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Three Fires Unity
The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands
Av Phil Bellfy
Inbunden, 2011
413 kr
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The Lake Huron area of the Upper Great Lakes region, an area spreading across vast parts of the United States and Canada, has been inhabited by the Anishnaabeg for millennia. Since their first contact with Europeans around 1600, the Anishnaabeg have interacted with-and struggled against-changing …
Boarding School Seasons
American Indian Families, 1900-1940
Inbunden, 1998
495 kr
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The paperback edition features a new introduction by the author.Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, …
Northern Athabascan Survival
Women, Community, and the Future
Inbunden, 2002
570 kr
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The Northern Athabascan peoples of the Alaskan interior and the Yukon have survived centuries of contact and attempted domination by outsiders. Their lives today are rich in meaning and tradition yet are also complicated by numerous challenges such as poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, …
Choctaw Nation
A Story of American Indian Resurgence
Häftad, 2009
275 kr
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Choctaw Nation is a story of tribal nation building in the modern era. Valerie Lambert treats nation-building projects as nothing new to the Choctaws of southeastern Oklahoma, who have responded to a number of hard-hitting assaults on Choctaw sovereignty and nationhood by rebuilding their tribal …
Three Fires Unity
The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands
Av Phil Bellfy
E-bok, 2011
204 kr
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The Lake Huron area of the Upper Great Lakes region, an area spreading across vast parts of the United States and Canada, has been inhabited by the Anishnaabeg for millennia. Since their first contact with Europeans around 1600, the Anishnaabeg have interacted with-and struggled against-changing …
Boarding School Seasons
American Indian Families, 1900-1940
Häftad, 2016
225 kr
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The paperback edition features a new introduction by the author.Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, …
Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories
The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949
Häftad, 2007
167 kr
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Bloomfield Academy was founded in 1852 by the Chickasaw Nation in conjunction with missionaries. It remained open for nearly a century, offering Chickasaw girls one of the finest educations in the West. After being forcibly relocated to Indian Territory, the Chickasaws viewed education as …
Claiming Breath
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 1996
172 kr
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Like poets of legend, Diane Glancy has spent much of her life on the road. For years she supported her family by driving throughout Oklahoma and Arkansas teaching poetry in the schools. Claiming Breath is an account of one of those years, what Glancy calls "a winter count of sorts, a calendar, a …
They Called It Prairie Light
The Story of Chilocco Indian School
Häftad, 1995
225 kr
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Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. Critics have characterized the schools as destroyers of Indian …
Son of Two Bloods
Häftad, 1999
172 kr
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When Vince Mendoza began to write his life story, he turned to his memory of visiting the deathbed of his great-grandmother, a Creek Indian who embodied the history and dauntless will of her people. The memory inspired both sorrow and boundless pride. Son of Two Bloods, Mendoza's vibrant and candid …
Completing the Circle
Av Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Häftad, 1998
157 kr
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Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve tells her own story and the story of her family. An expert quilter, she recalls her grandmother, Flora Driving Hawk, teaching her how storytelling enthralls and how a quilt can represent all that holds a family together. "I think of how she and her woman friends sat …
Three Fires Unity
The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands
Av Phil Bellfy
Häftad, 2019
225 kr
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The Lake Huron area of the Upper Great Lakes region, an area spreading across vast parts of the United States and Canada, has been inhabited by the Anishnaabeg for millennia. Since their first contact with Europeans around 1600, the Anishnaabeg have interacted with-and struggled against-changing …
