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| Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Warhus
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1326834
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 242
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0312150547
Dewey Decimal Number: 970.00497
EAN: 9780312150549
ASIN: 0312150547
Publication Date: April 1997
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The Europeans who conquered the Americas and their descendants were not the first to map the hemisphere, museum curator Mark Warhus writes in this fascinating, richly illustrated study of Native American cartography. Indian maps--made on buffalo skins, rocks, bark, and, later, paper--claimed territorial rights, explained treaties among nations, delineated trade routes, and showed the locations of resources. Many of those maps wound up in dusty attics and the back shelves of museums, where Warhus has hunted them out; his stories of finding these lost treasures are as illuminating as his interpretations of what might be called pre-scientific ways of graphically describing the land. These maps, he writes, are of importance today not only for their own sake, but also as evidence of historic holdings in current claims over lost territories.
Product Description
Opening a window for modern readers to see how the original inhabitants viewed the American continent more than three hundred years ago, this unique and valuable reference combines rare maps made by Native Americans with essays on their historical and cultural context.
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can't seize the land before it's been described November 10, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a story of dispossession and of cultural memory. Mark Warhus reveals an astonishing legacy of native American cartography. Most of the maps are snapshots of important moments in the collision of two cultures. Some of these maps are the absolute last artifacts of tribes who have disappeared, such as the maps of Shanawdithit (Nancy) the last surviving member of the Beothucks (or Red Indians of Newfoundland).Other maps demonstrate the deep ties to tribal lands once lost but more recently regained. Native American mapmaking is intertwined with oral history. Therefore, these maps are also historical treasures.
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