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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “renya ramirez”
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  • American Indians and the Urban Experience

    by Mahni Dugan, David R. M. Beck, Esther Belin, Victoria Bomberry, Pena Bonita, Parris Butler, John Collier Jr, Jimmy Curtiss, Donald L. Fixico, Jack Forbes, Taweah Garcia, Angela A. Gonzales, Joy Harjo, Paivi Hoikkala, Deborah Davis Jackson, Edgar Jackson/Anawrok, Zig Jackson, Alex Julca, Chris LaMarr, WithOut Rezervation, Julian Lang, Christine T. Lowery, L Frank Manriquez, Carol Miller, Darby Li Po Price, Renya Ramirez, Carter Revard/Nompewathe, Larry Rodriguez Sr, Mike Rodriguez, Terry Straus, Michael J. Thompson, Octaviana V. Trujillo, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Debra Valentino, Joan Weibel-Orlando, Floyd Red Crow Westerman ...
    Series series Contemporary Native American Communities
    Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false expression of a complex and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Music, Health and the Body

    Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    by Poonam Bala, Julia C. Basso, Fabian Cannizzo, James J. Chriss, Bamba Ndiaye, Justin Patch, Renya K. Ramirez, Noor Tasnim, Töres Theorell, Kenneth H. Wilson0, Farren Yero1 ...
    Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarching paradigm of culture. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also has highlighted the significance of social and individual factors in people’s perception of and ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Native Hubs

    Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond

    by Renya K. Ramirez ...
    Most Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the full rights granted U.S. citizens nor allowed full access to the tribal programs and resources—particularly health care services—provided to Native Americans living on reservations. A scholar and a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Renya K. Ramirez investigates how ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Standing Up to Colonial Power

    The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud

    by Renya K. Ramirez ...
    Series series New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
    Standing Up to Colonial Power focuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884–1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887–1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to Native land, treaty rights, and tribal identities. Mastering ways of behaving and speaking in different social settings and to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

    by S. C. Gwynne ...
    *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award**A New York Times Notable Book**Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revela... ... Read more

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  • Victims of Benevolence

    The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School

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    An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century. The book's focal points are the death of a runaway boy and the suicide of another while they were students at the Williams Lake Indian Residential School during ... Read more

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  • The Last Stand

    Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

    by Nathaniel Philbrick ...
    "An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." —Los Angeles TimesNathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth ... Read more

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  • Beothuk Of Newfoundland: A Vanished People

    A Vanished People

    by Ingeborg C.L. Marshall ...
    A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information concerning every aspect of Beothuk life-housing, clothing, hunting methods, arts and social life. Ingeborg Marshall gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was completely destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. ... Read more

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  • They Called Me Number One

    by Bev Sellars ...
    BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school.These ... Read more

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  • Stoney Creek Woman

    The Story of Mary John

    by Bridget Moran ...
    The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman's perspective. A mother of twelve, Mary endured much tragedy and heartbreak--the pangs of racism, poverty, and the deaths of six children--but lived her life with extraordinary grace and courage ... Read more

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  • The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

    by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green ...
    Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee people west of the ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Indian Act

    by Tom Flanagan ...
    The authors not only investigate the current forms of property rights on reservations but also expose the limitations of each system showing that customary rights are insecure certificates of possession cannot be sold outside the First Nation and leases are temporary. As well analysis of legislation court decisions and economic reports reveals that current land management has led to unnecessary ... Read more

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