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81) Heart Chants
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Burnt-out former foreign correspondent Phillip McGuire is happy owning and running a bar in Lawrence, Kansas. He's happy with his new house in the country. But he's not happy. When two female Navajo students go missing from Haskell Indican College, he agrees to shelter a third. And then a mysterious, beautiful, Chinese woman, pursuing a hidden agenda, stumbles into his life. All the while, a half-Navajo young man begins to execute a plan to reopen...
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A novel of love and betrayal dealing with the biggest issues facing Canada's Indigenous peoples today. In the summer of 1972, a float plane carrying a team of child welfare officials lands on a river flowing through the Yellow Dog Indian reserve. Their mission is to seize the twin babies of an Indigenous couple as part of an illegal scheme cooked up by the federal government to adopt out tens of thousands of Native children to white families. The...
83) What Fox Knew
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With poems that both calm and awaken, Mary Barnes brings her Ojibwe roots to the fore and elegantly coaxes out the seemingly quiet world we often take for granted in What Fox Knew. In this masterful first collection, Barnes reveals this world anew, with tempered grace.
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Clásicos de literatura del Oeste para observar la transformación del sueño americano.
El sueño pastoral americano se ha transformado en un crudo sueño de poder y riqueza. ¿Cómo ha sucedido?
El progreso y las tecnologías transformaron nuestra sociedad.
Estos autores clásicos muestran el impacto de la llegada del ferrocarril (Frank Norris). La aparición de una mujer en medio del Oeste (Stehen Crane). La muerte por congelación de un hombre...
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The account of a nearly-forgotten tragedy of American history, Resisting Removal brings to life a story of political intrigue and bitter betrayal in this moving depiction of a people's desperate struggle to adapt to a changing, hostile world. Captivating and engaging for all the right reasons; talented historical storytelling at its finest.
In February 1850, the United States government ordered the removal of all Lake Superior bands of Ojibwe living...
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"Este personaje terrible, que sobrevuela la historia de Tierra del Fuego todavía hoy, con biografías, fotos y objetos en los museos, es Iuliu Popper (1857-1893), un rumano culto, solitario y amoral, que recorrió la isla hasta en sus rincones más inexplorados maquinando empresas y -aseguran- matando a los indios que molestaran su paso. Europeo errante, de la especie que intentaba hacerse rica a fuerza de obsesiones como la de cosechar oro del mar...
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Il y a une certaine impuissance au fait d'être témoin.
Plus personne ne vient ici à part moi. On dirait que je ne peux m'empêcher de revenir dans ce lieu o tout le monde est mort.
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Doué du pouvoir de se métamorphoser afi n de fouiner dans les histoires des gens et d'écouter les chants secrets de la forêt, Vison connaît tout de l'origine du mal qui s'abat sur Celia et le village nuu'chalnulth de la cte du Pacifi que. Tout s'effondre...
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En éliminant le sous-bois qui gêne le passage d'un oléoduc, la multinationale Domidion provoque un déversement mortel sur la cte de la Colombie-Britannique. Dorian Asher, le PDG, s'amuse à oublier son divorce et son mal-être par des dépenses somptuaires. Le chercheur Gabriel Quinn, responsable de la catastrophe, retourne s'enfermer près de la réserve de sa mère, désormais condamnée. Il y rencontre des survivants : Mara Reid, peintre ayant...
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Inhalt:
Romane:
Die Ansiedler an den Quellen des Susquehanna
Die Steppe oder die Prärie
Der rote Freibeuter
Satanstoe, oder die Familie Littlepage
Die Wassernixe oder der Streicher durch die Meere
Der letzte Mohikaner
Der Bravo
Der Pfadfinder
Die Grenzbewohner oder Die Beweinte von Wish-Ton-Wish
Der Wildtöter
Die Monikins
Ravensnest oder die Rothhäute
Der Spion-Eine Geschichte des neutralen Bodens
Die Steppe oder Die Prärie
Der Kettenträger oder...
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On Christmas Day 1957, Joe Trevorrow walked through the blistering heat to seek help for his sick baby boy. When relatives agreed to take Bruce to hospital, Joe was relieved - his son was in safe hands - but, within days, Bruce would be living with another family, and Joe would never see his son again. At the age of ten, Bruce would be returned to his Indigenous family, sparking a lifelong search for an identity that could never truly be known and...
92) Chinongwa
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‘ Chinongwa Murehwa was nine, but her age was not vital. Just her virginity.' In the village where Chinongwa lives, her family, displaced from their lands, are very poor. One desperate solution to hunger is to trade young daughters into marriage. At first, to their shame, her father' s and aunt' s attempts to marry off their youngest child fail. No one is interested in this small, thin girl. Eventually, a childless woman,...
95) The War Canoe
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17 year-old Mickey Church, a Tlingit Indian, didn't see anything special about his hometown. Perched on an island in Southeast Alaska, the small town of Wrangell was shabby, wet, and isolated. Mickey spent his time acting out, lighting up, and practicing his unstudied air of casual defiance. But when Dr. Bernet, the skinny, tenor-voiced new teacher gave his first history lecture, something inside Mickey shifted. Those old stories about the Tlingit...
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Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada's “reconciliation project” has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it.
Widely known as a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights, McIvor reports from the front lines of legal and political...
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Becky receives a visitor from a place she never even knew existed, and it has a dramatic effect on her life. The Washington DC police pursue Peter Wilson, as do Greek bakery owners who do not like the idea of Becky's new pie factory. Both receive some justice they never dreamed of. Tension builds as Becky contemplates the government's plan to build the transcontinental railroad.
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This book is a dramatic reconstruction of the life stories of 3 Native Americans chiefs who lived on the American frontier in the 19 th century. It gives a view of history that comes from the perspective of the Native American peoples. The narratives revolve around 3 giants of history, Sitting Bul, Chief Joseph and Geronimo who belonged to the Indian tribes of the American West that roamed on the Plains since their origins. They had signed treaties...
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A compelling story with powerful characters set in the Northern Territory of Australia. Culminating on top of the sacred Gujigari Rock of the Wainanda clan...who will lose their nerve first?
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Manggilulu: a young up and coming indigenous leader, too young to be catapulted into a position of intrigue, where his wit and passion clash with the white administrators. Was he guilty of the murder that he was apprehended for?
Livvy: an anthropologist,...
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Le petit caillou de la mémoire, c'est l'homme face à la nature démesurée. C'est William de la mer et des forêts profondes, qui pêche des saumons, abat des arbres, aime des femmes, cuit au soleil lent de sa vie. Une ode aux gens simples, aux défricheurs. Écriture somptueuse et grâce tranquille, le roman nous entraîne de Saint-Suliac sur Rance aux bords de mer gaspésiens, en passant par Terre-Neuve.
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