Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Earth Is All That Lasts
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£24.79
Penguin Putnam Inc Fools Crow
Book SynopsisThe 25th-anniversary edition of a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature. (Wallace Stegner)In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The men hunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party against the enemy Crow. The women tan the hides, sew the beadwork, and raise the children. But the year is 1870, and the whites are moving into their land. Fools Crow, a young warrior and medicine man, has seen the future and knows that the newcomers will punish resistance with swift retribution. First published to broad acclaim in 1986, Fools Crow is James Welch''s stunningly evocative portrait of his people''s bygone way of life.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics rep
£15.30
University of Washington Press Northwest Coast Indian Art
Book SynopsisFocuses on the art of Northwest Coast Indians that offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists. This book presents an analysis of the use of color, line, and texture; the organization of space; and such typical forms as ovoids, eyelids, U forms, and hands and feet.
£29.66
Random House USA Inc Indian Givers
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£15.30
St. Martin's Griffin Mankiller A Chief and Her People
Book SynopsisIn this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller''s life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle, and her book becomes a quest to reclaim and preserve the great Native American values that form the foundation of our nation. Now featuring a new Afterword to the 2000 paperback reissue, this edition of Mankiller completely updates the author''s private and public life after 1994 and explores the recent political struggles of the Cherokee Nation.
£18.99
St Martin's Press The Captured
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£18.00
Random House USA Inc The Killing of Crazy Horse
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£17.00
Penguin Putnam Inc The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Native America from
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCEA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal.Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another. - NPRAn informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation's past.. - New York Times Book Review, front pageA sweeping history—and counter-narrative—of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.
£16.20
Little, Brown & Company Counting Coup A True Story of Basketball and
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£18.69
Simon & Schuster The Pueblo Revolt The Secret Rebellion That Drove
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£16.19
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Lakota Woman By Crow Dog Mary June 2011
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£12.99
Wayne State University Press Weweni
Book SynopsisDepending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word “weweni” expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity. In addition, the word for “relatives” is “nindenwemaaganag”: those whose “enewewe,” or voices, sound familiar. In Weweni, poet Margaret Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in a unique bilingual collection.
£16.16
Wayne State University Press Raising Bean
Book SynopsisOffered in the oral traditions of the Nez Perce, Native American writer W.S. Penn records the conversations he held with his granddaughter, lovingly referred to as ‘Bean’, as he guided her toward adulthood while confronting society's interest in possessions, fairness, and status.
£17.95
University Alabama Press Sounds of Tohi
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£23.36
University of New Mexico Press Dine A History of the Navajos
Book SynopsisTraces the history of the Navajos from their origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on extensive archival research, traditional accounts, interviews, historic and contemporary photographs, and firsthand observation, it provides a detailed, up-to-date portrait of the Dine past and present that will be essential for scholars, students, and interested general readers.
£23.36
University of Manitoba Press Sanaaq An Inuit Novel
Book SynopsisAn intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in northern Quebec.
£19.96
University of Manitoba Press Ubuntu Relational Love Decolonizing Black
Book SynopsisUses Ubuntu oratures as tools to address the impacts of Euro-colonialism, while regenerating relational Ubuntu governance structures, drawing on anti-racist, African feminist, and Ubuntu theories.Table of Contents Granary 1 Sharing Indigenous Ubuntu Knowledge Granary 2 How to Walk this Path Granary 3 Kwakukhona as a Method of Engagement Granary 4 Ubuntu Orality as a Living Philosophy Granary 5 A Stained Letter to Amai (Mother) Granary 6 I am Your Son, Baba Granary 7 Social Actions of Ubuntu Regeneration Beyond Colonialism Granary 8 Stories of Blackness and Stories that Talk of Blackness Granary 9 Regenerating Everyday Ubuntu Actions Granary 10 Umuntu Ungumuntu Ngubuntu
£25.56
St Martin's Press Killing Crazy Horse
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£13.29
Union Square & Co. Keep Going The Art of Perseverance
Book SynopsisA guide that deals with Native American Lakota spirituality. It features a thought-provoking series of lessons that explain how the art of perseverance is necessary in life, even through shadow and sadness.
£12.11
University of Toronto Press Separate Beds
Book SynopsisSeparate Beds is the shocking story of Canada’s system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the “Indian Hospitals” were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients.Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the “Indian Hospitals,” the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations.A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, Separate Beds reveals a history of racismTrade Review'Lux's detailed account will surely be of interest to scholars of Aboriginal history and health care as well as to the people interested in the development of Indian hospitals in Canada.' -- Joanne DeCosse Canada's History October-November 2016 "In painstaking research and matter-of-fact reportage, Associate Professor Lux of Brock University documents Canadian apartheid. Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals In Canada is a riveting and extraordinary account of mistreatment of citizens." -- Tom Korski Blacklocks Reporter, Saturday, June 4, 2016Table of ContentsChapter One: Making Indian Hospitals Chapter Two: Neither Law nor Treaty Chapter Three: Everyone in Their Place: Labour in the Indian Hospitals Chapter Four: Life and Death in an Indian Hospital Chapter Five: Getting out of the Hospital Business Chapter Six: "The Government's eyes were opened": The Treaty Right to Health Care
£26.09
Simon & Schuster The Heart of Everything That Is The Untold Story
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£17.99
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Our Voice of Fire
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHer powerful and necessary work is required reading for all readers seeking to better know the realities and buried truths of the Indigenous experience. * Booklist (starred review) *Morin writes honestly and compassionately … Her narrative provides an important window into an experience that needs far more mainstream attention. * Liber Review *Brandi Morin's storytelling is accessible, powerful, and clear. ... She is a brave and vulnerable storyteller who brings greater empathy and understanding into the lives of Indigenous people and the cycles of intergenerational trauma and yet manages to get up again and again in hope. * Miramichi Reader *[Morin] comes to view her life story as intertwined with those of others, particularly other Indigenous women … In her candour, she calls on us, as readers, to be good visitors in her narrative. * Literary Review of Canada *Morin’s writing is very satisfying. … Cathartic and evocative, Our Voice of Fire is a beautiful memoir … [and] a wake-up call to Canada’s settlers and the politically indifferent. * Cloud Lake Literary *
£13.29
Simon & Schuster God War and Providence
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Warren’s well-written monograph contains a great deal of insight into the tactics of war on the frontier.” —Library Journal“In the long and sorrowful history of Native American resistance to white encroachment, no episode raises more perplexing questions than that in which the Narragansett tribe forged a seventeenth-century alliance with the white religious dissidents of Rhode Island for their mutual protection against New England’s Puritans…A riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time.” —Booklist, starred review“Warren distinguishes himself by trying to understand all the motives of the principal players in this sad, sanguinary drama….There are several simultaneous stories going on, and the author handles them all deftly.” —Kirkus Reviews“An engaging history of the long struggle between the Puritan oligarchy and New England's most important Indian tribe, in which Roger Williams, America’s first advocate of religious freedom, played a vital role. Williams established Rhode Island as a refuge from Puritan domination, and a place where Indian and English settlers could live side by side, in peace. If you want to know about the origins of religious diversity and cultural pluralism in America, read this compelling book.” —Chester Gillis, Professor of Theology, Georgetown University“A noted military historian trains his critical sights on Puritan New England, while putting up a staunch defense of Roger Williams, Rhode Island, and the Narragansett Indians. In this compelling story, James Warren portrays Williams as a man of peace in violent times, an intellectual whose ideas were often strikingly modern. Now recognized as a champion of religious liberty and the separation of church and state, Williams also earns Warren’s praise for his pioneering ethnographic research, his fair treatment of Native Americans, and his deft maneuvering to assure the survival of a tiny but tolerant colony.” —Professor Patrick M. Malone, Brown University, author of The Skulking Way of War“In God, War, and Providence, James Warren accomplishes many tasks: he adds to the far too brief historiography of the small, radical colony that helped to shape the philosophical underpinnings of this nation; he renders comprehensible the complex relationships of 17th century religious dissenters and Native Americans; and he exposes his readers to the challenges of researching the Colonial Era—a scant and untrustworthy written record and even fewer records that capture the Native American perspective. And all the while he does this is an engaging and enjoyable narrative that is a pleasure to read.” — C. Morgan Grefe, PhD, Executive Director, Rhode Island Historical Society
£17.09
Fulcrum Publishing The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the
Book SynopsisIn his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used To Live In, a fascinating collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country, explores everything from healing miracles and scared rituals to Navajos who could move the sun. In this compelling work, which draws upon a lifetime of scholarship, Deloria shows us how ancient powers fit into our modern understanding of science and the cosmos, and how future generations may draw strength from the old ways.Trade Review"Deloria, Jr. was angry at what he saw as a growing godlessness in contemporary American society. His posthumous The World We Used To Live In is a call for today's American Indians to accept as true many of the stories told by Indian medicine men in earlier centuries." - The Salt Lake Tribune"Some of these stories demonstrate that Native science had capabilities unheard of today. They illustrate the fact that contemporary life, for all its material progress, has not yet touched what human potential might accomplish without external technology." - Winds of Change"Deloria, Jr. lets us witness the feats of "Medicine Men" of the past, showing that their calling included powers in all areas of life" - MultiCultural Review" The World We Used to Live In ", is a collection of stories that Deloria kept in his pocket over the years, stories that concerned him throughout his life - stories of American Indian spirituality. This book is a treasury of observations on the wisdom and experience of medicine men from several native cultures." - Wicazo SA Review"Deloria pairs each story he records with his own commentary on the text, a commentary always executed with insight and the cutting edge we long ago came to expect from him. The collection of these texts alone makes this volume and important addition to any library on American Indian concerns; Deloria's commentaries throughout make it indispensable." - Great Plains Quarterly
£24.26
Milkweed Editions Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity
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£14.11
Arcadia Publishing Cahokia Mounds: America's First City
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£20.39
PM Press Red Nation Rising: From Border Town Violence to
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£15.29
Minnesota Historical Society Press Awesiinyensag: Dibaajimowinan Ji-Gikinoo'amaageng
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£16.16
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Indianthusiasm: Indigenous Responses
Book SynopsisIndianthusiasm refers to the European fascination with, and fantasies about, Indigenous peoples of North America, and has its roots in nineteenth-century German colonial imagination. Often manifested in romanticized representations of the past, Indianthusiasm has developed into a veritable industry in Germany and other European nations: there are Western and so-called ""Indian"" theme parks and a German hobbyist scene that attract people of all social backgrounds and ages to join camps and clubs that practise beading, powwow dancing, and Indigenous lifestyles.Containing interviews with twelve Indigenous authors, artists, and scholars who comment on the German fascination with North American Indigenous Peoples, Indianthusiasm is the first collection to present Indigenous critiques and assessments of this phenomenon. The volume connects two disciplines and strands of scholarship: German Studies and Indigenous Studies, focusing on how Indianthusiam has created both barriers and opportunities for Indigenous peoples with Germans and in Germany.Table of Contents 1. Introduction / Hartmut Lutz, Florentine Strzelczyk, and Renae Watchman 2. I thought to myself: ""Well, I'll appropriate from the people who appropriated from us"" / Ahmoo Angeconeb 3. Most people can't be informed because of the way they are being informed / Jeannette Armstrong 4. Germany is my other Heimat now; ""Groan"" (poem) / John Blackbird 5. The focus on remembering "" a sort of superego kind of thing / Warren Cariou 6. When the gaze turns in both directions / Jo-Ann Episkenew 7. I actually never wanted to like Germany / Audrey Huntley 8. The thorn is in my side when I'm talking to Europeans, who begin lecturing me on Indianness / Thomas King 9. You can deal with stereotypes! At least you are dealing with some knowledge / David T. McNab 10. It's been my job to not only entertain them through my dancing and singing, but also to educate them in the actual original traditional stories / Quentin Pipestem 11. I was definitely an ambassador and sort of a mythbuster in many ways / Waubgeshig Rice 12. You can't underestimate the influence of Karl May's Winnetou / Drew Hayden Taylor 13. They want redemption somehow / Emma Lee Warrior
£25.16
Wilfrid Laurier University Press mahikan ka onot: The Poetry of Duncan Mercredi
Book Synopsismahikan ka-onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in the city, vibrant with the rhythms of traditional Cree and Métis storytelling but also with the clamour and the music of the streets. This book brings the work of Duncan Mercredi (Cree/Métis) back into the public eye, providing a new generation of readers with the opportunity to experience his unique artistry. Mercredi brings to these poems the sensibility of a Cree speaker and a renowned oral storyteller, revealing a deep attachment to the land and a nuanced understanding of the complexities of contemporary Indigenous life. In startlingly direct, plainspoken language, the poet explores themes of cultural resurgence and steadfast connections among the generations, even amid the unfolding tragedies wrought by colonialism. Some of these poems are memories of traditional life on the land, especially in the time before Manitoba Hydro radically altered Mercredi's home community of Grand Rapids, Manitoba. Others focus on the urban Indigenous experience, based upon Mercredi's longstanding and intimate knowledge of Winnipeg. Like mahikan, the wolf, Mercredi's characters are often outsiders in certain contexts, but the poems reveal other perspectives that allow us to understand their loyalty and their love of community. The volume includes an afterword by Duncan Mercredi and an introduction by Métis scholar Warren Cariou, both of which provide resources for deeper study of the poems.
£18.00
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Land/Relations: Possibilities of Justice in
Book SynopsisPrimary audience is Canadian literature scholarsContributes directly to current conversations in both contemporary Canadian media and academic circles around the relationship between bodies and land. For instance, Jordan Abel's piece addresses the possibilities and difficulties of reclaiming Nishga/Nisga'a identity in the aftermath of the residential school experience. Karina Vernon's essay addresses how Black subjects might respond in a moment when they learn that the home they've been longing for is already inhabited. Dina Al-Kassim's essay addresses kinships of dispossession. This book is an effort to steer Canadian literatures out of controversy for controversy's sake, and into a flow of productive, relation-building discussion. It does this by addressing the substance of Canadian and Turtle Island writing, particularly writing by Indigenous, Black and Asian writers. While it avoids empty controversy, it embraces rigorous argument. Addresses issues related to Indigenous and diaspora literatures, settler culture, Black studies, Asian Canadian studies, decolonization, critical race studies, multiculturalism, land issuesParticularly for those interested in the concepts of intersectionality, solidarity, and relationalityTable of Contents Storying Land / Relations: An Introduction in Two Voices - Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai Agency, Urgency, Insurgency [poem] - Lillian Allen Positioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles - Jordan Abel Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts - Jennifer Henderson Listing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Darwish and Wong - Dina Al-Kassim CLI and CLII [prose poems] - Sonnet L'Abbé Back to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present; or the Changing Same - Rinaldo Walcott Deliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? The Six Books [poems] - Pamela Mordecai 'Making Things Right': Black Settlement and the Politics of Territory - Karina Vernon From Islamophobia to Islamophilia: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject - Sedef Arat-Koç Literature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Eileen Antone Listening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Erín Moure Between Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing - Chris Lee Diplomacy before Reconciliation - Margery Fee Federal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around its 150th Year - Len Findlay What Next? Asserting Peace Against the Odds - Rita Wong Living on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles - Sophie McCall Re-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains - Tasha Hubbard Landsensing: Body, Territory, Relation - Warren Cariou
£33.26
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Scratching River
Book SynopsisScratching River weaves multiple stories and voices across time to explore the strengths and challenges of the ways in which Métis have created, and continue to create, home through a storied and mobile social geography that is always on the move. The book foregrounds the story of a search for a home for Michelle Porter's older brother, who holds dual diagnoses of schizophrenia and autism, and the abuse he endured at the rural Alberta group home that was supposed to care for him. Interspersed throughout are news clippings about the investigation into 'The Ranch,' the home in question. Métis history is woven between the contemporary stories of the author, her brother, and her mother. As the pieces come together, the book uses the river as a metaphor to suggest that rather than a weakness, the ability to move and move again and to move on has enabled survival, healing, and ongoing reconciliation.Trade ReviewMichelle Porter’s Scratching River is a stunning and ruminative poetic work of creative non-fiction that moves across time, geography, Métis history, and kinship. Porter honours her Métis family and ancestors through past, present, and future poetics. The interwoven narratives wrap around Porter’s mother, Porter’s own story as a daughter and sister, and her relationship with her older brother, who was diagnosed as schizophrenic and autistic, and abused in a rural Alberta group home. Scratching River illustrates the powerful journey of reconciliation, as Porter’s family reconnects amongst their ongoing movement, and relocation to find their way back to the river they share. —Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of Lunar Tides and I Am a Body of Land"In a single sentence, Michelle Porter lets us see her big brother and the river as one—the heart of the telling, tortured, forever in motion, compelling us to follow. This unity, swiftly as it is achieved, is the result of a life spent not just seeing but feeling everything on earth as part of a single being. This is a book of voices: human, animal, water, land, past, present, singing. This is a story of hard truths courageously told. We need it."—Richard Harrison, author of On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood and Hockey Poems"Gnarled and knotted, Scratching River is a bricolage of intimate memories, newspaper articles, investigative reports, a century-old memoir, and practical knowledge. It meanders and flows like an old river, burbling and rushing into a story of past and present, human and environment, colonialism and violence, justice and love."—Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember"Like her astonishing brother does in this book, Michelle Porter takes me by the hand and runs with me into a new world. I have never been here before. The sad and heroic stories which she braids together flood my heart and stretch my soul. I love this book. "—Andy Jones (CM), actor and writer"This is a book on the move. It eddies through still-water ponds and tumbles over cataracts; it branches into ox-bows and branches again. One moment it speaks so quietly in your ear, and another, it breaks you apart. Scratching River is a wise and necessary work in these times in which we strive for reconciliation around contested readings of those words “home” and “land.” Braiding together varied voices and forms of attention into a deeply personal inquiry into place and belonging, Michelle Porter is making some of the most innovative and compelling creative nonfiction today. Scratching River is a magnificent achievement."—Robert Finley, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador Creative Writing Program. "This book is a kind of prayer, a 'map in words' that navigates the treacherous, uncharted territory of our collective souls—a necessary exploration if we are ever to land safely, solidly, truthfully, on future shores. A triumph, Scratching River is proof that the healing power of narrative is a gift a writer can transmit to readers. " —Sheree Fitch, author of You Won't Always be This Sad and Kiss the Joy as it Flies Michelle Porter’s Scratching River is both a reckoning and an elegy; a scathing, powerful roar against social injustice, the scars of trauma, climate crisis, environmental damage and, at the very same time, a love song to the power of family, Métis history, rivers, Bison, burdock, and the Métis storyteller and musician, Louis Goulet, who is her great-great-grandfather’s brother. Porter artfully braids together a portrait of her brother, Brendon Porter, who was horrifically brutalized in an institution for mentally disabled adults, with a rich understanding of the lives and habits of rivers, grassland, bison, and the threatened ecosystems of the prairies — to profound effect. Here also are wisdom and tenderness, stories full of dancing, hunting, travelling by ox-drawn cart, or Greyhound bus, and sleeping under the stars. Porter roves gracefully through the past, present, and future and proves herself a consummate writer for our times. Scratching River is a rare gift.—Lisa Moore , author of This Is How We Love Scratching River is a complex exploration of memory, trauma, erasure and moving on. ... As with her previous creative non-fiction book Approaching Fire, she weaves stories of landscape with personal family biographies into her memoir. ... A final delight is a bibliography that nods to academic protocols but rollicks forward in a unique and lively way. Mary Horodyski, Winnipeg Free Press
£19.76
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Indigenous Media Arts in Canada: Making, Caring,
Book SynopsisIndigenous and settler scholars and media artists discuss and analyze crucial questions of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance, and decolonizing creative practices. Humans are narrative creatures, and since the dawn of our existence we have shared stories. Storytelling is what connects us, what helps us give shape and understanding to the world and to each other. Who tells whose stories in which particular ways leads to questions of belonging, power, relationality, community and identity. This collection explores those issues with a focus on settler-Indigenous cultural politics in the country known as Canada, looking in particular at Indigenous representation in media arts. Chapters feature roundtable discussions, interviews, film analyses, resurgent media explorations, visual culture advocacy and place-based practices of creative expression.Eclectic in scope and diverse in perspective, Indigenous Media Arts in Canada is unified by an ethic of conciliation, collaboration, and cultural resistance. Engaging deftly and thoughtfully with instances of cultural appropriation as well as the oppressive structures that seek to erode narrative sovereignty, this collection shines as a crucial gathering of thoughtful critique, cultural kinship, and creative counterpower.Trade Review“Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton’s collection of conversations between, for, and about Indigenous media makers poses vital, critical, and generative questions about Indigenous film, film festivals and institutions, residential school histories, and decolonization without providing easy answers. These conversations are at times joyful expressions of the radical possibilities of media arts and at times painful provocations about settler colonial violence and its representational apparatuses. The chapters, written by the most brilliant and creative minds in contemporary Indigenous film, are paradigm-shifting love letters to the land, lived experience, collaboration, and futurity.” —Michelle Raheja, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Riverside, author of Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in FilmTable of Contents Insiders/Outsiders: The Cultural Politics and Ethics of Indigenous Representation and Participation in Canada’s Media Arts – Edited by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton Contributor Bios Introduction: Seeing, Knowing, Lifting – Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton Part I – Decolonizing Media Arts Institutions Part I Introduction – Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton 1. Our Own Up There: A Discussion at imagineNATIVE – Danis Goulet and Tasha Hubbard with Jesse Wente, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Shane Belcourt 2. And Speaking of the North: A Conversation between Ezra Winton and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril 3. Sights of Homecoming: Zacharias Kunuk’s Festival Performance of Angirattut Claudia Sicondolfo Part II – Protecting Culture Part II Introduction – Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton 4. Addressing Colonial Trauma Through Mi’kmaw Film – Margaret Robinson and Bretten Hannam 5. Not Reconciled, Repairing Justice: The Legacy of Films on Canadian Residential Schools – Brenda Longfellow 6. Indigenous Women in Québec Cinema: From Alanis Obomsawin’s Mother of Many Children to Michel Poulette’s Maïna – Karine Bertrand 7. “Our Circle Is Always Open”: Indigenous Voices, Children’s Rights, and Spaces of Inclusion in the Films of Alanis Obomsawin Joanna Hearne Part III – Methods/Practices/Knowledges/Interventions Part III Introduction Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton 8. Indigenous Documentary Methodologies: ChiPaChiMoWin / Telling Stories – Jules Arita Koostachin 9. Due North: Contemporary Indigenous Media and Ecological Knowledge – Michelle Stewart 10. Marking and Mapping Out Embodied Practices of Indigenous Women Media Artists – Julie Nagam and Carla Taunton 11. Speaking Outside: Collaboration as Strategic Intervention Toby Katrine Lawrence Part IV - Resurgent Media and its Allies Part IV Introduction - Knowledge as Territory: A Note to the Settler Academy – Sasha Crawford-Holland and Lindsay LeBlanc 12. “Making Things Our [Digital] Own”: Sovereignty in Indigenous Computational Art – Sasha Crawford-Holland and Lindsay LeBlanc 13. Careful Images: Unsettling Testimony in the Gladue Video Project – Eugenia Kisin and Lisa Jackson Conclusions We Are Only Beginning – Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton Final Thoughts: Setting the Record Straight –Lisa Jackson Index – Makers and Thinkers Contributors Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Shane Belcourt Karine Bertrand Dana Claxton Sasha Crawford-Holland Danis Goulet Bretten Hannam Joanna Hearne Tasha Hubbard Lisa Jackson Eugenia Kisin Jules Arita Koostachin Toby Katrine Lawrence Lindsay LeBlanc Brenda Longfellow Julie Nagam Margaret Robinson Claudia Sicondolfo Michelle Stewart Carla Taunton Jesse Wente Ezra Winton
£35.96
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Indigenous Women's Theatre in Canada: A Mechanism
Book SynopsisDespite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving female writers on the margins. In Indigenous Women's Theatre in Canada, Sarah MacKenzie addresses this critical gap by focusing on plays by Indigenous women written and produced in the socio-cultural milieux of twentieth and twenty-first century Canada.Closely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique Mojica, Marie Clements, and Yvette Nolan, MacKenzie explores representations of gendered colonialist violence in order to determine the varying ways in which these representations are employed subversively and informatively by Indigenous women. These plays provide an avenue for individual and potential cultural healing by deconstructing some of the harmful ideological work performed by colonial misrepresentations of Indigeneity and demonstrate the strength and persistence of Indigenous women, offering a space in which decolonial futurisms can be envisioned.In this unique work, MacKenzie suggests that colonialist misrepresentations of Indigenous women have served to perpetuate demeaning stereotypes, justifying devaluation of and violence against Indigenous women. Most significantly, however, she argues that resistant representations in Indigenous women's dramatic writing and production work in direct opposition to such representational and manifest violence.
£18.00
Medicine Wheel The Seventh Direction
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£13.99
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Circle Works: Transforming Eurocentric
Book SynopsisInspiring educators, philosophers, activists, shamans, artists, and visionaries to take up the challenge of bringing alternative teaching possibilities and strategies to the educational experience, this book creatively combines Aboriginal teachings with feminist and antiracist theory and practice.
£16.10
Random House USA Inc Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
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£17.00
Valiz Towards Home: Inuit & Sámi Placemaking
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£23.75
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Understanding and Teaching Native American
Book SynopsisA timely and urgently needed remedy to a long-standing gap in history instruction. This volume is designed to help teachers effectively integrate Indigenous history and culture into their lessons, providing richly researched content and resources across the chronological and geographical landscape of what is now known as North America.Trade ReviewThis impressive volume from noted experts includes a variety of essays all suited to inform the teaching of Native and American histories. From broad concepts to helpful, concrete suggestions, these essays make it easier for everyone to engage with Indigenous history." - Malinda Maynor Lowery, Emory University"Comprised of 21 erudite and informative contributions by experts in the Native American History that are deftly organized into three major sections. . . . A seminal, unique, and unreservedly recommended core addition to personal, professional, college and university library Native American Studies collections and supplemental and developmental studies curriculum studies lists." - Midwest Book Review"[An] excellent collection. . . . Quite a feast of knowledge awaits readers." - CHOICE ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroductionPart One: Reflections on Teaching Native American History Chapter One: Learning to Teach Indian History: A Memoir By Theda Perdue Chapter Two: Teaching American Indian History Using the Medicine Way By Donald Fixico Chapter Three: Transnational History and Deep Time: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from Australia By Ann McGrath Chapter Four: Being There: Experiential Learning by Living Native American History By Bernard Perley Chapter Five: čwÈ·ˀn neyękwaˀnawèrih: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from a Native Student By Taylor HummelPart Two: Reflections on Invasions, Epidemics, War and Genocide Chapter Six: Before Columbus: Native American History, Archeology, and Resources By Maureen Meyers Chapter Seven: Teaching and Understanding Genocide in Native America By Gray Whaley Chapter Eight: The “Virgin” Soil Thesis Cover-Up: Teaching Indigenous Demographic Collapse By Tai S. Edwards Chapter Nine: Teaching Indian Wars By Mark van de Logt Part Three: Essential Topics in Native American History Chapter Ten: Teaching Indian Slavery: From First Slaves to Early Abolitionists in Four Myths By Denise I. Bossy Chapter Eleven: Teaching the American Revolution from Indian Country By Charles W. Prior Chapter Twelve: Teaching the Broad and Relevant History of American Indian Removal By John Bowes Chapter Thirteen: Teaching and Understanding the History of Allotment By Rose Stremlau Chapter Fourteen: Teaching Federal Indian Law through Literature By N. Bruce Duthu Chapter Fifteen: Nation-to-Nation: Understanding Treaties and Sovereignty By Margaret Huettl Chapter Sixteen: Teaching Indigenous Environmental History By Paul Kelton and James Rice Part Four: Reflections on Identity and Cultural Appropriation Chapter Seventeen: An Appropriate Past: Seminole Indians, Osceola, and Florida State University By Andrew K. Frank Chapter Eighteen: Looking Past the Racial Classification System: Teaching Southeastern Native Survival Using the Peoplehood Model By Marvin Richardson Chapter Nineteen: Teaching Native American Religions and Philosophies in the Classroom By Brady DeSanti Chapter Twenty: Sustenance as Culture and Tradition: Teaching About Indigenous Foodways By Devon A. Mihesuah Chapter Twenty-One: Native American Art 101 By Nancy Marie Mithlo
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John Wiley & Sons The Darkest Period The Kanza Indians and Their
Book SynopsisBefore their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe's original homeland.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Killing over Land Murder and Diplomacy on the
Book SynopsisIn early America, interracial homicide might result in a massive war on the frontier; or, if properly mediated, it might actually facilitate diplomatic relations, at least for a time. In Killing over Land, Robert Owens explores why and how such murders once played a key role in Indian affairs and how this role changed over time.
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John Wiley & Sons Indian Education for All Decolonizing Indigenous
Book SynopsisOffers a critique of recent efforts to reform Indigenous education in public schools. John Hopkins centres his critique on Montana State's innovative and bold multicultural education policy called Indian Education for All, and demonstrates why Indigenous education reforms must decolonize the curriculum and pedagogy.Trade Review“A must-read for educational justice across Indian Country.” —K. Tsianina Lomawaima, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University “This important, highly accessible book provides a needed shift in stance whereby anti-colonialism becomes a vital education project for all.” —Teresa L. McCarty, GF Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles “Hopkins offers important insights into the problems of paradigms of inclusion as an approach to educational policy change.” —Megan Bang, Northwestern UniversityTable of Contents Contents Series Foreword vii James A. Banks Acknowledgments xiii Preface xv Terminology xv Key Concepts in Native Studies xvi The Way Forward xvii Introduction 1 Indigenous Education Reform 3 Indian Schooling vs. Indigenous Education 5 Montana’s Inclusive Conversation of Indigenous Education Reform 7 The Philosophical Problem of IEFA 8 Methodologies 10 Overview of Chapters 12 1. Montana’s Indian Education for All: A Critical Overview 15 IEFA: Historical Background and Description 17 Developments in IEFA 21 The Inclusive Strategies of IEFA 24 Inclusive Conversations 28 The Limits of Inclusion 30 A Turn Toward Decolonizing Conversations 33 2. Colonizing Minds, Bodies, and Lands: Historical Interpretations of Indigenous Education Reform 37 A Mainstream Account of U.S.–Indigenous Relations 40 Colonialism: A Theory 42 Settler Colonialism and Structural Violence 43 The Dominant Colonizing Voice 47 Montana’s Colonizing Education History 54 Implications for IEFA 58 3. The Indigenous Voice of Survivance: Decolonizing Narratives 61 Decolonization 64 The Indigenous Voice of Survivance 72 Survivance and the Seven Essential Understandings 80 Survivance and Decolonization 82 4. The Politics of Reconciliation: Rethinking the Pathway to Indigenous Education Reform 85 Reconciliation: A Basic Concept 87 The Politics of Reconciliation 92 Reconciliation and Decolonization 98 Reconciliation and the Indigenous Voice of Survivance 100 IEFA and Reconciliation: A Pathway Toward Reform 103 Building and Strengthening Partnerships 104 5. Decentering Western Epistemology: A Tribal Knowledge Paradigm for Public Schools 109 Tribal Critical Race Theory 112 Key Tenets of TribalCrit 114 Mato Tipila, or “The Lodge of the Bear”: A Case Study 115 Knowledge Paradigms: Tribal and Western 117 Curriculum, Public Schools, and Traditional Western Epistemology 124 Decentering Western Epistemology 126 Tribal Knowledge and Western Epistemology: A Relationship 130 6. Desettling Teacher Preparation Programs: A Theory and Praxis 133 Teacher Preparation Programs and Cultural Competence 135 Indigenous-Centered Teacher Preparation Programs 141 Desettling: A Theory of Learning 144 Desettling Praxis 146 Conclusion: Envisioning a Way Forward 153 Rethinking Indigenous Education Reform Beyond Montana 154 Reconciliation: The Way Forward 157 Maine’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Case Study 159 Reconciliation Beyond Montana 160 Concluding Remarks 169 References 171 Index 185 About the Author
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John Wiley & Sons Culturally Sustaining Policymaking in Indigenous
Book SynopsisDiscover how top-down, policy-into-practice educational mandates have adversely affected indigenous communities in the United States’ midwestern core. The author scrutinizes how leaders and intermediaries in Nebraska conceptualized and implemented school accountability policy in Indian country.Table of Contents Contents (Tentative)Series Foreword: James A. Banks Foreword: Teresa McCarty Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction Democracy and School Reform Grounding Terminology and Conceptual Framing School Policy Reform in Indian Country Methodology and Positionality Overview of Chapters1. So What? Lessons Learned and Why They Matter Accountability: What Came Before No Child Left Behind NCLB Limbo The Role of State Departments of Education Spatial Tactics as Resistance2. Welcome to Flyover Country Accountability and Nebraska's AQuESTT The Nebraska Way A Nebraska Way of Education Governance The Nation's Only Unicameral A Brief History of Schooling and Governance in Nebraska Policy Landscape and Key Figures The Shifting Roles of NDE3. A Broader Story Than the Village of Santee Early Interactions with Colonizers A Dakota Education "Big Knives" and the "Physical and Moral Degradation" of Reservation Life School as a Policy Tool Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Self-Education Agency, Survivance, and Schooling What's a "Good" Education? Culturally Sustaining and Responsive Pedagogy Culturally Sustaining/Revitalizing Education Policymaking4. More Policy Crafted on the Legislative Floor The Introduction of LB438 Public Hearing: A Better Way to "Fix" Schools LB438 and the Second Session of Nebraska's 103rd Legislature LB438 Becomes Law5. Nebraska's AQuESTT: Bolder, Broader, Better The SBOE Hires a New Commissioner of Education From Vision to Plans on Paper Codifying AQuESTT Sketching out AQuESTT's Implementation Bolder, Broader, Better The First AQuESTT Classification and Designation6. Run by Outsiders Initial Thoughts About Improvement in Santee A Diagnostic Review State Plan Development Priority Schools: Developing Progress Plans Progress Plan Approval and Initial Implementation7. Compliance, Kind Of Reporting First Year Progress Continued Compliance, Kind of . . . and Incognito Improvement Efforts Incognito Improvement Acts Endure8. Wait, What Just Happened? The "Consultocracy" Sovereignty and Who Gets to Define Educational Quality Everyday Tactics and Incognito Acts of Improvement The Decolonizing Work of Culturally Sustaining Policymaking ConclusionAfterword A Final Trip to Santee The iSanti Ozuyapi at StateReferences Index About the Author
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University of Arizona Press Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother
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University of Toronto Press Encounters on the Passage
Book SynopsisIn Encounters on the Passage, present day Inuit tell the stories that have been passed down from their ancestors of the first encounters with European explorers.Trade Review'Encounters on the Passage is alive with suggestions for enthusiast still seeking Franklin's grave or his lost record books or his sunken ships. But what stand[s] out is how the Inuit experienced those crazy incursions. Eber's stories bring home the true weirdness of these aliens and their great vessels, suddenly planting themselves amidst the people ... the richest material in this book ... is not what it says about a few doomed intruders from the south, but the role it plays in storing and preserving Inuit storytelling.' -- Christopher Moore, The Beaver magazine, November 2008 Encounters on the Passage is a very worthy contribution to the store of preserved Inuit oral traditions. It serves as a useful reference and introduction to the stories relating to explorers that are otherwise scattered throughout the literature on British Arctic Exploration, and sets them in clear context. -- David C. Woodman, The Arctic Book ReviewTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgements Map and Chronology Introduction Prologue: Opening Salvos Chapter 1 Into the Arctic Archipelago: Edward Parry at Igloolik and the Shaman's Curse Chapter 2 John Ross at Kablunaaqhiuvik - "the place for meeting White People" Chapter 3 The Franklin Era: Burial of a Great White Shaman Chapter 4 The Death March: "They were seen carrying Human Meat." Chapter 5 New Franklin Stories: The Ship at Imnguyaaluk Chapter 6 A Northwest Passage on Foot - and Lost Opportunity Chapter 7 Norwegian Victory: Amusi and the Prize Chapter 8 Modern Times Appendices Notes Index
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University of Toronto Press Dying from Improvement
Book SynopsisNo matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story. Repeating details of fatty livers, mental illness, alcoholic belligerence, and a mysterious incapacity to cope with modern life, the legal proceedings declare that there are no villains here, only inevitable casualties of Indigenous life.But what about a sixty-seven-year-old man who dies in a hospital in police custody with a large, visible, purple boot print on his chest? Or a barely conscious, alcoholic older man, dropped off by police in a dark alley on a cold Vancouver night? Or Saskatoon’s infamous and lethal starlight tours, whose victims were left on the outskirts of town in sub-zero temperatures? How do we account for the repeated failure to care evident in so many cases of Indigenous deaths in custody?In Dying from Improvement, Sherene H. Razack argues that, amidst systematic state violence against Indigenous pTrade Review'This is a passionate, thought-provoking, and disconcerting book... A milestone in the study of deaths of Aboriginal people in Canada.' -- Liqun Cao The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol 35:02:2015 "This a difficult but important book to read. Razack balances her analysis of state violence with the agency of Indigenous family members, but she deals with a topic few Canadians want to acknowledge." -- Lianne C. Leddy Herizons, Fall 2016| Vol 30 No.2 'Dying from Improvement is a courageous, confrontational analysis into the roots of indigenous injustice and deaths.' -- Megan Siu Canadian Law Library Review vol 41:04:2016 "While Razack does not offer explicit remedies for the crisis in accountability of the Canadian police forces, the importance of this book lies in its use as a critical tool in locating colonialism in the modern Canadian narrative, especially in the upcoming inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women. DYING FROM IMPROVEMENT is an important read for all those who will be paying close attention to the process as it unfolds, and a call-to-arms to ensure that its outcomes, conclusions and remedies are, indeed, just." -- Kimberly Wilson Canadian Dimension, Volume 50, No2, Spring 2016 'Razack's arguments are provocative. She has constructed a compelling and disturbing analysis which will challenge readers at many levels... It is impossible not to be moved by the evidence and analysis, and what these say about contemporary Indigenous life and death in Canada.' -- Jane Dickson Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Reviews September 2016 "Dying From Improvement is vivid and disturbing. Professor Razack draws readers with an electric narrative and police reporter's eye for detail." -- Holy Doan Blacklock's Reporter , June 27, 2015Table of ContentsIntroduction. Boot Print on the Chest: Disappearing "Indians" in Life and Law 1. The Body as Placeless: Memorializing Colonial Power 2. Dying from Improvement 3. The Body as Frontier 4. "People Die": A Killing Indifference 5. The Medico-Legal Alliance: Anthany Dawson and the Diagnosis of Excited Delirium 6. "It happened more than once": Freezing Deaths in Saskatchewan Conclusion. Tombstone Data Appendix. Deaths in Custody: Saskatchewan 1995-2013
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Monsters and Saints
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of stories, poetry, art, and essays divining the contemporary intersection of Latinx and Indigenous cultures from the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America.Trade ReviewThis truly innovative book amasses creative and research-based writing that illustrates a connection between historical indigenous communities and contemporary Chicanx identified peoples." - Rachel González-Martin, author of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer IdentitiesTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Collecting Our Bones Shantel Martinez and Kelly Medina-LópezPart I. Ghosts in the Real: Historiography in Our Stories that Becomes Research Chapter 1. La Llorona: A LatIndingenous Specter of Trauma, Motherhood, and Contemporary Racial Violence Sarah De Los Santos Upton and Leandra Hinojosa Hernández Chapter 2. Legacies of Land, Cultural Clashes, and Spiritual Stirrings: A Testimonio of New Mexican Ghost Stories Amanda R. Martinez Chapter 3. Dueling Border-Ghosts: Exploring the Equator as a Space of Spirituality and Resistance Diana Isabel Martínez Chapter 4. Closing the Circle Eric Murillo Chapter 5. Ciguanabas, Refugees, and Other Hauntings: Three Salvadoran Women’s Epistemic Hauntings as Resistance against Heteropatriarchy Brenda Selena Lara Chapter 6. "Entre la Santa y la Muerte": Liminality and Empowerment in Mexico’s Santa Muerte Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza Chapter 7. La CoyotaPerejundia Moises Gonzales Chapter 8. Iconografía Prohibida/Forbidden Iconography Lizzeth Tecuatl Cuaxiloa Chapter 9. Making a Living Saul RamirezPart II. Hazme Caso: Memoir, Poetry, and Stories Chapter 10. Curse of the Zamora Girls: Unveiling Familial Ghost Stories for Survival Bianca Tonantzin Zamora Chapter 11. And He Whispered, "Yolanda, Yolanda"Spencer R. Herrera Chapter 12. Mi Abuelita y Los Rosarios Arturo "Velaz" Muñoz Chapter 13. Los Aullidos de las Madres Sarah Amira de la Garza Chapter 14. my baby wanted an el camino, that’s real Diego Medina Chapter 15. Cry BabyKathleen Alcalá Chapter 16. Becoming Indigenous Again: Returning Home and Making the Ghosts Visible Juan Pacheco Marcial Chapter 17. cortando las nubes,or, death came on horses ire’ne lara silva Chapter 18. Thru the Veil and 32.2480° N, 112.9161° W (Sonoran Desert) Roxanna Ivonne Sanchez-AvilaPart III. Bringing the Borderlands Home: Public Discourses and Theories of the Flesh Chapter 19. Hauntology of the Oppressed: The MeXicana Gothic and Spectral Geographies in Sandra Cisneros’s "Woman Hollering Creek" Cathryn J. Merla-Watson Chapter 20. Haunted by Settler Nostalgia: (Lat)Indigenous Specters, White Vampires, and the Historical Amnesia of Twilight Susana Loza About the Contributors Index
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Bayou Harvest
Book SynopsisTo inhabitants of the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana, food is much more than nourishment. The acts of gathering, preparing, and sharing food are ways to raise children, bond with friends, and build community. This book examines how coastal residents deploy self-reliance and care for each other through harvesting and sharing food.
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