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Novels of Louise Erdrich
Stories of Her People
Häftad, 2001
478 kr
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Louise Erdrich positions herself as a contemporary tribal storyteller with her interlocking tales of her Chippewa people and her German-American ancestors. From the tribe’s struggle to survive (Tracks), to the Depression (The Beet Queen), to the mid-twentieth century (Love Medicine), to …
Iroquoian Women
The Gantowisas
Häftad, 2006
557 kr
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Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas provides a thorough, organized look at the social, political, economic, and religious roles of women among the Iroquois, explaining their fit with the larger culture. Gantowisas means more than simply «woman» – gantowisas is «woman acting in her official capacity» as …
Contemporary American Indian Writing
Unsettling Literature
Av Dee Horne, Elizabeth Delaney Hoffman m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
315 kr
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Starting with the premise that American Indians have been colonized, Horne outlines the dangers of colonial mimicry. She proposes a theory of subversive mimicry through which writers can use the language of the colonial power to subvert it and inscribe diverse First Nations voices. Drawing on …
Native Americans, Archaeologists, and the Mounds
Av Barbara Alice Mann, Elizabeth Delaney Hoffman m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
829 kr
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Ever since European settlers stumbled upon the eighteenth-century mounds, explanations and interpretations of them – often ridiculous and seldom Native American – have appeared as sober scholarship. Today, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) has intensified …
Southwestern American Indian Literature
In the Classroom and Beyond
Häftad, 2007
397 kr
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Southwestern American Indian Literature: In the Classroom and Beyond addresses several challenges that teaching Southwestern American Indian literature presents, and suggests innovative ways of teaching the material. Drawing on the author’s experiences teaching literature – both in the classroom …
To Be the Main Leaders of Our People
A History of Minnesota Ojibwe Politics, 1825-1898
Häftad, 1998
741 kr
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In the spring of 1868, people from several Ojibwe villages located along the upper Mississippi River were relocated to a new reservation at White Earth, more than 100 miles to the west. In many public declarations that accompanied their forced migration, these people appeared to embrace the move, …
Feathered Heart
Häftad, 1998
409 kr
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This revised and expanded edition of The Feathered Heart, Mark Turcotte's celebrated collection of Native American poetry, brings traditional oral culture to print. Torn, painful, vibrant, and full of hope, his poetry weaves together the multilayered and textured fabric of contemporary Native …
Absentee Indians and Other Poems
Häftad, 2002
740 kr
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Absentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home, their family and national histories, and the emotional forces that help forge Native American identities. These are poems of exile, loss, and the celebration of that which …
Living in the Land of Death
The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860
Häftad, 2004
663 kr
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With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian …
Ambiguous Justice
Native Americans and the Law in Southern California, 1848-1890
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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In 1769, Spain took action to solidify control over its northern New World territories by establishing a series of missions and presidios in what is now modern California. To populate these remote establishments, the Spanish crown relied on Franciscan priests, whose role it was to convince the …
National Monuments
Häftad, 2008
513 kr
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Many of the poems in National Monuments explore bodies, particularly the bodies of indigenous women worldwide, as monuments—in life, in photos, in graves, in traveling exhibitions, and in plastic representations at the airport. Erdrich sometimes imagines what ancient bones would say if they could …
Facing the Future
The Indian Child Welfare Act at 30
Av Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Wenona T. Singel m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
927 kr
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The U.S. Congress is charged with responsibility for the protection and preservation of American Indian tribes, including Indian children. In 1978, Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), with the intent to "protect the best interests of Indian children and to promote the stability …
Dragonfly Dance
Häftad, 2010
531 kr
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Dragonfly Dance is a collection of poems remarkable for their candor and sense of catharsis. Writing from the vantage point of an American Indian women, Denise Lajimodiere opens a door into the lives of Native girls and women. Her poems often reflect the deep tensions between Native culture and …
Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki (Queen of the Woods)
Häftad, 2011
688 kr
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Simon Pokagon, the son of tribal patriarch Leopold Pokagon, was a talented writer, advocate for the Pokagon Potawatomi community, and tireless self-promoter.In 1899, shorty after his death, Pokagon's novel Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki (Queen of the Woods)—only the second ever published by an American …
Plain of Jars
and Other Stories
Av Geary Hobson
Häftad, 2011
879 kr
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In the opening story of Geary Hobson’s riveting new collection, Plain of Jars, a young private confides to his friend that he’s trying to leave the Marine Corps. “I am not doing this just because I find the Marine Corps too tough,” Warren Needham says, but because violence is contradictory to his …
Visualities
Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art
Häftad, 2011
765 kr
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In recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers such as Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Edgar Heap of Birds, Sherman Alexie, Shelley Niro, and Chris Eyre have illustrated the importance of visual culture as a means to mediate identity in contemporary Native America. This insightful …
Document of Expectations
Häftad, 2011
402 kr
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When Hopi/White Mountain Apache anthropologist Tony M. Smokerise is found murdered in his office at Central Highlands University, the task of solving the crime falls to jaded Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Charles T. Clarke. A seemingly tolerant and amicable office of higher …
Centering Anishinaabeg Studies
Understanding the World through Stories
Av Jill Doerfler, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
879 kr
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For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijiganan, offerings of the possibilities within Anishinaabeg life. Existing along a broad narrative spectrum, from aadizookaanag (traditional …
Seeing Red—Hollywood's Pixeled Skins
American Indians and Film
Av LeAnne Howe, Harvey Markowitz m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
787 kr
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At once informative, comic, and plaintive, Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. From George B. Seitz’s 1925 The Vanishing American to Rick Schroder’s 2004 Black Cloud, …
Follow the Blackbirds
Häftad, 2013
513 kr
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In language as perceptive as it is poignant, poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past, present, and future of the Dakota people. An intricate balance between the singularity of personal experience and the unity of collective longing, Follow the Blackbirds speaks to …
Bawaajimo
A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature
Häftad, 2014
763 kr
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Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature combines literary criticism, sociolinguistics, native studies, and poetics to introduce an Anishinaabe way of reading. Although nationally specific, the book speaks to a broad audience by demonstrating an indigenous literary …
Sacred Wilderness
Av Susan Power
Häftad, 2014
296 kr
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A Clan Mother story for the twenty-first century, Sacred Wilderness explores the lives of four women of different eras and backgrounds who come together to restore foundation to a mixed-up, mixed-blood woman—a woman who had been living the American dream, and found it a great maw of emptiness. …
Masculindians
Conversations about Indigenous Manhood
Av Sam McKegney
Häftad, 2014
879 kr
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Between October 2010 and August 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401, McKegney and his participants tackled crucial …
Ottawa Stories from the Springs
Anishinaabe dibaadjimowinan wodi gaa binjibaamigak wodi mookodjiwong e zhinikaadek
Häftad, 2015
514 kr
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Sometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded, after first being kept in their original copper wire format by the …
That Guy Wolf Dancing
Häftad, 2014
565 kr
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From one of the writers of the twentieth-century Native American Literary Renaissance comes a remarkable tale about how to acknowledge the past and take a chance on the future. Rooted in tribal-world consciousness, That Guy Wolf Dancing is the story of a young tribal wolf-man becoming a part of his …
Murder of Joe White
Ojibwe Leadership and Colonialism in Wisconsin
Häftad, 2014
926 kr
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In 1894 Wisconsin game wardens Horace Martin and Josiah Hicks were dispatched to arrest Joe White, an Ojibwe ogimaa (chief), for hunting deer out of season and off-reservation. Martin and Hicks found White and made an effort to arrest him. When White showed reluctance to go with the wardens, they …
Mediating Indianness
Häftad, 2015
1036 kr
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Mediating Indianness investigates a wide range of media—including print, film, theater, ritual dance, music, recorded interviews, photography, and treaty rhetoric—that have been used in exploitative, informative, educative, sustaining, protesting, or entertaining ways to negotiate Native American …
Those Who Belong
Identity, Family, Blood, and Citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg
Häftad, 2015
460 kr
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Despite the central role blood quantum played in political formations of American Indian identity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are few studies that explore how tribal nations have contended with this transformation of tribal citizenship. Those Who Belong explores how White …
Indian Country
Telling a Story in a Digital Age
Av Victoria L. LaPoe, Benjamin Rex LaPoe II m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
514 kr
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Storytelling has always been an important part of Native culture. Stories play a part in everyday Native life—they are often oral and rich in detail and language and serve as a form of recording history. Digital media now allow for the extension of this storytelling. This necessary text evaluates …
Stories for a Lost Child
Häftad, 2017
402 kr
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The summer before going into high school, Fiona receives a mysterious box in the mail, one that she hopes will answer her questions about her Anishinaabe Indian heritage. It contains stories written by the grandfather she never knew, an Anishinaabe man her mother refuses to talk about. As she reads …
