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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...
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Initially conceived after reading the works of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who was known for his early studies of Native American culture, "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is an epic poem based on the legends of the Ojibwa Indians of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Written in 1855 in trochaic tetrameter, the tale is set in the picturesque Pictured Rocks area along the south shore of Lake Superior. The lyrical descriptions of this...
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The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...
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Otsaliheliga is a Cherokee word that is used to express gratitude. Journey through the year with a Cherokee family and their tribal nation as they express thanks for celebrations big and small. A look at modern Native American life as told by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles,...
7) Powwow day
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Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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Jo Jo Makoons volume 1
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"Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat), she's worried that she needs to figure out how to make more...
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"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends."--Provided...
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Like A New Sun: An Anthology of Indigenous Mexican Poetry features poetry from Huastecan Nahuatl, Isthmus Zapotec, Mazatec, Tzotzil, Yucatec Maya, and Zoque languages.
Co-edited by Isthmus Zapotec poet Víctor Terán and translator David Shook, this groundbreaking anthology introduces six indigenous Mexican poets-three women and three men-each writing in a different language. Well-established names like Juan Gregorio Regino (Mazatec) appear alongside...
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les indiens, ça disparaît
qu'ils disent à la famille
des indiens disparaissent
tous les jours
les flics haussent les épaules
ça n'a pas de sens de chercher
qu'ils disent
il va revenir quand
il en aura assez
ou sera sans le sou
Dans plusieurs cultures autochtones, nous nous révélons en racontant d'o nous venons, alors c'est ce que j'ai fait. J'ai voulu brosser un tableau du lieu o j'ai grandi, de la façon dont j'ai grandi dans ce lieu que...
12) Freedom's Wall
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This book is, dedicated to all veterans who have served in the military. This book is a book of poems that shows my love for the veterans!
My Wife and I visited the wall that houses all Vietnam Vetrans have been, killed in Vietnam. My first thought was "my God, how many names are on the wall". Later I found out roughly 60,000. God told me to honor them, so I wrote "Freedom's Wall". I hope you enjoy these poems! Bruce Robertson
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Creative writing tends to have secrets. Many of my poems do. My belief is that the writer should have surprises... Poetry also feels. How do you know what it feels like? Only the reader can provide the answer to such a question. A poem may become a puzzle that cannot be broken into pieces without destroying its meaning. Poetry should have secrets! Writers have tremendous powers within themselves, even if they are the only ones that can see them. As...
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Rutherford Ashley, of the Navajo people, presents a scrap book of 200 poems that take snapshots of what is the Navajo experience, from being too young for pre-school age in the 1970s, to dealing with aspects of Navajo identity, the work is like a family photo album, as surely more than one reader will identify with young Basil, the focus character in the work. In summary, A Navajo scrapbook deals with Navajo identity, especially as it is published...
15) Longview Road
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These autobiographical poems express hard-won wisdom and equilibrium. Monolin Manny Moreno offers a clear-eyed rootedness in place and family, love of and respect for Indigenous community and ceremony, the courage to examine dishonest and self-destructive choices, the compassion for those who are consumed by self-hatred, and the power of prayer, and the pain of forgiving. Moreno is not just a Central Valley poet, however, but also an accomplished...
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Je suis l'Amérindienne
Et ce fardeau
Demeure en moi à jamais
Poèmes narratifs, qui sont des repères sur la vie de l'auteure et sur sa condition de femme et d'amérindienne. On lit Nous sommes les rêveurs comme on lit un journal intime. On a l'impression d'entrer dans la tête de Rita Joe, de souffrir avec elle des injustices, de sentir son bébé grimper sur nous, de toucher la présence des êtres disparus. Et aussi de pouvoir changer les...
17) Solitudes
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Step into the mesmerizing world of Solitudes, a captivating and daring literary masterpiece that weaves an intricate tapestry of diverse emotions and themes. This thought-provoking work transcends traditional boundaries, exploring romance, fears, experiences – both sought after and unexpected – politics, theological-philosophical-spiritual matters, and all-encompassing human issues from a truly unique and otherworldly perspective.
Employing a...
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Un cri s'élève en moi qui me transfigure. Le monde attend que la femme revienne au monde comme elle est née telle qu'elle est: femme naissance, femme droite, femme debout, femme puissante. Femme résurgence. Renaissance. Un appel s'élève en moi et j'ai décidé de lui dire oui. Dire oui à ma naissance. Assumer en mon esprit les mémoires qui émergent en même temps que la voix des femmes autochtones se dressent au-dessus de la noirceur ambiante....
19) Holy Wild
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In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. A confessional poet, Benaway narrates her sexual and romantic intimacies with partners as well as her work to navigate the daily burden of transphobia and violence. She examines the intersections of Indigenous and trans...
20) Copper Yearning
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Copper Yearning invests itself in a compassionate dual vision-bearing witness to the lush beauty of our intricately woven environments and to the historical and contemporary perils that threaten them. Kimberly Blaeser's fourth collection of poetry deftly reflects her Indigenous perspective and a global awareness. Through vividly rendered images, the poems dwell among watery geographies, alive to each natural nuance, alive also to the uncanny. Set...
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