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Sedona: Tricksters and Fools
ISBN: 9780991623082 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jamie Broken Wing and Charlie Two Fires, Native American art students at the University of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, decide to spend the summer painting in Sedona. Their summer turned into an entirely different adventure than they planned on. Human bones found by Jamie's dog, Star, while they were painting on Loy Mesa, led them into incredible events of greed, art, drug dealings and murder. The bones were found in close proximity to an archaeological site and because they appeared old, Jamie and Charlie's Uncle Max was called in as the forensic anthropologist for the Yavapai Nation....
Jamie Broken Wing and Charlie Two Fires, Native American art students at the University of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, decide to spend the summer p...
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55,91 zł |
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Lauren Greasewater's War
ISBN: 9780692027882 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A ruined hunting shelter, a displaced Native American woman and the planetary weight of the U.S. government: the gunpowder that ignite Lauren Greasewater's War. Set in the 1970s, this historical novel traces an urban Indian woman's quest from the streets of New York to the canyons of the Southwest finding her way back to the community of her birth to reinvent herself as Lauren Greasewater. Caught between two dissonant worlds, she turns a cultural misunderstanding into an armed conflict that captures national attention. In her effort to save the place she was born, Lauren...
A ruined hunting shelter, a displaced Native American woman and the planetary weight of the U.S. government: the gunpowder that ignite Lauren Greasewa...
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80,70 zł |
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Indians Don't Cry: Gaawiin Mawisiiwag Anishinaabeg
ISBN: 9780887557699 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Kenny is an Anishinaabe poet and playwright who learned traditional ways from his parents before being sent to residential school in 1958. When Kenny published his first book, 1982 s "Indians Don t Cry, " he joined the ranks of Indigenous writers such as Maria Campbell, Basil Johnston, and Rita Joe whose work melded art and political action. Hailed as a landmark in the history of Indigenous literature in Canada, this new edition is expected to inspire a new generation of Anishinaabe writers with poems and stories that depict the challenges of Indigenous people confronting and finding...
George Kenny is an Anishinaabe poet and playwright who learned traditional ways from his parents before being sent to residential school in 1958. When...
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107,05 zł |
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The Way I Was Taught
ISBN: 9781499183351 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Way I Was Taught" is a coming-of-age story set in rural 1950's America in which a white, ten-year old, preacher's son, dealing with a severe emotional trauma, follows a path to recovery and "Well-Being" given him by the traditional teachings of neighboring American Indian Elders. It dramatizes the contrast, through the eyes this boy, between Christian ways and traditional Seneca ways.
Halfway through his "eleventh walk around the sun," Hunter Koenig was nearly killed by a bull which caused his mother to have a miscarriage. As she spent a year recovering, in Hunter's mind the accident... "The Way I Was Taught" is a coming-of-age story set in rural 1950's America in which a white, ten-year old, preacher's son, dealing with a severe emot...
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80,50 zł |
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Within the Sacred Circle: A Native American Connection
ISBN: 9781479105267 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taken from the pages of the series "Where the Horses Run" these are ten short stories. Together they tell about a historical tribe of Lakhota beginning over three hundred years ago. Each is a story unto itself, but as a whole, they read like chapters in this novella. If a hidden tribe did exist separate from the Lakhota nation, in order to keep their sacred stories and way of life, they may have lived as the Sni Taniya. And they might have known the Ancients of their Ancestors and expected the guardians of that valley to still exist. Into that world a great mystery crept. The occurrences...
Taken from the pages of the series "Where the Horses Run" these are ten short stories. Together they tell about a historical tribe of Lakhota beginnin...
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39,34 zł |
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Raven's Passion
ISBN: 9781499602791 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,38 zł |
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Losing St. Christopher: Book Two of the Cherokee Series
ISBN: 9780985728526 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1953 Albert Speer, Germany's Minister of Armaments & War Production during World War II, wrote from his cell in Spandau Prison, West Berlin, regarding the genocide of the American Indian. The Nazis' study of the treatment and eradication of the American Indian was an element in the plan for the "Final Solution" - the eradication of European Jews and others deemed undesirable or a threat to the Aryan order. Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and others who administered the Nazi Holocaust had looked to the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the subsequent actions of the United... In 1953 Albert Speer, Germany's Minister of Armaments & War Production during World War II, wrote from his cell in Spandau Prison, West Berlin, reg... |
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60,32 zł |
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What's One More?
ISBN: 9781499774399 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,32 zł |
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Obi: Seminole Maroon Freedom Fighter
ISBN: 9784902837032 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Obi: Seminole Maroon is a fictionalized account of the daring escape of a 15 year old enslaved young man and his friends from a cotton plantation in South Carolina who find refuge among the Seminoles of Florida. The story follows Obis meeting with the mysterious Quashee, his transformation from slave to freedom seeker and his escape to Florida. Through the "learnings" provided by Quashee, Obi develops the traits essential for his becoming a Maroon leader, establishing a Maroon village, his fighting in the Gullah Wars of Independence, going to Indian Territory out West, and his subsequent...
Obi: Seminole Maroon is a fictionalized account of the daring escape of a 15 year old enslaved young man and his friends from a cotton plantation in S...
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57,46 zł |
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From The Deer Forest: A Story of Wolves
ISBN: 9780692242186 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before Europeans arrived in the Pacific Northwest rainforest, deer, wolves, elk and man lived in balance. This story follows a single pack of wolves in the pristine wilderness of what we now call the Olympic Mountains and the Hoh River valley as they give birth, raise their young, fight for survival, and endure as part of this majestic web of life. From the Deer Forest is a lyrically written book, full of the wonder of life, nature, and this very special place.
Before Europeans arrived in the Pacific Northwest rainforest, deer, wolves, elk and man lived in balance. This story follows a single pack of wolves i...
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53,76 zł |
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Indian Misdemeanors
ISBN: 9781500664411 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,32 zł |
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Run to My River
ISBN: 9781419651991 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The haunting of the Shannon Fitzpatrick, was set in motion centuries before she was born. Yvonne Dorsey's "Run to My River" is a heartwarming and passionate story about two women, a First Native American who commits an unthinkable act centuries ago, which causes unrest in her spirit; and an American millennial woman, Shannon Fitzpatrick, who helps Shaahatuck find her way to the Father Spirit; and, in turn, finds peace herself. A story of two women, who live centuries apart, and yet live remarkably similar lives -- experiencing the same heartache, fears, and joys, Each woman loves the man of...
The haunting of the Shannon Fitzpatrick, was set in motion centuries before she was born. Yvonne Dorsey's "Run to My River" is a heartwarming and pass...
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40,35 zł |
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Without a Paddle
ISBN: 9781614932789 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Without A Paddle follows a young Native American man, Paulie, living in "Maryville" in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, as he struggles to find his roots and his "place in the world." He transitions from teenager to husband, father, employee, traveler while he listens and learns from experiences at home in Maryville, then the world, drawing on his instincts when danger threatens. It is the story of his search of identity, meaning, and balance with both his Western and Native values. His young wife, Luvenia and their infant son figure prominently as he tries to do the right thing for them. In Book...
Without A Paddle follows a young Native American man, Paulie, living in "Maryville" in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, as he struggles to find his roots a...
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72,95 zł |
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Long Ago
ISBN: 9780991608294 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a story of a family from long ago...It is about someone I know... It is a journey of some sorts...in poetry and sketch form...It is a story close to my heart...this is a personal and emotional form of art...
This book is a story of a family from long ago...It is about someone I know... It is a journey of some sorts...in poetry and sketch form...It is a sto...
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76,67 zł |
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The Chosen One: The Lost Memories
ISBN: 9781500659455 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High in the Wind River Mountains where the lodge pole pines give way to short shrubs and wildflowers, live the Mountain Shoshone, also known as the Sheep Eaters. They are a peaceful people who want nothing more than to live separate from other tribes and the invading white man. They feel safe here, high above timber line, protected by the Toyawo, the powerful mountain medicine. Aggretta, a widow at only twenty summers has dedicated her life to becoming a medicine woman, taught by Kwinaa, the wise and feared puhagant of the Tukadika tribe. When a white trapper is found badly injured, Kwinaa...
High in the Wind River Mountains where the lodge pole pines give way to short shrubs and wildflowers, live the Mountain Shoshone, also known as the Sh...
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36,32 zł |
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Common Ground
ISBN: 9781493627820 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when a major corporation wants to flood Native American ancient burial grounds? In 1978, the Tennessee Valley Authority did just that. COMMON GROUND dramatizes the destruction of Cherokee Indian tribal lands and the fight led by a small town lawyer and the Cherokee tribal officials in a 20th century Custer's Last Stand.
What happens when a major corporation wants to flood Native American ancient burial grounds? In 1978, the Tennessee Valley Authority did just that. CO...
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52,42 zł |
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Wil Usdi, 64: Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella
ISBN: 9780806146591 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805 1893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi s life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley. Conley tells Wil s story through the... Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805 1893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to h... |
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56,31 zł |
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The Deception: Book 1 of The Beaded Moccasin Chronicles
ISBN: 9780692279748 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in the Early 1900's, Emalia discovers living as a half-blood among a not so kind environment can be a struggle for a teenage girl among the prairies of Western Kansas. Determined to make the best of her situation, she grows to become a motivation driven young lady in the Beaded Moccasin Chronicles. Be sure and watch for book 2-4 of The Beaded Moccasin Chronicles in 2015
Set in the Early 1900's, Emalia discovers living as a half-blood among a not so kind environment can be a struggle for a teenage girl among the prairi...
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56,45 zł |
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Grand Avenue: A Novel in Stories
ISBN: 9780806148342 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grand Avenue runs through the center of the Northern California town of Santa Rosa. One stretch of it is home not only to Pomo Indians making a life outside the reservation but also to Mexicans, blacks, and some Portuguese, all trying to find their way among the many obstacles in their turbulent world.
Bound together by a lone ancestor, the lives of the American Indians form the core of these stories tales of healing cures, poison, family rituals, and a humor that allows the inhabitants of Grand Avenue to see their own foibles with a saving grace. A teenage girl falls in love with a... Grand Avenue runs through the center of the Northern California town of Santa Rosa. One stretch of it is home not only to Pomo Indians making a life o...
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82,71 zł |
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Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction: Volume 63
ISBN: 9780806151205 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The nine short stories in this collection by distinguished Osage author John Joseph Mathews are sure to be recognized as classics of twentieth-century nature writing and the wildlife conservation movement. The characters in "Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction" are coyotes, mountain lions, deer, owls, sandhill cranes, prairie chickens and human beings, who sometimes kill their prey but are often outsmarted by the largest and smallest animals.
Mathews shows us the world through the animals eyes and ears and noses. His convincing portrayals of their intelligence... The nine short stories in this collection by distinguished Osage author John Joseph Mathews are sure to be recognized as classics of twentieth-century...
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82,71 zł |
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