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81) Coyote Stories
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"We who lived the days of tribal life before our destruction began remember with gratefulness our storytellers and the delight and joy and richness which they imparted to our lives. We never tired of their tales, though told countless times. They will, forsooth, never grow old, for they have within them the essence of things that cannot grow old. These legends are of America, as are its mountains, rivers, and forests, and as are its people. They belong!"
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¿Cuáles son los niveles de participación de los pueblos indígenas en las figuras de conservación administradas por el Estado peruano? ¿Cuál es el impacto de la agenda de conservación sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas?
"Hacia un régimen de conservación y la defensa de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas" tiene como objetivo explorar los niveles de participación indígena en el marco regulatorio del Sistema Nacional de Áreas...
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Basking in the golden warmth from their pit fire, Spirit Bear and his pregnant wife, Kaitlin, share a lazy morning together. It was spring, and a nasty storm was rolling in. It was a perfect time for staying inside and sharing.Kaitlin, still fairly new to the Oglala Sioux people's ways, was curious about her husband's past. Should their child be born a boy, Kaitlin wanted to know what it will be like for their son to grow up in the shadow of his father,...
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El lento silbido de los sables es una rigurosa mezcla de historia y ficción. Patricio Manns desnuda en esta nueva novela histórica dos temas particulares: el choque de culturas inserto en una guerra bestial y las relaciones inevitablemente envenenadas que esta guerra —conocida como "Pacificación de la Araucanía"— promueve entre las partes en conflicto. Las páginas oscuras de esta epopeya saltan a la luz y penetran en las razones del sempiterno...
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In her first historical novel, Totems of September, Emmy-nominated author Robin Ladue uses her Native American storytelling tradition of circles on circles and lives on lives. It is interspersed with the culture of the Northwest and Plains tribes through the use of animal legend and myths. The juxtaposition of Wyoming's Devils Tower and the tragedy of September 11 brings to light little-known Native American history, as well as current themes: US...
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Nouvelles de Norma Dunning
Traduit de l'anglais par Daniel Grenier
Annie Muktuk, les hommes la désirent et se l'arrachent. Elle règne avec sa beauté légendaire et sa gloire chimérique sur le petit monde d'Igloolik. Des visages hauts en couleur prennent aux tripes. Josephee, se fiant à la ruse des Esprits, amène sa femme Elipsee sur le territoire dans l'Arctique pour la guérir du cancer. Husky, agent de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson, vit...
89) Chinongwa
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‘ Chinongwa Murehwa was nine, but her age was not vital. Just her virginity.' In the village where Chinongwa lives, her family, displaced from their lands, are very poor. One desperate solution to hunger is to trade young daughters into marriage. At first, to their shame, her father' s and aunt' s attempts to marry off their youngest child fail. No one is interested in this small, thin girl. Eventually, a childless woman,...
90) Blue Bear Woman
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Blue Bear Woman or Ourse bleueis the first novel in Quebec written by an Indigenous woman. The story of a young Cree woman's search for her roots and identity, this is also the author's debut novel, originally published in 2007, and it will be her second book to be published in English. The novel has been described as a "texte de resistance", showing contemporary Indigenous life and the impact on the Cree of the building of the Eastmain dam in northern...
91) God's Country 2
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Orphaned at an early age, eleven-year-old Carrie Camden gets adopted and comes to the Rocky Mountains in 1829, where she is once again orphaned by an Indian attack. She is assigned to mountain man Garrett Carter for her care.
Wise beyond her years and tough as nails, the devious "bad kid" makes an indelible impression on Jake, Right Hand, Fat, Dan, and the other mountain men. The poor Choteau brothers become the object of her wrath, and pay a never...
92) Girl Running
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In this stellar debut collection by Métis poet Diana Hope Tegenkamp we find solace and outrage, grief and tenderness, bewilderment and beauty, all "entangled in hope and dreaming." After many losses-of a mother known and loved, of a Métis father unknown and imagined-the 'girl' of this collection is running towards and away from mortality. In these poems, disappearances, perpetual flights, river walks, shadowy descents, and miraculous returns connect...
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This book is a dramatic reconstruction of the life stories of 3 Native Americans chiefs who lived on the American frontier in the 19 th century. It gives a view of history that comes from the perspective of the Native American peoples. The narratives revolve around 3 giants of history, Sitting Bul, Chief Joseph and Geronimo who belonged to the Indian tribes of the American West that roamed on the Plains since their origins. They had signed treaties...
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The account of a nearly-forgotten tragedy of American history, Resisting Removal brings to life a story of political intrigue and bitter betrayal in this moving depiction of a people's desperate struggle to adapt to a changing, hostile world. Captivating and engaging for all the right reasons; talented historical storytelling at its finest.
In February 1850, the United States government ordered the removal of all Lake Superior bands of Ojibwe living...
95) Taino: A Novel
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"JosÉ [Barreiro] writes the true story in TaÍno-the Native view of what Columbus brought. Across the Americas, invasion, and resistance, the TaÍno story repeated many times over." – Chief Oren Lyons (Joagquisho), Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation The story of what really happened when Columbus arrived in the "New World," as told by the TaÍno people who were impacted In 1532, an elderly TaÍno man named GuaikÁn sits down to write his story-an in-depth...
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A novel of love and betrayal dealing with the biggest issues facing Canada's Indigenous peoples today. In the summer of 1972, a float plane carrying a team of child welfare officials lands on a river flowing through the Yellow Dog Indian reserve. Their mission is to seize the twin babies of an Indigenous couple as part of an illegal scheme cooked up by the federal government to adopt out tens of thousands of Native children to white families. The...
97) Heart Chants
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Burnt-out former foreign correspondent Phillip McGuire is happy owning and running a bar in Lawrence, Kansas. He's happy with his new house in the country. But he's not happy. When two female Navajo students go missing from Haskell Indican College, he agrees to shelter a third. And then a mysterious, beautiful, Chinese woman, pursuing a hidden agenda, stumbles into his life. All the while, a half-Navajo young man begins to execute a plan to reopen...
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In this novel, first published in 1891, young, idealistic Genevieve Weir arrives in Indian Territory on a mission to bring "civilization" to the Muscogee people. There she meets Wynema, a young Muscogee girl who shares the traditions and beliefs of her tribe. Together, these young women come of age during a time in American history marred by racism, sexism, and brutality toward Native Americans.
A story about love's power to overcome differences,...