Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales
Originally published in 1890, these legends were recounted to the author by the Pawnee Chief and others. In the late 1880's the ethnologist and writer visited the Pawnee Agency in Indian Territory. He told the Chief the object of his visit was to ask the people about how things used to be in the olden times, to hear their stories, to get their history, and then to put all these things down in a book. George Bird Grinnell was an American ornithologist, publisher, and conservationist. He talked his way onto a fossil collecting expedition in 1870, and then served as the naturalist on Custer's expedition to the Black Hills in 1874. Grinnell…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4102-0507-0
- EAN: 9781410205070
- Produktnummer: 38234960
- Verlag: University Press Of The Pacific
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 452 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.6 cm 540 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 540
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GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL (1849-1938), was an influential American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Dedicated to the restoration of America's wildlands, he became a conservationist and student of Native American Life. Grinnell wrote many books, of which his best known are The Fighting Cheyennes, The Cheyenne Indians, and When Buffalo Ran.
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