer mentioned that the recipes 'are only traditional in a pan-American sense', but I would differ with that characterization. First, a good number of the recipes call for nothing more than what would have been available to the particular tribes in question in pre-Columbian times. Only some of the recipes include ingredients originally from Central & South America & elsewhere. But further, I wonder whether it is in fact wrong to call the dishes that *do* include ingredients from afar traditional. Using this criterion one would have to count out tomato-based sauces as part of Italian culinary tradition, for instance, or for that matter Italian noodles, the making of which was learned from China. Most if not all of the dishes probably represent traditional Indian cookery in one form or another, whether traditions pre-existing the arrival of Europeans or arising afterwards. But it is worthwhile noting that some of these dishes likely came into being later than others, as the earlier reviewer took pains to do.
so-so.......2003-10-23
A fun book, but the recipes are only traditional in a pan-american sense. In other words, before the arrival of Europeans, north american indians didn't have potatoes, apples, avocados, honey, etc. If you are interested in north american indian tradition/history, this book will probably disappoint.
A Delacacy for both the Mind and the Stomach.......2000-12-27
This cookbook is a wonderful source of knowledge in addition to recipes. The recipes are easy to follow and many are delicious. Even my children who are at times picky eaters enjoyed tasting and helping prepare the recipes. We used the book as a resource while doing a research paper on Iroquios food. We learned alot from reading the information and found it to be written very well.
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An excellent collection of designs that may be used to decorate most every type of craft from leather to pottery.
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Best compilation of designs I've seen.......2004-06-14
Many designs for borders as well as animals, people, and things. I have found almost all of the designs useable for my pottery work.
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A wonderful Native American resource........2004-10-13
Here's a resource to add excitement to your Native American/Frontier unit. It includes vocabulary, tribal names, map work, art projects, craft, recipes, games, picture writing, sign language, and historical aids. Crafts include leatherwork, art work, paper crafts, popsicle stick crafts, weaving, sculpture, bead making, dyes, stamping, and pottery. The directions are simple and most activities can be done using normal household supplies. The activities can be used in a classroom or in a multi-level homeschool situation. Your hands-on and artistic learners will love you for this one!
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5 VOL........2006-05-12
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Trade, Transportation, and Warfare-
Medicine and Health-
Science and Technology-
Books:
- Lady GI: A Woman's War in the South Pacific: The Memoir of Irene Brion
- Letters and Papers of Charles Everett Roseberry
- Letters to Amanda: The Civil War Letters of Marionhill Fitzpatrick, Army of Northern
- Lights and Shadows of Army Life: From Bull Run to Bentonville
- Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
- Major General Adam Stephen and the Cause of American Liberty
- Mark Johnston, That Magnificent 9th: an Illustrated History of the 9th Australian Division 1940-46.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Australian Studies
- Minuteman Activist: To Promote the General Welfare
- Missing in Action: An Rcaf Navigator's Story
- More Than a Uniform: A Navy Woman in a Navy Man's World
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- The Ghost Brigades
- Nature Designs Stained Glass Pattern Book
- Effective Reports for Managerial Communication
- Fish Nutrition
- Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
- La Profecia Celestina: Una Aventura
- Living Snakes of the World in Color
- Grilled Cheese: 50 Recipes to Make You Melt
- Como Profundizar En El Analisis De Sus Costos Para Tomar Mejores Decisiones Empresariales
- James Herriot's Dog Stories: Warm And Wonderful Stories About The Animals Herriot Loves Best
Kit Carson and His Three Wives: A Family History (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture.)
Kit Carson's Autobiography (Bison Book)
Son of Old Man Hat: A Navaho Autobiography
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
A Newer World : Kit Carson John C Fremont And The Claiming Of The American West
