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Stages of senior care: your step-by-step guide to making the best decisions
By Lori Hogan, Paul Hogan. 2010
Guide for families who are making decisions about senior care. Evaluates available options, including retirement communities, adult day-care centers, assisted-living…
facilities, nursing homes, hospice, and in-home caregivers. Discusses bereavement and covers funerals, finances, and estate planning. 2010Time magazine columnist describes the family dynamics that come into play when parents age. Discusses the "twilight transition," the time…
when the family in which siblings grew up ends and they become the oldest generation in a clan. Russo uses case studies from her research to highlight salient topics. Some strong language. 2010Myth, memory, and massacre: the Pease River capture of Cynthia Ann Parker (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
By Paul H. Carlson, Paul Howard Carlson, Tom Crum. 2012
Investigates the so-called 'Battle of Pease River' and December 1860 capture of Cynthia Ann Parker, contending that what became, in…
Texans' collective memory, a battle that broke Comanche military power was actually a massacre, mainly of women. Questions traditional knowledge and historiographic interpretations of the history of TexasGracious uncertainty: faith in the second half of life
By Jane Sigloh. 2018
Reflections on issues concerning everyone, but which intensify with age: loving more fully, dealing with loss, finding consolation, and having…
the courage to gaze (even while shaking inwardly) at the nearing reality of death. The author, a retired Episcopal priest, blends personal stories, Scriptural insights, and lessons drawn from years in ministry into insightful reflections on the beauty and challenges of agingShelved: a memoir of aging in America
By Sue Matthews Petrovski. 2018
The author discusses the benefits and deficits of American for-profit elder care, while reflecting on her move to a senior…
living community with her husband. Drawing on extensive research to demonstrate the cultural value of elders and their potential for leading vital, creative lives, she offers a cogent, informed critique of elder care options and delivers compelling suggestions for the transformation of the elder care systemLike trees walking: in the second half of life
By Jane Sigloh, James Sigloh. 2007
A retired Episcopal priest, Jane Sigloh presents with both reverent awe and irreverent honesty the facts and fantasies of growing…
old. She interweaves the insights of Scripture, poetry, fiction, and philosophy into her memories and reflections on the challenges and opportunities that maturity brings. With fresh perspective, wit, and wisdom this volume is a companion for the journey of agingLes grands oubliés: repenser les soins de nos aînés
By André Picard. 2021
Dans cet ouvrage cinglant mais nécessaire,André Picardmet en lumière les réalités vécues dans la majorité des résidences pour personnes âgées…
au pays et les défaillances qu'on a trop longtemps ignorées. Il propose aussi des pistes de solution en allant puiser parmi les meilleures pratiques observées dans le mondeAging wisely ... wisdom of our elders
By Irving Silverman Irving Silverman, Ellen Beth Siegel, Irving Silverman. 2018
Blackfeet tales of Glacier National Park
By James Willard Schultz. 2002
In 1876 native New Yorker Schultz went to Montana for the summer to hunt buffalo. The 17-year old Schultz landed…
a job at the Fort Conrad Trading Post, which did not suit him. Soon, he was living outside the fort's wall with the Blackfeet. Speaking their language and using sign language, he absorbed hundreds of stories about the tribe, its history, and oral traditionBorn in the late 1700s, Chief Seattle was an established leader when settlers arrived at the site of the city…
that bears his name. His working relations with the settlers helped shape the future of the city and his people. Some violenceThe Indian great awakening: religion and the shaping of native cultures in early America
By Linford D. Fisher. 2012
In this book, Lindford Fisher tells of native peoples struggling with colonialism in New England between the 1670's and the…
1820's. This was a time in which the English settlers tried to convert the region's native peoples to Christianity and native individuals discerned the value of colonial structure and power. This enlightening account challenges long-held notions about religion and native Anglo-American interactionCode talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
By Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila. 2012
Memoir of an original Navajo code talker during World War II. The author reminisces about a childhood spent near the…
reservation in New Mexico, the hardships he faced attending various boarding schools, and his pride at being selected as a marine. He soon discovered that his secret mission would put him in the midst of many deadly battles in the Pacific, though the unbreakable code would turn the tide of the war. Some strong languageThe only one living to tell: the autobiography of a Yavapai Indian
By Mike Burns, Gregory McNamee. 2012
The author describes his capture as a child by the US military in 1872 and his subsequent work as an…
Indian scout throughout Arizona and the American West. Contains some violenceShame and endurance: the untold story of the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war
By H. Henrietta Stockel. 2004
Stockel examines a little known part of American history, the fate of the Apache Indians who surrendered with Geronimo in…
1886 as Americans pushed into the West. The U.S. government broke many promises as it shifted the prisoners from place to place for many years and even separated families. This is a fascinating story of endurance and survivalGrowing, older: a chronicle of death, life, and vegetables
By Joan Dye Gussow. 2010
This memoir begins when the author loses her husband of 40 years to cancer and 2 weeks later finds herself…
skipping down the street--much to her alarm. With humor and wit, she explains how she stopped worrying about why she was smiling and went on worrying, instead, and as she always has, about the possibility that the world around her was headed off a cliff. But hers is not a message of gloom. Rather it is an affirmation of a life's work--and work in general. Author of "This Organic Life" and "The Feeding Web."From age-ing to sage-ing: a profound new vision of growing older
By Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ronald S. Miller. 2014
In this updated version of his popular 1995 book, rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi shares his wisdom and experience with readers on…
finding a way to turn aging into the most meaningful and joyous time of life. He shows readers how to create an aging process for themselves that is full of adventure, passion, mystery, and fulfillment, rather than anxiety. Using scientific research--both neurological and psychological-- Reb Zalman offers techniques that will expand horizons beyond the narrow view of "the present" into a grand and enduring eternityTurning points in women's lives: from the 20th to the 21st century
By Susan A. Cho, Shirley Louise Patterson. 2012
Stories of Métis Women: Tales My Kookum Told Me (Indigenous Spirit of Nature)
By Bailey Oster. 2021
In this era of reconciliation, Stories of Métis Women explains the Métis Nation from the women’s perspective. Often misunderstood, the…
Métis are an Indigenous People with a unique and proud history and Nation. This book celebrates Nation building, culture, identity, and resilience, but also deals with the dark times of residential schools, discrimination, and racism. The women’s stories are in English and Northern Michif language.Auassat: À la recherche des enfants disparus
By Anne Panasuk. 2021
Auassat – « les enfants », en innu – dévoile un chapitre ignoré de nos relations avec les Premières Nations,…
une histoire terrible qui explique les traumatismes transmis d’une génération à l’autre, jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Au début des années 1970, des enfants autochtones sont disparus après avoir été envoyés à l’hôpital pour y être soignés sans leurs parents. Certains, déclarés morts alors qu’ils ne l’étaient pas, ont été adoptés. Plusieurs ont perdu la vie sans que leurs proches en aient été avertis. Encore aujourd’hui, les familles cherchent ces enfants qui n’ont jamais été oubliés.Warrior nation: a history of the Red Lake Ojibwe
By Anton Treuer. 2015
The Red Lake Nation has a unique and deeply important history. Unlike every other reservation in Minnesota, Red Lake holds…
its land in common--and, consequently, the tribe retains its entire reservation land base. Warrior Nation covers four centuries of the Red Lake Nation's forceful and assertive tenure on its land. Ojibwe historian and linguist Anton Treuer conducted oral histories with elders across the Red Lake reservation, learning the stories carried by the people. This fascinating history offers not only a chronicle of the Red Lake Nation but also a compelling perspective on a difficult piece of U.S. history