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Native Trailblazer

Author : Ed Rice
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1684750113
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Native Trailblazer written by Ed Rice and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an extraordinary debut—17th place in the 1911 Boston Marathon—Penobscot Indian Andrew Sockalexis returned to run a spectacular Boston Marathon on a muddy, rainy course on April 19, 1912. Only twenty years old, running just his third marathon ever, he came in second and narrowly missed breaking the record time for that course. The greatest number of Native Americans ever to represent the United States occurred when Andrew Sockalexis joined Louis Tewanima and the legendary Jim Thorpe at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. As the American favorite to win the marathon, Sockalexis finished a gallant fourth on a brutally hot day that saw half the participants drop out and one runner die of heat stroke. Ed Rice chronicles the tragically short life of Sockalexis—he died at the age of twenty-seven from tuberculosis—focusing on his running and the races that earned him recognition from the sports community and made him revered at home.

Native Women of Courage

Author : Kelly Fournel
Publisher : Book Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780977918324
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Native Women of Courage written by Kelly Fournel and published by Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten biographies of Native women leaders and their extraordinary work in diverse fields as the arts, education, and tribal leadership.

Native Women Changing Their Worlds

Author : Patricia J. Cutright
Publisher : 7th Generation
ISBN 13 : 1939053544
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Native Women Changing Their Worlds written by Patricia J. Cutright and published by 7th Generation. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native women have filled their communities with strength and leadership, both historically and as modern-day warriors. The twelve Indigenous women featured in this book overcame unimaginable hardships––racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty––only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism. Such determination and courage reflect the essence of the traditional Cheyenne saying: “A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.” The impressive accomplishments of these twelve dynamic women provide inspiration for all. B/W photos. Featured individuals: Ashley Callingbull Burnham (Enoch Cree Nation) Henrietta Mann, PhD (Southern Cheyenne) Ruth Anna Buffalo (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation) Elouise Pepion Cobell (Blackfeet) Loriene Roy, PhD (Anishinabe, White Earth Reservation) Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk Nation) Roberta Jamieson (Kanyenkehaka, Six Nations-Grand River Territory) Deb Haaland (Pueblo of Laguna) Elsie Marie Knott (Mississauga Ojibwe) Mary Golda Ross (Cherokee ) Heather Dawn Thompson (Lakota, Cheyenne River Sioux Emily Washines (Yakama Nation with Cree and Skokomish lineage).

Native Athletes in Action!, Revised Ed.

Author : Vincent Schilling
Publisher : 7th Generation
ISBN 13 : 1939053854
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Native Athletes in Action!, Revised Ed. written by Vincent Schilling and published by 7th Generation. This book was released on 2022-01-08 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition adds two new and exciting young basketball players to the roster of outstanding Native athletes already included in the book. Shoni Schimmel, a tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon, has earned the nicknames “The Umatilla Thrilla” and “Showtime” in the world of women's basketball. To people in Indian Country, Shoni is an absolute hero. Kenny Dobbs, aka “The Dunk Inventor,” is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and has toured the globe with the National Basketball Association as a celebrity dunker for sold-out shows. The biographies of all thirteen athletes describe the hard work, determination and education it took to accomplish their dreams and become the champions they are.

Jim Bridger

Author : Jerry Enzler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806169796
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Jim Bridger written by Jerry Enzler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman’s full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he “discovered” the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was the first to paddle the Bighorn River’s Bad Pass. At twenty-two he explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger’s path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler’s book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the “King of the Mountain Men.” This is the definitive story of an extraordinary life.

Native Defenders of the Environment

Author : Vincent Schilling
Publisher : 7th Generation
ISBN 13 : 9780977918379
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Native Defenders of the Environment written by Vincent Schilling and published by 7th Generation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents stories of courage, determination, and resistance to multinational corporations and disastrous government policies that are harming the planet and describes how eleven Native people work to save the environment.

Native Defenders of The Enviornment

Author : Vincent Schilling
Publisher : Native Voices Books
ISBN 13 : 1570679959
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Native Defenders of The Enviornment written by Vincent Schilling and published by Native Voices Books. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Native Trailblazers series comes a new book with the stories of twelve brave people who work tirelessly to save our environment. These are stories of courage, determination and resistance to multinational corporations and disastrous government policies that are harming the planet. Readers will learn about Grace Thorpe, who worked to keep Native reservations from becoming nuclear waste dumps; Tom Goldtooth, the director of the Indigenous Environmental Network; and Winona LaDuke, who works on a national level to raise public support and create funding for Native environmental groups. Read about the next generation of Native environmentalists, including Ben Powless, a founding organizer of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition; Melina Laboucan-Massimo, tar sands campaigner for Greenpeace Canada; and Teague Allston, an intern with the National Wildlife Federation tribal and public lands program.

Trailblazer

Author : Farooq Kathwari
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1626346461
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Trailblazer written by Farooq Kathwari and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farooq Kathwari’s extraordinary life began in politically divided Kashmir, where his family was separated by government decree. He had to leave home as a refugee, helped his mother survive shock therapy, joined student activists in street demonstrations, and faced down a gun-wielding security officer—all by the age of seventeen. Forced to become self-reliant, Kathwari journeyed to the United States, talked his way into a bookkeeping job, and earned a degree from NYU graduate school. He launched his first entrepreneurial venture selling Kashmiri crafts out of his Brooklyn apartment. When Kathwari’s best customer, the iconic furniture maker Ethan Allen, needed fresh leadership, he was asked to become its president. He transformed the company and become one of America’s most successful—and admired—CEOs. Meanwhile, spurred by the tragic loss of his teenaged son in war, Kathwari dedicated himself to the cause of peace in Kashmir and around the world. He hosted meetings with diplomats, shuttled messages between heads of state, and worked with global leaders on issues from human rights to refugee resettlement. Brimming with drama, insight, and unexpected humor, Trailblazer recounts a unique life story, offering readers not just an engrossing journey but also the wisdom of an exceptional leader. From Trailblazer— "When the American journalist told me he hoped to report the truth about the Kashmir uprising, I decided to help. “The government people won’t let you see what is really happening,” I said. “Why not let me take you around?” It was foolish of me to make such an offer. I knew I was risking retribution by the security forces. But I was a headstrong, independent young man. I wanted the truth to get out, and I would do what I could to help that happen."

Native American Doctor

Author : Jeri Ferris
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780876144435
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Native American Doctor written by Jeri Ferris and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the young Omaha Indian woman who became the first Native American woman to graduate from medical school.

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Author : Robin Varnum
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147369
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca written by Robin Varnum and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–1559) and three other survivors had walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of this astonishing journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time and a touchstone of New World literature. But his career did not begin and end with his North American ordeal. Robin Varnum’s biography, the first single-volume cradle-to-grave account of the explorer’s life in eighty years, tells the rest of the story. During Cabeza de Vaca’s peregrinations through the American Southwest, he lived among and interacted with various Indian groups. When he and his non-Indian companions finally reconnected with Spaniards in northern Mexico, he was horrified to learn that his compatriots were enslaving Indians there. His Relación (1542) advocated using kindness and fairness rather than force in dealing with the native people of the New World. Cabeza de Vaca went on to serve as governor of Spain’s province of Río de La Plata in South America (roughly modern Paraguay). As a loyal subject of the king of Spain, he supported the colonialist enterprise and believed in Christianizing the Indians, but he always championed the rights of native peoples. In Río de La Plata he tried to keep his men from robbing the Indians, enslaving them, or exploiting them sexually—policies that caused grumbling among the troops. When Cabeza de Vaca’s men mutinied, he was sent back to Spain in chains to stand trial before the Royal Council of the Indies. Drawing on the conquistador’s own reports and on other sixteenth-century documents, both in English translation and the original Spanish, Varnum’s lively narrative braids eyewitness testimony of events with historical interpretation benefiting from recent scholarship and archaeological investigation. As one of the few Spaniards of his era to explore the coasts and interiors of two continents, Cabeza de Vaca is recognized today above all for his more humane attitude toward and interactions with the Indian peoples of North America, Mexico, and South America.

Native Elders

Author : Kim Sigafus
Publisher : Seventh Generation Books
ISBN 13 : 9780977918362
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Native Elders written by Kim Sigafus and published by Seventh Generation Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the wisdom of twelve Native American elders who reminisce about their past and the ways in which their native culture can be preserved and passed down to future generations.

Native Plants, Native Healing

Author : Tis Mal Crow
Publisher : Native Voices Books
ISBN 13 : 157067986X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Native Plants, Native Healing written by Tis Mal Crow and published by Native Voices Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a must for beginners and serious students of herbs and of Native American ways. This set of herbal teachings, which draws strongly from the Muscogee tradition, presents an understanding of the healing nature of plants for the first time in book form. In a time of expanding awareness of the potential of herbs, this work shines and beckons. Tis Mal examines common wild plants and in a clear and authoritative style explains how to identify, honor, select, and prepare them for use. Illustrated and indexed by plant name and medical topic.

The First Fire: A Cherokee Story

Author : Bradley Wagnon
Publisher : 7th Generation
ISBN 13 : 193905351X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The First Fire: A Cherokee Story written by Bradley Wagnon and published by 7th Generation. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Fire is an ageless Cherokee myth about the revered water spider in their culture. The story happens in a time when animals could do many of the things that people do. The Creator gave the animals the world to live on, but they were without a source for heat at night. Great Thunder and his sons saw the plight of the animals so he sent lightning down to strike a tree. The tree burst into flames but the tree was on an island. Many animals tried to bring the fire over the water to the shore, but they were all unsuccessful. One small creature, the Water Spider, then volunteered. Curious, the animals said to her “We know you could get there safely, but how would you bring the fire back without getting burned?” Water Spider was successful and to this day, the water spider is revered in Cherokee culture.

Native Athletes in Action

Author : Vincent Schilling
Publisher : 7th Generation
ISBN 13 : 9781484490631
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Native Athletes in Action written by Vincent Schilling and published by 7th Generation. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of biographies of Native American athletes.

Native Women Changing Their Worlds

Author : Patricia J. Cutright
Publisher : 7th Generation
ISBN 13 : 1939053544
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Basic Call to Consciousness

Author : Akwesasne Notes
Publisher : Native Voices
ISBN 13 : 1570678138
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Basic Call to Consciousness written by Akwesasne Notes and published by Native Voices. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representatives of the Six Nation Iroquois delivered three position papers titled “The Haudenosaunee Address to the Western World” at a conference on “Discrimination Against the Indigenous Populations of the Americas” held in Geneva, Switzerland in 1977 hosted by Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in 1977. This document is presented in its entirety. Contributions by John Mohawk, Chief Oren Lyons, and Jose Barreiro give added depth and continuity to this important work.

Native Women of Courage

Author : Kelly Fournel
Publisher : 7th Generation
ISBN 13 : 193905365X
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Native Women of Courage written by Kelly Fournel and published by 7th Generation. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten biographies of outstanding Native women leaders recount the extraordinary work of women in such diverse fields as the arts, education, the environment, the media, women’s rights, and tribal leadership. The inspirational women are both heroines from the past and modern trail blazers who are making history today. Through hard work, dedication, and self-respect, these women rose above their circumstances and made a positive difference for their nations and communities, and serve as a reminder of the extraordinary contributions of Native women in all walks of life.