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Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors, in this own-voices debut perfect for fans of Winter Counts. No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so...
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El volumen que el lector tiene en sus manos está compuesto por breves descripciones y aportes de procesos de investigación diversos cuya finalidad es caracterizar a dos poblaciones que históricamente han sido segregadas hacia la vulnerabilidad: la juventud y la población indígena.
Este libro resume, desde una posición empírica y teórica, lo que dichas poblaciones han experimentado histórica y actualmente como parte de un crecimiento desigual...
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Born at the turn of the 21st century, The Storyteller, also known as Ishkwegaabawiikwe (Last Standing Woman), carries her people's past within her memories. The White Earth Anishinaabe people have lived on the same land for over a thousand years. Among the towering white pines and rolling hills, the people of each generation are born, live out their lives, and are buried.
The arrival of European missionaries changes the community forever. Government...
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When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket-list road trip, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it, Tilly has said good-bye to her family and is on an adventure that will transform her in ways she could not predict, just as it will for the elders who soon dub themselves "the Crazy Eights."
The Crazy Eights each choose a stop-somewhere or something they've always wanted to experience-on the way to their...
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"Exploring intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities--and strategies for healing--with provocative prose and an empathetic approach Indigenous peoples have shockingly higher rates of addiction, depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions than other North Americans. According to the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, these are a result of intergenerational trauma: the unresolved terror, anger, fear, and grief created in Indigenous...
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American Indian Stories (1921) is a collection of stories and essays from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá. Published while Zitkála-Šá was at the height of her career as an artist and activist, American Indian Stories collects the author's personal experiences, the legends and stories passed down through Sioux oral tradition, and her own reflections on the mistreatment of American Indians nationwide.
In "My Mother," Zitkála-Šá remembers...
67) Heart Chants
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Burnt-out former foreign correspondent Phillip McGuire is happy owning and running a bar in Lawrence, Kansas. He's happy with his new house in the country. But he's not happy. When two female Navajo students go missing from Haskell Indican College, he agrees to shelter a third. And then a mysterious, beautiful, Chinese woman, pursuing a hidden agenda, stumbles into his life. All the while, a half-Navajo young man begins to execute a plan to reopen...
68) Taino: A Novel
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"JosÉ [Barreiro] writes the true story in TaÍno-the Native view of what Columbus brought. Across the Americas, invasion, and resistance, the TaÍno story repeated many times over." – Chief Oren Lyons (Joagquisho), Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation The story of what really happened when Columbus arrived in the "New World," as told by the TaÍno people who were impacted In 1532, an elderly TaÍno man named GuaikÁn sits down to write his story-an in-depth...
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A novel of love and betrayal dealing with the biggest issues facing Canada's Indigenous peoples today. In the summer of 1972, a float plane carrying a team of child welfare officials lands on a river flowing through the Yellow Dog Indian reserve. Their mission is to seize the twin babies of an Indigenous couple as part of an illegal scheme cooked up by the federal government to adopt out tens of thousands of Native children to white families. The...
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Clásicos de literatura del Oeste para observar la transformación del sueño americano.
El sueño pastoral americano se ha transformado en un crudo sueño de poder y riqueza. ¿Cómo ha sucedido?
El progreso y las tecnologías transformaron nuestra sociedad.
Estos autores clásicos muestran el impacto de la llegada del ferrocarril (Frank Norris). La aparición de una mujer en medio del Oeste (Stehen Crane). La muerte por congelación de un hombre...
71) What Fox Knew
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With poems that both calm and awaken, Mary Barnes brings her Ojibwe roots to the fore and elegantly coaxes out the seemingly quiet world we often take for granted in What Fox Knew. In this masterful first collection, Barnes reveals this world anew, with tempered grace.
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This hieroglyphic poetry book is the first of its kind. Aboriginal author/artist Michelle Sylliboy blends her poetry, photography, and Mi'kmaq (L'nuk) hieroglyphic poetry in this unprecedented book. Hieroglyphic (komqwejwi'kasikl) symbols dominated the landscape of the seven districts of the L'nuk Nation prior to colonization. Kiskajeyi. I AM READY was released in 2019, the United Nations Year of Indigenous Languages.
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Quand une société s'effondre, une autre renaît.
Une petite communauté anishinaabe est plongée dans le noir, alors que l'hiver s'annonce. Plus d'électricité ni de moyens
de communication. L'arrivée inopinée de visiteurs fuyant l'effondrement de la société dans le Sud attise les tensions et divise les allégeances. Les mois durs de l'hiver s'éternisent, la pénurie de nourriture s'aggrave et s'accumulent les cadavres. La véritable menace,...
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Flint and Feather (1913) is a collection of the complete poems of E. Pauline Johnson. Revered as one the foremost Canadian poets of her time, Johnson was a prolific writer whose works explored her Mohawk heritage while shedding light on the racism and persecution faced by indigenous peoples across North America.
"The lyrical verse herein is as a 'Skyward floating feather, / Sailing on summer air.' And yet that feather may be the eagle plume that...
76) Inagehi
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From Award-winner Jack Cady comes a novel that is part murder-mystery, part classical tragedy, and part spiritual journey. Set among the Cherokee of North Carolina in the 1950s, Inagehi is the story of a young woman who inherits a mountain and the mystery of her father's death. With themes as ancient as the existence of God and as modern as post-traumatic stress disorder, Inagehi answers that voice inside us all that asks how "it" all fits together....
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Il y a une certaine impuissance au fait d'être témoin.
Plus personne ne vient ici à part moi. On dirait que je ne peux m'empêcher de revenir dans ce lieu o tout le monde est mort.
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Doué du pouvoir de se métamorphoser afi n de fouiner dans les histoires des gens et d'écouter les chants secrets de la forêt, Vison connaît tout de l'origine du mal qui s'abat sur Celia et le village nuu'chalnulth de la cte du Pacifi que. Tout s'effondre...
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En éliminant le sous-bois qui gêne le passage d'un oléoduc, la multinationale Domidion provoque un déversement mortel sur la cte de la Colombie-Britannique. Dorian Asher, le PDG, s'amuse à oublier son divorce et son mal-être par des dépenses somptuaires. Le chercheur Gabriel Quinn, responsable de la catastrophe, retourne s'enfermer près de la réserve de sa mère, désormais condamnée. Il y rencontre des survivants : Mara Reid, peintre ayant...
79) Blue Bear Woman
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Blue Bear Woman or Ourse bleueis the first novel in Quebec written by an Indigenous woman. The story of a young Cree woman's search for her roots and identity, this is also the author's debut novel, originally published in 2007, and it will be her second book to be published in English. The novel has been described as a "texte de resistance", showing contemporary Indigenous life and the impact on the Cree of the building of the Eastmain dam in northern...
80) God's Country 2
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Orphaned at an early age, eleven-year-old Carrie Camden gets adopted and comes to the Rocky Mountains in 1829, where she is once again orphaned by an Indian attack. She is assigned to mountain man Garrett Carter for her care.
Wise beyond her years and tough as nails, the devious "bad kid" makes an indelible impression on Jake, Right Hand, Fat, Dan, and the other mountain men. The poor Choteau brothers become the object of her wrath, and pay a never...
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