In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, ''We have always been the frontier.'' Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands.
Crossroads and Cultures, Combined Volume: A History of the World's Peoples
Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World’s Peoples incorporates the best current cultural history into a fresh and original narrative that connects global patterns of development with life on the ground. As the title, “Crossroads,” suggests, this new synthesis highlights the places and times where people exchanged goods and commodities, shared innovations and ideas, waged war and spread disease, and in doing so joined their lives to the broad sweep of global history.
The Spider and the Green Butterfly: Vodoun Crossroads of Power
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The Spider and the Green Butterfly: Vodoun Crossroads of Power
E.A. Koetting joins with Haitian Vodoun Master Houngan Baron DePrince to provide a look into the powers of the ancient magickal system of Vodoun as it is practiced deep in the few remaining jungles of Haiti, far from the safe “Voodoo” Haiti and throughout the western world. Within Haiti there are many Vodoun cults, some accessible to westerners in vacations cities like Port au Prince and Labadee, while others even restrict many native Haitians and common Vodoun practitioners. I
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One rain-swept night when he was 20-years-old, Joey Shannon, a young college boy, took the wrong highway. From that moment nothing ever went right for him again. Exactly 20 years later Joey finds himself at the same crossroads looking down the road never taken, odd since that road no longer exists.
