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1) On the rez
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. This captivating narrative is part memoir and part history. Bunnell...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--past and present--illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were absurd. In this memoir, Rezaian writes of his exhausting interrogations and farcical trial. He also reflects on his life and childhood.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Intellectually audacious and emotionally compelling, Whitehead shares his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantly-even joyfully-maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Popular leadership blogger gives the low-down on standing up for yourself. In Pushback, top leadership consultant Selena Rezvani argues that self-advocacy is critical to success. Yet women initiate negotiations four times less often than men, resulting in getting less of what they want--promotion opportunities, plum assignments, and higher pay. This book shines a light on the real rules of holding your own and pushing back for what is rightfully...
Series
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
xxi, 230 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poetry, fiction, and essays by Native American women, reflecting on the relation of women to their community, including transformation in the female experience, the theme of inner strength, reactions to stereotypes and simplified images, love, and sex.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Musician and music historian Craig Harris tells the compelling stories of contemporary Indigenous musicians of North America in their own words"--
"Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and wooden flutes, Indigenous music intersects with rock, blues, jazz, folk music, reggae, hip-hop, classical...
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
xxii, 1347 pages ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This up-to-date reference book brings together three hundred leading Canadianists to look at literature in Canada from a variety of perspectives. In over two thousand entries that attest to Canada's cultural plurality, the Encyclopedia covers literature in English and French, and also in such other languages as Yiddish, Spanish, Haida, and Cree. It discusses authors and their work, related literary and social issues, professional institutions that...
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