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Hai Kur Mamashu Chis: I Want to Tell You a Story
ISBN: 9781492180593 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Hai kur mamashu chis or "I want to tell you a story," as the Yagan grandmothers used to refer to their story-telling, is a journey through the landscape of the Yagan of old: a unique culture, rich in character, customs and beliefs. These stories take place below this same sky and over these same waters, in giant voyaging canoes and around eternal fires and on immense mountains. A landscape which has always been open to the passage of humankind... Mamashu chis is the time when birds used to be humans, perhaps also the time before there was an understanding of all that exists, of even...
Hai kur mamashu chis or "I want to tell you a story," as the Yagan grandmothers used to refer to their story-telling, is a journey through the landsca...
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73,63 zł |
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The Way of Kinship : An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature
ISBN: 9780816670819 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. That these treasures are available to us as writing is a miracle. . . . The writings here, while altogether modern in one sense, are based upon a literature, albeit oral, that has existed for thousands of years. They are the reflections of people who have lived long on the earth, on their own terms, in harmony with the powers of nature. They are invaluable to us who have so much to learn from them. These stories, poems, songs give us a way, a sacred way, into a world that we ought to know for its own sake. It is our own world, after all. --N. Scott Momaday, from the Foreword
The first... That these treasures are available to us as writing is a miracle. . . . The writings here, while altogether modern in one sense, are based upon a lite...
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78,50 zł |
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Star Songs and Water Spirits : A Great Lakes Native Reader
ISBN: 9780984334001 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. From the deep past to the present, here are the stories, songs, poetry, speeches, autobiography, fiction, and art of the Great Lakes Native nations. Set in the natural environment of the seasonal year, the selections explain cultural concepts and show how modern Native literature reflects tradition. Elders, war chiefs, religious leaders, and contemporary artists share - Sacred stories of the creation of the world From the deep past to the present, here are the stories, songs, poetry, speeches, autobiography, fiction, and art of the Great Lakes Native nations... |
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130,76 zł |
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The American Indian Intellectual Tradition : An Anthology of Writings from 1772 to 1972
ISBN: 9780801476549 / Angielski / Miękka / 407 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In The American Indian Intellectual Tradition, David Martinez presents thirty-one essays that exemplify Native American intellectual culture across two centuries. The occasion for many of the pieces was the exertion of colonial and then federal power to limit or obliterate the authority and autonomy of American Indians. The writers featured were activists for their home communities and for all indigenous people. Martinez divides his book into three critical epochs of American Indian history with section introductions that provide political context for the selected readings.... In The American Indian Intellectual Tradition, David Martinez presents thirty-one essays that exemplify Native American intellectual cultu... |
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130,87 zł |
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Native American Creation Stories of Family and Friendship
ISBN: 9780865348332 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Recorded by the author from personal interviews with Native American storytellers, these stories hold the conflicts and compliments of family and/or situations that test relationships. The work is a reminder of how fragile everyone is during the struggles to survive youth, middle age, and older years.
Recorded by the author from personal interviews with Native American storytellers, these stories hold the conflicts and compliments of family and/or s...
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77,71 zł |
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Sovereign Erotics : A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
ISBN: 9780816502424 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Two-Spirit people, identified by many different tribally specific names and standings within their communities, have been living, loving, and creating art since time immemorial. It wasn't until the 1970s, however, that contemporary queer Native literature gained any public notice. Even now, only a handful of books address it specifically, most notably the 1988 collection Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Since that book's publication twenty-three years ago, there has not been another collection published that focuses explicitly on the writing and art of Indigenous...
Two-Spirit people, identified by many different tribally specific names and standings within their communities, have been living, loving, and creating...
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139,63 zł |
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The American Indian Intellectual Tradition : An Anthology of Writings from 1772 to 1972
ISBN: 9780801449284 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In The American Indian Intellectual Tradition, David Martinez presents thirty-one essays that exemplify Native American intellectual culture across two centuries. The occasion for many of the pieces was the exertion of colonial and then federal power to limit or obliterate the authority and autonomy of American Indians. The writers featured were activists for their home communities and for all indigenous people. Martinez divides his book into three critical epochs of American Indian history with section introductions that provide political context for the selected readings.... In The American Indian Intellectual Tradition, David Martinez presents thirty-one essays that exemplify Native American intellectual cultu... |
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418,95 zł |
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Dragonfly, Walking Stick
ISBN: 9781936205752 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Examines the difficult and inspiring introduction of Algonquin Indian tribes to the English Colonists. Weaving the spiritual worlds of Native Americans and English Christians, this novel celebrates the creation of fertile hybridity as it confronts the difficulty of such rich mixtures finding acceptance in the seventeenth-century Colonial world.
Examines the difficult and inspiring introduction of Algonquin Indian tribes to the English Colonists. Weaving the spiritual worlds of Native American...
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82,68 zł |
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Return of the Bones
ISBN: 9781475187427 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. 2013 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION New Mexico / Arizona Book Awards Winner A dazzling, family epic of love and forgiveness. Return of the Bones is a very special book inspired by a true story -- In 1915, 2,067 skeletons were stolen from the ghost pueblo of Pecos and transported to Harvard University for medical research...In present day and across the miles, the wind carries their cries to Grandfather who hears the bones longing for home. Hollow-Woman and Grandfather are the last of the Pecos people, but Hollow-Woman is not interested in ancient skeletons. She works at an Indian casino and is of...
2013 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION New Mexico / Arizona Book Awards Winner A dazzling, family epic of love and forgiveness. Return of the Bones is a very s...
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55,22 zł |
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Creators Song
ISBN: 9781938487040 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Creator's Song, Ancient Voices Speak is a beautiful and uplifting daily gift of prayer and messages brought forth in a pre-dawn ceremony each day by Eva Black Tail Swan, a Cherokee Medicine Elder. This book is more than a daily message from the Creator... it is a path to know who you really are by spending time with a medicine elder. This book is such a gift as this work can be done in the comfort of your own home. "In this book you'll find carefully chosen selections of these communications. Read them one at a time and savor them, meditate on them, perhaps as a daily morning ritual. Another...
Creator's Song, Ancient Voices Speak is a beautiful and uplifting daily gift of prayer and messages brought forth in a pre-dawn ceremony each day by E...
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116,67 zł |
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Rez Ramblings: Living on the Pine Ridge as 21st Century as an Injun
ISBN: 9780988511408 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. "Rez Ramblings: Living on the Pine Ridge as a 21st Century Injun" offers readers the opportunity to take a walk with a contemporary Oglala Sioux, Lakota man, Leon Blunt Horn Matthews. In his book Leon recounts and reflects on his varied experiences living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, growing up in the inner city of Denver, Colorado, and traveling throughout the United States and Asia. Leon is a writer, coffee shop owner, philosopher, cook, columnist, radio personality, public speaker, pastor, and now, published author, who shares his unique perspective of living as a 21st Century...
"Rez Ramblings: Living on the Pine Ridge as a 21st Century Injun" offers readers the opportunity to take a walk with a contemporary Oglala Sioux, Lako...
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73,63 zł |
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Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Unive: Dedicated to Vine Deloria Jr.
ISBN: 9781483952871 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe Edited by MariJo Moore and Trace A. DeMeyer Dedicated to Vine Deloria Jr Exploring Quantum physics in relation to Indigenous peoples' understanding of the spiritual universe, this anthology includes writings from 40 Native writers from various nations. "Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time, MariJo Moore and Trace DeMeyer's brilliant anthology, explores an uncanny tension between Indigenous understandings of a moral, interconnected universe and the edges of western science and philosophy that -in time- come...
Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe Edited by MariJo Moore and Trace A. DeMeyer Dedicated to Vine Delo...
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93,87 zł |
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Rabbit Stories
ISBN: 9780985288389 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Fiction. Native American Studies. "What Kim Shuck is writing is vital and vibrant. She is blending tradition with modernity, history with humor and her own Indigenous perspective witheverything else. She is kind enough to invite us all into her mind, her life and her tribe through her writing and to smile at us when we realize that we are glad we came, glad we read this evocative book and glad that we met this powerful and significant poet." Dr. Dawn Karima Pettigrew, author of The Marriage of Saints: A Novel (University of Oklahoma Press, 2006) and THE WAY WE MAKE SENSE (Aunt Lute...
Fiction. Native American Studies. "What Kim Shuck is writing is vital and vibrant. She is blending tradition with modernity, history with humor and he...
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63,30 zł |
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Legend of the Pronghorn
ISBN: 9781493146826 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. |
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81,76 zł |
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Reasons Why We Ghost Dance
ISBN: 9781492881957 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Deep within the badlands in the state of South Dakota lies the Pine Ridge Reservation belonging to the Oglala Lakota Nation. Pine Ridge carries a dark history. It is here that the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee took place in December 1890. It is the place where the last of the Ghost Dances was enacted, and later the final engagement of U.S. forces against native Americans. Wounded Knee represented the end of a final frontier. They say that blood is thicker than water, but water can wear away stone. Two adolescent boys, one Metis, and the other white become bound together in a dark...
Deep within the badlands in the state of South Dakota lies the Pine Ridge Reservation belonging to the Oglala Lakota Nation. Pine Ridge carries a dark...
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98,16 zł |
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Navajo Life: A Bilingual Children's Picture Book
ISBN: 9781497581456 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of a Navajo girl named Bah and her brother Kee, beautifully illustrated by Navajo artist Andrew Tsihnijinnie. First published in 1946, it was used in schools and to teach literacy to adult Navajos. It is dedicated to all children, Navajo and non-Navajo alike. The bold and graphic illustrations by Andrew Tsinajinnie reflect Navajo Life of that era. He was already making a living as an artist at the time and was named an Arizona Living Treasure in 1991 . Native Child Dinetah has colorized the illustrations to introduce a new generation of readers to this great artist...
This book tells the story of a Navajo girl named Bah and her brother Kee, beautifully illustrated by Navajo artist Andrew Tsihnijinnie. First publishe...
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57,06 zł |
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Dawnland Voices : An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England
ISBN: 9780803246867 / Angielski / Miękka / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Dawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England s Native Americans. This pathbreaking anthology includes both classic and contemporary literary works from ten New England indigenous nations: the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi kmaq, Mohegan, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Schaghticoke, and Wampanoag.
Through literary collaboration and recovery, Siobhan Senier and Native tribal historians and scholars have crafted a unique volume covering a variety of genres and historical periods. From the earliest petroglyphs... Dawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England s Native Americans. This pathbr...
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141,34 zł |
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Stolen Princess: A Northwest Indian Legend
ISBN: 9780615999333 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. "Stolen Princess" is a Pacific Northwest Native American legend about Hoh tribe sweethearts whose lives were impacted by enslaving canoe warriors from the North who caused their long separation, loss of family, and near death. Sam Morss, circuit preacher from Aberdeen, Washington listened to the adventurous tale of struggle and strength from a local Quileute named Jimmy Goodman, as they shared a driftwood fire one night in 1919. Handed down verbally through Quileute generations as a true story in which the Princess causes a slide resulting in the waterfall. Sam Morss recorded the legend and...
"Stolen Princess" is a Pacific Northwest Native American legend about Hoh tribe sweethearts whose lives were impacted by enslaving canoe warriors from...
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52,97 zł |
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Little Herder in Spring: Daago Na'nilkaadi Yazhi
ISBN: 9781511539586 / Angielski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Ann Nolan Clark's moving stories of Navajo life as seen through the eyes of a young Navajo girl are available in print again. These poetically rendered, bilingual accounts of Navajo culture and traditions describe a sustainable way of life that is rooted in the land and linked to the seasons. First published in 1940, they were an outstanding achievement for their sensitively rendered cultural content, establishment of a written Navajo language, and for the sheer beauty of Navajo artist Hoke Denetsosie's illustrations. These unique books are among the most interesting and groundbreaking of all...
Ann Nolan Clark's moving stories of Navajo life as seen through the eyes of a young Navajo girl are available in print again. These poetically rendere...
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52,97 zł |
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Little Man's Family: Dine Yazhi Ba'alchini (Preschool Level)
ISBN: 9781511588188 / Angielski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. I am a Navajo boy. Dine 'ashkii nishli. A Navajo boy introduces his parents, brothers and sisters and goes on to describe his family's traditional way of life in the nineteen-forties of last century. It centers around a pastoral life with sheep and the processing of the wool by his mother and sisters. His father builds a traditional Navajo home, a hoghan, out of logs, and we are introduced to a sweat lodge and read about other traditional activities. Beautifully illustrated by a Native Navajo artist, Gerald Nailor, the book reminds us of a slower, healthier way of life. It was originally...
I am a Navajo boy. Dine 'ashkii nishli. A Navajo boy introduces his parents, brothers and sisters and goes on to describe his family's traditional way...
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36,60 zł |
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