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Through his newspaper columns and features, as well as his internationally-known film and video work, Doug Cuthand has become a respected voice in the aboriginal community. In Askiwina: A Cree World, he offers fresh insights and straight talk over platitudes and dogma, providing readers with a bridge to understanding Aboriginal philosophy, history, culture, and society. He explores the basics of Aboriginal spirituality – the four directions, the...
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Get the Summary of Luther Standing Bear's My People the Sioux in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "My People the Sioux" is a personal narrative by Luther Standing Bear, chronicling his life and experiences as a member of the Sioux tribe. Born into a prominent family, Luther was raised in a world rich with Sioux traditions and values. His early life was marked by significant cultural moments, such as his first hunt...
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Opechancanough was born in the 1540s, as was his brother, Wahunsenacawh, better known as Powhatan, the Indian King and father of Pocahontas. Opechancanough lived near the location of the English settlement of Jamestown when John Smith and company built a fort there in 1607. In English history, he is most famous for planning and executing the first large scale attacks on the English in America. In 1622, he orchestrated a surprise attack on those who...
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Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well-being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of factors that actually contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in “Medicine Ways” examine the ways people from a multitude of indigenous...
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"It comes as a great shock to discover that the country which is your birthplace and to which you owe your life and your identity, has not, in its whole system of reality, evolved any place for you".
James Baldwin was one of America's most powerful analysts of the psychology of white supremacy. In this speech, delivered in 1965 at the Cambridge Union Society, he offers a devastating, but also strikingly empathetic, account of the role played by racism...
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This work applies generational mapping to the Ancestral Pueblo, using 15-year intervals. Distinct phases, found in other cultures, will be tested as to their applicability. They include: 1) "Invisible" beginnings; 2) Establishment; 3) Novel Consolidation and Opening Up; 4) Crisis & Creativity; 5) Empire and inclusion; and 6) Renewal or extinction? These findings will help the reader grasp the temporal flow of the Indigenous Southwest, which might...
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The Edward Clown family, nearest living relatives to the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways the oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Crazy Horse. The family clarifies the inaccuracies and shares their story about the past, including what it means to them to be Lakota, the family genealogy, the life of Crazy Horse and...
11) Langue(s) en portage: Résurgence littéraire et langagière dans les écritures autochtones féminines
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Cet ouvrage se penche sur la manière dont les autrices autochtones contemporaines, qui écrivent majoritairement en anglais ou en français, négocient avec le langage en créant une alternative critique à la dépossession et à l'invisibilisation qui ont marqué l'histoire de leurs peuples. Il montre comment, de cette littérature produite à la croisée des espaces linguistiques et appuyée sur une imagination poétique et narrative foisonnante,...
12) Colonial Tales
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In a hovel, a mother needs to watch his sick son for love and fear... A cowboy decides to persecute one by one the killers who flayed his brother skin... In Africa, a boy realize that he was sold by his father to slavery.These short stories were told around the campfire. They will be true, false or just exaggerated?
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Pam nad ydym yn deall y ddadl gwn sy'n ymfflamychu barn America? Mae'r hanesydd Jensen Cox yn esbonio ei darddiad a'i ddigwyddiadau cyfredol i ni. Bob blwyddyn, mae llofruddiaethau torfol yn plymio'r Unol Daleithiau i arswyd. Ac eto, mae'r rhyddid i fod yn arfog yn hawl sylfaenol, yn seiliedig ar yr ail welliant sacrosanct i'r Cyfansoddiad, a gefnogir gan fwyafrif o Americanwyr: y Gymdeithas Reifflau Genedlaethol bwerus, mamau heddychlon, helwyr,...
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"Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo were the two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886. Gatewood became the army's premier "Apache man" as both a commander of Apache scouts and reservation administrator, but his equitable treatment of Indians aroused the enmity of civilian and military detractors, and the army shunned him. In the late 1870s Geronimo, a medicine man,...
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"A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really?...
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Las Guerras Apaches fueron el conflicto más largo librado por Estados Unidos, que se prolongó durante un cuarto de siglo y marcó la historia del suroeste americano y el norte de México. Una tierra de frontera inhóspita y desolada, infestada de bandoleros, donde cada planta tenía una púa, cada insecto un aguijón, cada pájaro una garra y cada reptil un colmillo: la Apachería. Durante más de dos décadas, los guerreros apaches, duros como...
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A vivid and comprehensive history of the City of Prince Rupert, from
its ancient roots as a rich, multicultural trading hub between different
Indigenous Nations to its current state as an ethnically diverse
community set against the stunning natural backdrop of the Great Bear
Rainforest.
Since time immemorial, rain has defined life
on Kaien Island, now known as the townsite of Prince Rupert. As the
rainiest and cloudiest city in Canada, Prince...
18) The 1854 Oration
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"It matters little where we pass the remnant of our days. They will not be many".
A powerful lament for an imperilled way of life, the 1854 speech traditionally attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe is a vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Chief Seattle's oration was delivered in the face of the impending loss of his people's land to the State of Washington, and it remains a profound meditation on...
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Digging up the relics of the past is not without controversy. With insight and eloquence, Sharman Apt Russell reveals here that when it comes to archaeological study, there is more than one way to examine history.
Raising provocative questions anew about subjects such as the role of humans in the extinction of the large land mammals of the Pleistocene epoch and the repatriation of Native American graves, Russell, winner of the John Burroughs Medal,...
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"Beyond the Surface: Christopher Columbus and the Kaleidoscope of American Identity" invites readers on an enlightening journey through the intricate layers of history, culture, and identity that have shaped the Americas. In this captivating exploration, the book delves deep into the legacy of Christopher Columbus, unearthing the complex intersections of triumph and tragedy, discovery and displacement.With meticulous research and vivid storytelling,...