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"Because of the unrestrained slaughter of cougars on Buckskin Mountain, the deer population has increased so fast that they begin to starve. But when Thad Eburne, chief forest ranger, hears the government's plan to open a massive deer hunt to hundreds of indiscriminate hunters, he worries that it will only worsen man's dangerous meddling with nature. Then, when Eburne decides to save a deer herd from a cattleman bent on selling illegal deer meat for...
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"In this moving finale to the trilogy that began with Neither Wolf Nor Dog, Kent Nerburn blends history, humor, and heartbreak with a gripping mystery. Once again he visits the Dakota elder Dan and joins in the quest to understand the fate of Dan's little sister, Yellow Bird, a girl with a mystical relationship to animals who disappeared into the Indian boarding school system. Delving beneath the myths, misconceptions, and stereotypes that make up...
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Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) wrote "The Soul of the Indian" to examine the spiritual history of Native American's before European settlement in America. Born of Minnesota Sioux parents in South Dakota, Charles Eastman spent his life working with Natives and Europeans to bridge cultural divides. Born into and raised by a traditional Sioux family, Eastman developed a deep connection to the life of American Indians. Yet at the age of 15 Eastman's...
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Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival is a classic Athabascan Indian tale of survival, filled with suspense and wisdom as told by Velma Wallis, an outstanding Native American writer. Her style is a refreshing blend of contemporary and traditional, and her choice of subject matter challenges the taboos of her past. Yet her themes are modern -- empowerment of women, the aging of America, and a growing interest in Native American...
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A history of the powerful Potawatomi tribe. They were persistent enemies of the Miamis. Pictures and biograpies of their leading chiefs, marks their trails, locates their chief villages, and tells the story of many events that much to do with American history.
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A Century of Dishonor (1884) is a work of nonfiction by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by a speech given by Ponca chief Standing Bear in Boston, A Century of Dishonor attempts to reckon with the genocide and displacement of Native Americans and the passage of Indian Appropriations Act of 1871. At her own expense, Hunt Jackson sent copies of the book to every member of Congress, hoping to convince them to amend official government policies and to end...
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Old Indian Legends (1901) is a collection of traditional stories from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá. Published while Zitkála-Šá was just beginning her career as an artist and activist, Old Indian Legends collects fourteen traditional legends and stories passed down through Sioux oral tradition. Intending to keep the stories or her people alive, Zitkála-Šá popularized and protected these cultural treasures for generations to come.
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Across North America, dedicated language warriors are powering an upswell, a resurgence, a revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures. Through deliberate suppression and cultural destruction, the five hundred languages spoken on the continent before contact have dwindled to about 150. Their ongoing survival depends on immediate, energetic interventions.
Anton Treuer has been at the forefront of the battle to revitalize Ojibwe for many years....
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We now find ourselves in a new geological age: the Anthropocene. The climate is changing and species are disappearing at a rate not seen since Earth's major extinctions. The rapid, large-scale changes caused by fossil-fuel powered globalization increasingly threaten societies in new, unforeseen ways. But most security policies continue to be built on notions that look back- ward to a time when geopolitical threats derived mainly from the rivalries...
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Separate but Unequal provides an in-depth critique of the ideology of parallelism-the prevailing view that Indigenous cultures and the wider Canadian society should exist separately from one another in a "nation-to-nation" relationship.
Using the Final Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples as an example, this historical and material analysis shows how the single-minded pursuit of parallelism will not result in a more balanced relationship...
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Cet ouvrage propose une étude des relations qu'une Première Nation, les Iyiyiwch (Cris du Québec), entretient avec le concept de patrimoine et le processus de mise en patrimoine de sa culture. Il démontre que les Iyiyiwch ont mis en place une stratégie d'autopatrimonialisation à l'échelle du Gouvernement de la Nation Crie dans le contexte de leur discussion avec le gouvernement du Québec et en expose ses expressions à l'échelle d'une communauté,...
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The work was created as a continuation of Catlin's previous works on the life and manners of Native Americans. After several years spent with the Indians on the American planes, Catlin collected a significant number of paintings and engravings, which he brought to Europe, where he organized exhibitions and spread his affection for the culture and lifestyle of Native Americans. Shortly after his travel to Europe, three Indians visited London to give...
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Este libro ofrece una interpretación novedosa de las ideas y los objetivos de los dos intelectuales de origen indígena más importantes en los Andes coloniales, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala y el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. A diferencia de la posición usual que ve las relaciones entre andinos y españoles como el choque de dos culturas, el autor sugiere que los textos de esos cronistas no solo resaltaron los logros de las culturas indígenas, denunciaron...
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Red Clay, 1835 envelops students in the treaty negotiations between the Cherokee National Council and representatives of the United States at Red Clay, Tennessee. As pressure mounts on the Cherokee to accept treaty terms, students must confront issues such as nationhood, westward expansion, and culture change. This game book includes vital materials on the game's historical background, rules, procedures, and assignments, as well as core texts by figures...
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Replanting Cultures provides a theoretical and practical guide to community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. Chapters on the work of collaborative, respectful, and reciprocal research between Indigenous nations and colleges and universities, museums, archives, and research centers are designed to offer models of scholarship that build capacity in Indigenous communities. Replanting Cultures includes case...
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At least 43,000 Native Americans fought in the Vietnam War, yet both the American public and the United States government have been slow to acknowledge their presence and sacrifices in that conflict. In this first-of-its-kind study, Tom Holm draws on extensive interviews with Native American veterans to tell the story of their experiences in Vietnam and their readjustment to civilian life. Holm describes how Native American motives for going to war,...
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Avec Ils étaient l'Amérique, Serge Bouchard et Marie-Christine Lévesque terminent la trilogie des Remarquables oubliés, dont le premier tome était consacré à des femmes exceptionnelles (Elles ont fait l'Amérique) et le second à des coureurs des bois légendaires (Ils ont couru l'Amérique).
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Les Premiers peuples issus du territoire nommé Québec connaissent depuis quelques années un rayonnement culturel considérable. En fait preuve cet ouvrage qui rassemble des témoignages et des comptes rendus d'expressions visuelles, performatives, musicales et vidéographiques, ainsi que des entretiens avec des artistes autochtones. Il montre bien comment les oeuvres d'art, en tant que canal privilégié de communication, permettent aux communautés...
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