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The history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually beneficial process, in which "civilization" was brought to the Natives, who in return shared their land and cultures. A more critical history might present it as a genocide in which Indigenous peoples were helpless victims, overwhelmed and awed by European military power. In reality, neither of these views is correct.
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance is...
1422) The Incredible William Bowles: The True Story of One of the Wildest Figures in American History
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William Augustus Bowles - a British Loyalist during, and for a quarter century after, the American Revolutionary War. Part soldier, part dreamer, and part adventurer, he went from service in the British Army to joining the Muskogee Peoples, rising to be a respected war chief among the Native Americans. He waged war on the Spanish and fought to create a Native American state.
His story embodies the idea of the individual hero: Bowles is resourceful,...
1423) Fire Song
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How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves-his friend, David. Things go from bad...
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Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power.
Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis in northern...
1425) The Cherokee Physician: Or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor
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The extended title of The Cherokee Physician serves as an apt summary of its contents. The book was the result of a remarkable collaboration between James Mahoney, an Irish American and native Tennesseean, and Richard Foreman, whose parental ancestry was probably Scottish and Cherokee. Typical of its time, the book dispenses moral advice as cheerfully as medical advice. Needless to say, much of its advice flies in the face of modern medical practice...
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Esteemed historian Jean Barman brings new insights on the seemingly disparate events that converged to lay the foundation of the present-day province. By examining newly accessible private correspondence exchanged with the Colonial Office in London, Barman pieces together the chain of events that caused the distant colony of British Columbia to join the Canadian Confederation as opposed to the very real possibility of becoming one or more American...
1427) Le rêve contrarié
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TENGA : une merveilleuse île placée sous la protection des esprits bienveillants qui en ont fait un lieu de prédilection en y résidant en permanence auprès du peuple tenganien et le protégeant contre toutes nouvelles tentatives d'agression des occupants jetés à la mer selon la prédiction de la prophétie légendaire des aborigènes à la suite de l'insurrection d'un peuple jusqu'alors opprimé!
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The History of Starved Rock provides a wonderful overview of the famous site in Utica, Illinois, from when European explorers first viewed the bluff in 1673 through to 1911, when Starved Rock became the centerpiece of Illinois' second state park. Mark Walczynski pulls together stories and insights from the language, geology, geography, anthropology, archaeology, biology, and agriculture of the park to provide readers with an understanding of both...
1429) Billy and the Bearman
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A dramatic turn of events unites twelve-year-old Billy Gavin and seventeen-year-old John "Bearman" Redell, two boys from seemingly different backgrounds who discover that they in fact have a great deal in common - they are both runaways. Together, alone against nature in the rugged Alberta wilderness, they begin to deal with the demons of their pasts. When the news of a downed plane and a missing rodeo cowboy in the woods and mountains nearby reaches...
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A frustrated king flies into a rage and turns his mischievous daughters into oranges. The gruesome monsters Grim and Grunt decide they'd like to get their hands on the princesses, and bully their little brother, Grizzle-Tail, into stealing the girls. Who will rescue the princesses from the monsters' clutches?
Fran Parnell has always loved monster tales, "the bigger and badder the better!" Previously a Barefoot Books editor, Fran is now a writer...
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This second, updated and revised edition of John Maynard's original version from 2011 is a celebration of the journey taken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sportsmen and women who forged the way for the current crop of talented players, and which details the previously untold history of Indigenous involvement with the 'world game'.
The multicultural environment of Australian soccer after World War II provided Aboriginal players with a haven...
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El partidismo de la Fuerza Armada ha sido refrendado desde el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia por la Sentencia 651 del 11 de junio de 2014, la cual
valida la intervención de sus integrantes en actos políticos del PSUV: "la participación de los integrantes de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana en actos con fines políticos no constituye un menoscabo a su profesionalidad, sino un baluarte de participación democrática y protagónica".
La participación...
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Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national poet, and that his working-class upbringing and radical take on human sexuality often put him at odds with American culture. While American literary...
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A thousand years ago in west Africa, a hero stopped a sacrifice. He cut off the head of a monster, the head flying into the air. But, the Soninke princess was not saved: she was caught in an unfulfilled ritual. She was lost, immortal and unrecognized.
A thousand years later a Bamana peasant boy fled his home and was recruited by the spirits to help fulfill a quest traveling a new world, where the French were colonial rulers, then encountering the...
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«… je ne peux m'empêcher de me demander si l'omission de révéler et d'enseigner les horreurs commises par les
ancêtres des Américains et des Canadiens caucasiens contre les peuples des Premières Nations d'Amérique du Nord [... ] est une dissimulation intentionnelle ou une indication que ces personnes gardent toujours à l'esprit la notion que la vie d'une personne des Premières Nations n'a aucune valeur.»
Première traduction en français...
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This novel is set in tumultuous times 1630-1677, in colonial New England and London. In the beginning, there was peaceful co-existence between the English colonists and the Native American Nations. Comfort Bradford, the daughter of the Governor of Plymouth, is friends with her Wampanoag neighbors; she speaks their language and respects their culture. Decades later, her friend Metacom, leads his people and other tribes in a united effort against the...
1437) Pas comme les autres
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Les meilleurs moments dans la vie de Nathan sont ceux passés seul devant un écran. Quand sa mère anthropologue fait coïncider les vacances familiales avec son travail chez les Cris de la Baie-James, il suit en rechignant. Nathan compte bien ne pas mettre le nez dehors, même sans écran! Sa rencontre avec un jeune Cri le plongera au cœur d'une aventure qui transformera ses vacances et sa vision du monde.
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Le voyage initiatique de Mylène.
De retour d'un voyage, Charles offre à sa fille un livre fabuleux. En le feuilletant au creux d'un chêne centenaire, Mylène s'évade dans un monde magique et se lie d'amitié avec des rapaces. Un voyage initiatique durant lequel elle va découvrir le secret du peuple Sioux, sa sagesse et son harmonie avec la nature.
Aux ctés de Mylène, plongez dans la culture Sioux et découvrez les secrets, la sagesse et l'harmonie...
1439) The Gathering
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Alex is attending her first Mi'kmaw spiritual gathering, or mawiomi. Though she is timid at first, older cousin Matthew takes her under his wing. Meeting Elders along the way, they learn about traditional Mi'kmaw culture: the sacred fire, drumming, tanning and moccasin decorating, basket-and canoe-making, and enjoy a Mi'kmaw feast. Most importantly, Alex finds her voice in the talking circle. With contemporary illustrations by the bestselling illustrator...
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The Native American Indians are the group of people that were already in America even before it was discovered by Christopher Columbus. As a people, they had their own culture, traditions, language and beliefs. However, all that changed when pilgrims arrived. In order to preserve their unique culture, this book was created. Learn all that you can about the Native American Indians.
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