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  • - Writing the People's Perseverance
    av Berkeley) Cushman & University Ellen (University of California
    540,-

  • - A Collection of Stories
    av Diane Glancy
    270 - 400,-

  • - Reflections, Inventions, Refractions
    av Louis Owens
    330 - 466,-

  • - Narratives of Peoplehood, Politics, and Law
    av Sabine N. Meyer
    506 - 1 540,-

  • - Stories for the Stage
    av E. Donald Two-Rivers
    360 - 496,-

    In this collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence.

  • - Stories
    av Jack D. Forbes
    356 - 480,-

    In these short stories, Jack Forbes captures the remarkable breadth and variety of American Indian life. Drawing on his skills as scholar and native activist, and, above all, as artist, Forbes enlarges our sense of how American Indians experience themselves and the world around them.

  • av Greg Sarris
    340,-

    Tells a powerful tale about the love and forgiveness that keep a modern Native American family together in Santa Rosa, California. First published in 1998, Watermelon Nights remains one of the few works of fiction to illuminate the experiences of urban Native Americans.

  • av John Joseph Mathews
    380,-

    The nine short stories in this collection by distinguished Osage author John Joseph Mathews are sure to be recognized as classics of twentieth-century nature writing and the wildlife conservation movement.

  • - Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella
    av Robert J. Conley
    240,-

    Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas, known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. The true story of Wil Usdi's life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by Cherokee author Robert Conley.

  • - Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies
    av Adam Fortunate Eagle
    360,-

    Adam Fortunate Eagle has been called many things: social activist, serious joke medicine, contrary warrior, national treasure, enemy of the state, living history. Characterizing his style as 'Fortunate Eagle meets Mark Twain, Indian style', the author relates the traditions, joys, and frustrations of his own Native American experience.

  • av James W. Parins
    540,-

    Takes a fascinating look at how literacy served to unite Cherokees during a critical moment in their national history, and advances our understanding of how literacy has functioned as a tool of sovereignty among Native peoples, both historically and today.

  • - Native American and European American Novel Traditions
    av James H. Cox
    420,-

  • - Native Heirs to a Wild Baronage
    av Gerald Vizenor
    286,-

    Inventive, provocative, and ultimately affirmative, "The Trickster of Liberty" has become a classic in the repertoire of celebrated author Gerald Vizenor. A series of related stories, the novel follows the lives of seven mixedblood trickster siblings who began their lives on a reservation in northern Minnesota. Behaving in unpredictable ways, these siblings defy any attempt to fit them within stereotypical notions of the Indian. ""

  • - Literature, Film, Family, Place
    av Louis Owens
    380,-

    In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the environment as depicted in literature and film and as embodied in his own mixedblood roots in family and land.

  • - A Novel
    av A. A. Carr
    406,-

    Lurking in the caves of eastern New Mexico, Falke, a 1000-year-old vampire, chooses his next bride: Melissa Roanhorse, an Albuquerque teenager. To regain his granddaughter's life, Michael Roanhorse, wise to the power of myth, must outwit the vampire and his loyal coven.

  • - The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Sa
    av Tadeusz Lewandowski
    360 - 486,-

    Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influential--and controversial--American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for Native peoples.

  • - A Novel
    av Louis Owens
    380,-

    In the hot, dry New Mexico wilderness, Will and Billy, two half-Cherokee ranchers, discover a corpse and a suitcase containing nearly a million dollars. As the two friends contemplate what to do with the money, they set into motion a series of events that will cost them more than they want to pay."Volume 41 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series"

  • - American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture
    av Jace Weaver
    404,-

  • - A Novel
    av Charles H. Red Corn
    406,-

    At the turn of the twentieth century, the Osage Indians owned Oklahoma's most valuable oil reserves and became members of the world's first wealthy oil population. Osage children and grandchildren continued to respect the old customs and ways, but now they also had lives of leisure: purchasing large homes, expensive cars, eating in fancy restaurants, and traveling to faraway places. In the 1920s, they also found themselves immersed in a series of murders. Charles H. Red Corn sets A Pipe for February against this turbulent, exhilarating background.Tracing the experiences of John Grayeagle, the story's main character, Red Corn describes the Osage murders from the perspective of a traditional Osage. Other books on the notorious crimes have focused on the greed of government officials and businessmen to increase their oil wealth. Red Corn focuses on the character of the Osage people, drawing on his own experiences and insights as a member of the Osage Tribe.

  • - Five Native American Plays
    av William S. Yellow Robe
    306,-

  • - A Novel
    av Joseph Bruchac
    300,-

    Bruchac ratchets the tension from the first page to the last in this detective novel that pairs comedy and action with serious consideration of corporate greed, environmental destruction, cultural erosion, and other modern-day issues pressing Native peoples.

  • - Natural Agonies in the New World
    av Gerald Vizenor
    326,-

    Bagese, a tribal woman transformed into a bear, has discovered a new urban world and she describes this world from the perspective of animals. These tales, drawn from traditional tribal stories, illuminate the centuries of conflict between American Indians and Europeans.

  • - A Novel
    av Louis Owens
    420,-

    Cole McCurtain, a mixed-blood Indian professor, is haunted by dreams dating back to events of Spanish California. Images of a Spanish priest murdered in 1812, a grizzly bear and a painted Indian who offers bones in his hands come at a time when a young woman is washed ashore in 1993.

  • - Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures
    av Gerald Vizenor
    360,-

    Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, and other Native American authors, the essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures, comic and tragic world views and trickster discourse.

  • - After the Trail of Tears
    av Diane Glancy
    196,-

  • - Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories
    av Gerald Vizenor
    330,-

    The Anishinaabe, otherwise named as the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are well known for their lyric songs and stories. This annotated anthology aims to bring readers close to the tribe's union of natural reason and dream song, to "the memories that walk with the birds in the sky and sing across the water".

  • - A Novel
    av Gerald Vizenor
    250,-

    Centred on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

  • - Understanding the American Indian Novel
    av Louis Owens
    380,-

    This is a critical analysis of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors. It takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery, drawing upon a broad range of literary theory to analyze issues of marginalisation and cultural survival.

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