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Author
Publisher
Gaia & Friends, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Blossoming of Women brings us a new, wide sweep of research, personal stories, and thought-provoking questions to help fortify and guide us to our unique role as Elders. Elders who are decidedly not alone, lost or forgotten but deeply involved and connected in a world where we make a distinctive and valuable contribution to the whole as we become more truly ourselves.--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition
Language
English
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Description
"Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue between the miraculous and the mundane, the spiritual...
3) Shell Shaker
Author
Publisher
Aunt Lute Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2002 American Book Award↵Why was Red Shoes, the most formidable Choctaw warrior of the 18th century, assassinated by his own people? Why does his death haunt Auda Billy, an Oklahoma Choctaw woman, accused in 1991 of murdering Choctaw Chief Redford McAlester? Moving between the known details of Red Shoes' life and the riddle of McAlester's death, this novel traces the history of the Billy women whose destiny it is to solve both murders-with...
Author
Publisher
Aunt Lute Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The collected stories/essays in Choctalking on Other Realities, by Choctaw author LeAnne Howe, depict, with wry humor, the contradictions and absurdities that transpire in a life lived crossing cultures and borders. The result is three parts memoir, one part absurdist fiction, and one part marvelous realism. The collection begins with Howe's stint working in the bond business for a Wall Street firm as the only American Indian woman (and 'out' Democrat)...
Author
Publisher
Fremantle Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The apocalyptic 2019-2020 Australian bushfires were a dire warning: respect the environment and listen to indigenous wisdom, or our world will become a living hell. INFERNO WITHOUT BORDERS both raises awareness of a climate solution, and serves as a call to action to ensure the atrocity’s of Australia’s bushfire crisis is never endured again.
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Three Indigenous youth come of age on the fringes of the Navajo Nation. A meditation on adolescence, trauma and the power of connecting with a homeland. Filmed at the most remote high school in the continental United States, at the farthest edge of the Navajo Nation, this film shares the stories of Indigenous youth as they grapple with ambitious dreams, their family responsibilities, and the isolated nature of their community — all while the school...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The story of Warri and Yatungka, the last of the Mandildjara people to be living a traditional nomadic lifestyle in the remote Gibson Desert of central Australia. Warri and Yatungka became the last nomads because they had married outside their tribal laws and eloped to the most inaccessible of regions. In 1977 the land was stricken by a severe drought and their tribal Elders mounted a search for them with the help of a party of white men led by Dr...
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 4
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Led to a new village where the animal beings who live there are going missing, Morgan, Emily and Eli vow to help after discovering who's responsible, until the details of a traditional legend change everything.
10) Stones
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
[Historical Fiction, American Indian, Cultural Heritage]
In Book 3 of the saga of Shining Light's people, the reader is swept into the changing world of ancient Native America. The peace that Shining Light and his family have enjoyed in the Land of the Tall Trees is shattered by his young daughter. Dove's dream of mustangs, and of a young American Indian boy named Singing Stone, and his family known as the Mustang People, will not let her rest.
The...
11) The Nanny Plan
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This billionaire bachelor has a baby challenge...;
Being a father to his orphaned infant niece is out of this tech billionaire's comfort zone. Lucky for Nate Longmire, Trish Hunter is a natural at motherhood, and she's agreed to be his temporary nanny. But long glances, slow kisses and not-so-innocent touches are strictly off-limits...;
Trish's goal is to help Nate in exchange for a big donation to her charity for Lakota kids. Falling for her...
12) Ever Deadly
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Throughout her ground-breaking career, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq has always had an intimate relationship with the Nuna—the Land—a living, breathing organism present in her improvised performances. Hers is a voice that, according to the New York Times, “demands full attention, whether she’s whispering in her softest register or howling at the sky.” EVER DEADLY weaves together intimate concert footage of Tagaq alongside moving personal...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Elliot Page returns to his home province in Canada to meet with Black and Indigenous women who are working to end the legacy of environmental racism in Nova Scotia. Based on Ingrid Waldron's book by the same name, THERE"S SOMETHING IN THE WATER traces the environmental catastrophes that plague remote, low income, and often Indigenous or Black communities.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic."-Tommy Orange, author of There, There
After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in this haunting debut novel, inspired, in part, by the ramifications of Diné...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good sense must not mix business with passion.
Like that will keep Tom Yellow Bird from pursuing the woman who shocked his senses at first sight. Yes, the wealthy FBI special agent's job is to work a case involving the Honorable Caroline Jennings. It is his duty to protect the beautiful judge. Yet nothing stops him from acting on the attraction between them. And once he...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of rapid urban expansion and property development. Max Stuart, Thomas Stevens, Doris Stuart and other Elders talk about the importance of the sites in and around the city in terms of traditional Dreaming. They reflect on their sense of loss as sites are desecrated...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What was the New World like before it encountered the Old? Now, scientific expeditions in North and South America are woven with drama recreations to investigate and present a new vision of America, and how the clash of civilizations forever altered the history of our world.
19) Eating Up Easter
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The iconic statues and sensationalised mysteries of Easter Island have drawn the interest of the world for centuries, attracting curious visitors to its shores. Today, this tiny, barren island is experiencing an economic boom as tourism skyrockets. Yet the indigenous culture and the island?s fragile environment are suffering. This character-lead film follows the way the islanders are managing the results of globalisation and managing the downsides...
20) Warrior Spirit
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A feature length documentary film about the first native american UFC champion Nicco Montano. Montano is on a quest to defend her UFC title. The film lifts the veil on the dark world of extreme weight cutting in the UFC and how the multi billion dollar UFC company exploits their fighters for millions of dollars.
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