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Dennis McAuliffe Jr., a journalist, grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. But sixty-six years later, he learns by chance that the cause was a gunshot wound. Investigating the circumstances, he soon finds himself peeling away the layers of a suppressed nightmare chapter of American history: the unspeakable brutality of the "Osage Reign of Terror." He learns that Sybil...
83) 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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This path breaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly. As Brianna Theobald illustrates, the federal government and local authorities have long sought to control Indigenous...
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Pam nad ydym yn deall y ddadl gwn sy'n ymfflamychu barn America? Mae'r hanesydd Jensen Cox yn esbonio ei darddiad a'i ddigwyddiadau cyfredol i ni. Bob blwyddyn, mae llofruddiaethau torfol yn plymio'r Unol Daleithiau i arswyd. Ac eto, mae'r rhyddid i fod yn arfog yn hawl sylfaenol, yn seiliedig ar yr ail welliant sacrosanct i'r Cyfansoddiad, a gefnogir gan fwyafrif o Americanwyr: y Gymdeithas Reifflau Genedlaethol bwerus, mamau heddychlon, helwyr,...
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A survey of current critical perspectives on how North American indigenous peoples are viewed and represented transnationally.
An indispensable resource for readers, students, and scholars of Native literatures in North America, Native Authenticity offers a clear, comprehensive, and systematic look at the diversity of critical approaches to the idea of "Indian-ness." Some of the foremost transatlantic scholars of Native Studies in North America and...
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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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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...
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Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.
Since the rise of the Native American Renaissance in literature and culture during the American civil rights period, a rich critical discourse has been developed to provide a range of interpretive frameworks for the study, recovery, and teaching of Native American literary and cultural production. For the...
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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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"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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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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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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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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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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Explores the work of Maurice Kenny, a pivotal figure in American Indian literature from the 1950s to the present.
This collection explores the broad range of works by Mohawk writer Maurice Kenny (1929-), a pivotal figure in American Indian literature from the 1950s to the present. Born in Cape Vincent, New York and the author of dozens of books of poetry, fiction, and essays, Kenny portrays the unique experience of Native New York and tells its history...
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In Understanding Louise Erdrich, Seema Kurup offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Native American novelist whose work stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe people to survive colonization and contemporary reservation life. Kurup traces in Erdrich's oeuvre the theme of colonization, both historical and cultural, and its lasting effects, starting with the various novels of the Love Medicine epic, the National Book...
98) 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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Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practices to American literary production.
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100) Native American History: Accurate & Comprehensive History, Origins, Culture, Tribes, Legends, Myt
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Discover The Soul, Spirit & History of The Great Native American HeritageThe mysterious beginnings of Indigenous communities began in North America over 15,000 years ago. Tragically, and for far too long, the various Indigenous cultures in North America have been systematically mistreated, misrepresented, and misunderstood. This book is a compelling, but difficult read. It tells the story of Native American History which many have books left out,...
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