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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"There's never a good time to learn that you are your father's secret child--especially not at the reading of his will. With their father's affairs laid bare, and Nora's sensible reputation in tatters due to a viral video scandal, she and her free-spirited sister have nothing left but a rustic inn in the middle of nowhere and each other. What's more, they need to revamp the inn before Labor Day or they lose it all. Nora hasn't even knocked the traveling...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The apocalyptic 2019-2020 Australian bushfires were a dire warning: respect the environment and listen to indigenous wisdom, or our world will become a living hell. INFERNO WITHOUT BORDERS both raises awareness of a climate solution, and serves as a call to action to ensure the atrocity’s of Australia’s bushfire crisis is never endured again.
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The story of Warri and Yatungka, the last of the Mandildjara people to be living a traditional nomadic lifestyle in the remote Gibson Desert of central Australia. Warri and Yatungka became the last nomads because they had married outside their tribal laws and eloped to the most inaccessible of regions. In 1977 the land was stricken by a severe drought and their tribal Elders mounted a search for them with the help of a party of white men led by Dr...
4) Ever Deadly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Throughout her ground-breaking career, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq has always had an intimate relationship with the Nuna—the Land—a living, breathing organism present in her improvised performances. Hers is a voice that, according to the New York Times, “demands full attention, whether she’s whispering in her softest register or howling at the sky.” EVER DEADLY weaves together intimate concert footage of Tagaq alongside moving personal...
5) Oyate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, Indigenous people are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them in an effort to embark upon the process of decolonization.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"This is a first-hand account of one of the worst wagon train massacres in the Old West. After 45 days of starvation and terror, only sixteen of the original forty-five members survived. Left by the Indians is the story told by a 13-year old survivor." -- Amazon
7) 77° North
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English
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An extraordinary debut novel - thematically significant, profoundly timely, magical in intent and execution.... A MUST READ. The Author himself best defines the intent of this novel. • First is to advocate Inuit culture, specifically the role of shaman. 77° North recognizes this ancient tradition and hopes, within the confines of this mythical adventure, we bring new perspective to the forefront for the stewards of...
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English
Description
Jandamarra is an aboriginal warrior of the spiritual Kimberley area of Australia, home to the tribe known as the Bunuba people. Jandamarra is a legendary hero of the 1890s known to his people as a Jalgangurru, a magic man, due to his extraordinary skills and abilities.
He is a cheeky, likeable boy, and a quick learner. At around 12 years of age, Jandamarra, named Pigeon by the whitefellas, begins working on a sheep station, where he learns to shoot,...
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English
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In the late 1800s, post-Civil War, two young Cheyenne sisters are wrenched from a loving family, kidnapped and incarcerated at Rose Academy, a harsh, Indian boarding school established to assimilate native young people, teach them English, and eradicate their knowledge of traditional ways, considered inferior to the ways of the Washita (whites).Forbidden to speak their native language, the sisters are whipped and punished, however, the school harsh...
10) Eating Up Easter
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The iconic statues and sensationalised mysteries of Easter Island have drawn the interest of the world for centuries, attracting curious visitors to its shores. Today, this tiny, barren island is experiencing an economic boom as tourism skyrockets. Yet the indigenous culture and the island?s fragile environment are suffering. This character-lead film follows the way the islanders are managing the results of globalisation and managing...
11) The World Turtle
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English
Description
The World Turtle Is a brief overview of the historical turtle that is found between lands in all of mythology. The world was full of beheadings from South America to the western countries an elephant in Hinduism. A war was walking the earth and arrows were piercing the shell. A tribe's daughter is thrown from the top of a pyramid with her heart ripped from her chest, The Aztecs holding a still beating heart up for the sun to please the gods. China...
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Language
Français
Description
La culture et les croyances inuites, pratiquées dans un environnement nordique exigeant, offrent des perspectives et des connaissances particulièrement pertinentes pour appréhender le monde moderne. Dans un esprit de transmission, ce livre rassemble les témoignages d'aînés abordant des sujets qui, espèrent-ils, permettront une compréhension plus profonde des pratiques et des savoirs inuits. Les enseignements transmis à travers leurs récits...
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What was the New World like before it encountered the Old? Now, scientific expeditions in North and South America are woven with drama recreations to investigate and present a new vision of America, and how the clash of civilizations forever altered the history of our world.
14) Downwind
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living… downwind.
15) Servant or Slave
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In Australia, during the era of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian Government. SERVANT OR SLAVE follows the lives of five such women, stolen from their families and trained to be domestic servants and later forced into slave labour where they endured immense hardship, rape and even torture - coerced into remaining silent or even punished for reporting...
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Language
English
Description
Of Living Stone: Perspectives on Continuous Knowledge and the Work of Vine Deloria, Jr. is a collection of new essays on the legacy of Vine Deloria, Jr., one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This insightful collection features more than thirty original pieces, bringing together Tribal leaders, artists, scientists, activists, scholars, legal experts, and humorists. A group of French scholars offers surprising perspectives on Deloria's...
17) Stalking Red
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English
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Number 2 Listopia Romance With Strong Contemporary Females, Number 3 Listopia Western and Native American RomanceRed, Brenda Levere has been on her own for a very long time. PR, Paul Revere Jones comes from a big family, part Alaska Native and part white. When Red moves into his apartment complex, PR begins the hunt of a lifetime. He wants the prickly woman. Red throws a big glitch in his plans by getting involved with another man. PR continues his...
18) Betrayed!
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Language
English
Description
For ten long years Jodie Breault has been hounded by the mystery surrounding her mother's drowning and her father's disappearance in a boating accident on Lake Champlain, VT. A senior at a Connecticut high school, Jodie resides with her parents' friends,, a foreign-born couple that harbors many secrets. That year she falls in love with a classmate, C. Travis Jones, AKA Jonesy, but they are separated when he goes off to college in California and...
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of rapid urban expansion and property development. Max Stuart, Thomas Stevens, Doris Stuart and other Elders talk about the importance of the sites in and around the city in terms of traditional Dreaming. They reflect on their sense of loss as sites are desecrated...
20) Geronimo
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Language
English
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Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a mythic figure today. This thoroughly researched biography by a renowned historian of the American West strips away the myths and rumors that have long obscured the real Geronimo and presents an authentic portrait of a man with unique...
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