Marknadens största urval
Snabb leverans

Böcker i American Indian Lives-serien

Filter
Filter
Sortera efterSortera Serieföljd
  • - A Story of Survival
    av Allison Hedge Coke
    196 - 420,-

    Refers to life-revelations guiding the award-winning poet and writer through her many trials.

  • - Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders
    av Julie Cruikshank
    450,-

    Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collaborated with Julie Cruikshank, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, to produce this unique autobiography.

  • - The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher
    av Esther Burnett Horne
    260,-

    Presents the classic tensions inherent in European and Native American views of culture. This title includes the spirited story of Esther Burnett Horne, an accomplished and inspiring educator in Indian boarding schools.

  • - My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant
    av Susan Supernaw
    260 - 370,-

    The life of a young Native American woman who overcame a childhood of poverty, physical disability, and abuse to become Miss Oklahoma and eventually earn her Native American name.

  • av Henry Mihesuah
    260 - 276,-

    Henry Mihesuah, a Comanche of the Quahada band, has led an ordinary modern American Indian life filled with extraordinary moments. Henry spoke at length about his life to his daughter-in-law, historian Devon Abbott Mihesuah, who has carefully researched and edited those hours of conversation into an engaging, detailed account that is at once honest, informative, and moving.

  • - A Salishan Autobiography
    av Mourning Dove
    200,-

    'Mourning Dove' was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State. She was the author of "Cogewea, The Half-Blood" (one of the first novels to be published by a Native American woman) and "Coyote Stories", both reprinted as Bison Books.

  • - Conversations with Native Artists and Activists
    av E. K. Caldwell
    370,-

    A collection of interviews that showcases twelve leading Native artists and activists who have challenged and helped reshape prevailing expectations about Native cultures and identities during the late twentieth century. It discusses the effects of the American Indian Movement, religious freedom, and obligations to past cultural traditions.

  • - A Life on the Cherokee Border
    av James W. Parins
    306,-

    Born into the influential Ridge-Boudinot-Watie family, Elias Cornelius Boudinot was raised in the East after the assassination of his father, who helped found the first newspaper published by an Indian nation. This is a biography of Boudinot, a half-Cherokee, half-white man who lived on the cultural border of the two societies.

  • - The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
    av Woody Kipp
    184,-

    It was at Wounded Knee, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had become the enemy, the Viet Cong, to a country that he had defended with his life. This memoir tells the story of the long trail that led Kipp from the Blackfeet Reservation of his birth to a terrible moment of reckoning on the plains of South Dakota.

  • - Autobiography of a Mi'kmaq Poet
    av Rita Joe
    196,-

    Rita Joe is celebrated as a poet, an educator, and an ambassador. In 1989, she accepted the Order of Canada 'on behalf of native people across the nation'. This title tells her story: her education in an Indian residential school, her turbulent marriage, and the daily struggles within her family and community.

  • av Delphine Red Shirt
    250,-

    Presents a story of several generations of Lakota women who grew up on the open plains of northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota. This book reveals Turtle Lung Woman's relationship with her husband, her healing practice as a medicine woman, Lone Woman's hardships, and celebrations growing up in the early twentieth century.

  • - My Crow Indian Life
    av Alma Hogan Snell
    196,-

    Presents the story of Alma Hogan Snell, a Crow woman brought up by her grandmother, the famous medicine woman Pretty Shield.

  • - Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
     
    260,-

    Presents an anthology of autobiographical accounts, by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features an introduction by the editors and biographical sketches for each writer.

Gör som tusentals andra bokälskare

Prenumerera på vårt nyhetsbrev för att få fantastiska erbjudanden och inspiration för din nästa läsning.