North America local history
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Companions of Champlain: Founding Families of Quebec, 1608-1635. with 2016 AddendumAuthor Denise Larson produced "Companions of Champlain" to honor the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City and to enable North Americans on both sides of the border to appreciate more fully their French-Canadian heritage. Although Champlain and his wife, Helene Boulle, did...
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Beyond Bear's Paw: The Nez Perce Indians in CanadaIn the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed for the Canadian border, hoping to find refuge in the land of the White Mother, Queen...
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The Manuscript Hunter, Volume 84: Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels Through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles tienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814-1874) amassed hundreds of indigenous manuscripts and printed books, including grammars and vocabularies that brought to light languages and cultures little known at the time. Although...
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Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican DramaIn 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain's northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660s, Do a Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of New...
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An Archaeological Guide to Central and Southern MexicoPalenque, Teotihuacan, Yaxchilan--the names of these ancient Maya cities conjure images of mystery and grandeur. Joyce Kelly's new visitor's guide includes these fascinating places and many more. This guide provides travelers with captivating photographs, vivid descriptions, and complete, up-to-date tourist information on 70 archaeological...
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Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal NeighborsSharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors. These interdisciplinary, collaborative essays present Tlingit culture, as...
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Cod Fisheries: The History of an International EconomyThe Cod Fisheries, originally published in 1938 and revised and reissued in 1954, presented a new interpretation of European and North American history that has since become a classic. With that rare skill he possessed of weaving together the various strands of a complex...
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Sergeant Billy: The True Story of the Goat Who Went to WarA delightful tale inspired by the true story of a brave goat war hero. Perfect for fans of Finding Winnie and Rescue and Jessica. During World War I, a goat named Billy was adopted by a platoon of soldiers and made his way across...
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Who Is Wayne Gretzky?After breaking or tying more than sixty records in hockey, it's no wonder that Wayne Gretzky is known as "The Great One." Born in Brantford, Ontario, on January 26, 1961, in a nation obsessed with the sport, he threw himself into the game practically...
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Exploring the Yukon RiverAuthor: Archie SatterfieldPublisher: iUniversePublished: 11/01/2000Pages: 148Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.10w x 0.42dISBN: 9780595146307This title is not returnable
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The Enigmas of the Humble Mind: Why I have a great SMILE: )Humble.M1nd is an Afghan-Canadian poet/spoken word artist, public speaker and mental health advocate. She has been writing poetry for over 15 years as a form of meditation/therapy but officially began publishing and performing her poetry in 2019. This is her first self created poetry...
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Black RobeHis name is Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit missionary come from Europe to the New World to bring the word of God to the heathen. He is given minimal aid by the governor of the vast territory that is proudly named New France but...
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GreenmantleNot far from the city there is an ancient wood, forgotten by the modern world, where Mystery walks in the moonlight. He wears the shape of a stag, or a goat, or a horned man wearing a cloak of leaves. He is summoned by...
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StormIt took real faith and courage to get Bethany back on a surfboard after losing her arm to a shark. The Soul Surfer fiction series is based on the life of surfer star Bethany Hamilton, as she and her friends discover God's love and...
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Mexico in Mind: An AnthologyTwo centuries of writers drawn to Mexico--from D. H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams to Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, and Sandra CisnerosThis scintillating literary travel guide gathers the work of great writers celebrating Mexico in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Ranging from...
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The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall: Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political BiographiesThe pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of their rulers, in pictograms on hand-painted, screen-fold manuscripts known as codices. Functioning rather like movie production storyboards, the codices served as outlines of oral traditions to stimulate...
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A Mexican Family Empire: The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867Perhaps no other institution has had a more significant impact on Latin American history than the large landed estate--the hacienda. In Mexico, the latifundio, an estate usually composed of two or more haciendas, dominated the social and economic structure of the country for four...
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The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555While the Spanish conquistadors have been stereotyped as rapacious treasure seekers, many firstcomers to the New World realized that its greatest wealth lay in the native populations whose labor could be harnessed to build a new Spain. Hence, the early arrivals in Mexico sought...
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The Fifth Sun: Aztec Gods, Aztec WorldThe ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. From this position they were acutely receptive to the demands of their gods. The Fifth Sun represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who...
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Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of FateIn communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many...
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