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Nampeshiweisit volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A young, Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchling--and quickly finds herself at odds with the "approved" way of doing things--in the first book of a brilliant new fantasy series. The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations--until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when...
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"'In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he came with bad intentions, like a Water Baby’s cry.' Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author...
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English
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"A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island represents the last chapter in the Age of Discovery-the final holdout in a completely connected world. In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed...
Publisher
BIG NDN Press and DelMonico Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey Gibson, a renowned artist of Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee descent, An Indigenous Present presents an increasingly visible and expanding field of Indigenous creative practice. It centers individual practices, while acknowledging shared histories, to...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The West, a nine-part series, chronicles the turbulent history of one of the most extraordinary landscapes on earth—a place that is simultaneously enticing and forbidding, filled with stories of both heartbreaking tragedy and undying hope. Beginning when the land belonged only to Native Americans and ending in the 20th century, the film introduces unforgettable characters—from gold seekers to cowboys, from homesteaders to Indian leaders—whose...
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Roger Reeves finds new meaning in silence, protest, fugitivity, freedom, and ecstasy. Braiding memoir, theory, and criticism, Reeves juxtaposes the images of an opera singer breaking the state-mandated silence curfew by singing out into the streets of Santiago, Chile, and a father teaching his daughter to laugh out loud at the planes dropping bombs on them in Aleppo, Syria. He describes the history of the hush harbor—places where enslaved people...
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English
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Can tracking skills and dreams discover a killer before it's too late?
Love... Marriage... Murder.
Less than twelve hours after arriving at a remote hunting lodge for their honeymoon, Shandra Higheagle and Detective Ryan Greer find a body. Shandra's cousin had quarreled with the man earlier, and the clues point to her as being the murderer.
Fish and Wildlife State Trooper Gabriel Hawke, arrives and immediately takes a dislike to Shandra's cousin....
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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.
11) Bitter and Sweet
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
How does the startling beauty - and humour - of Aboriginal art intertwine with reverberations of the past and our present?
12) Home and Away
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be 'at home' for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? Is it where you live, or the 'country' you are exiled from?
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition
Language
English
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"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...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hear the tale told by a tiny gold flake, smaller than a fingernail, which launched the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s. Encounter another artifact that had a profound impact on the West: the Colt revolver. And view the West through the eyes of both settlers and natives in the art of Albert Bierstadt and the sketches from Sitting Bull's drawing book.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Inspect stone points produced at the end of the last ice age by the Clovis culture of early hunter-gatherers in the Americas. Then probe the mystery of the birdman carving found in an ancient Native American burial mound. See how tribal traditions continue to inspire Indian artists.
17) Shell Shaker
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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...
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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)...
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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.
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