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By Claudio Saunt. 2005
This book explores the history of a Native American family using a rich collection of sources, including G. W. Grayson's…
never-before studied forty-four volume diary. At the heart of the narrative is a fact suppressed to this day by some Graysons: one branch of the family is of African descent. Focusing on five generations, from 1780 to 1920, this book reveals the terrible compromises that Indians had to make to survive in the shadow of the expanding American republic. Overwhelmed by the racial hierarchy of the United States, American Indians disowned their kin, enslaved their relatives, and fought each other on the battlefield. In the 18th-century native South, when the Graysons first welcomed Africans into their family, black-Indian relationships were common and bore little social stigma. But as American slave plantations began to spread across Indian lands, race took on ever greater significance. Native American families found that their survival depended on distancing themselves from their black relatives. The black and Indian Graysons survived the invasion of the Creek Nation by US troops in 1813 and again in 1836, endured Indian removal and the Trail of Tears, battled each other in the Civil War, and weathered the destruction of the Creek Nation in the 1890s. When they finally became American citizens in 1907, Oklahoma law defined some Graysons as white, some as black. By this time, the two sides of the family, divided by race, barely acknowledged each other.By Alan Jolis, Muhammad Yunus. 2003
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize describes how he founded Grameen Bank that is devoted to providing poor people with…
miniscule loans. The bank has provided 3.8 billion dollars to 2.4 million families in rural Bangladesh, enabling them to lift themselves out of poverty forever.By James P. Ronda. 1984
The Lewis and Clark expedition has long symbolized the westering impulse in American life. No other exploring party has so…
fully captured the imagination of ordinary citizens or the attention of scholars. In ways that defy rational explanation, the picture of Lewis and Clark struggling up the Missouri and across the mountains to the great western sea continues to stir our national consciousness. Books, highway markers, museum displays, and a foundation dedicated to preserving the Lewis and Clark trail all bear witness to a fascination that time has only deepened. Over the generations since the expedition returned from the Pacific, its achievement and significance for America heading west have undergone constant reappraisal. From an early emphasis on the journey as an epic of physical endurance and courage, Lewis and Clark have emerged in this century as pioneer western naturalists, cartographers, and diplomats. Thomas Jefferson, the man William Clark once called "that great Character the Main Spring" of the expedition, would have heartily endorsed an evaluation of the Corps of Discovery that included sharp minds as well as strong bodies. And Jefferson would have reminded us that his explorers were part of that long encounter between Euro-Americans and native Americans. In its daily affairs and official actions, the expedition passed through, changed, and was in turn changed by countless native lives. In the simplest terms, this book is about what happens when people from different cultural persuasions meet and deal with each other. The Lewis and Clark expedition was an integral and symbolic part of what James Axtell has aptly called "the American encounter." Nearly two and a half years of almost constant contact between explorers and Indians illuminate the larger and longer series of cultural relationships that began centuries before on the margins of the continent. This book is not a retelling of the familiar Lewis and Clark adventure. That story has been told with grace and skill by Bernard DeVoto and in the magnificent photographs of Ingvard Eide and David Muench. But readers will find moments of high drama not previously well known or clearly understood.By Douglas E. Foley. 1995
A tale of Indians and whites living together in a small Iowa community. The Heartland Chronicles is also about an…
anthropologist returning to his hometown and boyhood memories. More than simply a study of racial injustice. Douglas E. Foley's multi-layered historical account incorporates the perspectives of both the white and Mesquaki Indian groups. Foley has created this historical context by exploring his own memories and those of his Indian and white informants, by reading five decades of local newspapers, and by examining the fieldnotes of thirty-five anthropologists who worked among the Mesquakis from 1948 to 1959. (During this period the University of Chicago's Department of Anthropology had a field school on the Mesquaki settlement.) His research results in a complex portrayal of the double structuring of perceptions of people on opposite sides of a cultural border. This study depicts how ethnic and racial boundaries are produced narratively through mutual misrecognition. Like most Native Americans, the Mesquakis have survived numerous popular and academic misrepresentations of their culture. In response, a post-World War II generation of "progressive-traditionalist" tribal leaders have maintained their sacred religious traditions and have produced a variety of anti-assimilationist literary and artistic productions. Ultimately, their ongoing civil rights struggle and new gambling casino have helped the tribe attain greater economic and political autonomy. As a result, the Mesquakis now stand on the precipice of modernity and a capitalist consumer culture.By Miguel Ruiz. 1997
By Wendell H. Oswalt. 2006
By Héctor Díaz-Polanco, Consuelo Sánchez. 2002
Al igual que el separatismo, la opción autonómica suscita resistencia por parte de los grupos de poder liberales ortodoxos, principalmente.…
En todo caso, los pueblos, al no encontrar un reconocimiento y acomodo en la vida democrática de la nación, continúan en la búsqueda de vías que les permitan afirmar sus identidades y mejorar sus condiciones económicas, sociales, políticas y culturales. Independiente de los argumentos a favor o en contra de la autonomía, subsiste el verdadero problema de fondo en toda esta discusión: el valor moral y social de la diversidad. El debate autonómico implica los pormenores en torno a los alcances de los derechos de determinados grupos y también los detalles sobre técnica jurídica. Pero va más allá. Lo que se discute, en resumidas cuentas, es el carácter del modelo democrático, el rango de la autodeterminación como facultad de los pueblos, la diversidad como modo de vida, el multiculturalismo como arreglo sociopolítico y, en fin, temas tan enjundiosos y antiguos como la libertad, la igualdad y la justicia. Esos son los ejes esenciales que cruzan este libro, al tiempo que teje una historia y un recuento de todas las vicisitudes por las que ha atravesado el debate sobre autonomía, indigenismo, multiculturalismo y democracia desde el levantamiento zapatista.By Michael Lewis. 2000
By Keith H. Basso. 1996
By James Marcus. 2004
By James Willard Schultz, David C. Andrews. 2002
A collection of short stories as they appeared in magazines in the early 1900's. These stories chronicle life experiences among…
the Black Feet Indians. The scholarly notes by the editor, David Andrews discuss the author and his legacy.By Laura Adams Armer. 1959
Younger Brother lives in a dry land, and he dreams of finding the wide water of the Pacific Ocean. This…
gentle coming-of-age story, rooted in the traditional culture of the Navajo, recounts Younger Brother's journey toward finding his vocation as a medicine man. Under the guidance of his uncle, the boy learns about the ancient songs, customs, and ceremonies of his people as well as the modern-day magic of movies and airplanes. Written in the 1930s by an authority on Native American life and lore, this Newbery Medal winner offers a vivid portrait of Navajo beliefs and traditions.By Cynthia Haseloff. 1998
By Doris Pilkington, Nugi Garimara. 2002
THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF THREE YOUNG GIRLS WHO CROSS THE HARSH AUSTRALIAN DESERT ON FOOT TO RETURN TO THEIR…
HOME. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-winning author Doris Pilkington traces the captivating story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from her community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. At the settlement, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their aboriginal heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls-scared and homesick-planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp, with its harsh life of padlocks, barred windows, and hard cold beds. The girls headed for the nearby rabbit-proof fence that stretched over 1000 miles through the desert toward their home. Their journey lasted over a month, and they survived on everything from emus to feral cats, while narrowly avoiding the police, professional trackers, and hostile white settlers. Their story is a truly moving tale of defiance and resilience.By Charlotte Yue, David Yue. 1988
Focusing on the igloo, this book also covers many other aspects of traditional Eskimo life. These include hunting, the making…
of tools, and travel by boat and dogsled. This book is exceptionally well researched (as reflected in its extensive bibliography) and may be of value to adults as well as young readers ISBN 0-395-4463-9 .By Cathy East Dubowski. 1990
By Jane Jacobs, Hannah Breece. 1995
Hannah Breece braved the Alaskan wilderness nearly a century ago to teach native children how to become Americans. A proud…
and fiercely independent woman, she struggled against great odds to establish federally sponsored schools in remote settlements. This is*her own story of her many adventures on the Alaskan frontier. Breece compiled a draft of her experiences from her diaries and letters, but never completed the project. Before she died, she entrusted the manuscript to her great-niece Jane Jacobs, and this delightful book is the result. " Hannah Breece was a paradox, as'Jane Jacobs writes in her foreword. A woman ahead of her time, she set off alone for the frontier at a time when few women worked outside their homes. But she was also deeply devoted to the conven' tions of her late-nineteenth-century world: A firm prohibitionist and a devout Christian, she felt a strong moral commitment to bringing native children into the so-called civilized world. On her own in the wilderness, Breece went from adventure to adventure as she struggled to maintain the various schools. Her world includes many eccentric characters: gold prospectors and fur traders, tribal chiefs and native youngsters, prim dowagers and Russian priests. Jane Jacobs visited the communities her great aunt described to fill in some of the gaps in her story. Her original research complements Hannah Breece's story to give us a vivid picture of old Alaska, of the infant settlements of Juneau, Kodiak, Seward and Fairbanks, and of the amazing woman who conquered its frozen wilderness, loved its children and, for nearly fifteen years, made it her home.By Byrd Baylor. 1975
By Chief Red Fox. 1971
By Samuel Smiles.