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“abbie gardner sharp”

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  • The Spirit Lake Massacre and the Captivity of Abbie Gardner (Expanded, Annotated)

    by Abbie Gardner-Sharp ...
    Long considered one of the best of the captive narratives from the 19th century, Abbie Gardner's thrilling and graphic tale of her abduction by a band of Santee Sioux in 1857 will captivate you from beginning to end. Barely 14 years old, her family was butchered before her eyes and she witnessed the deaths of two other women captives before her release by Chief Inkpaduta.Gardner suffered years of ... Read more

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    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tilly, a Story of Hope and Resilience

    by Monique Gray Smith ...
    Tilly has always known she’s part Lakota on her dad’s side. She’s grown up with the traditional teachings of her grandma, relishing the life lessons of her beloved mentor. But it isn’t until an angry man shouts something on the street that Tilly realizes her mom is Aboriginal, too—a Cree woman taken from her own parents as a baby.Tilly feels her mother’s pain deeply. She’s always had trouble ... Read more

    $9.57 USD

  • Masculindians

    Conversations about Indigenous Manhood

    by Joseph Boyden, Tomson Highway, Lee Maracle, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Basil H. Johnston, Dana Claxton, Daniel David Moses, Louise Bernice Halfe, Taiaiake Alfred, Janice C. Hill, Kim Anderson, Thomas Kimeksun Thrasher, Brendan Hokowhitu, Ty P. Kawika Tengan, Warren Cariou, Alison Calder, Daniel Heath Justice, Adrian Stimson, Terrance Houle, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Richard van Camp, Joanne Arnott, Neal McLeod, Gregory Scofield ...
    What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401, McKegney and his participants tackled crucial questions about masculine self-worth and how to foster ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Survival of the Bark Canoe

    by John McPhee ...
    In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Indigenous in the City

    Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation

    Edited by Evelyn Peters, Chris Andersen ...
    Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • On Six Continents

    A Life In Canada's Foreign Service, 1966-2002

    by James K. Bartleman ...
    Muskoka, the University of Western Ontario, Ottawa, New York, Colombia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Peru, Cuba, Israel, Belgium, South Africa, Australia –the place-names tell the story of an amazing career. Then there are the people involved –Trudeau, Clark, and Chrétien, Kissinger, Castro, Rabin, Walesa, Havel, Mandela and dozens of others. Not to mention the moments of high drama: when young Jim ... Read more

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  • Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America

    Edited by Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, Alexander Laban Hinton ...
    This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors examine these efforts through the lens of genocide. Considering some of the most destructive ... Read more

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  • Growing Up Native American

    by Bill Adler, Ines Hernandez, Patricia Riley ...
    Stories of oppression and survival, of heritage denied and reclaimed -- twenty-two American writers recall childhood in their native land.This essential collection of Indigenous voices explores:Coming of Age Stories: From the forced assimilation of boarding schools to the quiet strength of oral tradition, these personal narratives chronicle the turbulent passage into adulthood.Cultural Reclamation ... Read more

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  • The Huna Code in Religions

    a Report on the Rediscovered Mystery Teachings Underlying Christianity, Yoga and Buddhism

    by Max Freedom Long ...
    Series Book 1 - Huna Study Series
    In the year 1953 the presence of coded Huna information in the Bible was discovered. Since that time the research work has progressed, with a number of additional pieces of coded information uncovered. This book gives not only the later findings, but further expands the study to show similar coded information in the religions of the ancient Egyptians, Israelites, Buddhists and practitioners of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Cerulean Blue

    by Drew Hayden Taylor ...
    Cerulean Blue is a comedic play about a struggling blues band invited to participate in a benefit concert for a First Nation community in conflict with governmental authorities. Upon arriving, the band discovers the entire lineup of musical acts has cancelled and they’re left trapped behind barricades. Complicating the matter, there is conflict within the band and the sudden appearance of an old ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Recovering Canada

    The Resurgence of Indigenous Law

    by John Borrows ...
    Series series The Canada 150 Collection
    Canada is covered by a system of law and governance that largely obscures and ignores the presence of pre-existing Indigenous regimes. Indigenous law, however, has continuing relevance for both Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. In his in-depth examination of the continued existence and application of Indigenous legal values, John Borrows suggests how First Nations laws could be applied by ... Read more

    $31.99 USD