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The art of waiting: on fertility, medicine, and motherhood
By Belle Boggs. 2016
In her new book The Art of Waiting, author Belle Boggs ponders the nature of reproduction in modern America, which…
is of necessity a means of pondering the nature of family, which in turn is a means of pondering the nature of intimacy and love. The word 'infertility' is no longer a single word but is transformed into a thousand stories and a thousand possible families--thwarted, growing, reimagined. UnratedBetter breastfeeding: A doctor's guide to nursing without pain and frustration
By Linda D Dahl. 2022
The ultimate modern-day breastfeeding guide, with empowering, medically sound advice and solutions for the trickiest issues—from a pioneering ENT doctor…
and breastfeeding expert. In today&’s breastfeeding-friendly environment, the pressure to nurse is intense. We hear over and over that breastfeeding is natural, and every woman can do it. The truth is, the majority of moms need help breastfeeding, but they&’re forced to sift through varying viewpoints from a dizzying host of sources instead of being able to turn to a doctor for advice. And when breastfeeding doesn&’t work, they&’re the ones getting blamed for failure. In Better Breastfeeding , you will find information, not opinions: science-backed facts to help you make informed decisions, without feeling ashamed or bullied. Dr. Linda Dahl presents a new paradigm for breastfeeding based on diagnosing and treating mothers and babies using anatomy and physiology, offering a comprehensive overview of how breastfeeding works, why it fails, and what to do about it. Dr. Dahl takes you through the basics of breastfeeding in a week-by-week guide and explores solutions for little-understood difficulties like gape restriction and tongue tie, nipple and breast pain, issues with milk supply, or abnormal nursing behaviors. Better Breastfeeding is the no-holds-barred primer that every mom needs before and during her breastfeeding journey so she can advocate for herself and her baby.  Myth, 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 TexasBlackfeet 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 violenceExpecting (Gravel Road Rural Ser.)
By Shannon Freeman. 2016
Three very different girls meet at a program for pregnant teens. Will they be able to learn from each other…
and see through the drama? Some strong language. For junior and senior highThe 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 survivalStories 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. historyExpecting Adam: a true story of birth, rebirth, and everyday magic
By Martha Beck, Martha Nibley Beck. 2011
John and Martha Beck had two Harvard degrees apiece when the conceived their second child. Further graduate studies, budding careers,…
and a growing family meant major stress - not that they'd have admitted it to anyone (or themselves). As the pregnancy progressed, Martha battled constant nausea and dehydration. And when she learned her unborn son had Down syndrome, she battled nearly everyone over her decision to continue the pregnancy. She still can't explain many of the things that happened to her while she was expecting Adam, but by the time he was born, Martha, as she puts it, "had to unlearn virtually everything Harvard taught [her] about what is precious and what is garbage."Hannah and the mountain: notes toward a wilderness fatherhood (American lives)
By Jonathan Johnson. 2005
This story is a timeless memory of two people's unique intersection with landscape, imagination, hope, and love. It contains hard…
truths and great beauty. The subject--making a life of worth under challenging circumstances--is universal and powerfully wroughtThe deadliest Indian war in the West: the Snake conflict, 1864-1868
By Gregory Michno. 2007
The Snake War is one of the least known of the many clashes of culture that occurred in the American…
West during the 19th century. This book gives readers the first comprehensive look at the natives, soldiers and settlers who clashed on the high desert of Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Northern California in a struggle that over a four-year period claimed more lives than any other Western Indian WarLa grossesse est l'une des expériences de vie les plus profondes et marquantes... mais c'est également une période durant laquelle…
une femme peut avoir l'impression de retomber en enfance. Parmi mille injonctions, on lui impose d'éviter le café, la charcuterie, les sushis, les oeufs crus, de faire de l'exercice ou de rester couchée, de recourir à la péridurale, et ce, sans jamais lui en expliquer les raisons. Lorsqu'Emily Oster, économiste de réputation mondiale, est elle-même tombée enceinte, elle s'est interrogée sur ces directives communément admises. Elle est remontée aux sources et a découvert avec surprise que la plupart d'entre elles étaient excessives ou tout simplement fausses. Ce guide déboulonne les mythes et explique ce que chaque femme enceinte a réellement besoin de savoir, des véritables effets de la caféine aux dangers surprenants du jardinage. Un ouvrage indispensable pour profiter de sa grossesse en toute sérénitéNative universe: voices of Indian America
By Kevin Gover. 2008
Indian scholars, writers, and leaders celebrate their cultural heritage through three main topics: "Our Universes" examines the diversity of beliefs…
and ceremonies, "Our Peoples" probes historical events such as the arrival of Christopher Columbus, and "Our Lives" offers stories and poems on contemporary identity. 2008"I am a man": Chief Standing Bear's journey for justice
By Joe Starita. 2009
In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's people, the Ponca, were removed from their ancestral lands in Nebraska's Niobrara River Valley to…
Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). When his only son dies in 1879, Standing Bear undertakes a 600-mile journey back to Nebraska in order to bury him. This action sets the stage for a federal trial to determine whether or not Native Americans were entitled to equal protection under the law, and had they been deprived of their property, homeland, and even their lives without due processKatie Gale: a Coast Salish woman's life on Oyster Bay
By LLyn De Danaan. 2013
A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins…
to emerge and with her the world she inhabited, so rich in tradition, so shaken by violent change. Katie Kettle Gale was born into a Salish community in Puget Sound in the 1850's, just as settlers were migrating into what would become Washington State. With her people forced out of their accustomed hunting and fishing grounds into ill-provisioned island camps and reservations, Katie Gale sought her fortune in Oyster Bay. In that early outpost of multiculturalism--where Native Americans and immigrants from the eastern United States, Europe, and Asia vied for economic, social, political, and legal power--a woman like Gale could make her way. As Llyn De Danaan mines the historical record, we begin to see Gale, a strong-willed Native woman who co-founded a successful oyster business, then wrested it away from her Euro-American husband, a man with whom she raised children and who ultimately made her life unbearable. Steeped in sadness--with a lost home and a broken marriage, children dying in their teens, and tuberculosis claiming her at forty-three--Katie Gale's story is also one of remarkable pluck, a tale of hard work and ingenuity, gritty initiative and bad luck that is, ultimately, essentially American