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Of Living Stone: Perspectives on Continuous Knowledge and the Work of Vine Deloria, Jr. is a collection of new essays on the legacy of Vine Deloria, Jr., one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This insightful collection features more than thirty original pieces, bringing together Tribal leaders, artists, scientists, activists, scholars, legal experts, and humorists. A group of French scholars offers surprising perspectives on Deloria's...
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Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fiction
These are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be told 'round the campfire, each one-upping the next. Tales about a car that drives herself, ever loyal to her owner. Tales about an impossible moose hunt. Tales about the Real Santa(TM) mashed up with the book of Genesis,...
4) Cougar Hunt
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NUMBER 1 Listopia's Addiction RomancesShe understands the dangers of the game she's playing. Finding friends with benefits on the internet could cost her more than her job. The only constant in her life is the kid she continues to reject. Joey keeps on coming back until the night they share during the snowstorm. Ready to admit she may need professional help; Linda finds she may have waited too long.Joey withdraws from college and leaves town without...
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From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of violence and dispossession have all been justified by citing civilization's opposition to these differences represented...
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In this picture book featuring Coast Salish art and Traditional Storytelling techniques, a wood duck and a crow turn a mistake into an opportunity for friendship and growth. Mistakes can be an opportunity for growth.
Indigenous artist and storyteller Andrea Fritz tells the tale of a wood duck and a crow who turn a mistake into an opportunity for friendship and growth.
Qwiwilh the wood duck is preparing to nest in his favorite tree when Q'uleeq'e'...
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A dual-language book that celebrates happiness and invites children to reflect on the little things in life that bring them joy. In English and Spanish. Un libro en cartoné que celebra la alegría, invitando a los niños a pensar en las pequeñas cosas de la vida que les hacen sentir alegres. ¿Qué llena tu corazón de alegría?
★ "A quiet loveliness, sense of gratitude, and-yes-happiness emanate from this tender celebration of simple pleasures."...
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The largely untold story of the Ho-Chunk exile from Minnesota, in which local white residents sought to expel all indigenous people from the region and deny Native claims to some of the richest farmland in the world.
In 1863, after the end of the US—Dakota War, a group of men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society. At the beginning of every meeting, members of the Knights of the Forest recited its ritual pledge, including these words: "I...
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In Complexion of Empire in Natchez, Christian Pinnen examines slavery in the colonial South, using a variety of legal records and archival documents to investigate how bound labor contributed to the establishment and subsequent control of imperial outposts in colonial North America. He examines the dynamic and multifaceted development of slavery in the colonial South and reconstructs the relationships among aspiring enslavers, natives, struggling...
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History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from Boston Tea Party to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Boston Tea Party took place at Griffin's Wharf on December 16, 1773. Furious with Britain for "taxation without representation," the Americans dropped 342 British East India Company tea boxes into the bay. It was the first great colony rebellion against British control. It proved to Great Britain...
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A comprehensive history of the Volunteer State's formation, from the prehistoric era to the closing of the frontier in 1840.
This chronicle of the formation of Tennessee from indigenous settlements to the closing of the frontier in 1840 begins with an account of the prehistoric frontiers and a millennia-long habitation by Native Americans. The rest of the book deals with Tennessee's historic period beginning with the incursion of Hernando de Soto's...
13) Lost birds
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
The Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito Novels volume 27
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
The Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito Novels volume 27
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[2024]
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Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client's adoption was questionable,...
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