A compelling and inspiring account of Native American student athletes. Between 1899 and 1917, the football team of Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian School rose to national prominence, competing-and winning-against the country's most formidable programs: Harvard, Army, and Pennsylvania. Under Carlisle's legendary coach, Glenn "Pop" Warner, players such as Gus Welch, William Henry "Lone Star" Dietz, and most notably Jim Thorpe-perhaps the century's greatest athlete-became household names. Together with other athletes, including Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Charles Albert "Chief" Bender and distance runner Louis Tewanima, they helped change the country's attitudes toward Native Americans.
India Today is an Indian weekly newsmagazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi. Aroon Purie is its editor-in-chief from 1975, a position he has held continuously for the last three decades.
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The Sanskrit drama is said to have been invented by the sage Bharata, who lived at a very remote period of Indian history and was the author of a system of music. The earliest references to the acted drama are to be found in the Mahabhashya Indian tradition describes Bharat as having caused to be acted before the gods a play representing the Svayamvara of Lakshmi. Tradition further makes Krishna and his cowherdesses the starting point of the Sangita, a mixture of song, music, and dancing. The Gitagovinda is concerned with Krishna, and the modern Yatras generally represent scenes from the life of that deity.
A Companion to American Indian History
captures the thematic breadth of Native American history.Twenty-five
original essays written by leading scholars, both American Indian
and non-American Indian, bring a comprehensive perspective to a history
that in the past has been related exclusively by Euro-Americans.
The essays cover a wide range of Indian
experiences and practices, including contacts with non-Indians, religion,
family, economy, law, education, gender, and culture. They reflect new
approaches to Native America drawn from environmental, comparative, and gender
history in their exploration of compelling questions regarding performance,
identity, cultural brokerage, race and blood, captivity, adoption, and slavery.
Each chapter also encourages further reading by including a carefully selected
bibliography.
Intended for students,
scholars, and general readers of American Indian history, this timely book is
the ideal guide to current and future research.
In FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS, Bruce Johansen has written an exciting book, one
that broadens the basis of American history, enriches the national heritage,
and deepens our understanding of the freedom we all share.
Calling on Benjamin Franklin as his chief witness, Dr. Johansen shows
us how the primitive, but surprisingly democratic and enlightened culture of
the American Indian, clarified the thinking of immigrant colonists and even of
the world beyond our shores -- a world tired of the elaborate hierarchies of
kings and nobles and the inherited miseries of their subjects. To the European,
America was another planet. Franklin saw in it the shadow of an imperfect but
practical Utopia.
During the first half of the eighteenth century, the Six Nations of the
Iroquois were our allies in England's war with France. They may be seen as the
friends and equals of our Colonial statesmen. On both sides, there were those
who spoke the other's language fluently. White man and red man sat together
around the Indian Council fires and the record of what they said exists today.
In FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS, Bruce Johansen has written an exciting book, one
that broadens the basis of American history, enriches the national heritage,
and deepens our understanding of the freedom we all share.
