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This work applies generational mapping to the Ancestral Pueblo, using 15-year intervals. Distinct phases, found in other cultures, will be tested as to their applicability. They include: 1) "Invisible" beginnings; 2) Establishment; 3) Novel Consolidation and Opening Up; 4) Crisis & Creativity; 5) Empire and inclusion; and 6) Renewal or extinction? These findings will help the reader grasp the temporal flow of the Indigenous Southwest, which might...
2) Langue(s) en portage: Résurgence littéraire et langagière dans les écritures autochtones féminines
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Cet ouvrage se penche sur la manière dont les autrices autochtones contemporaines, qui écrivent majoritairement en anglais ou en français, négocient avec le langage en créant une alternative critique à la dépossession et à l'invisibilisation qui ont marqué l'histoire de leurs peuples. Il montre comment, de cette littérature produite à la croisée des espaces linguistiques et appuyée sur une imagination poétique et narrative foisonnante,...
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Asians were The First Human Being Inhabitants of The North American Continent and The South American Continent. The Indigenous People Ancestors crossed The Bering Sound and The Land became their most profitable Natural Resource, with The Supernatural Spiritual Forces that shaped their Belief. In that period, Three Native American Languages prevailed: Algonquian - Speakers, Iroquoian - Speakers, Siouan - Speakers. Later, Leif Eriksson, The Viking Seaman,...
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"A fast and exciting read. . . . This survey of Owsley's career will appeal to both science and legal buffs." --Publishers Weekly
The story of the Smithsonian's brilliant forensic anthropologist and the 9,000-year-old skeleton that sparked his landmark lawsuit against the U.S. government
When he is not studying ancient skeletons, Doug Owsley is enlisted by the State Department and the FBI to identify remains. He has worked on some of the most notorious...
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Hiver 2015: Philippe Ducros parcourt le Québec et ses réserves autochtones. Il veut voir ces peuples en bordure des villes et de l'immensité, mesurer le déracinement et les ravages de l'endoctrinement. Il écoute, tente de déchiffrer les blessures du passé et la force tranquille de ces survivants de l'Histoire, avec l'intuition qu'à travers eux, il apprendra à guérir, lui aussi. En résulte un récit polyphonique, entre road trip, carnet...
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Combining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the American Revolution who risked their homeland, their culture, and their lives to join in a war that gave birth to a new nation at the expense of their own. Revealing for the first time the full sacrifice of the Oneidas in securing independence, Forgotten Allies offers poignant insights about Oneida culture...
7) La historia no Contada sobre La Conquista de la Gran Tenochtitlan: Desde el inicio de la llegada de
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Esta es la historia detrás de la conquista de la gran Tenochtitlán: desde el choque de culturas hasta la caída de los Aztecas. Prepárate para embarcarte en un viaje que desentraña las complejidades de la época, teje el pasado con el presente y despierta los ecos de una era que cambió el mundo para siempre. Contada como nunca antes, con datos históricos que muy pocos conocen. "En el siglo XVI, un audaz y ambicioso grupo de exploradores europeos...
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The Algonquin, or Eastern Woodlands Indian, tribes inhabited Indiana as the Europeans began penetrating the region in the 17th Century. The tribes in Indiana included the Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Miami, Potawatomie, Kickapoo, and others.The Algonquin Tribes of Indiana relates the general culture, lifestyle, and agriculture of this vast family of Amerindian tribes.
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Being in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The longest, Raven Travelling, is the most complex version of the story of the Raven ever recorded on the Northwest Coast. The third is The Qquuna Cycle, the largest and most complex literary work in any Native Canadian language. It is a poem of epic length and one of the true masterpieces...
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"The plan was carried out, as you will see. I went with them, and for two years I did not see a white man. This was in August 1854. I was just about twelve years old at the time."
At age 12 Elijah Nicholas Wilson ran away from his family. Fighting off the constraints of his Mormon upbringing he found a new home with a Shoshone Indian tribe. Under their guidance, particularly of the Great Chief Washakie, he learned how to live and survive in the wild...
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Will these kid detectives finally give a grieving family the answers they've waited decades to receive?A fun adventure appropriate for all ages. Daniel just can't seem to stay out of trouble. On a family outing to the beach, he wanders away and stumbles across an old bank box washed-up on shore and buried in the sand. Determined to solve the mystery and return the box's treasures to their rightful owner, Daniel and his friends embark on a thrilling...
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In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs "modes of being" that confronted violent colonial times. Johnson particularly assesses how these authors connected to places-whether real or imagined-and how those connections enabled them to make worlds in spite of the violence of slavery and settler colonialism. Johnson engages with works...
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This amazing book chronicles the adventures of Thomas Polywetewa, a young Hopi boy who lives on the Hopi reservation in Northern Arizona. Partially based on a famous Hopi story by Edward Kennard, the story describes the battle to save a Hopi village from plunder. The book explores many aspects of the wonderful culture of the Hopi tribe. Young Thomas is intent on learning everything he can about the "Hopi Way" from his grandfather, the most important...
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Hailed as a contemporary classic of oral literature, The Days of Augusta is Shuswap elder Augusta Evans' memories of a lifetime that spanned from 1888 to 1978.
Accompanied by Robert Keziere's intimate photographs, Augusta's rhythmic prose reads like poetry. She depicts with strength and eloquence her own story-her days at the Mission School, making good baskets and catching salmon, the pain of giving birth and the death of a son-as well as the...
15) Pocahontas
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Pocahontas, a young Indian princess follows the lives of a family of beavers. When white hunters come on the scene Pocahontas goes to father, the chief, for help.
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Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves.
Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of ...
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