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  • Gifts from the Indigenous: Six Awarenesses & Six Doings

    Shenandoan Stone Explorations, #4

    Series Book 4 - Shenandoan Stone Explorations
    This work offers a philosophic exploration and "doings" so we may become aware of the Indigenous world view. Drawing upon years of study and personal experiences, the author makes use of his recent work on a stone tablet found by the Shenandoah River and a natural monolithic sculpture at Penn Bluff in Alabama. We are invited to consider how the Indigenous vision may complement our own. Offering a ... Read more

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  • Native American Nationalism and Nation Re-building

    Past and Present Cases

    Edited by Simone Poliandri ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Bringing together perspectives from a variety of disciplines, this book provides an interdisciplinary approach to the emerging discussion on Indigenous nationhood. The contributors argue for the centrality of nationhood and nation building in molding and, concurrently, blending the political, social, economic, and cultural strategies toward Native American self-definitions and self-determination. ... Read more

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  • Heritage Footsteps On Dreams

    Express-Reading Version

    by Matheus G. C. ...
    Carved from years of experience, this fast-reading book treatise will guide you in the journey of discovering traces left by our lineage on the Dreams. Let's dive into the mysteries contained by these ancestral scenes! ... Read more

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  • Colonial Tales

    by Vitor Cassius ...
    In a hovel, a mother needs to watch his sick son for love and fear... A cowboy decides to persecute one by one the killers who flayed his brother skin... In Africa, a boy realize that he was sold by his father to slavery.These short stories were told around the campfire. They will be true, false or just exaggerated? ... Read more

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  • Martin Tells a Story: Struggles of the Great Lakes Native Americans

    An old man in a senior citizens apartment building tells a story of the Great Lakes region. It involves the Asian peoples walking across the Bering Straits, landing of the Vikings in present-day Canada, the British and the French Empires in North America, Pontiac's Rebellion, and the Passenger Pigeons ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Point Pleasant: A Critical Event at the Onset of a Revolution

    by Colin Mustful ...
    Just six months prior to the onset of the American Revolution a major battle raged between colonial Virginians and the native Indians of western Virginia. This was the Battle of Point Pleasant fought on October 10, 1774. For various reasons, this battle has been recognized by some as the first battle of the American Revolution. However, evidence clearly shows that the Battle of Point Pleasant had ... Read more

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  • A Welcome Tragedy: Factors that Led to the U.S. - Dakota Conflict of 1862

    by Colin Mustful ...
    On December 26, 1862, the United States Government hanged thirty-eight Dakota Indians in Mankato, Minnesota, for their participation in what is known as the U.S. – Dakota Conflict of 1862. This remains the largest mass execution in U.S. history. But the hangings and the depredations that preceded them were not the result of an isolated incident or event. The Conflict did not occur by chance. ... Read more

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  • Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia

    Powhatan People and the Color Line

    Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state’s long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage across color lines. How indigenous peoples of Virginia resisted erasure and built their identities as Native Americans is the powerful ... Read more

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  • The American Tobacco Controversy: The Tobacco Controversy of 1857 Revisited

    by Colin Mustful ...
    Throughout the nineteenth century the issue of tobacco smoking was an area of constant debate. In 1857 this debate became public through the pages of the British medical journal the Lancet in what is known as the Tobacco Controversy of 1857. The controversy in Great Britain initiated a thorough discussion over the effects of tobacco smoking in America. The debate was vibrant, but at the time it ... Read more

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  • Etnohistorias de América Latina y el Caribe

    Este es un trabajo colectivo, a partir de una convocatoria abierta, que dio como resultado el libro titulado: Perfiles etnohistóricos en América Latina y el Caribe, que contiene artículos que presentan resultados de investigaciones, reflexiones críticas, teóricas, metodológicas y técnicas de investigación utilizadas en los estudios etnohistóricos del área. El interés de la obra fue generar el ... Read more

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  • The Enduring Indians of Kansas

    A Century and a Half of Acculturation

    The Cherokees’ “Trail of Tears” and the forced migration of other Southern tribes during the 1830s and 1840s were the most notorious consequences of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy. Less well known is the fact that many tribes of the Old Northwest territory were also forced to surrender their lands and move west of the Mississippi River.By 1850, upwards of 10,000 displaced Indians had been ... Read more

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  • Contarhuacho, a Biography

    by Helen Pugh ...
    You may have heard of the Inca emperor Huayna Capac but probably not Contarhuacho (or Contarguacho), one of his many secondary wives. Born in Tocash in the province of Huaylas, Peru, in about 1500, Contarhuacho was a curaca or female cacique of great importance in her own right who played a significant role both before and after the Spanish Conquest.This short biography is a taster for a book I am ... Read more

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  • Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire Part 1

    Intrepid Dudettes

    by Helen Pugh ...
    Series Book 1 - Intrepid Dudettes
    Are you ready to embark on a journey?Enter a world steeped in legend...A moon rising from a shimmering lake,A woman turned into corn by the sun,A cave that gives birth to a civilisation,A boy who cries tears of blood,A girl whose icy body is preserved for hundreds of years,A man who regularly asked his dead mother for adviceAnd Mother Nature, whose influence reaches over everyone...'Intrepid ... Read more

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  • Stories & Accounts of the Blackfoot People: As Told by White Feather

    by Bob Sanders ...
    This book was channelled to Bob Sanders in July of 2020 from one of Bob’s first guides – White Feather.When White Feather was incarnated on Earth, a long time ago, he was part of a Blackfoot tribe.In this book, White Feather dictates to Bob some of his memories and accounts of life while alive on Earth.We hope that what has been told will be of benefit to the history of the Blackfoot people. ... Read more

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  • Kennedy Family of Pennsylvania and Their Native American Kin

    While recently researching the rumored marriage of a Scots-Irish Immigrant by the name of David Kennedy, Sr. to a Native American woman in colonial Pennsylvania in the early-1700s, I uncovered a dark secret that remained hidden in my wife's family for nearly three hundred years. This revelation was so shocking to my wife, who was raised north of the Mason-Dixon Line, that she initially viewed my ... Read more

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  • The Lumbee Indians

    An American Struggle

    Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands that we tell a different story. As the largest tribe east of the Mississippi and one of the largest in the country, the ... Read more

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  • Andean Storm

    by Helen Pugh ...
    Series series Intrepid Dudettes
    "Two hundred years after the last Inca ruler (Tupac Amaru) died, a rebellion began to bubble away in Peru"...Micaela Bastidas Puyucawa and her husband, known as Tupac Amaru II, led a huge uprising against the Spanish.Who was Micaela exactly? What was she like? How did the movement end? And what legacy did the couple leave behind?All this and more in 'Andean Storm'. ... Read more

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  • Misiones, Estado y pueblos indígenas

    transformaciones de una relación histórica

    Esta obra contribuye a comprender la compleja relación entre las iglesias y el Estado respecto a los pueblos indígenas. La primera parte recoge contribuciones de misioneros, teólogos, antropólogos e historiadores. Sus artículos exponen casos de la Amazonía ecuatoriana y peruana relacionados con las misiones capuchinas, salesianas y franciscanas. Incluye también un estudio sobre la relación de la ... Read more

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  • No Useless Mouth

    Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution

    "Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis―all based on extensive archival research―produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative."―The Journal of American ... Read more

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  • Relatório Figueiredo

    atrocidades contra povos indígenas em tempos ditatoriais

    A publicação deste livro é um marco na crítica ao tratamento inaceitável que os povos indígenas vêm recebendo do Estado brasileiro ao longo da história. Tendo como referência as atrocidades relatadas no Relatório Figueiredo, os textos aqui reunidos dão uma ideia clara da amplitude dos atos de desrespeito a que esta população tem sido submetida: massacres e ações de extermínio; deslocamentos ... Read more

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  • Kenekuk the Kickapoo Prophet

    Most of the Indians whose names we remember were warriors—Tecumseh, Black Hawk, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo—men who led their people in a desperate defense of their lands and their way of life. But as Alvin Josephy has written, “Some of the Indians’ greatest patriots died unsung by white men, and because their peoples were also obliterated, or almost so, their names are forgotten.”Kenekuk ... Read more

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  • Unwarranted Expulsion: The Removal of the Winnebago Indians

    by Colin Mustful ...
    In February of 1863 the Winnebago Indians of southern Minnesota were exiled from beyond the state of Minnesota forever. This act of law came in the aftermath of the U.S. – Dakota Conflict of 1862. Prior to the conflict, the Winnebago Indians had been promised a permanent home. They lived peaceably and had made marked improvements upon the land as documented by Indian Agents. Despite clear evidence ... Read more

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  • Mama Sarpay (Extract From 'Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire')

    Intrepid Dudettes

    by Helen Pugh ...
    Series series Intrepid Dudettes
    An Inca princess of the highest pedigree becomes a priestess.Unravel the mysterious surrounding her and the Apurimac River where she led worship of a sacred goddess.Discover her courage when she uses her gifts to resist the Spanish Conquest.All this and more in 'Mama Sarpay'.An extract from 'Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire'. ... Read more

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  • Chief Seattle speech: We are part of the earth and it is part of us.

    by NetSpirit ...
    Chief Seattle, 1786-1866, was Northwest coast Indian of the Suquami tribe and should give name to the city of Seattle. He played an important part of the whites peace treaties. As a prelude to negotiating treaties with the United States, he delivered a speech to Governor Stevens in 1854 and it is this speech that is called "Chief Seattle's speech."Chief Seattle's beautiful speech from 1854 have ... Read more

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