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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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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...
5) 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,...
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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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"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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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...
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The Russian Inuit, known as the Rusik Inupiat or Big Diomede Islanders, have a unique and complex history deeply intertwined with the Arctic landscape and the changing political dynamics of their region. Their story is one of resilience, adaptation, and the enduring human spirit, marked by significant treaties and agreements that have shaped their lives. Once inhabitants of Big Diomede Island, which lies in close proximity to the United States' Little...
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Native Hawaiians have long been confused by the history they learn at school, which doesn't match up with the family stories they have heard so often from their elders. Drawing on oral histories and personal interviews with elderly Hawaiians, author Jack Kelly presents this first essay in a series of modern treatments of Hawaiian history, reflecting the truth as it was lived, told and retold by the people of the Islands. This grassroots history of...
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La ejecución del corregidor Antonio de Arriaga al sur del Cuzco el 10 de noviembre de 1780 inició la más grande sublevación del continente americano. Durante los siguientes seis meses, Tupac Amaru, su esposa Micaela Bastidas, sus familiares y seguidores pondrían en vilo al Imperio español y abrirían una brecha que otros continuarían acentuando por más de dos años. Lo que parecía ser otro levantamiento local terminó convirtiéndose en una...
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Asians were The First Human Being Inhabitants of The North American Continent and The South American Continent. The Indigenous People Ancestors crossed The Bering Sound and The Land became their most profitable Natural Resource, with The Supernatural Spiritual Forces that shaped their Belief. In that period, Three Native American Languages prevailed: Algonquian - Speakers, Iroquoian - Speakers, Siouan - Speakers. Later, Leif Eriksson, The Viking Seaman,...
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En este ensayo crítico, Fernando Santos Granero revisa la historiografía sobre Juan Santos Atahuallpa y propone una nueva lectura sobre la sublevación multicultural que puso de cabeza al virreinato peruano en 1742. El autor plantea que lo que parece incoherencia en el pensamiento y accionar de Juan Santos Atahuallpa es el resultado de una estrategia discursiva tendiente a garantizar la adhesión de diversos estamentos de la sociedad colonial y...
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Alaska, a land of breathtaking natural beauty and cultural diversity, has been witness to a historical journey of treaties and agreements that have profoundly shaped the lives and rights of its Inuit inhabitants. From millennia of Inuit sovereignty in the pre-territorial era to the challenges brought by U.S. governance in the 19th century, the Inuit of Alaska have traversed a complex path towards self-determination and cultural preservation. This...
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Ronald Reagan es elegido presidente de los Estados Unidos por abrumadora mayoría el 4 de noviembre de 1980. Es una avalancha: Jimmy Carter, el presidente saliente y demócrata, que se postulaba para la reelección, sufre una humillación como Ronnie, como le llaman sus amigos. , gana en 45 de los 50 estados. A pesar de las probabilidades, la elección de Reagan a la casa blanca fue recibida con sorpresa: ¿un ex actor de Hollywood muy conocido por...
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"A fast and exciting read. . . . This survey of Owsley's career will appeal to both science and legal buffs." --Publishers Weekly
The story of the Smithsonian's brilliant forensic anthropologist and the 9,000-year-old skeleton that sparked his landmark lawsuit against the U.S. government
When he is not studying ancient skeletons, Doug Owsley is enlisted by the State Department and the FBI to identify remains. He has worked on some of the most notorious...
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Hiver 2015: Philippe Ducros parcourt le Québec et ses réserves autochtones. Il veut voir ces peuples en bordure des villes et de l'immensité, mesurer le déracinement et les ravages de l'endoctrinement. Il écoute, tente de déchiffrer les blessures du passé et la force tranquille de ces survivants de l'Histoire, avec l'intuition qu'à travers eux, il apprendra à guérir, lui aussi. En résulte un récit polyphonique, entre road trip, carnet...
18) La historia no Contada sobre La Conquista de la Gran Tenochtitlan: Desde el inicio de la llegada de
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Esta es la historia detrás de la conquista de la gran Tenochtitlán: desde el choque de culturas hasta la caída de los Aztecas. Prepárate para embarcarte en un viaje que desentraña las complejidades de la época, teje el pasado con el presente y despierta los ecos de una era que cambió el mundo para siempre. Contada como nunca antes, con datos históricos que muy pocos conocen. "En el siglo XVI, un audaz y ambicioso grupo de exploradores europeos...
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Being in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The longest, Raven Travelling, is the most complex version of the story of the Raven ever recorded on the Northwest Coast. The third is The Qquuna Cycle, the largest and most complex literary work in any Native Canadian language. It is a poem of epic length and one of the true masterpieces...
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The Algonquin, or Eastern Woodlands Indian, tribes inhabited Indiana as the Europeans began penetrating the region in the 17th Century. The tribes in Indiana included the Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Miami, Potawatomie, Kickapoo, and others.The Algonquin Tribes of Indiana relates the general culture, lifestyle, and agriculture of this vast family of Amerindian tribes.