![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of Lewis and Clark's traveling companions, John Colter (c. Keeping the fur trade in mind as they searched for the Northwest Passage, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark reported on the abundance of beavers along the western rivers and their tributaries. After the Louisiana Purchase, Americans began to hope that expanding their involvement in the fur trade would be good for the American economy. The Spanish, French, and British dominated the fur trade in this region when the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803. In the early 1800s, with the fur supply between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River depleted and settlements filling up the wilderness land, European fur trappers looked to the land beyond the Mississippi River. Fur traders, also called mountain men, had traveled over the Appalachian Mountains, around the Great Lakes, over the Rocky Mountains, and into the southwestern deserts in search of beaver pelts long before white settlers started to carve farms out of the wilderness. More than anything else, the growing fur trade attracted white men across the Mississippi River into the interior of North America. Excerpt from Adventures of Zenas Leonard Fur Trader ![]()
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![]() ![]() Presidents aside, the basic issues remain relevant today. I’m guessing that Trump, if he could read, wouldn’t be a fan of Robin Hood. As an adult, there are more subtle nuances to it I appreciate. ![]() I also love the social justice elements of Robin Hood-robbing from the rich and giving to the poor always made me giggle with delight. It’s a good thing I’m not bitter about it… I get thorny bush-like ugly things that have the nerve to call themselves trees. I don’t get to see a lot of real trees at home. I saw a bit of it as I was driving to Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, but whizzing past it on the highway was as close as I got. I mean, who hasn’t dreamed of living in a treehouse at one point or another? When I was in England for school, I tried to go to Sherwood but I never really made it. There is just something about the idea of living in a huge, ancient, deciduous forest like Sherwood that makes me happy. I’ve always been an Anglophile, so I was bound to be intrigued by it, but I think it goes deeper than that. ![]() Robin Hood is another one of those legends (along with Arthurian legend) that grabbed my attention from a young age. ![]() ![]() ![]() How do Sun-hee and her family secretly preserve their culture? Why is this so important to them?ī. Encourage students to think about how and why they did this and how Koreans reacted.Ī. Throughout the novel we learn of examples of the Japanese imperial government working to change and control Korean culture. Why did the author choose to use two narrators? What effect does this have? Why do you think the author chose to use young adults to narrate instead of adults?ĭ. How do roles for boys and girls differ in this time and place?Ĭ. ![]() How does Sun-hee see things differently then Tae-yul?ī. You may need to re-visit historic events such as Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.Ī. ![]() Discuss Japan’s invasion and control of Korea and, if necessary, provide students with background reading. Focus their brainstorming on events in Asia and Japan’s role. Ask students to recall what they already know about World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() He begins in Things Fall Apart with the first incursion of the British into the Igbo region of what became the Eastern Region of Nigeria, and his subsequent novels trace (with some gaps) the spread of British influence into the 1950’s and beyond that into the postindependence period of the 1960’s. His five novels offer, in a sense, a paradigm of this clash. ![]() He avoids the emotionally charged subject of slavery and concentrates his attention on political and cultural confrontation. He may very well have written the first African novel of real literary merit-such at least is the opinion of Charles Larson-and he deals with what one can call the classic issue that preoccupies his fellow novelists, the clash between the indigenous cultures of black Africa and a white, European civilization. Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013) is probably both the most widely known and the most representative African novelist. ![]() ![]() Redemption Ground is Lorna Goodison's first essay collection. ![]() Redemption Ground is a book by Lorna Goodison. Both these texts, which served as a political and cultural call to arms for Indigenous communities across Turtle Island, were initially printed by hand and distributed in secret. His works include The Warrior's Handbook, which was published in 1979, and Rebuilding the Iroquois Confederacy. He dedicated himself to reviving traditional Mohawk culture after renouncing Christianity and a life of priesthood. Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall was a Kanien'kehá:a painter and writer from Kahnawake. The Mohawk Warrior Society contains new oral history of the Rotisken'rhakéhte's revival in the 1970s and the story of how the Kanien'kehá:ka Longhouse became one the most militant resistance groups in North America. ![]() The book provides documentation, context and analysis, including writing and artwork by visual artist and polemicist Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall. ![]() This anthology explores the hidden history of Kanien'kehá:ka survival and self-defense. The Mohawk Warrior Society is a book by Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History. Exploring themes of social change, the influence of class and society on revolution, and the ensuing generation gap, The Radicalism of the American Revolution is considered one of the defining modern texts on the political underpinnings of the war for independence and is often used as a text in college classes on the era. The unpredictability that resulted from the overthrow of colonial rule and the increasingly radical changes brought about by the people on the ground often confused and disappointed even the founding fathers as it took on a life of its own. Rather, Wood asserts that it was a revolution on multiple fronts-government, social, economic-eventually transforming a backward-looking, almost feudal society into a democratic one. Wood’s non-fiction history book The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1993) focuses on the events that led to the American Revolution and how it was much more than a simple break from England. ![]() ![]() The crew has been promised the ransom Nathaniel will bring, yet as danger mounts and the time nears to give him up, Hawk’s biggest battle could be with his own heart. As a pirate’s prisoner, he is finally free to be his true self. Nathaniel realizes the fearsome Sea Hawk’s reputation is largely invented, and he sees the lonely man beneath the myth, willingly surrendering to his captor body and soul. ![]() It’s not as though Hawk would ever feel anything for him besides lust… Although Hawk knows he must keep his distance, the desire to teach Nathaniel the pleasure men can share grows uncontrollable. ![]() Yet as days pass in close quarters, Nathaniel’s feisty spirit and alluring innocence beguile and bewitch. He has a score to settle with Nathaniel’s father-the very man whose treachery forced him into piracy-and he’s sure Nathaniel is just as contemptible. Then pirates strike and he’s kidnapped for ransom by the Sea Hawk, a legendary villain of the New World.īitter and jaded, Hawk harbors futile dreams of leaving the sea for a quiet life, but men like him don’t deserve peace. ![]() ![]() Under the thumb of his controlling father, the governor of Primrose Isle, he’s sailing to the fledging colony, where he’ll surrender to a respectable marriage for his family’s financial gain. Nathaniel Bainbridge is used to hiding, whether it’s concealing his struggles with reading or his forbidden desire for men. Will a virgin captive surrender to this pirate’s sinful touch? ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter’s health was accompanied by a great height, topping out at 6 foot seven inches in adulthood. One such fact, that the royals used dwarves as servants and playmates to the young children to acclimate them to seeing ‘small people’. Massie speaks of Peter’s upbringing in some detail, offering up random facts that the reader may find highly amusing. ![]() Peter’s birth ushered in new hope for Russia and the Romanovs as a dynastic entity. ![]() The tsar struggled to see how his bloodline would continue as rulers of the country, as his male heirs were either weak or died at an early age. Named for the apostle, Peter was a robust blessing to a royal family that was plagued with issues when it came to potential heirs. Peter Alekseyevich Romanov was born to Tsar Alexis and his second wife, Natalya Naryshkina, in 1682. Not for the weak of arm, Massie offers up this lengthy and detailed biography of Peter the Great, whose reign in the late 17th and into the 18th centuries left a significant mark on Russia and the world as a whole. ![]() Massie and his handful of well-crafted biographies of the Romanovs. When I want to be completely inundated with information, I look to Robert K. When I want to learn a great deal in a single book, I turn to a biography. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Jeannie, you know we have to finish our book sometime this year, not just choose the pictures." Then Jeannie saw two images: 1) the deer eyeing the snowman's carrot nose (cover photo for Stranger in the Woods) and 2) the image of the chickadee on the snowman's carrot nose. It was at this point that I smart-mouthed my wife. After spending two months editing slides, we had narrowed our images down to 2,000 deer slides - but we needed only 140 images. ![]() We have taken over 60,000 pictures of this family of whitetail deer, so Jeannie and I decided to create a deer book. Since then, my wife, Jeannie, and I have grown to know over twenty deer that trust us enough to walk with them in the woods. That year was also the first time I shook an apple from a tree for a whitetail doe. It was 1982 when the first chickadee landed in my hand to take a seed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. ![]() Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. ![]() |