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Cree Narrative Memory

Author : Neal McLeod
Publisher : Purich Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Cree Narrative Memory written by Neal McLeod and published by Purich Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The importance of storytelling to Cree culture, and how such stories are vital to understanding the history of the Cree and their rejuvenated future, are central to the themes examined in this visionary book. Neal McLeod examines the history of the nehiyawak (the Cree people) of western Canada from the massive upheavals of the 1870s and the reserve period to the vibrant cultural and political rebirth of contemporary times. Central to the text are the narratives of McLeod's family, which give first hand examples of the tenacity and resiliency of the human spirit while providing a rubric for reinterpreting the history of indigenous peoples, drawing on Cree worldviews and Cree narrative structures." "In a readable style augmented with extensive use of the Cree language throughout, McLeod draws heavily on original research, the methodology of which could serve as a template for those doing similar work. While the book is based on the Cree experience of the Canadian prairies, its message and methodology are applicable to all Indigenous societies."--BOOK JACKET.

Cree Narrative

Author : Richard J. Preston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773523623
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Cree Narrative written by Richard J. Preston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the values and world view of an indigenous society.

Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians

Author : Robert Brightman
Publisher : University of Regina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889771956
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians written by Robert Brightman and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980 by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, this study presents narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba together with interpretive and comparative commentary. The collection comprises narratives of the trickster-transformer Wisahkicahk, animal-human characters, spirit guardians, the wihtikow or cannibal monster, humorous experiences, sorcery, and early encounters with Catholicism.

Gender, Power, and Representations of Cree Law

Author : Emily Snyder
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774835710
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Power, and Representations of Cree Law by : Emily Snyder

Download or read book Gender, Power, and Representations of Cree Law written by Emily Snyder and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, and a video game. Although these resources promote the revitalization of Cree law and the principle of miyo-wîcêhtowin (good relations), Snyder argues that they do not capture the complexities of gendered power relations. The majority of these resources either erase women’s legal authority by not mentioning them, or they diminish their agency by portraying Cree laws and gender roles in inflexible, aesthetically pleasing ways that overlook power imbalances and other forms of oppression.

The Wishing Bone Cycle

Author : Howard A. Norman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Wishing Bone Cycle written by Howard A. Norman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems about a "trickster" capable of changing into various characters, objects, and circumstances.

Mamaskatch

Author : Darrel J. McLeod
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317295
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Mamaskatch written by Darrel J. McLeod and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family’s history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and horror—of the strong men in their family, of her love for Darrel, and of the cruelty she and her sisters endured in residential school—as well as his many siblings and cousins, and the smells of moose stew and wild peppermint tea. And there young Darrel learns to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that will guide him throughout his life. But after a series of tragic losses, Bertha turns wild and unstable, and their home life becomes chaotic. Sweet and eager to please, Darrel struggles to maintain his grades and pursue interests in music and science while changing homes, witnessing domestic violence, caring for his younger siblings, and suffering abuse at the hands of his brother-in-law. Meanwhile, he begins to question and grapple with his sexual identity—a reckoning complicated by the repercussions of his abuse and his sibling’s own gender transition. Thrillingly written in a series of fractured vignettes, and unflinchingly honest, Mamaskatch—“It’s a wonder!” in Cree—is a heartbreaking account of how traumas are passed down from one generation to the next, and an uplifting story of one individual who overcame enormous obstacles in pursuit of a fulfilling and adventurous life.

The Limehouse Golem

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 : 0307816230
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Limehouse Golem written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picture A literary star returns with an addictive tale of murder in Victorian London. Peter Ackroyd is "our most exciting and original writer... one of the few English writers of his generation who will be read in a hundred years' time." -- The Sunday Times (London) Without a doubt, Peter Ackroyd's breakout book. It has all the erudition and literary brilliance we expect of Ackroyd, yet it is as vivid, scary, and spellbinding as the best of Edgar Allan Poe. The year is 1880, the setting London's poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London's dark streets, the sense of time and place becomes overwhelmingly immediate and real. We experience the sights and sounds of the English music halls, smell the smells of London slums, hear the hooves of horses on the cobblestone streets, and attend the trial of Elizabeth Cree, a woman accused of poisoning her husband but who may be the one person who knows the truth about the murders. The wonderfully rhythmic shifting of focus from trial to back alleys, where we come upon George Gissing, author of New Grub Street, and even Karl Marx, gives the story a tremendous depth and resonance beyond its page-turning thriller plot. Peter Ackroyd has once again confirmed his place as one of the great writers of our time. Previously published as The Trial Of Elizabeth Cree.

Giving Voice to Bear

Author : David L. Rockwell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1879373483
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Giving Voice to Bear written by David L. Rockwell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly readable anthropological study includes Indian folktales and rare photographs and illustrations.

Auto/Biography across the Americas

Author : Ricia A. Chansky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317337182
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Auto/Biography across the Americas written by Ricia A. Chansky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to understand belonging, that reverberates through narratives of the Americas. The volume brings together essays written from diverse national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary perspectives to trace these transnational motifs in life writing across the Americas. Drawing on international scholars from the seemingly disparate regions of the Americas—North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America—this book extends critical theories of life writing beyond limiting national boundaries. The scholarship included approaches narrative inquiry from the fields of literature, linguistics, history, art history, sociology, anthropology, political science, pedagogy, gender studies, critical race studies, and indigenous studies. As a whole, this volume advances discourse in auto/biography studies, life writing, and identity studies by locating transnational themes in narratives of the Americas and placing them in international and interdisciplinary conversations.

Across Cultures / Across Borders

Author : Paul Depasquale
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770480161
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Across Cultures / Across Borders written by Paul Depasquale and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Cultures/Across Borders is a collection of new critical essays, interviews, and other writings by twenty-five established and emerging Canadian Aboriginal and Native American scholars and creative writers across Turtle Island. Together, these original works illustrate diverse but interconnecting knowledges and offer powerfully relevant observations on Native literature and culture.

Birdie

Author : Tracey Lindberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443442097
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Birdie written by Tracey Lindberg and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monkey Beach meets Green Grass, Running Water meets The Beachcombers in this wise and funny novel by a debut Cree author Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions. Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet (one of the only television shows available on CBC North) that come to her in her dreams. She is also driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat Johns, who played Jesse on The Beachcombers, because he is, as she says, a working, healthy Indian man. Bernice heads for Molly’s Reach to find answers but they are not the ones she expected. With the arrival in Gibsons of her Auntie Val and her cousin Skinny Freda, Bernice finds the strength to face the past and draw the lessons from her dreams that she was never fully taught in life. Part road trip, dream quest and travelogue, the novel touches on the universality of women's experience, regardless of culture or race.

Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Author : Neal McLeod
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771120088
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Poetics in Canada written by Neal McLeod and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place. Featuring work by academics and poets, the book examines four elements of Indigenous poetics. First, it explores the poetics of memory: collective memory, the persistence of Indigenous poetic consciousness, and the relationships that enable the Indigenous storytelling process. The book then explores the poetics of performance: Indigenous poetics exist both in written form and in relation to an audience. Third, in an examination of the poetics of place and space, the book considers contemporary Indigenous poetry and classical Indigenous narratives. Finally, in a section on the poetics of medicine, contributors articulate the healing and restorative power of Indigenous poetry and narratives.

Elder Brother and the Law of the People

Author : Robert Alexander Innes
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887554393
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Elder Brother and the Law of the People written by Robert Alexander Innes and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains were relatively small multicultural communities that actively maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices. These practices were governed by the Law of the People as described in the traditional stories of Wîsashkêcâhk, or Elder Brother, that outlined social interaction, marriage, adoption, and kinship roles and responsibilities.In Elder Brother and the Law of the People, Robert Innes offers a detailed analysis of the role of Elder Brother stories in historical and contemporary kinship practices in Cowessess First Nation, located in southeastern Saskatchewan. He reveals how these tradition-inspired practices act to undermine legal and scholarly definitions of “Indian” and counter the perception that First Nations people have internalized such classifications. He presents Cowessess’s successful negotiation of the 1996 Treaty Land Agreement and their high inclusion rate of new “Bill-C31s” as evidence of the persistence of historical kinship values and their continuing role as the central unifying factor for band membership.Elder Brother and the Law of the People presents an entirely new way of viewing Aboriginal cultural identity on the northern plains.

Pemmican Empire

Author : George Colpitts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107044901
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Pemmican Empire written by George Colpitts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.

Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies

Author : Chris Andersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315528835
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies written by Chris Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies is a synthesis of changes and innovations in methodologies in Indigenous Studies, focusing on sources over a broad chronological and geographical range. Written by a group of highly respected Indigenous Studies scholars from across an array of disciplines, this collection offers insight into the methodological approaches contributors take to research, and how these methods have developed in recent years. The book has a two-part structure that looks, firstly, at the theoretical and disciplinary movement of Indigenous Studies within history, literature, anthropology, and the social sciences. Chapters in this section reveal that, while engaging with other disciplines, Indigenous Studies has forged its own intellectual path by borrowing and innovating from other fields. In part two, the book examines the many different areas with which sources for indigenous history have been engaged, including the importance of family, gender, feminism, and sexuality, as well as various elements of expressive culture such as material culture, literature, and museums. Together, the chapters offer readers an overview of the dynamic state of the field in Indigenous Studies. This book shines a spotlight on the ways in which scholarship is transforming Indigenous Studies in methodologically innovative and exciting ways, and will be essential reading for students and scholars in the field.

The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose: Second Edition

Author : Tammy Roberts
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 155481037X
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose: Second Edition written by Tammy Roberts and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A substantial selection of classic essays allows readers to trace the history of the essay from Swift to Woolf and Orwell and beyond. A selection of the finest of contemporary essays—from Witold Rybcynski to David Sedaris and Elizabeth Kolbert—provides a broad sample of the genre in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The academic essays begin with classic selections from such writers as Darwin and Charles Lyell, but the emphasis is on recent decades. Emphasized as well are academic papers or essays that have been especially influential or controversial, from Luis and Walter Alvarez’s suggestion that an asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs to Judith Rich Harris’s argument that the influence of peers may be at least as influential in the formation of personality as that of parents. Works of different lengths, levels of difficulty and subject matter are all represented, as are narrative, descriptive and persuasive essays. Also included in the text is a range of questions and suggestions for discussion. The text selections are numbered by paragraph for ready reference. Added to the second edition are new selections by Malcolm Gladwell, Doris Lessing, Eric Schlosser, Binyavanga Wainaina, and over twenty others. This new edition also provides pairings of informal and academic articles that address the same topic, allowing readers to consider contrasting approaches.

Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking

Author : Richard Bauman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521379335
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking written by Richard Bauman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-19 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic case studies surveying the use, role and function of language and speech in social life.