Searching for Red Eagle

Searching for Red Eagle
Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 328
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015046901396
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Searching for Red Eagle by : Mary Ann Wells

Portrays William Weatherford, who rejected his Scots and French ancestry and embraced his Creek heritage, describes his fight against white encroachment in Georgia, and reflects on his spiritual influence.

Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama

Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 380
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015003690560
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama by : George Cary Eggleston

William "Red Eagle" Weatherford was a Creek (Muscogee) Native American who led the Creek War offensive against the United States. Like many of the high-ranking members of the Creek nation, he was a mixture of Scottish and Creek Indian. His "war name" was Hopnicafutsahia, or "Truth Teller," and was commonly referred to as Lamochattee, or "Red Eagle," by other Creeks. During the Creek Civil War, in February 1813, Weatherford reportedly made a strange prophecy that called for the extermination of English settlers on lands formerly held by Native Americans. He used his "vision" to gather support from various Native American tribes.

The Red Eagle

The Red Eagle
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 122
Release :
ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433069326852
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Red Eagle by : Alexander Beaufort Meek

Red Earth

Red Earth
Author :
Publisher : Holy Cow Press
Total Pages : 148
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015043091274
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Earth by : Philip H. Red Eagle

"In the late summer of 1990 I fell into depression. By the time the Gulf War broke out, in the winter of 1991, I was well on my way to a breakdown. By the summer, with the help of my buddy Ed Orr, I was in a therapy program at the Vets Center in uptown Seattle." Red Eagle's extraordinary book deals directly with Native American experience of the Vietnam war and offers a healing and redemptive force in the face of violence and its aftermath.

Red Eagle

Red Eagle
Author :
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 246
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1979383200
ISBN-13 : 9781979383202
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Eagle by : Peachill

Alabama. 1812. The southwestern frontier of the young United States spans hundreds of miles between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. The region is home to dozens of Native American tribes, American settlers, and the soldiers of Spain, France, England, and the USA. It is a melting pot unseen since the Persian Empire. On the banks of the Coosa River, William Weatherford manages brisk business from his trading post. He is the son of a Scottish military man, who served under George Washington, and a Creek Princess from the sacred Deer family. He moves through both worlds, native and European. He is known as Red Eagle among his Creek brothers. He commands respect. He is the sinew that holds his community from the brink of conflict. But as Red Eagle and his family steer the course of peace, rivals tussle for control of the land. A series of slights pushes the Creek Nation into standing their ground against the power-hungry Governor of the Alabama. When Red Eagle declines to choose sides, his side is chosen for him. With his wife and child murdered and his home burned to the ground. Red Eagle takes command of the Creek forces. He leads a strategic guerilla war of resistance that paralyzes the Governor and forces the US Government to call in General Andrew Jackson to quell the conflict. Through years of battle, Red Eagle commands Jackson's respect, but the radical factions of his own men - led by his half-brother, the Prophet Josiah - create dissent in his victory plan. As attrition hits both sides and the rivers of Alabama run red with the blood of citizens, how far will Red Eagle go to see peace in his homeland again? When does revenge become folly? When does the past become a dream you cannot return to? How can one man save his people from total destruction? This is the story of William Weatherford. The greatest warrior Andrew Jackson ever faced.

White Eagle, Red Star

White Eagle, Red Star
Author :
Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 352
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781446466865
ISBN-13 : 1446466868
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis White Eagle, Red Star by : Norman Davies

Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. In White Eagle, Red Star, Norman Davies gives a full account of the War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army - sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe to 'water our horses on the Rhine' - was crushed by a devastating Polish attack. Since known as the 'miracle on the Vistula', it remains one of the most decisive battles of the Western world. Drawing on both Polish and Russian sources, Norman Davies illustrates the narrative with documentary material which hitherto has not been readily available and shows how the War was far more an 'episode' in East European affairs, but largely determined the course of European history for the next twenty years or more.

Red Eagle's Children

Red Eagle's Children
Author :
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 233
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780817317706
ISBN-13 : 0817317708
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Eagle's Children by : J. Anthony Paredes

Red Eagle’s Children presents the legal proceedings in an inheritance dispute that serves as an unexpected window on the intersection of two cultural and legal systems: Creek Indian and Euro-American. Case 1299: Weatherford vs. Weatherford et al. appeared in the Chancery Court of Mobile in 1846 when William “Red Eagle” Weatherford’s son by the Indian woman Supalamy sued his half siblings fathered by Weatherford with two other Creek women, Polly Moniac and Mary Stiggins, for a greater share of Weatherford’s estate. While the court recognized William Jr. as the son of William Sr., he nevertheless lost his petition for inheritance due to the lack of legal evidence concerning the marriage of his biological mother to William Sr. The case, which went to the Alabama Supreme Court in 1851, provides a record of an attempt to interrelate and, perhaps, manipulate differences in cultures as they played out within the ritualized, arcane world of antebellum Alabama jurisprudence. Although the case has value in the classic mold of salvage ethnography of Creek Indian culture, Red Eagle’s Children, edited by J. Anthony Paredes and Judith Knight, shows that its more enduring value lies in being a source for historical ethnography—that is, for anthropological analyses of cultural dynamics of the past events that complement the narratives of professional historians. Contributors David I. Durham / Robbie Ethridge / Judith Knight / J. Anthony Paredes / Paul M. Pruitt Jr. / Nina Gail Thrower / Robert Thrower / Gregory A. Waselkov

Red Cloud's War

Red Cloud's War
Author :
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Total Pages : 52
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781937786380
ISBN-13 : 1937786382
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Cloud's War by : Paul Goble

"We are brave and ready to fight for our lands . I will go now and I will fight you. As long as I live, I will fight you for the last hunting grounds of my people," said Red Cloud, war chief of the Oglala Lakota, to Colonel Carrington. The year was 1866, the Civil War had just ended, and the Bozeman Trail was the shortest route for prospectors to reach the gold rush territory of Montana except that it passed straight through the lands of the powerful Oglala Lakota When the US government demanded the construction of forts along the trail, the situation quickly dissolved into war. Captain William Fetterman had proudly boasted that he could destroy the entire Lakota nation with just 80 men. Red Cloud, with the support of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, had other ideas. In this commemorative edition, marking the 150th anniversary of Red Cloud s War, Goble recounts the tale of events through the eyes of Brave Eagle, a fictional young Lakota warrior. This new edition features an original never-before-published layout, updated and edited text, digitally enhanced artwork, and a new foreword by Robert Lewis, a Cherokee, Navaho, and Apache storyteller."

Lie Down with Lions

Lie Down with Lions
Author :
Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 321
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780451210463
ISBN-13 : 0451210468
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Lie Down with Lions by : Ken Follett

"Vintage Follett . . . This is his most ambitious novel and it succeeds admirably." —USA Today Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the Cold War, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan—to the moment of truth and deadly decision for all of them. . . .

New Spring: The Graphic Novel

New Spring: The Graphic Novel
Author :
Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 260
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466840492
ISBN-13 : 1466840498
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis New Spring: The Graphic Novel by : Robert Jordan

In the last few years before his death, Robert Jordan worked closely with Chuck Dixon and Mike Miller on the graphic adaptation of New Spring. The eight full-color issues of New Spring, released between 2005 and 2010, tell the story of the search for the infant Dragon Reborn and of the adventures of Moiraine Damodred, a young Aes Sedai, and Lan Mandragoran, the uncrowned king of a long-dead nation. Adapted by noted comics writer Chuck Dixon with the full cooperation of Robert Jordan, and illustrated by artists Mike Miller and Harvey Tolibao, New Spring will delight any of Robert Jordan's millions of readers. Tor is proud to collect all eight issues of New Spring in a single volume, which will also include developmental art, script pages, and correspondence between Jordan and Dixon. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.