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Author | : James Thomas Stevens |
Publisher | : American Indian Studies |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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James Thomas Stevens braids language and silence, memory and longing, loss and renewal, into an utterly original and eloquent music. --Arthur Sze.
Author | : Alfred A. Cave |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 080321555X |
Download Prophets of the Great Spirit Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Prophets of the Great Spirit offers an in-depth look at the work of a diverse group of Native American visionaries who forged new, syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. By blending ideas borrowed from Christianity with traditional beliefs, they transformed ?high? gods or a distant and aloof creator into a powerful, activist deity that came to be called the Great Spirit. These revitalization leaders sought to regain the favor of the Great Spirit through reforms within their societies and the inauguration of new ritual practices. Among the prophets included in this study are the Delaware Neolin, the Shawnee Tenkswatawa, the Creek ?Red Stick? prophets, the Seneca Handsome Lake, and the Kickapoo Kenekuk. Covering more than a century, from the early 1700s through the Kickapoo Indian removal of the Jacksonian Era, the prophets of the Great Spirit sometimes preached armed resistance but more often used nonviolent strategies to resist white cultural domination. Some prophets rejected virtually all aspects of Euro-American culture. Others sought to assure the survival of their culture through selective adaptation. Alfred A. Cave explains the conditions giving rise to the millenarian movements in detail and skillfully illuminates the key histories, personalities, and legacies of the movement. Weaving an array of sources into a compelling narrative, he captures the diversity of these prophets and their commitment to the common goal of Native American survival.
Author | : Diana Gabaldon |
Publisher | : Delacorte Press |
Total Pages | : 994 |
Release | : 2005-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0440335655 |
Download A Breath of Snow and Ashes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The sixth book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “The large scope of the novel allows Gabaldon to do what she does best, paint in exquisite detail the lives of her characters.”—Booklist The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest. With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence—with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie’s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.
Author | : Penelope Myrtle Kelsey |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2014-12-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0815652992 |
Download Reading the Wampum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called “wampum” to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum belts can be used as a form of currency, but they are primarily used as a means to record significant oral narratives for future generations. In Reading the Wampum, Kelsey provides the first academic consideration of the ways in which these sacred belts are reinterpreted into current Haudenosaunee tradition. While Kelsey explores the aesthetic appeal of the belts, she also provides insightful analysis of how readings of wampum belts can change our understanding of specific treaty rights and land exchanges. Kelsey shows how contemporary Iroquois intellectuals and artists adapt and reconsider these traditional belts in new and innovative ways. Reading the Wampum conveys the vitality and continuance of wampum traditions in Iroquois art, literature, and community, suggesting that wampum narratives pervade and reappear in new guises with each new generation.
Author | : Jean Houston |
Publisher | : Quest Books |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1995-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780835607353 |
Download Manual for the Peacemaker Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A thrilling retelling by master storyteller Jean Houston of the legendary exploits of the founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, known as the Peacemaker. Under his leadership they created a peaceful democracy among five tribes of Native peoples in the northeastern woodlands. This story has inspired American leaders from Benjamin Franklin to the present-day occupants of the White House, and is shown by Houston to be a potent guide to personal transformation and to the visioning of a peaceful world. Jean draws from the experiential workshops she leads, with the help of Margaret (Peggy) Rubin, to guide readers through group or individual exercises that "bring the story home."
Author | : Diana Gabaldon |
Publisher | : Delacorte Press |
Total Pages | : 849 |
Release | : 2009-09-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0440338875 |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The seventh book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “All you’ve come to expect from Gabaldon . . . adventure, history, romance, fantasy.”—The Arizona Republic Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son—a young lieutenant in the British army—across the barrel of a gun. Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though—not if she has anything to say about it. Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles—as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America.
Author | : Christine Graef |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2014-11-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1630876658 |
Download Mending the Broken Land Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After five centuries of oppressions committed in the name of Jesus, many hearts have hardened toward the name of Christ on the part of many of those native or original to the lands we now call America and Canada. The imposition of residential schools, removal policies, and forced adoptions left many angry about white man's religion, confused about a savior who would promote such violent ripping apart of families, deceitful taking away of lands, and forced assimilation away from natural heritages. Acknowledgment has been made and apologies given. In Canada large amounts of compensation are being paid out to survivors and their communities. But what does Scripture say about culture and what can original treaties teach us about healing from our shared history? In an era when America and Canada are being called to return to God, Mending the Broken Land provides a meeting ground in an ecotone of cultures as diverse as nature's meadows. Drawing on the example of the governance of a first people of the northeast, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, it witnesses a new generation in a process of healing aligning with the teachings of Christ.
Author | : J. Keller |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2009-08-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 023062376X |
Download Writing Plural Worlds in Contemporary U.S. Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book reveals how poets within the U.S. multi-ethnic avant-garde give up the goal of narrating one comprehensive, rooted view of cultural reality in favour of constructing coherent accounts of relational, local selves and worlds.
Author | : Annette Langen |
Publisher | : NorthSouth (NY) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780735823150 |
Download I Won't Comb My Hair! Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tanya is about to have a very-bad-hair day! It's easy to tell when Tanya doesn't want to do something. 'I WONT!'; she screams, so loudly that the whole neighbourhood can hear. And there is one thing Tanya really doesn't want to do. She WILL NOT EVER comb her hair.
Author | : Gregory A. Staley |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2010-01-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0195387430 |
Download Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The question of why Seneca wrote tragedy has been debated since at least the 13th century. Since Seneca was a Stoic, critics assumed he wrote with the standard Stoic theory of literature as education in philosophy in mind. This book argues that Seneca was influenced by Aristotle's famous defense of tragedy against Plato's critique.