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Wilcomb Edward Washburn was born on January 13, 1925, in Ottawa, Kansas, United States. He was the son of Harold Edward and Sidsell Marie (Nelson) Washburn.
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This is the first English translation of Pedro de Medina's "Libro de cosmographia". It provides a comprehensive picture of the pre-Comlumbian universe as seen by a leading cosmographer of sixteenth century Spain. In addition to Ursula Lamb's translation, Medina's manuscript, written in clean, gothic hand, is reproduced in fascimile. Mrs. Lamb's commentary provides a background in sixteenth-century cosmography, biographical details on Medina, and a discussion of the "Libro" in relation to three other extant cosmographic manuscripts by Medina.
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1971
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More than a century ago, as Americans enjoyed the centennial of national independence, they paid little attention to efforts then under way to rationalize Indian-white relationships. Americans celebrating the bicentennial in 1976 realized their duty to reflect on aspects of their past that persist into the present. The author's analysis and documents in this volume offer unprecedented opportunity for a review of one of the most significant efforts by white Americans to reshape the lives of American Indians in ways conformable to white perceptions.
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1986
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Red Man's Land/White Man's Law is a history of the legal status of the American Indians and their land from the period of first contact with Europeans down to the present day. It begins with the efforts of colonial authorities-Spanish, British, and French-to deal with tribal sovereignty and carries the discussion of U. S. -Indian legal relations through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tribal sovereignty was eroded from the very beginning, but more recently it has emerged as a powerful force in American and Canadian law and touches upon many current legal issues, such as land allotment and land claims; definitions of Indian status; hunting, fishing, and water rights; and tribal relations with Congress, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Canadian government. First published in 1971, this second edition contains a new preface and an extensive afterword discussing important legal events and issues in the last twenty-five years, making this a complete, up-to-date survey of legal relations between the United States and the American Indian. Red Man's Land/White Man's Law is a history of the legal status of the American Indians and their land from the period of first contact with Europeans down to the present day. It begins with the efforts of colonial authorities-Spanish, British, and French-to deal with tribal sovereignty and carries the discussion of U. S. -Indian legal relations through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tribal sovereignty was eroded from the very beginning, but more recently it has emerged as a powerful force in American and Canadian law and touches upon many current legal issues, such as land allotment and land claims; definitions of Indian status; hunting, fishing, and water rights; and tribal relations with Congress, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Canadian government. First published in 1971, this second edition contains a new preface and an extensive afterword discussing important legal events and issues in the last twenty-five years, making this a complete, up-to-date survey of legal relations between the United States and the American Indian.
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1995
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An authoritative treatment of the social, cultural, and ethnohistorical data on both the Eastern and Western Pueblos! The information contained in this case study is the result of the author's lifetime spent among the Pueblos. "I have lived in or visited every village small and large from the Hopi towns of lower and upper Moencopi in Arizona to the double apartment buildings of Taos Pueblo in northern New Mexico," writes the author in his preface. He writes not of a single people and their culture but of a group of related peoples and their adaptation through time to their changing physical, socioeconomic, and political environments. A rare, inside view of native life and culture by an anthropologist who is himself a Pueblo Indian. Perhaps the best single volume on the subject. Visit waveland.com for a complete list of modern and classic ethnographies on Apache, Comanche, Crow, Navajo, Papago, Pueblo, Shoshone, Sioux, and other American Indian cultures.
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Wilcomb Edward Washburn was born on January 13, 1925, in Ottawa, Kansas, United States. He was the son of Harold Edward and Sidsell Marie (Nelson) Washburn.
Washburn was a 1948 summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College. He then received his doctorate in the history of American civilization from Harvard University the same year.
During his career, he also was a recipient of three honorary doctoral degrees.
Following military service during World War II, Washburn was civil information officer and education officer for the Toyama Military Government. In 1955 he began three years as a fellow at the Institute of Early American History and Culture at College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. His association with the Smithsonian started in the late 1950s, first as curator of its Division of Political History. His leadership of the Institution’s American Studies Program began in 1965 and ended shortly before his death. Washburn also taught at American University, The College of William and Mary, and George Washington University.
During his career, he also presided over such organizations as the American Studies Association and the American Society for Ethnohistory.
(An authoritative treatment of the social, cultural, and e...)
(More than a century ago, as Americans enjoyed the centenn...)
1986(Red Man's Land/White Man's Law is a history of the legal ...)
1995(This is the first English translation of Pedro de Medina'...)
1971(This item is a used paperback.)
Washburn was a member of the History Society of Washington, Virginia History Association, Maryland History Association, Massachusetts History Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Ethnohistory, American Studies Association, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, American Antiquarian Society, Organization of American Historians, Japan-American Society of Washington, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Washington Society and Phi Beta Kappa.
Washburn married Lelia Elizabeth Kanavarioti on July 14, 1951. The couple had 2 children: Harold Kitsos and Edward Alexandros. However, the marriage ended with a divorce in June 1981. In 1985 he married for the second time. His wife's name was Kathryn Lafler Cousins.