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Firesticks
A Collection of Stories
Av Diane Glancy
Inbunden, 1993
335 kr
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Incorporating elements of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, Diane Glancy's stories are lyrical yet down to earth, often tough and gritty. Experimental, sometimes surreal in form, they nevertheless concern people who are very real-a color-blind young boy who watches planes in flight and …
Summer in the Spring
Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories
Av Gerald Vizenor, Gerald Vizenor
Häftad, 1993
253 kr
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The Anishinaabe, otherwise named the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are famous for their lyric songs and stories, particularly because of their compassionate trickster, naanabozbo, and the healing rituals still practiced today in the society of the Midewiwin. The poems and tales, interpreted and reexpressed …
Narrative Chance
Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures
Av Gerald Vizenor, James E. Seaver
Häftad, 1993
286 kr
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Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures, comic and tragic world views, and …
Dead Voices
Natural Agonies in the New World
Häftad, 1994
253 kr
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Gerald Vizenor gives life to traditional tribal stories by presenting them in a new perspective: he challenges the idyllic perception of rural life, offering in its stead an unusual vision of survival in the cities-the sanctuaries for humans and animals. It is a tribal vision, a quest for …
Other Destinies
Understanding the American Indian Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 1994
286 kr
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This first book-length critical analysis of the full range of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery. In his introduction, Louis Owens places the novels in context by considering their relationships to …
Only Approved Indians
Stories
Inbunden, 1995
400 kr
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In these short stories, Jack D. Forbes captures the remarkable breadth and variety of American Indian life. Drawing on his skills as scholar and native activist, and, above all, as artist, Forbes enlarges our sense of how American Indians experience themselves and the world around them.Though all …
Absence of Angels
A Novel
Av W. S. Penn
Häftad, 1995
286 kr
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The narrator-protagonist of this magical novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life is Albert (Alley) Hummingbird, a self-conscious, shy college student who masks his feelings with humor and who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him. Alley is not supposed to live at birth, but his …
Wolfsong
A Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 1995
286 kr
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In the Cascade Range of northwest Washington, Tom Joseph, a young Indian who had gone south to attend college, returns for his uncle's funeral and finds himself caught up in the old man's fight to save the wilderness from destruction. In his first novel, Louis Owens exposes the raw edge of the …
Faces in the Moon
A Novel
Häftad, 1995
286 kr
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Faces in the Moon is the story of three generations of Cherokee women, as viewed by the youngest, Lucie, a woman who has been able to use education and her imagination to escape the confines of her rootless, impoverished upbringing. When her mother's illness summons her back to Oklahoma, Lucie …
Native American Perspectives on Literature and History
Häftad, 1995
283 kr
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Native American Perspectives on Literature and History is a volume of essays by Indian and white scholars on issues such as ethnic identity, Indians in American mythology, how Indians write about Indians, and Indian crime and punishment.James Ruppert explores the bicultural nature of Indian writers …
Bone Game
A Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 1996
317 kr
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Bone Game is a murder mystery on a grand scale. Cole McCurtain, a mixed-blood Indian professor of Indian Studies at Santa Cruz, California, is haunted by dreams dating back to events of Spanish California. Images of a Spanish priest murdered in 1812, a rearing grizzly bear, and a black-and-white …
Eye Killers
A Novel
Av A. A. Carr
Häftad, 1996
317 kr
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Lurking in the caves of eastern New Mexico, Falke, a thousand-year-old vampire, chooses his next bride: Melissa Roanhorse, an Albuquerque teenager. To regain his granddaughter's life, Michael Roanhorse, an old Navajo sheepherder wise to the power of myth, must outwit the vampire and his loyal …
Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction
Häftad, 1995
188 kr
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Mediation"" is the term James Ruppert uses to describe his theory of reading Native American fiction. Focusing on the novels of six major contemporary American writers - N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, D'Arcy McNickle, and Louise Erdrich - Ruppert analyzes the …
Dark River
A Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 2000
286 kr
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Jacob Nashoba's journey has taken him from his Choctaw homeland in Mississippi to Vietnam and finally to a small reservation in the mountains of eastern Arizona. A tribal ranger, he lives among people far different from any he has known. Balanced precariously between isolation and community, he is …
Briefcase Warriors
Stories for the Stage
Inbunden, 2001
400 kr
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In Briefcase Warriors, a collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young …
I Hear the Train
Reflections, Inventions, Refractions
Av Louis Owens
Inbunden, 2001
357 kr
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In this innovative collection, Louis Owens blends autobiography, short fiction, and literary criticism to reflect on his experiences as a mixedblood Indian in America.In sophisticated prose, Owens reveals the many timbres of his voice--humor, humility,love, joy, struggle, confusion, and clarity. We …
Nightland
A Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 2001
253 kr
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In the hot, dry New Mexico wilderness, Will and Billy, two half-Cherokee ranchers, discover a corpse and a suitcase containing nearly a million dollars. As the two friends contemplate what to do with the money, they set into motion a series of events that will cost them more than they want to …
Mixedblood Messages
Literature, Film, Family, Place
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 2001
286 kr
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In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the environment as depicted in literature and film and as embodied in his own mixedblood roots in family and land. Powerful social and historical forces, he maintains, conspire to …
Chancers
A Novel
Häftad, 2001
171 kr
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Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.Possessed by the demonic …
Mask Maker
Av Diane Glancy
Inbunden, 2002
335 kr
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In The Mask Maker, Diane Glancy tells the story of Edith Lewis, a recently divorced mixed-blood American Indian, as she travels the state of Oklahoma teaching students the art and custom of mask-making. A complex, subtle tale about f1esh-and-blood human beings, this enchanting novel shows how one …
Trickster of Liberty
Native Heirs to a Wild Baronage
Häftad, 2005
219 kr
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Inventive, provocative, and ultimately affirmative, The Trickster of Liberty has become a classic in the repertoire of celebrated author Gerald Vizenor. A series of related stories, the novel follows the lives of seven mixedblood trickster siblings who began their lives on a reservation in northern …
Pipe for February
A Novel
Häftad, 2005
217 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the Osage Indians owned Oklahoma's most valuable oil reserves and became members of the world's first wealthy oil population. Osage children and grandchildren continued to respect the old customs and ways, but now they also had lives of leisure: purchasing …
Singing Bird
A Cherokee Novel
Av John Milton Oskison, Melinda Smith Mullikin m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
286 kr
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A rediscovered novel portrays Cherokees in transitionJohn Milton Oskison was a mixed-blood Cherokee known for his writing and his activism on behalf of Indian causes. The Singing Bird, never before published, is quite possibly the first historical novel written by a Cherokee.Set in the 1840s and …
Muting White Noise
Native American and European American Novel Traditions
Av James H. Cox
Häftad, 2009
317 kr
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Native American fiction writers have confronted Euro-American narratives about Indians and the colonial world those narratives help create. These Native authors offer stories in which Indians remake this colonial world by resisting conquest and assimilation, sustaining their cultures and …
Pushing the Bear
After the Trail of Tears
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2009
177 kr
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It is February 1839, and the survivors of the Cherokee Trail of Tears have just arrived in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. A quarter of the removed Indian population have died along the way, victims of cold, disease, and despair. Now the Cherokee people confront an unknown future. How will they …
Where the Pavement Ends
Five Native American Plays
Häftad, 2009
203 kr
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Five plays by the award-winning Native playwrightWhen leading Assiniboine playwright Wil-liam S. Yellow Robe, Jr., began his theatrical career, few roles existed for American Indians. So he wrote his own plays, creating parts for himself and other Native actors.Where the Pavement Ends contains five …
Cherokee Syllabary
Writing the People's Perseverance
Inbunden, 2011
417 kr
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In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creation - the Cherokee syllabary - helped his people learn to read and write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This …
Twenty Thousand Mornings
An Autobiography
Av John Joseph Mathews, Susan Kalter
Inbunden, 2012
368 kr
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When John Joseph Mathews (1894-1979) began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand …
American Gypsy
Six Native American Plays
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2012
256 kr
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In American Gypsy, a collection of six plays, Diane Glancy uses a mélange of voices to invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. Glancy intermixes poetry and prose to address themes of gender, generational relationships, acculturation, myth, and tensions between Christianity …
Cherokee Syllabary
Writing the People's Perseverance
Häftad, 2013
284 kr
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In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creation - the Cherokee syllabary - helped his people learn to read and write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This …
