A member of a remarkable family of artists, Thomas Moran was born in England in 1837 and died in Santa Barbara, Califronia, in 1926. Married to Mary Nimmo, herself an artist, he turned to illustration in order to support his growing family. Throughout his long and adventurous life, he refused to be swayed by changing fashions in art, and while younger artists of the twentieth century considered his techniques outmoded, his work commands good prices...

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"Black Elk Speaks is widely hailed as a religious classic, one of the best spiritual books of the modern era and the bestselling book of all time by an American Indian. This inspirational and unfailingly powerful story reveals the life and visions of the Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863?1950) and the tragic history of his Sioux people during the epic closing decades of the Old West. In 1930, the aging Black Elk met a kindred spirit, the famed...

Originally published in 1952 as Bulletin 145 of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology. Includes Canada, Alaska and Greenland giving regional lists of tribes. Nomenclature, relationships, location, history and population. Includes Eskimo and Aleuts.