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Up from These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood
ISBN: 9780803235366 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into a storied but impoverished family on the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Leonard Carson Lambert Jr. s candid memoir is a remarkable story and an equally remarkable flouting of the stereotypes that so many tales of American Indian life have engendered.
Up from These Hills provides a grounded, yet poignant, description of what it was like to grow up during the 1930s and 1940s in the mountains of western North Carolina and on a sharecropper s farm in eastern Tennessee. Lambert straightforwardly describes his independent, hardworking, and stubborn... Born into a storied but impoverished family on the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Leonard Carson Lambert Jr. s candid memoir is ...
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87,79 zł |
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The Assassination of Hole in the Day
ISBN: 9780873518437 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagonegiizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation at White Earth. Several miles from his home, the self-styled leader of all the Ojibwe was stopped by at least twelve Ojibwe men and fatally shot.
Hole in the Day's death was national news, and rumors of its cause were many: personal jealousy, retribution for his claiming to be head chief of the Ojibwe, retaliation for the attacks he fomented in 1862, or retribution for his attempts to keep mixed-blood... On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagonegiizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Missi...
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99,76 zł |
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House of Shattering Light: Life of an American Indian Mystic
ISBN: 9780982327449 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph Rael, Beautiful Painted Arrow, is one of the great, living visionaries in the Native American tradidion. House of Shattering LIght is Rael's personal story from his birth on the Ute land in Colorado to growing up at Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico to today as a visionary and mystic. Over thirty years ago Joseph Rael was given a vision to build chambers where the vibration of peace would be planted by chanting the sounds of creation. Her was also given the vision to protect the purity of water on the planet. Today there are chambers in more than thirty countries where people... Joseph Rael, Beautiful Painted Arrow, is one of the great, living visionaries in the Native American tradidion. House of Shattering LIght is Rael's... |
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86,94 zł |
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Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
ISBN: 9780826349477 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospital on the Navajo Reservation. Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexisted in a tenuous truce. After the births of his Navajo half-siblings, Jim and his family moved off the Reservation to an Arizona border town where they struggled to readapt to an Anglo world that no longer felt like home. With tales of gangs and skinwalkers, an Indian Boy Scout... Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospi... |
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108,45 zł |
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Texas Indian Troubles
ISBN: 9780982982884 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These 43 true stories of Indian troubles on the Texas frontier were compiled and published originally by Hilory Bedford in 1905. He was an eyewitness and participant in many of the heartbreaking and terrifying events, and the rest he got straight from the mouths of those who were there or from their surviving kin.
These 43 true stories of Indian troubles on the Texas frontier were compiled and published originally by Hilory Bedford in 1905. He was an eyewitness ...
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194,50 zł |
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My Mother Is Now Earth
ISBN: 9780873518536 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ." . . the memory of my mother came to me like a drifting scent in the breeze, swirling through the branches of a nearby cedar tree. I was drawn back 35 years] to the day I learned she had passed on. But that autumn day of 1973 did not grip me with deep sadness, the burden of never seeing her again. I was looking at that day from a new angle, a distant view that seemed to suggest a new, untold story. I was suddenly more than curious about who my mother truly was in this life and beyond."
Uprooted from family and community in Milwaukee by her husband, a French and Irish... ." . . the memory of my mother came to me like a drifting scent in the breeze, swirling through the branches of a nearby cedar tree. I was drawn back ...
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108,45 zł |
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Sequoyah, 16
ISBN: 9780806110561 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sequoyah is widely celebrated as an unlettered Cherokee Indian who, entirely from the resources of his own brilliant mind, endowed his whole tribe with learning-the only man in history to conceive and perfect in its entirety an alphabet or syllabary.Soon after 1800, Sequoyah began to realize the magic of writing. He and other Indians of the time, who occasionally saw samples of writing, called these mysterious pages the white man's "talking leaf." He experimented aimlessly at first, but gradually his conception took practical shape. It was slow and laborious work for an untutored...
Sequoyah is widely celebrated as an unlettered Cherokee Indian who, entirely from the resources of his own brilliant mind, endowed his whole tribe wit...
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85,11 zł |
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Mangas Coloradas, 231: Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches
ISBN: 9780806142395 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 231 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years. During the last years of Mangas's life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led an assault against white settlement in Apacheria that made the two of them the most feared warriors in the Southwest. In this first full-length biography of the legendary chief, Ed Sweeney vividly portrays the Apache culture in which Mangas rose to power and the conflict with Americans that led to his brutal death. A giant of a man, Mangas combined great physical strength with a sagacity...
Volume 231 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years. During the last...
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206,83 zł |
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My Father's Blood
ISBN: 9780984639298 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Darkness: the place where light best reveals itself." In the potent and poignant language of fine literature, this stunningly honest autobiographical novel grants candid views of chronic illness, blindness, and Native American racial identity, against the backdrop of a world often determined to demean, degrade, and disenfranchise. Though Amy Krout-Horn's inheritance brings illness, it also brings strong medicine, medicine remembered on a cellular level, derived from the profound wisdom of her Lakota ancestors. But can the ancient council fire's "spark" that ignited within a young girl's...
"Darkness: the place where light best reveals itself." In the potent and poignant language of fine literature, this stunningly honest autobiographical...
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78,69 zł |
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A Memoir of Chief Two White Feathers: Portrait of a Spiritual Practitioner
ISBN: 9781467963428 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Portrait of Southeastern American Indian spiritual practitioner Paul Russell based on interviews by the author in Tennessee in 1996 covering a wide range of topics.
Portrait of Southeastern American Indian spiritual practitioner Paul Russell based on interviews by the author in Tennessee in 1996 covering a wide ra...
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31,72 zł |
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Montana Memories: The Life of Emma Magee in the Rocky Mountain West, 1866-1950
ISBN: 9781934594087 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published by the Salish Kootenai College PressMontana Memories is the life story of a mixed-blood Indian woman in western Montana and southern Alberta during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in 1866 to a white trader and a Shoshone and Salish Indian mother, Emma Magee saw Montana change from Indian Country to a part of industrial America. When she was born, mixed-blood Indians were socially part of the white community in Montana. By the time she died in 1950, however, mixed-bloods were considered Indians.
In the memoirs of her long and... Published by the Salish Kootenai College PressMontana Memories is the life story of a mixed-blood Indian woman in western ...
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46,45 zł |
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Equal Opportunity Hero: T. J. Patterson's Service to West Texas
ISBN: 9780896729490 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patterson grew up during a time of American social unrest, protest, and upheaval, and he recounts memorable instances of segregation and integration in West Texas. Patterson spent his whole adult life as a grassroots activist. During his long career he truly was an equal-opportunity hero for all of Lubbock's citizens.
Patterson grew up during a time of American social unrest, protest, and upheaval, and he recounts memorable instances of segregation and integration i...
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121,50 zł |
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Apache Mothers and Daughters
ISBN: 9780806129228 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apache Mothers and Daughters, an illustrated family history of four generations of Chiricahua Apache women from 1848 to the present, is an eloquent testimonial to the strength and the stamina of Apache women. Over the course of thirty-five years, anthropologist Ruth McDonald Boyer collected the remembrances of Narcissus Duffy Gayton, great-great-granddaughter of the Apache chief Victorio. This intimate record of Apache life, told from an Apache perspective, highlights the key roles women play in tribal life. The story begins with Dilth-cheyhen, Victorio's daughter,... Apache Mothers and Daughters, an illustrated family history of four generations of Chiricahua Apache women from 1848 to the present, is ... |
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139,88 zł |
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Hosteen Klah: Navaho Medicine Man and Sand Painter Volume 73
ISBN: 9780806110080 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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139,88 zł |
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Total Pardon: An Extraordinary Love Story
ISBN: 9780982152133 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why would a squeaky clean, evangelical Christian woman from Ohio fall madly in love with a hopeless alcoholic Native American ex-con with the last known address of Skid Row, USA? Her idyllic childhood was plagued by illness, yet filled with unconditional love and support. His childhood was splintered by divorce, plagued by poverty, fueled by superstition and filled with disappointment. Two individuals could not be more different, yet Wil Yazzie and Linda Amyx married each other not once-but twice. An inmate who starts out a pen pal and ends up a husband-there's a lot that could go wrong in...
Why would a squeaky clean, evangelical Christian woman from Ohio fall madly in love with a hopeless alcoholic Native American ex-con with the last kno...
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68,42 zł |
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Doublehead Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief
ISBN: 9781934610671 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among all the famous Native American Indian chiefs, people today easily recognize names like Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, and Crazy Horse. However, unless you live in North Alabama or Central Tennessee, chances are youve never heard of Cherokee Chief Doublehead. Described as overbearing, hot-tempered, and haughty, he possessed possibly one of the strongest personalities of any man who lived at the time. Through sheer force of will, Chief Doublehead became the principal leader among the Cherokees. Refusing to cede the valuable hunting grounds to white intruders, he managed to...
Among all the famous Native American Indian chiefs, people today easily recognize names like Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, and Crazy Horse. Howev...
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121,47 zł |
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A Opchine Wala Ohkon: Dreaming of a True World
ISBN: 9781449579098 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Full Color, Second Edition of poetry, stories and memories by old Dakota poet and Elder, Ed Little Crow, Dakota veteran of the Seige of Wounded Knee (1973) and former member of the American Indian Movement. Dreaming is poetic biography and stories from interviews with Crow in Ashland, Oregon, collected by Wild Embers Press editor, antoinette nora claypoole. Crow shares histories, thoughts on surviving these "uncertain times" and memories from his days on and off the rez. This new edition features: a new Afterword (March 2012) by Jaimie Bernhagen and historic full color photos.
Full Color, Second Edition of poetry, stories and memories by old Dakota poet and Elder, Ed Little Crow, Dakota veteran of the Seige of Wounded Knee (...
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118,67 zł |
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Never Met Man Didn't Lik
ISBN: 9780380768080 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Will Rogers was America. Part Cherokee Indian and former cowboy, he captivated audiences around the world with sparkling gems of wisdom cloaked in gentle and uproarious country wit and astonishing rope tricks. His colorful life recently inspired a commercially successful and critically acclaimed Broadway musical -- winner of 6 Tony Awards. His words are as entertaining, inspiring and revelant today as they ever were. A simple, plain-spoken man, he was the voice of a nation during the '20s and '30s. Movie star, vaudeville headliner, radio commentator, his views and... Will Rogers was America. Part Cherokee Indian and former cowboy, he captivated audiences around the world with sparkling gems of wisdom cl... |
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73,86 zł |
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Where the Salmon Run: The Life and Legacy of Billy Frank Jr.
ISBN: 9780295991788 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Billy Frank Jr. was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and handcuffed on the riverbank, he emerged as one of the most influential Northwest Indians in modern history. His efforts helped bring about the 1974 ruling by Federal Judge George H. Boldt affirming Northwest tribal fishing rights and allocating half the harvestable catch to them. Today, he continues to support Indian country and people by working to protect salmon and restore the environment. Where the Salmon Run tells the life story of Billy Frank Jr.,... Billy Frank Jr. was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and handcuffed on the rive... |
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470,20 zł |
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Black Hawk: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9781617430527 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Hawk was born at Sac village, on Rock river, in the year 1767, a leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe. His status came from leading war parties as a young man, and from his leadership of a band of Sauks during the Black Hawk War of 1832. This is his Autobiography.
Black Hawk was born at Sac village, on Rock river, in the year 1767, a leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe. His status came from lead...
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36,47 zł |
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