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Mountain Windsong

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186925
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Mountain Windsong written by Robert J. Conley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the tragic events of the Cherokees' removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835-1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the suffering and endurance of the Cherokee people. It is the moving tale of Waguli (Whippoorwill") and Oconeechee, a young Cherokee man and woman separated by the Trail of Tears. Just as they are about to be married, Waguli is captured be federal soldiers and, along with thousands of other Cherokees, taken west, on foot and then by steamboat, to what is now eastern Oklahoma. Though many die along the way, Waguli survives, drowning his shame and sorrow in alcohol. Oconeechee, among the few Cherokees who remain behind, hidden in the mountains, embarks on a courageous search for Waguli. Robert J. Conley makes use of song, legend, and historical documents to weave the rich texture of the story, which is told through several, sometimes contradictory, voices. The traditional narrative of the Trail of Tears is told to a young contemporary Cherokee boy by his grandfather, presented in bits and pieces as they go about their everyday chores in rural North Carolina. The telling is neiter bitter nor hostile; it is sympathetic by unsentimental. An ironic third point of view, detached and often adversarial, is provided by the historical documents interspersed through the novel, from the text of the removal treaty to Ralph Waldo Emerson's letter to the president of the United States in protest of the removal. In this layering of contradictory elements, Conley implies questions about the relationships between history and legend, storytelling and myth-making. Inspired by the lyrics of Don Grooms's song "Whippoorwill," which open many chapters in the text, Conley has written a novel both meticulously accurate and deeply moving.

Cherokee Medicine Man

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806138770
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Cherokee Medicine Man written by Robert J. Conley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern medicine man portrayed through the words of the people he has helped Robert J. Conley did not set out to chronicle the life of Cherokee medicine man John Little Bear. Instead, the medicine man came to him. Little Bear asked Conley to write down his story, to reveal to the world ?what Indian medicine is really about.” For Little Bear, as for the Cherokee ancestors who brought their traditions over the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory, the medicine is about helping people. Visitors from neighboring states and Mexico come to him, each one seeking help for a different kind of problem. Each seeker's story is presented here exactly as it was told to Conley. Little Bear has cured problems involving health, relationships, and money by uncovering the source of the problem rather than simply treating the symptoms. Whereas mainstream medicine and counseling have failed his patients, Little Bear's healing practices have proven beneficial time and again.

The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806123530
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories written by Robert J. Conley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories, based on Cherokee history, folklore, and experience, reflect the depth of historical experience, as well as the range of contemporary life and values of this enduring Native American people

Robert J. Conley's Mountain Windsong

Author : Pamela Carmelle Fox
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781491033791
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Robert J. Conley's Mountain Windsong written by Pamela Carmelle Fox and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding and retaining cultural identity and self identity has been a struggle for many American Indians since the colonial era. Robert J. Conley's compelling novel, Mountain Windsong, explores the struggle to retain identity in the context of adversity. This issue is still relevant today as American Indians deal with identity issues in a dominant and always encroaching culture.Fox's analysis is a critical examination of Conley's seminal novel and its interpretation and an analysis of identity in the context of major adversity: the government enforced travail known as The Trail of Tears

Cherokee Dragon

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133706
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Cherokee Dragon written by Robert J. Conley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few writers portray Native American life and history as richly, authentically, and insightfully as Robert J. Conley. Conley represents an important voice of the Cherokee past. The novels in his Real People series combine powerful characters, gripping plots, and vivid descriptions of tradition and mythology to preserve Cherokee culture and history. In Cherokee Dragon, the tenth novel in the series, Robert Conley explores the life if Dragging Canoe, the last great war chief of the united Cherokee tribe. In the late eighteenth century, as the English settlers begin steadily encroaching upon the Cherokee lands, the Nation divided among several towns and many chiefs?unites in a series of battles. But the united front is not one that lasts: Dragging Canoe’s belief that they must fight the settlers to preserve their lands and their culture is far from universal.

Cultivating the Rosebuds

Author : Devon A. Mihesuah
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066771
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Cultivating the Rosebuds written by Devon A. Mihesuah and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997-01-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the nondenominational Cherokee Female Seminary was one of the most important schools in the history of American Indian education. Devon Mihesuah explores its curriculum, faculty, administration, and educational philosophy. Recipient of a 1995 Critics' Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association. 24 photos.

Folklore of the Winnebago Tribe

Author : David Lee Smith
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806129761
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Folklore of the Winnebago Tribe written by David Lee Smith and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated collection of tales from the Winnebago people, drawn from the Smithsonian Institution among other sources, ranges from creation myths to trickster stories to myths and legends about the history of the tribe

The Peace Chief

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133683
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book The Peace Chief written by Robert J. Conley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Indian's rise to a high position in the Cherokee nation. He is Young Puppy and through his eyes is seen a war between, on the one side the Cherokee allied with the French, and on the other the Indian slave-catchers working for the Spanish. By the author of War Woman.

Taking Shape - carmina figurata

Author : Jan D. Hodge
Publisher : Able Muse Press
ISBN 13 : 1927409578
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Taking Shape - carmina figurata written by Jan D. Hodge and published by Able Muse Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eclectic mix of shapes and subjects populate Taking Shape—Jan D. Hodge’s full-length collection of carmina figurata (sometimes called shaped poems, pattern poetry, or figure poems). Hodge’s many masterpieces include depictions of a saxophone, a Madonna and Child, a combination piano/guillotine, and other silhouettes of amazing difficulty and detail. These poems are not only visually stunning, they are also sonically beautiful, and retain a transcendent freedom while conforming to both illustrative and metrical constraints. Taking Shape is a visual feast of inspired poetry. PRAISE FOR TAKING SHAPE: Are not all printed formal poems shaped poems? The sonnet, the hymn, the sestina, and the ghazal all have characteristic shapes rather like boxes that confine their subjects. In Jan D. Hodge’s Taking Shape the subjects have burst from their cages and confront us immediately with what they are. Then the words they are made of can reveal their inner beings. The long closure of “Spring” describes the best way to read these poems. I have long known what prayer is, but I never knew what one looked like until I read “Madonna and Child.” — Fred Chappell, author of The Fred Chappell Reader Here is a perfect matching of shapes and poetry. Through a wide-ranging array of subjects and tones, Hodge’s mastery of language within such challenging constraints is truly impressive. Syntax and rhythm, metaphor and symbol (see for instance “The One That Got Away” or “The Lesson of the Snow”), conversational snippets and quatrains, are surprisingly nuanced. Even the occasional poems—wedding, elegy, Valentine’s day, Halloween, Christmas, an early morning poetry reading—find new things to say and striking ways to say them. These poems reward reading again and again. — Robert J. Conley, author of Mountain Windsong Jan D. Hodge is the master par excellence of carmina figurata. In Taking Shape you’ll see such word-pictures as the Chinese ideogram for spring; a harpsichord poised before a guillotine; a still life with quill pen and ink bottle, T-square and drafting triangle. More amazing still, Hodge forms many of the intricate images with metered language—in one case in medieval alliterative verse! In a poem about baseball Hodge writes, “forgiveness/ is the best/ we dare hope for in this bruised world/ the thinnest/ chance that lets us somehow/ slide home free”; here “only by grace . . . can we be safe.” Hodge knows of grace, his poems are full of grace, and Taking Shape, like grace itself, is a gift of utter beauty. — Vince Gotera, Editor, North American Review

Mountain Windsong

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806124520
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Mountain Windsong written by Robert J. Conley and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the tragic events of the Cherokees' removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835 and 1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the suffering and endurance of the Cherokee people. It is the moving tale of Waguli ("Whippoorwill") and Oconeechee, a young Cherokee man and woman separated by the Trail of Tears. Just as they are about to be married, Waguli is captured by federal soldiers and, along with thousands of other Cherokees, taken west, on foot and then by steamboat, to what is now eastern Oklahoma. Though many die along the way, Waguli survives, drowning his shame and sorrow in alcohol. Oconeechee, among the few Cherokees who remain behind, hidden in the mountains, embarks on a courageous search for Waguli. Robert J. Conley makes use of song, legend, and historical documents to weave the rich texture of the story, which is told through several, sometimes contradictory, voices. The traditional narrative of the Trail of Tears is told to a young contemporary Cherokee boy by his grandfather, presented in bits and pieces as they go about their everyday chores in rural North Carolina. The telling is neither bitter nor hostile; it is sympathetic but unsentimental. An ironic third point of view, detached and often adversarial, is provided by the historical documents interspersed through the novel, from the text of the removal treaty to Ralph Waldo Emerson's letter to the president of the United States in protest of the removal. In this layering of contradictory elements, Conley implies questions about the relationships between history and legend, storytelling and myth-making. Inspired by the lyrics of Don Grooms's song, "Whippoorwill," which open many chapters in the text, Conley has written a novel both meticulously accurate and deeply moving.

The Cherokee Nation

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826332358
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Cherokee Nation written by Robert J. Conley and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Conley's history of the Cherokees is the first to be endorsed by the Cherokee Nation and to be written by a Cherokee.

Porcupines and China Dolls

Author : Robert Arthur Alexie
Publisher : Porcupines and China Dolls
ISBN 13 : 9781894778725
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Porcupines and China Dolls written by Robert Arthur Alexie and published by Porcupines and China Dolls. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A terrific book that deals with present day concerns."--Thomas King, Governor General's Award-wining author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian "To understand this story, it is important to know the People and where they came from and what they went through." So begins a haunting story that explores with frank and honest words the dark legacy of the residential school system and its impact on individuals, families and communities. James Nathan and Jake Noland have been best friends for life. After finishing mission school they return to their Gwich'in community in the Northwest Territories. Their lives revolve around bootleggers, the bar, drug abuse and meaningless sex. James and Jake try to dull their painful memories of the school. Each hides a dark secret that fuels his nightmares. Enough alcohol silences the demons for a night; a gun and a single bullet silences demons forever. When a friend commits suicide and a former priest appears on television, the community is shattered. James and Jake confront their childhood abuse and break the silence to begin a journey of healing and rediscovery.

The Dark Way

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806132730
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Way written by Robert J. Conley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Dark Way, the Ani-Kutani have grown greedy and power-hungry, threatening the people with their capricious decrees in the midst of a drought. The imposing Standing-in-the-Doorway, most exalted of the Ani-Kutani, knows he must produce rain or lose the confidence of his people. The crafty priest decides to revive an ancient custom intended to dazzle an increasingly disenchanted populace.

National Monuments

Author : Heid E. Erdrich
Publisher : American Indian Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Monuments written by Heid E. Erdrich and published by American Indian Studies. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the poems in National Monuments explore bodies, particularly the bodies of indigenous women worldwide, as monuments—in life, in photos, in graves, in traveling exhibitions, and in plastic representations at the airport. Erdrich sometimes imagines what ancient bones would say if they could speak. Her poems remind us that we make monuments out of what remains—monuments are actually our own imaginings of the meaning or significance of things that are, in themselves, silent. As Erdrich moves from the expectedly "poetic" to the voice of a newspaper headline or popular culture, we are jarred into wondering how we make our own meanings when the present is so immediately confronted by the past (or vice versa). The language of the scientists that Erdrich sometimes quotes in epigraphs seems reductive in comparison to the richness of tone and meaning that these poems—filled with puns, allusions, and wordplay—provide. Erdrich's poetry is literary in the best sense of the word, infused with an awareness of the poetic canon. Her revisions of and replies to poems by William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, and others offer an indigenous perspective quite different from the monuments of American literature they address.

War Woman

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133690
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book War Woman written by Robert J. Conley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few writers portray Native American life and history as richly, authentically, and insightfully as Robert J. Conley. Conley represents an important voice of the Cherokee past. The novels in his Real People series combine powerful characters, gripping plots, and vivid descriptions of tradition and mythology to preserve Cherokee culture and history. War Woman spans the late 1500s to mid-1600s. War Woman, a brave, headstrong, clever Cherokee, is believed by many in her town to be a witch. Having heard stories about the Spanish, and believing there is great profit to be made by trading with them, she leads a small band of youths on the treacherous road to La Florida. This journey, blessed with success and marred by terrible tragedy, marks the beginning of War Woman’s own personal journey as she leads her people by example and by guidance through terrifying times.

Dylan Thomas "A Visit to Grandpa's" - an Analysis

Author : Anja Moeller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640281926
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Dylan Thomas "A Visit to Grandpa's" - an Analysis written by Anja Moeller and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.5 (A), University of Tubingen (English Seminar University, Tübingen), course: Version of Welsh, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: I have chosen the short story A Visit to Grandpa′s from Dylan Thomas′ book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog because for me it reflects a close relation between himself as a child and the countryside of Wales and how he felt and what he experienced there. In my first section I want to point out the changes in Dylan Thomas′s writing and how the story A Visit to Grandpa′s is connected with his own life and the time when he grow up. Linked to his own life then comes a kind of comparison of his childhood and our, the reader′s, memory of childhood will follow. In the main part I give a short description of the story and an introduction to the different characters. In connection with the description of the story I point out important things about atmosphere and characters in the narration and I want to connect parts of the story to the appearing situation and atmosphere. In addition to the explanation of the plot the occurring dreams will be mentioned and I try to explain what they might mean. The last part about the style of writing deals with the way Dylan Thomas wrote the short story A Visit to Grandpa′s. Then in the conclusion I want to bring together what I have said before and try an attempt why an adult reader still understands the feelings and problems in this child story.

E-literature for Children

Author : Len Unsworth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415333306
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book E-literature for Children written by Len Unsworth and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These practical ideas, suggestions and real-life experiences will help you to understand the differences and similarities of the literary experience for children through classic, modern and leading-edge narratives in both book and computer formats.