Beyond Bears

Author : Jerome A. Greene
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185643
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Bear's Paw written by Jerome A. Greene and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed for the Canadian border, hoping to find refuge in the land of the White Mother, Queen Victoria. But the army caught up with them at the Bear’s Paw Mountains in northern Montana, and following a devastating battle, Chief Joseph and most of his people surrendered. The wrenching tale of Chief Joseph and his followers is now legendary, but Bear’s Paw is not the entire story. In fact, nearly three hundred Nez Perces escaped the U.S. Army and fled into Canada. Beyond Bear’s Paw is the first book to explore the fate of these “nontreaty” Indians. Drawing on hitherto unexplored Canadian and U.S. sources, including reminiscences of Nez Perce participants, Jerome A. Greene presents an epic story of human endurance under duress. Greene vividly describes the tortuous journey of the small band who managed to elude Colonel Nelson A. Miles’s command. After the escapees crossed the “Medicine Line” into the British Possessions, they found only new trauma. Within a few years, most of them stole back to their homelands in Idaho Territory. Those who remained north of the line faced a difficult and uncertain future. In recent years, Nimiipuu descendants from the United States and Canada have revisited their common past and sought reconciliation. Beyond Bear’s Paw offers new perspectives on the Nez Perces’ struggle for freedom, their hapless rejection, and their ultimate cultural renewal.

Author : Jennifer Carson
Publisher : Prince and Pauper Press
ISBN 13 : 9781622510184
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Bears written by Jennifer Carson and published by Prince and Pauper Press. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A how-to book of drawing, designing, and sewing your own soft creatures. Illustrations are provided for the basic construction and sewing with patterns that are included in the book.

Author : Sylvia Dolson
Publisher : Get Bear Smart Society
ISBN 13 : 0981381324
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joy of Bears written by Sylvia Dolson and published by Get Bear Smart Society. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of breathtaking images and thought-provoking words sure to bring joy to your heart and enrich your spirit. Take an inspiring journey into the world of the great bear and discover the true and often unseen nature of black bears, grizzlies and polar bears. Celebrate all that is wild! (Proceeds from the sale of this book support Get Bear Smart Society's work helping people to understand and live with our neigh-bears.)

Author : Heather A. Lapham
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 168340145X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bears written by Heather A. Lapham and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears in Indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and historical research on the topic. Bears charts the special relationship between the American black bear and humans in eastern Native American cultures across thousands of years. These essays draw on zooarchaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence from nearly 300 archaeological sites from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico. Contributors explore the ways bears have been treated as something akin to another kind of human—in the words of anthropologist Irving Hallowell, “other than human persons”—in Algonquian, Cherokee, Iroquois, Meskwaki, Creek, and many other Native cultures. Case studies focus on bear imagery in Native art and artifacts; the religious and economic significance of bears and bear products such as meat, fat, oil, and pelts; bears in Native worldviews, kinship systems, and cosmologies; and the use of bears as commodities in transatlantic trade. The case studies in Bears demonstrate that bears were not only a source of food, but were also religious, economic, and political icons within Indigenous cultures. This volume convincingly portrays the black bear as one of the most socially significant species in Native eastern North America. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author : Ruth Krauss
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006027994X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bears written by Ruth Krauss and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With just 27 words, the inimitable Ruth Krauss created a charming little universe. Now Maurice Sendak has turned her bears into a troupe of players in a slapstick comedy starring a familiar boy in a wolf suit.

Author : Bjorn Dihle
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680513109
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shape in the Dark written by Bjorn Dihle and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Shape in the Dark, wilderness guide and lifelong Alaskan Bjorn Dihle weaves personal experience with historical and contemporary accounts to explore the world of brown bears--from encounters with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, frightening attacks including the famed death of Timothy Treadwell, the controversies related to bear hunting, the animal’s place in native cultures, and the impacts on the species from habitat degradation and climate change. Much more than a report on human-bear interactions, this compelling story intimately explores our relationship with one of the world’s most powerful predators. An authentic and thoughtful work, it blends outdoor adventure, history, and elements of memoir to present a mesmerizing portrait of Alaska’s brown bears and grizzlies, informed by the species’ larger history and their fragile future.

Author : Karma Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442489367
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bear's Loose Tooth written by Karma Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bear discovers he has a loose tooth, his friends try to help make it fall out.

Author : Stephen Herrero
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1553653874
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smiling Bears written by Stephen Herrero and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Zookeeper Excellence Award-winning researcher presents a journey into the psychological lives of bears, outlining her approach to bear study while sharing her experiences of learning about numerous individual bears, from a proud cub who was learning to crack nuts to a hostile bear who refused her friendship.

Author : Alice Wondrak Biel
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700614583
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do (Not) Feed the Bears written by Alice Wondrak Biel and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a familiar sight at Yellowstone National Park: traffic backed up for miles as visitors fed bears from their cars. It may have been against the rules, but park officials were willing to turn a blind eye if it kept the public happy. But bear feeding eventually became too widespread and dangerous to everyone-including the bears-for the National Park Service (NPS) to allow it any longer. As one of the park's most beloved and enduring symbols, the Yellowstone bears have long been a flashpoint for controversy. Alice Wondrak Biel traces the evolution of their complex relationship with humans-from the creation of the first staged wildlife viewing areas to the present-and situates that relationship within the broader context of American cultural history. Early on, park bears were largely thought of as performers or surrogate pets and were routinely fed handouts from cars, as well as hotel garbage dumped at park-sanctioned "lunch counters for bears." But as these activities led to ever-greater numbers of tourist injuries, and of bears killed as a result, and as ideas about conservation and the NPS mission changed, the agency refashioned the bear's image from cute circus performer to dangerous wild animal and, eventually, to keystone inhabitant of a fragile ecosystem. Drawing on the history of recorded interactions with bears and providing telling photographs depicting the evolving bear-human relationship, Biel traces the reaction of park visitors to the NPS's efforts—from warnings by Yogi Bear (which few tourists took seriously) to the increasing promotion of key ecological issues and concerns. Ultimately, as the rules were enforced and tourist behavior dramatically shifted, the bears returned to a more natural state of existence. Biel's entertaining and informative account tracks this gradual "renaturalization" while also providing a cautionary tale about the need for careful negotiation at the complex nexus of tourists, bears, and all things wild.

Author : Meg McKinlay
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763658901
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Bears written by Meg McKinlay and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful story that incorporates classic fairy tale themes introduces young Ella, who insists that stories require magical fairies, beautiful princesses and even the occasional monster, but absolutely no bears.