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Early nineteenth-century ethnologists viewed the American Indians through a prism of intellectual arguments inherited from European Enlightenment thinkers. From that perspective, the Indians were seen as an inferior race whose primitive existence stemmed from an adverse environment, and whose "progress" depended on the civilizing effects of education and an altered physical environment. The evolution away from that view, in the face of new phy...

A history of native American tribes in Wisconsin, this account follows Wisconsin's Indian communities from the 1600s through 1960. It covers the ways that native communities have striven to shape and maintain their traditions in the face of enormous external pressures.

From the Greek legend of Callisto to Winnie-the-Pooh and Yogi, bears have long been a rich source of imagery, myth, story and legend. "Bear looks at the history of this magnificent animal in nature and in culture--a history that covers 22 million years. The book draws on traditions and cultures around the world, including the ceremonies and taboos that surround the hunting, killing and eating of bears. It discusses the bear as the subject of s...