This book has an attention grabbing plot driven story, and often times expresses issues that are most likely taking place in the world today. ... By the time Alex and Nadia were using their spirit guides to travel through spiritual caves and up giant cliffs, I was ready to just turn to the end of the chapter and get back to the real issues of the story. In the end, I thought that City of the Beasts was an exciting and entertaining book that at certain points got too caught up in a fantasy involving giant beasts. I would recommend it as reads to other people, but only if they like more fantasy...

• Word Count: 530
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Groom's book recounts the thrilling, almost Hollywood-esque adventures and dangers that Kearny and his men encountered while venturing throughout the trail. ... Even many paintings from the time period have Depicted and shown angels guiding the settlers way, Winston Groom used primary documentation, such as journals, letters, and military records, which gives the reader an exciting account capturing our imaginations of the western frontier and helps broaden our understanding of the dangerous and dirty business that shaped our country. Winston Groom's qualifications and thoroughness...

• Word Count: 693
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Early in Ansel's life he became very ill with influenza and while sick, he read guide books of Yosemite National Park and entranced by the Natural beauty he persuaded his family to visit there allowing him to make his first photo with a Kodak boy camera. ... That put a halt to his work for a while, but he was commissioned to produce another book of mountains photos of the Sierra Nevada. After this book he went back to his goal to become a leading figure in American Artwork. ... Evaluation: "Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West" By Eva Weber and Ansel Adams This book...

• Word Count: 1075
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This book talks about the achievements and hardships of Sequoyah and tells of his importance, not only to the Cherokee, but whites as well. ... In this book of essays, there is a short excerpt about the legendary Sequoyah. This book lacks details about the early life of Sequoyah, yet is pretty well in depth when it comes to his later life. This book portrays the entire Cherokee alphabet as well as a list of sounds that the characters signify. ... A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma. ...

• Word Count: 1725
• Approx Pages: 7

There are many people that realize what problems Native Americans deal with that are expressed in the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. This is important because it helps people realize what problems Native Americans go through such as, poor living conditions, the harsh expectations for someone to leave the rez, and the overall health of the Native Americans, all of these problems are important to address because it shows that Naive Americans need help in the sense that they need to be guided to the right path to where the can support themselves without any interference. ...

• Word Count: 1102
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Duke Professor of Anthropology Emeritus in Duke University who researched peyote usage by Native Americans from the 1930's through the 1980's, covers the use of the peyote cactus for religious purposes across much of the United States Southwest and further south into Mexico in his book entitled The Peyote Cult. ... Thomas-Builds-The-Fire also holds a very cultural place in this tale as he fills the role of storyteller and continues the oral tradition common to many indigenous peoples as Mary Pat Fisher indicates in her book Living Religions. ... Thomas-Builds-The-Fire is in essence t...

• Word Count: 1919
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It comes along with wide variety of genres like for example pictorial essays, pages full with pictures of historical people and or events, along with various book reviews. This is the true guide for historical information of California. ...

• Word Count: 972
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

Native American Voices The book of Genesis V.S. ... In the book of Genesis there was a God that created the earth and heaven. ... God created light (so he created the sun) so says the book of Genesis. ... In the book of Genesis God created the flora and fauna and men, namely humans, Adam and Eve. ... The book of Genesis is more about how God created the Earth and the humans and how this all happened in seven days. ...

• Word Count: 3640
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. Meanwhile, this landscape profoundly affected postcolonial United States. It was a time where one discovered complicated links between material conditions, ideology and power. It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. The nineteenth century saw the con...

• Word Count: 3252
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate