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  • Comanche Vocabulary

    Trilingual Edition

    Edited by Manuel García Rejón ...
    Series series Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
    "This is the most important pre-reservation document that we have for the Comanche language . . . It should be in every university research library." —James A. Goss, Professor of Anthropology, Texas Tech UniversityThe Comanche Vocabulary collected in Mexico during the years 1861–1864 by Manuel García Rejón is by far the most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comanches, Captives, and Germans

    Wilhelm Friedrich's Drawings from the Texas Frontier

    by Daniel J. Gelo, C. B. "Hoppy" Hopkins, Christopher J. Wickham, Bryden E. Moon Jr ...
    2025 Winner of the Conservation Society of San Antonio Publication AwardAround 1848 Wilhelm Friedrich, a young German immigrant to Texas, completed three drawings that capture unique details of life on the frontier. Friedrich’s sketches feature Comanches, Germans, a captive girl, a wagon train, the landscape and wildlife of the Texas Hill Country, and dynamic scenes of cultural contact. Friedrich ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The German Texas Frontier in 1853

    Ferdinand Lindheimer’s Newspaper Accounts of the Environment, Gold, and Indians

    by Daniel J. Gelo, Christopher J. Wickham ...
    Ferdinand Lindheimer was already renowned as the father of Texas botany when, in late 1852, he became the founding editor of the Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung, a German-language weekly newspaper for the German settler community on the Central Texas frontier. His first year of publication was a pivotal time for the settlers and the American Indians whose territories they occupied. Based on an analysis of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Bridging Cultures

    Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands

    by Dr. Daniel D Arreola, Enrique X de Anda Alanis, Jesús F. De la Teja, Dr. Margaret Dorsey, Stephen Fox, John Phillip Santos, Dr. Daniel J. Gelo, Gabriel Aguilar, Melinda Vargas, Ricardo Romo, Miguel Díaz-Barriga, Patricia Sánchez ...
    Series series Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series
    Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries, and they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. They extend north and south of what we think of as the actual “border,” encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, affirming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary.In ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Texas Indian Trails

    by Daniel J. Gelo ...
    Connect the past with the present in Texas Indian Trails and appreciated this state's rich heritage by visiting the landmarks and campsites used by the Indians of Texas. This guidebook allows Texas natives and visitors to experience the Texas landscape as the Indians once knew it. Through local history and folklore, Texans will grow a new appreciation for their rich heritage, and visitors can ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Indians of the Great Plains

    by Daniel J. Gelo ...
    Plains Societies and CulturesIndians of the Great Plains, written by Daniel J. Gelo of The University of Texas at San Antonio, is a text that emphasizes that Plains societies and cultures are continuing, living entities.Through a topical exploration, it provides a contemporary view of recent scholarship on the classic Horse Culture Period while also bringing readers up-to-date with historical and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Indians of the Great Plains

    by Daniel J. Gelo ...
    This book provides a thorough and engaging study of Plains Indian life. It covers both historical and contemporary aspects and contains wide and balanced treatment of the many different tribal groups, including Canadian and southern populations. Daniel J. Gelo draws on years of ethnographic research and emphasizes that Plains societies and cultures are continuing, living entities. The second ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier

    The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus

    by Dr. Daniel J. Gelo, Christopher J. Wickham, Heide Castañeda ...
    Series Book 42 - Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
    Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of TexasIn 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Heinrich Berghaus’s study was based on lexical data gathered by a young German settler in Texas, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

    by Dan Flores ...
    Winner: Western Heritage Book AwardSpur Award FinalistStubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book AwardAmerica’s Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago ... Read more

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  • Native American Architecture

    by Peter Nabokov, Robert Easton ...
    For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. ... Read more

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  • Wild Beauty

    New and Selected Poems

    by Ntozake Shange ...
    NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary WorkFrom the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes “a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems.In this stirring ... Read more

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  • Native Roots

    How the Indians Enriched America

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    “Gracefully written . . . thoroughly researched . . . America is a banquet prepared by the Indians—who were forgotten when it was time to give thanks at the table.”—St. Paul Pioneer-Express“Well written, imagery-ridden . . . A tale of what was, what became, and what is today regarding the Indian relation to the European civilization that ‘grafted’ itself onto this ‘ancient stem’”—Minneapolis Star ... Read more

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