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  • - Natural Agonies in the New World
    af Gerald Vizenor
    230,95 kr.

    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 Collection of Stories
    af Diane Glancy
    198,95 - 308,95 kr.

  • - A Novel
    af D. L. Birchfield
    278,95 kr.

    In D.L. Birchfield's Field of Honor, a secret underground civilization of Choctaws, deep beneath the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, has evolved into a high-tech culture, supported by the labour of slaves kidnapped from the surface.

  • - Writing the People's Perseverance
    af Berkeley) Cushman & University Ellen (University of California
    299,95 - 409,95 kr.

  • - The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Sa
    af Tadeusz Lewandowski
    258,95 - 354,95 kr.

    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
    af Louis Owens
    230,95 kr.

    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"

  • - A Novel
    af Betty Louise Bell
    278,95 kr.

    This is the story of three generations of Cherokee women as viewed by the youngest, Lucie, who has been able to use education and her imagination to escape the confines of her impoverished upbringing.

  • - American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture
    af Jace Weaver
    299,95 kr.

  • - An Autobiography
    af John Joseph Mathews
    258,95 - 343,95 kr.

  • - A Novel
    af Louis Owens
    269,95 kr.

    Tom Joseph, a young Indian who had gone south to attend college, returns for his uncle's funeral and finds himself caught up in the old man's fight to save the wilderness from destruction.

  • - A Novel
    af Charles H. Red Corn
    208,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Six Native American Plays
    af Diane Glancy
    278,95 kr.

    In American Gypsy, a collection of six plays, Diane Glancy uses a mélange of voices to invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. Glancy intermixes poetry and prose to address themes of gender, generational relationships, acculturation, myth, and tensions between Christianity and traditional Native American belief systems.The six plays included, "The Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance," "The Women Who Loved House Trailers," "American Gypsy," "Jump Kiss," "Lesser Wars," and "The Toad (Another Name for the Moon) Should Have a Bite," run the gamut from monologues to multi-character pieces and vary in length from fifteen minutes to over an hour. Glancy concludes the collection with a thought-provoking essay on Native American playwritingDiane Glancy is Professor of English at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. She has received the Cherokee Medal of Honor from the Cherokee Honor Society. She is also an award-winning author of poetry, short stories, and plays. Her works include War Cries, a collection of plays, and Firesticks and The Voice That Was in Travel, both short story collections published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Her collection of essays, Claiming Breath, won the North American Indian Prose Award and an American Book Award.

  • - Five Native American Plays
    af William S. Yellow Robe
    213,95 kr.

  • - A Novel
    af Louis Owens
    278,95 kr.

  • af James Ruppert
    198,95 kr.

    Focusing on the novels of six contemporary American writers, the author analyzes the ways in which these writers draw upon their bicultural heritage and the attraction of their styles to Native and non-Native readers, aiming to produce cross-cultural understanding rather than divisiveness.

  • - A Novel
    af Joseph Bruchac
    183,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Novel
    af A. A. Carr
    308,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Novel
    af Louis Owens
    299,95 kr.

    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
    af Gerald Vizenor
    258,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Literary Imagination and Achievement
     
    413,95 kr.

  • - After the Trail of Tears
    af Diane Glancy
    168,95 kr.

  • - Writing Storyteller and Medicine Woman
    af Brewster E Fitz
    274,95 kr.

  • af Alan R. Velie
    258,95 kr.

    A volume of essays by Indian white scholars on issues such as ethnic identity, Indians in American mythology, how Indians write about Indians, and Indian crime and punishment. It aims to provide a better understanding of Native American approaches to fiction and history.

  • - Literary Reflections on His Life and Work
     
    464,95 kr.

  • - Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories
    af Gerald Vizenor
    230,95 kr.

    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".

  • - Life of an Osage Writer
    af Michael Snyder
    233,95 kr.

    John Joseph Mathews is one of Oklahoma's most revered twentieth-century authors. An Osage Indian, he was also one of the first Indigenous authors to gain national renown. Yet fame did not come easily, and his personality was full of contradictions. In this biography, Michael Snyder provides the first book-length account of this fascinating figure.

  • - A Collection of Stories and Other Writings
    af Robert J. Conley
    228,95 kr.

    So what does it mean to be a Cherokee?" asks Cherokee author Robert J. Conley at the start of this delightful collection of his writings. This posthumous publication, edited by the author's wife, Evelyn L. Conley, offers readers the opportunity to appreciate anew the blend of humour, candour, and creativity that makes his work so exceptional.

  • - Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies
    af Kimberly G. Wieser
    274,95 kr.

    Exploring the multimodal rhetorics--oral, written, material, visual, embodied, kinesthetic--that create meaning in historical discourse, Wieser argues for the rediscovery and practice of traditional Native modes of communication--a modern-day "going back to the blanket," or returning to Native practices.

  • - A Novel
    af Gerald Vizenor
    168,95 kr.

    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
    af Louis Owens
    258,95 kr.

    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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