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This remarkable study rescues from undeserved obscurity the name and reputation of Sacajawea - a true Native American heroine. The volume also unravels the tangled threads of her family life and traces the career of her son Baptiste, the "papoose" of the Lewis and Clark expedition. 21 illustrations, including a map. Bibliography. Index. 6 Appendices.
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The Volcano Is Our Home When Alan Akana realized he had missed the gift of hearing many of his familys stories, his search for his history became a gift to all his readers. The Volcano is Our Home introduces us in a very personal way to the influences that shaped Hawaii from an isolated group of islands inhabited by remarkable people with a unique and beautiful culture into the tourist mecca known today by travelers from all over the world. The author...
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Who were the first real Americans? In this book you will be introduced to the American Indians, their society and their culture! You'll learn amazing facts which you never would have guessed, from cuisine and sports to crafts, pottery, sculptures or even ships.
"The American Indians" will interest general readers as well as scholars and students in anthropology, history, literature, education, cultural studies, gender studies, American Studies, and...
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The ancestral spirits of the Shoshone are kidnapped just as Christopher Columbus hears the words, land Ho! Coincidence? Pat Dolans book may surprise you. Legend of the Pronghorn follows several generations of Shoshone as they deal with the encroaching white eyes and the subsequent degradation of their ancient culture. Mysteriously, many of their experiences are mirrored many years later in the lives of a wayward high school cross-country team desperately...
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Terry Wildman writes of a justice long-denied, not only for Native peoples who have suffered the loss of lands, livelihood, and life as the American empire spread across the continent, but also for those who struggle for life and liberty to this very day. Like the prophets of Israel, he seeks to correct our eyesight-to set before us God's vision and God's truth and to expose things that we, the American church, would rather not see about ourselves....
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Spanish accounts and Mesoamerican ruins have ensured that 500 years later, people remain fascinated by civilizations like the Maya and Aztec, as well as sites such as Chichen Itza and Tikal. What is often overlooked is that the Maya and Aztec established kingdoms on lands that had been inhabited for millennia before them, and ancient cultures had not only left ruins but also influenced the civilizations that came after them. Thus, while sites like...
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First published in 1916, "From the Deep Woods to Civilization" is the fascinating life account by Charles A. Eastman. Born in 1858 on a Santee Dakota reservation near Redwood Falls, Minnesota, Eastman was educated as a physician at Boston University and was a prolific author and national lecturer. Widely regarded as one of the twentieth-century's most important speakers on Sioux culture and history, Eastman was a significant figure in the movement...
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This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan." The illustrations, of places, creatures,...
69) Cheyenne Gold
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Christine's family is slaughtered by Indians, and she is raised by her uncle. However, his debts make her payoff to a corrupt Lieutenant. She is saved by a Cheyenne warrior, but how can she be grateful to a savage?
Blade is half-Cheyenne and half-French, but he also holds his people's spiritual heritage of shifting into their power animal.
With a white woman invading his thoughts, can he keep his ability and his growing love for her a secret? Especially...
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The traditional stories collected in this volume link the memories of Passamaquoddy elders to the world of today's younger generations. The stories help us understand how Passamaquoddy community and culture have changed over the years. Connections between the generations have been weakened over the past few decades with the potential loss of the Passamaquoddy language, which is still spoken fluently by older members of the community.
Until just a...
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"The practical necessity of being preserved and handed on by word of mouth only, must be constantly borne in mind in considering the development of Indian verse forms. It operated to keep poetry tied to its twin-born melody, which assisted in memory, and was constantly at work modifying the native tendency to adjust the rhythm to every changing movement of the story."
Bringing together the chants, songs and oral legends of Native American tribes from...
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Cette anthologie est une plongée dans la culture et dans l'imaginaire des Premières Nations, des Métis et des Inuits.
C'est aussi l'esquisse d'une pensée autochtone par les Autochtones. Pour un vivre-ensemble, pour échanger et établir la relation, commençons par découvrir la profondeur de ces histoires et de ces univers.
Anthologie dirigée par Marie-Hélène Jeannotte, Jonathan Lamy et Isabelle St-Amand
Traduction de Jean-Pierre Pelletier
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In the spring of 1912, Anishinaabe guide Billy Magee received a letter from future conservationist Ernest Oberholtzer asking Magee to accompany him on a journey. Soon after the two set off on a five-month canoe expedition following the old way north, a largely unmapped territory that would test both their endurance and their friendship. Tracing the route of the Oberholtzer-Magee expedition, The Old Way North transports readers through the history...
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Blood, guts, dust and hatred: the real history of the American West. “Today is a Good Day to Fight” covers the period from the initial penetration of the region by settlers and prospectors in the 1840s until the end of the Indian Wars in the 1890s. It explains the history of white-Indian conflict from the military point of view, showing how the United States used its army to wage terrible wars of conquest upon Native American peoples in order...
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Contents: Introduction, Mermaids, Let's Beat the Shit Out of Herman Rosko!, Why Ravens Smile to Little Old Ladies as they Walk By..., the uranium leaking from port radium and rayrock mines is killing us, The Night Charles Bukowski Died, Sky Burial, Snow White Nothing for Miles, My Fifth Step, How I Saved Christmas, Mermaids, Illustrated, Hickey Gone Wrong, Illustrated, Afterwords, Acknowledgements
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Contents: The Birth of Nenaboozhoo; Nenaboozhoo and the Wolf; Nenaboozhoo and the Serpents; Nenaboozhoo and the Great Flood; Nenaboozhoo Creates the Spirit World; Jiibayaboos; Nenaboozhoo and the Great Flood of Lake Huron; Nenaboozhoo and Naadowe Ojiibik; How the Nmepin (Ginger) Got its Name; Nenaboozhoo and the Walleye; Nenaboozhoo and the Poplar Tree; Black Spots on the Birch Tree; Fish Skin Window; Traditional Teaching; The Stranger with the Big...
77) Muscogee Sendero de Lágrimas: Una Guía Fascinante de las Expulsiones Forzadas de las Naciones Che
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Explora la Cruel Historia del Sendero de Lágrimas
Uno de los capítulos más oscuros y más crueles de la historia de los Estados Unidos ocurrió cuando el joven gobierno de la nación decidió expulsar a los pueblos nativos de sus tierras para lograr sus propios beneficios.
Después de haber ayudado a los colonos durante cientos de años, cinco tribus nativas americanas encontraron cada vez más difícil relacionarse y confiar en el país que...
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A unique portrayal of four members of the American Indian Movement-with fascinating full-color images created by Leonard Peltier!
In I Will, Sheron Wyant-Leonard weaves the personal recollections of four members of the American Indian Movement-Leonard Peltier, Dennis Banks, Dorothy Ninham, and her husband Herb Powless-into a unique narrative to expose their trials and tribulations over the course of two decades.
When the last gunshots of the Indian...
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This new anthology of short fiction by Native Americans features a wide range of contemporary writers. After a brief introductory section that includes early-20th-century stories by Pauline Johnson, Charles A. Eastman, John M. Oskison, and others, the collection focuses on authors who came to prominence in the decades following World War II.
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The Whaling People live along the west coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery in Washington. They comprise more than 20 First Nations, including the Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly called Nootka), Ditidaht, Pacheedaht and Makah. These socially related people enjoyed a highly organized, tradition-based culture for centuries before Europeans arrived. As whaling societies, they had a unique relationship with the sea. In The Whaling People, Eugene Arima...
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