1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451783803321

Autore

Scurfield Raymond M

Titolo

Healing journeys [[electronic resource] ] : study abroad with Vietnam veterans : vol. 2 of A Vietnam trilogy / / Raymond Monsour Scurfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2006

ISBN

1-281-39569-2

9786611395698

0-87586-406-6

0-87586-405-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

616.85/21008697

Soggetti

Post-traumatic stress disorder - Treatment

Veterans - Mental health

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Veterans - Mental health

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

with; Vietnam Veterans; of A Vietnam Trilogy; Raymond Monsour Scurfield; Table of Contents; Some Terms and Definitions; Preface; Chapter 1. Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, and Back to Vietnam; Chapter 2. Medical Evacuations from the Battlefield to Stateside: A Trail of Tribulation; Chapter 3. Collusion: Sanitizing and Silencing the Truth about the Impact of War; Chapter 4. Racism and War; Chapter 5. Back to Vietnam: With Students; Chapter 6. Journal Entries-Experiences and Observations by (and for) Veterans and Students; Chapter 7. Reflections and Impact: Vietnam 2000

Chapter 8. Parallels and Benefits of Returning To Vietnam, 1989 and 2000 - and Even In 1982After-Word: Veterans and Civilians, Vietnam, 9/11 and Iraq; Appendix: Outline of Initial Mental Health Orientation Session In Vietnam, 2000; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A national faculty member for the Veterans Administration and college professor distills three decades of experience in understanding and treating the medical and psychiatric traumas of veterans of the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, and draws implications



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969661703321

Autore

Odell George H

Titolo

La Harpe's post : a tale of French-Wichita contact on the eastern plains / / George H. Odell ; with appendixes by Marie E. Brown ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8173-8215-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Disciplina

976.6004/979

Soggetti

Tawakoni Indians - First contact with other peoples

Wichita Indians - First contact with other peoples

Acculturation - Oklahoma - History - 18th century

Frontier and pioneer life - Oklahoma

Indians of North America - Oklahoma - Antiquities

Oklahoma Discovery and exploration French

Oklahoma Ethnic relations

Oklahoma Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Land That K new No European; 2. Who Were These Indians?; 3. The New World as Political Pawn; 4. Industry Presents an Opportunity; 5. A Testimony to Storage and Cooking; 6. Teasing Meaning from Bits and Pieces; 7. What Were Those People Doing There?; 8. Hypothesizing the Eighteenth Century; APPENDIXES; Notes; References Cited; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This major contribution to contact period studies points to the Lasley Vore site in modern Oklahoma as the most likely first meeting place of Plains Indians and Europeans more than 300 years ago. In 1718, Jean-Baptiste Benard, Sieur de la Harpe, departed St. Malo in Brittany for the New World. La Harpe, a member of the French bourgeoisie, arrived at Dauphin Island on the Gulf coast to take up the entrepreneurial concession provided by the director of the French colony, Jean Baptiste Lemoyne de Bienville. La Harpe's charge was to open a trading post on the Red River just above a Caddoan village