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Secrets of an Ageless Journey - "The Mysterious Gift" (Hardcover): Matthew Sage Secrets of an Ageless Journey - "The Mysterious Gift" (Hardcover)
Matthew Sage
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Secrets of an Ageless Journey (1997) the journey begins once again when a sixteen year old girl, Sarah, ventures into the mysteries surrounding her grandfather and the family ancestral ranch. While visiting her cousins on the ranch she discovers an old journal written over eighty years before. The journal becomes the focus of her quest for discovering a mysterious influence that is about the family; and in some way guiding her. (1915) the journal takes Sarah back to one summer in the life of her great grandfather, Joseph, and his twin sister, Ida Belle as they experience a similar ancestral stirring in their lives. A great grandmother comes to visit the twins, involving them in a mystery that has haunted her and the clan. It is through the grandmother that the premise of an invisible force and invisible world exist and was essential to the culture and heritage of an American Indian nation.

Deconstructing The Cherokee Nation - Town, Region and Nation among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees (Hardcover): Tyler Boulware Deconstructing The Cherokee Nation - Town, Region and Nation among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees (Hardcover)
Tyler Boulware
R1,889 Discovery Miles 18 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This significant contribution to Cherokee studies examines the tribe's life during the eighteenth century, up to the Removal. By revealing town loyalties and regional alliances, Tyler Boulware uncovers a persistent identification hierarchy among the colonial Cherokee.
Boulware aims to fill the gap in Cherokee historical studies by addressing two significant aspects of Cherokee identity: town and region. Though other factors mattered, these were arguably the most recognizable markers by which Cherokee peoples structured group identity and influenced their interactions with outside groups during the colonial era.
This volume focuses on the understudied importance of social and political ties that gradually connected villages and regions and slowly weakened the localism that dominated in earlier decades. It highlights the importance of borderland interactions to Cherokee political behavior and provides a nuanced investigation of the issue of Native American identity, bringing geographic relevance and distinctions to the topic.

The British Columbia Orphans' Friend - Historical Number .. (Hardcover): Anonymous The British Columbia Orphans' Friend - Historical Number .. (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Narrative of the Captivity and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson - Who Was Taken by the Indians at the Destruction of Lancaster,... Narrative of the Captivity and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson - Who Was Taken by the Indians at the Destruction of Lancaster, in 1676. (Hardcover)
Mary White Ca 1635-1711 Rowlandson, Joseph 1798-1865 Willard, Former Owner Boston Athenaeum
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of the Indian tribes of North America [Single-Volume Facsimile Edition] - with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of... History of the Indian tribes of North America [Single-Volume Facsimile Edition] - with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs (Hardcover)
Thomas L. McKenney, James Hall; Contributions by Charles Bird King
R3,246 Discovery Miles 32 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
John Eliot and the Indians, 1652-1657 - Being Letters Addressed to Rev. Jonathan Hanmer of Barnstaple, England, Reproduced From... John Eliot and the Indians, 1652-1657 - Being Letters Addressed to Rev. Jonathan Hanmer of Barnstaple, England, Reproduced From the Original Manuscripts in the Possession of Theodore N. Vail (Hardcover)
John 1604-1690 Eliot, Jonathan 1606-1687 Hanmer, Wilberforce 1855-1937 Ed Eames
R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pictographs of the North American Indians - A Preliminary Paper (Hardcover): James Gilchrist Swan, Garrick Mallery Pictographs of the North American Indians - A Preliminary Paper (Hardcover)
James Gilchrist Swan, Garrick Mallery
R1,311 Discovery Miles 13 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eye of the Shaman - The Visions of Piona Keyuakjuk (Hardcover): David Turner Eye of the Shaman - The Visions of Piona Keyuakjuk (Hardcover)
David Turner; Contributions by Piona Keyuakjuk
R1,810 Discovery Miles 18 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Condition of the North American Indians [microform] - in a Series of Letters and Notes,... Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Condition of the North American Indians [microform] - in a Series of Letters and Notes, Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing: With Three... (Hardcover)
George 1796-1872 Catlin
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Beyond White Ethnicity - Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation (Hardcover): Kathleen... Beyond White Ethnicity - Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation (Hardcover)
Kathleen J. Fitzgerald
R2,947 R2,645 Discovery Miles 26 450 Save R302 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald studies the social construction of racial and ethnic identity in Beyond White Ethnicity. Fitzgerald focuses on Native Americans, who despite a previously unacknowledged and uncelebrated background, are embracing and reclaiming their heritage in their everyday lives. Focusing on the purpose, process, and problems of this reclamation, Fitzgerald's research provides an understanding of these issues. She also exposes how institutional power relations are racialized and how race is a social and political construction, and she helps us understand larger cultural transformations. This insightful collection of research sparks the interest of those who study sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers - An Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment (Hardcover): Peter I-Min... Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers - An Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment (Hardcover)
Peter I-Min Huang
R2,522 Discovery Miles 25 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment is the first full length single-authored study of Native American writer Linda Hogan and the first book to address Hogan's poetry and prose primarily from ecocritical perspectives (inclusive of ecofeminism, environmental justice, postcolonial ecocriticism, and animal studies). It also is unique for the reason that it is a comparative study of the work of Hogan and writings by Taiwanese environmental writers, scholars, and activists. Chapter One, which serves as the introduction to the book, written by and from the perspective of an indigene, begins by giving readers a glimpse into the kind of world in the east in which the author came of age. It then relates this world to the western worlds that Hogan writes about in her poetry and prose. Chapter Two focuses on Hogan's most recently published novel, People of the Whale (2008), and on the arguments that the novel makes about the environmentally unsustainable acts of corporate globalization that involve the trade in endangered animal species. Huang relates those arguments to the oil industry in Taiwan and to the extirpation of cetacean species in the waters of Taiwan by this industry. Chapter Three is an analysis of the novel Mean Spirit (1990). Huang reads this novel mostly through the lens of environmental justice arguments. Chapter Four addresses the novel Solar Storms (1995) from the perspective of ecofeminist theory and in the context of the issue of the escalation of mega-dams in East Asia. Chapter Five analyses the novel Power from animal studies perspectives. Chapter Six is a comparative studies reading of poems by several prominent Chinese, Taiwanese, and Aboriginal poets-Taiwanese poet Ka-hsiang Liu, Paiwan poet Mona Neng, Atayal poet Walis Nokan, and Chinese-Taiwanese poet Guangzhong Yu-and Hogan's latest collection of poetry, entitled Dark. Sweet: New & Selected Poems (2014). In his reading of this work, Huang relies on a definition of "ecopoetry" in Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street's recently published The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013). He also brings together the main theoretical ecocritical terms that he discusses in the previous chapters.

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles - With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and... The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles - With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours From Their First Beginning, An[no] 1584. to This Present 1624.: With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and The... (Hardcover)
John 1580-1631 Smith; Created by Samuel 1577?-1626 Purchas, William 1556-1616? Symonds
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
De Zeden Der Wilden Van Amerika [microform] - Zynde Een Nieuwe Uitvoerige En Zeer Kurieuse Beschryving Van Derzelver Oorsprong,... De Zeden Der Wilden Van Amerika [microform] - Zynde Een Nieuwe Uitvoerige En Zeer Kurieuse Beschryving Van Derzelver Oorsprong, Godsdienst, Manier Von Oorlogen, Huwelyken, Opvoeding, Oeffeningen, Feesten, Danzeryen, Begravenissen, En Andere Zeldzame... (Hardcover)
Joseph Francois 1681-1746 Lafitau
R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The History of the Moravian Mission Among the Indians of North America [microform] - From Its Commencement to the Present Time,... The History of the Moravian Mission Among the Indians of North America [microform] - From Its Commencement to the Present Time, With a Preliminary Account of the Indians (Hardcover)
George Henry 1740-1814 Loskiel
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Turquois Mosaic Art in Ancient Mexico; vol. 6 (Hardcover): Marshall H. (Marshall Howard) Saville, Heye F Museum of the American... Turquois Mosaic Art in Ancient Mexico; vol. 6 (Hardcover)
Marshall H. (Marshall Howard) Saville, Heye F Museum of the American Indian
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Jar of Severed Hands - Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810 (Hardcover): Mark Santiago The Jar of Severed Hands - Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810 (Hardcover)
Mark Santiago
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Explores colonial Spanish-Apache relations in the Southwest borderlands"

More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiago's gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial period of the Southwest and northern Mexico. To persuade the Apaches to abandon their homelands and accept Christian "civilization," Spanish officials employed both the mailed fist of continuous war and the velvet glove of the reservation system. "Hostiles" captured by the Spanish would be deported, while Apaches who agreed to live in peace near the Spanish presidios would receive support. Santiago's history of the deportation policy includes vivid descriptions of "colleras," the chain gangs of Apache prisoners of war bound together for the two-month journey by mule and on foot from the northern frontier to Mexico City. The book's arresting title, "The Jar of Severed Hands," comes from a 1792 report documenting a desperate break for freedom made by a group of Apache prisoners. After subduing the prisoners and killing twelve Apache men, the Spanish soldiers verified the attempted breakout by amputating the left hands of the dead and preserving them in a jar for display to their superiors.

Santiago's nuanced analysis of deportation policy credits both the Apaches' ability to exploit the Spanish government's dual approach and the growing awareness on the Spaniards' part that the peoples they referred to as Apaches were a disparate and complex assortment of tribes that could not easily be subjugated. "The Jar of Severed Hands" deepens our understanding of the dynamics of the relationship between Indian tribes and colonial powers in the Southwest borderlands.

Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover): Bruce E. Johansen Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
Bruce E. Johansen
R2,820 Discovery Miles 28 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the industrialized world's encroachment on native lands has brought disastrous environmental harm to indigenous peoples. More than 170 native peoples around the world are facing life-and-death struggles to maintain environments threatened by oil spills, explosions, toxic chemicals, global warming, and other pollutants. This unique resource surveys those indigenous peoples and the environmental hazards that threaten their existence, providing a wealth of information not readily available elsewhere. Arranged geographically, each entry focuses on the peoples of a particular country and the environmental issues they face, from the global warming and toxic chemicals threatening the Arctic Inuits, to the logging that is devastating indigenous habitats in Borneo. General entries overview such topics as climate change, dam sites, and Native American Concepts of Ecology. The 'Guide to Related Topics' and index provide access to recurring themes such as deforestation, hydroelectric power, mining, and land tenure.

A New Continent of Liberty - Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich (Hardcover): Geoff Hamilton A New Continent of Liberty - Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich (Hardcover)
Geoff Hamilton
R1,727 Discovery Miles 17 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first book to chart autonomy's conceptual growth in Native American literature from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, A New Continent of Liberty examines, against the backdrop of Euro-American literature, how Native American authors have sought to reclaim and redefine distinctive versions of an ideal of self-rule grounded in the natural world. Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-Sa, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, Geoff Hamilton sketches a movement of gradual but resolute ascent: from often desperate early efforts, pitted against the historical realities of genocide and cultural annihilation, to preserve any sense of self and community, toward expressions of a resurgent autonomy that affirm new, iIndigenous models of eunomia, a fertile blending of human and natural orders.

Allegories of EncounterColonial Literacy and Indian Captivities - Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities (Hardcover): Andrew... Allegories of EncounterColonial Literacy and Indian Captivities - Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities (Hardcover)
Andrew Newman
R2,947 Discovery Miles 29 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, Scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories; the identification of one's own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations.

Begging as a Path to Progress - Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces (Hardcover,... Begging as a Path to Progress - Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces (Hardcover, New)
R2,563 Discovery Miles 25 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title looks at challenging prejudices about the women and children who beg in Ecuadorian cities. In 1992, Calhuasi, an isolated Andean town, got its first road. Newly connected to Ecuador's large cities, Calhuasi experienced rapid social-spatial change, which Kate Swanson richly describes in ""Begging as a Path to Progress"". Based on nineteen months of fieldwork, Swanson's study pays particular attention to the ideas and practices surrounding youth. While begging seems to be inconsistent with - or even an affront to - ideas about childhood in the developed world, Swanson demonstrates that the majority of income earned from begging goes toward funding Ecuadorian children's educations in hopes of securing more prosperous futures. Examining beggars' organized migration networks, as well as the degree to which children can express agency and fulfill personal ambitions through begging, Swanson argues that Calhuasi's beggars are capable of canny engagement with the forces of change. She also shows how frequent movement between rural and urban Ecuador has altered both, masculinizing the countryside and complicating the Ecuadorian conflation of whiteness and cities. Finally, her study unpacks ongoing conflicts over programs to 'clean up' Quito and other major cities, noting that revanchist efforts have had multiple effects - spurring more dangerous transnational migration, for example, while also providing some women and children with tourist-friendly local spaces in which to sell a notion of Andean authenticity.

Mountain Crossroads - Agricultural Life in the Philippine Cordillera, 1971-73 (Hardcover): Charles Drucker Mountain Crossroads - Agricultural Life in the Philippine Cordillera, 1971-73 (Hardcover)
Charles Drucker
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Changing The Status Quo (Hardcover): Allan Strain Changing The Status Quo (Hardcover)
Allan Strain
R968 Discovery Miles 9 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Native American Creation Stories of Family and Friendship - Stories Retold (Hardcover): Teresa Pijoan Native American Creation Stories of Family and Friendship - Stories Retold (Hardcover)
Teresa Pijoan
R804 R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Save R100 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Counseling - Theory, Research, and Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Lisa Grayshield, Ramon Del... Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Counseling - Theory, Research, and Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Lisa Grayshield, Ramon Del Castillo
R2,387 Discovery Miles 23 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Indigenous Counseling is based in universal principals/truths that promote a way to think about how to live in the world and with one another that extends beyond the scope of Western European thought. Individual health and wellness is intricately interwoven into the relationships that we establish on multiple levels in our lives, those that we establish with ourselves, with others, and with the external environments with which we live. From an Indigenous perspective, health and wellness in our individual lives, families, community and world, is the result of ancient knowledge that produces action in a way that is beneficial to all beings on the planet for generations to come. The current social and political record of our country now clearly reveals the result of a paradigm that has outlived its time. No longer can we ignore the core values of our fields of study; we must take a deeper look into the academic endeavors that inform the way we pass our cultures' values on to successive generations. While it has taken Western Science decades to catch up to Indigenous/Native Science, we now have ample scientific evidence to support claims of interconnectedness on multiple levels of individual and collective health.

Suicide Case Study, Theories, Application and Solutions - Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects on Public Behavior: The Case... Suicide Case Study, Theories, Application and Solutions - Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects on Public Behavior: The Case of Inuit Suicide (Hardcover)
Camilius Chike Egeni Ph. D.
R1,873 Discovery Miles 18 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book discussed the causes of suicide and provides recommendations on how to reduce suicide. It provides suicide solutions that have eluded health and public policy experts for decades. It is a practical book that provides practical solutions to convoluted public problem of suicide. It is a good book for public policy experts, public sector administrators, scholars of management studies, politicians who want to create and add values, sociologists, law enforcement officials, health officials, public policy advocates, and various other decision makers. It is also a good book for social science scholars and researchers.

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