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Indian Hostilities In New Mexico: Message Of The President Of The United States (1860)
ISBN: 9780548617342 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transmitting, In Compliance With A Resolution Of The House, Information Concerning Indian Hostilities In The Territory Of New Mexico.
Transmitting, In Compliance With A Resolution Of The House, Information Concerning Indian Hostilities In The Territory Of New Mexico.
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82,32 zł |
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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. 5-8 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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81,96 zł |
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The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature
ISBN: 9780816670819 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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82,94 zł |
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The American Indian Intellectual Tradition: An Anthology of Writings from 1772 to 1972
ISBN: 9780801476549 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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114,06 zł |
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Native American Creation Stories of Family and Friendship: Stories Retold
ISBN: 9780865348332 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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86,51 zł |
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The American Indian Intellectual Tradition
ISBN: 9780801449284 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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560,20 zł |
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Dragonfly, Walking Stick
ISBN: 9781936205752 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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92,04 zł |
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Return of the Bones
ISBN: 9781475187427 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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61,47 zł |
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Creators Song
ISBN: 9781938487040 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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129,87 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. 5-8 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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81,96 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. 5-8 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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104,50 zł |
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Blue, Like Night Sky: A Hippy Chick's Ride Inside Indian Country
ISBN: 9780615821351 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published by WIld EMbers Press (2013). Set in "Indian Country," near the Dineh (Navajo) ancestral homelands of Big Mountain, Az. "blue" is based on true events. The fictional story is the second of a trilogy of books based on the author's life inside the American Indian Movement. "blue" is a fiction, yet reflects "Indian life" in the last half of the 20th century and is inspired by the Dineh resistance movement--their attempt to maintain a Traditional life on their homelands. It is the story of two women who met in the 1980's: one Dineh and the other, a hippy "transplant" from back East. The...
Published by WIld EMbers Press (2013). Set in "Indian Country," near the Dineh (Navajo) ancestral homelands of Big Mountain, Az. "blue" is based on tr...
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72,85 zł |
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Rabbit Stories
ISBN: 9780985288389 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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70,47 zł |
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Cuentos de Terror: Compilacion 1
ISBN: 9781517331962 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, Estados Unidos, 19 de enero de 1809-Baltimore, Estados Unidos, 7 de octubre de 1849) fue un escritor, poeta, critico y periodista romantico estadounidense, generalmente reconocido como uno de los maestros universales del relato corto, del cual fue uno de los primeros practicantes en su pais. Fue renovador de la novela gotica, recordado especialmente por sus cuentos de terror. Considerado el inventor del relato detectivesco, contribuyo asimismo con varias obras al genero emergente de la ciencia ficcion. Por otra parte, fue el primer escritor estadounidense de renombre...
Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, Estados Unidos, 19 de enero de 1809-Baltimore, Estados Unidos, 7 de octubre de 1849) fue un escritor, poeta, critico y period...
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54,55 zł |
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Legend of the Pronghorn
ISBN: 9781493146826 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,02 zł |
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Reasons Why We Ghost Dance
ISBN: 9781492881957 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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109,28 zł |
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Little Herder in Summer: Shiigo Na'nilkaadi Yazhi
ISBN: 9781495385193 / Navajo / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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58,97 zł |
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Coyote Tales
ISBN: 9781495457401 / Navajo / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The original Navajo Coyote Tales - beautifully colorized. For the first time since the stories were published in 1949, children and adults can read the tales of Coyote the Trickster again in Navajo and English. This edition has been newly typeset in Navajo and designed to closely resemble the original. It is not a facsimile reprint, as sold by other publishers. Coyote stories were told by Navajo elders when gathering around the fire place at night in winter. It was the traditional way to educate young listeners. Six of these delightful tales were originally collected in Navajo 75 years ago...
The original Navajo Coyote Tales - beautifully colorized. For the first time since the stories were published in 1949, children and adults can read th...
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68,07 zł |
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The Ramah Navahos: Tl'ohchiniji Dine Keedaht'inii Baa Hane
ISBN: 9781496017772 / Navajo / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Son of Former Many Beads begins his narration by telling us that his parents had been rounded up by Kit Carson's troops, were driven to Fort Sumner during the Long Walk period and managed to escape from imprisonment to live with the Chiricahua Apaches. He was born among the Chiricahua two years later, and returned with his family to their homeland after the tribe had been released from internment at Fort Sumner. His father, Many Beads eventually moved back to the Ramah area with his family, where they once had lived. His narration spans the time before first contact with the white man, to the...
Son of Former Many Beads begins his narration by telling us that his parents had been rounded up by Kit Carson's troops, were driven to Fort Sumner du...
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45,31 zł |
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Navajo Historical Selections: Selected, edited and translated from the Navajo
ISBN: 9781496140432 / Navajo / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The selected articles were published in Navajo in a monthly newspaper: Adahooni igii. The newspaper was printed on a single folded sheet of newsprint and distributed from 1943 to 1957 throughout the Reservation and was a predecessor of the contemporary Navajo Times. Adahooni igii was published by the Navajo Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Window Rock, Arizona and contributed to the standardization of Navajo orthography. The only widely available texts intended for a Navajo audience up to that point had been religious publications and parts of Diyin God Bizaad - the Bible. The paper...
The selected articles were published in Navajo in a monthly newspaper: Adahooni igii. The newspaper was printed on a single folded sheet of newsprint ...
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68,07 zł |
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