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"Many Plateau Indians still live in [the Plateau region near the Columbia River]. They work in a variety of industries, from fishing and logging to hospitality. Read more about [their] history and culture"--Amazon.com.
Explores The Traditions And Culture Of The Native People Of The Plateau.
Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Columbian Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest from 1700 to 1850. ø For the Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau, the arrival of whites was understood primarily as a spiritual event, calling for religious explanations. Between 1700 and 1806, Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau experienced the presence of whites indirectly through the arrival of horses, some trade goods by long-distance exchange, and epidemic diseases that decimated their population and shook their faith in their religious beliefs. Many responded by participating in the Prophet Dance movement to restore their frayed links to the spirit world. ø When whites arrived in the early nineteenth century, the Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau were more concerned with learning about white people's religious beliefs and spiritual power than with acquiring their trade goods; trading posts were seen as windows into another world rather than sources of goods. The whites? strange appearance and seeming immunity to disease and the unique qualities of their goods and technologies suggested great spiritual power to the Native peoples. But disillusionment awaited: Catholic and Protestant missionaries came to teach the Native peoples about Christianity, yet these white spiritual practices failed to protect them from a new round of epidemic disease. By 1850, with their world devastatingly altered, most Plateau Indians had rejected Christianity
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 The Ancient World of the Basin-Plateau -- Native Culture before the Horse -- Technology -- Mobility and Settlement -- Subsistence -- Sidebar: Forager Cuisine -- Social and Political Organization -- Ideology -- From Historic Baseline to the Deep Past: A Spiral of Contexts -- 2 Ancient Climate and Habitats -- The Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau -- The Wasatch Front -- Just before History -- Stepping into a Deeper Past
The use of horses has perhaps most dramatically shaped the way of life for Native American tribes in the Plateau and Plains regions of North America, but the practices and traditions of both culture areas date back to a time long before Europeans ever touched American shores, introducing their animals and customs to the continent’s indigenous peoples. This captivating volume examines the history and cross-cultural interactions that came to be associated with the peoples of the Plateau and the changing settlement patterns of the Plains peoples, as well as the cultural, social, and spiritual practices that have defined the major tribes of each region.
Profiles the culture, customs, religious practices and life style of several native American tribes of the Northwest plateau. Discusses the history, culture, religious beliefs, and daily life of the Indians that lived in the Northwest plateau.
Many responded by participating in the Prophet Dance movement to restored their frayed links to the spirit world.".
This title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Plateau region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.
Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award Named a Best Book of 2019 by BookPage During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers—mostly children—as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why? In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers, mostly Jewish children. Was this a fluke of history, or something more? Anthropologist Maggie Paxson, certainties shaken by years of studying strife, arrives on the Plateau to explore this phenomenon: What are the traits that make a group choose selflessness? In this beautiful, wind-blown place, Paxson discovers a tradition of offering refuge that dates back centuries. But it is the story of a distant relative that provides the beacon for which she has been searching. Restless and idealistic, Daniel Trocmé had found a life of meaning and purpose—or it found him—sheltering a group of children on the Plateau, until the Holocaust came for him, too. Paxson's journey into past and present turns up new answers, new questions, and a renewed faith in the possibilities for us all, in an age when global conflict has set millions adrift. Riveting, multilayered, and intensely personal, The Plateau is a deeply inspiring journey into the central conundrum of our time.