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Book Synopsis Woven Through the Sweetgrass by : Joyce Chicklas Heywood
Download or read book Woven Through the Sweetgrass written by Joyce Chicklas Heywood and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains essays written by Claudia (Mason) Chicklas (1926-2008), a mixed-race daughter of an Abenaki Indian woman and an "Old Yankee" white man. Claudia grew up in the Marlboro/Keene, NH area and lived her middle and later years in Massachusetts. The book has been compiled and edited by her 2 daughters, Joyce (Chicklas) Heywood and Margaret (Chicklas) Perillo to include family history and experiences of the Native American side of the family, dating from the 1870s to the late 1990s. It takes the reader through the beginnings of Claudia's grandfather, Israel Sadoques' married life with Mary (Watso) Sadoques; their beginnings on the Indian reserve (Odanak) in Canada; their journey to CT and their subsequent arrival in Keene, NH; to stories of their 12 children (8 of whom survived to adulthood); to Israel and Mary's children's old age; and right on to Claudia's own older years. It depicts not only how their race affected their lives and how they worked to overcome discrimination to become accepted and respected as valuable members of their community, but also their everyday experiences which all people, no matter what their race, have in common. It is both serious and lighthearted, written in a style reminiscent of James Herriot's, All Creatures Great and Small. This family became well-known in the area of Keene, NH, with perhaps Claudia's mother, Elizabeth being the best known today. Elizabeth had a page about her in the Winter 2008 edition of Minority Nurse Magazine, titled "Who really was the first American Indian RN?" These essays, along with the many accompanying photographs will expand on the known information for this family, as well as give readers and researchers alike, a chance to get to know and appreciate them better.
Book Synopsis Sweetgrass Basket by : Marlene Carvell
Download or read book Sweetgrass Basket written by Marlene Carvell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In prose poetry and alternating voices, Marlene Carvell weaves a heartbreakingly beautiful story based on the real-life experiences of Native American children. Mattie and Sarah are two Mohawk sisters who are sent to an off-reservation school after the death of their mother. Subject to intimidation and corporal punishment, with little hope of contact with their father, the girls are taught menial tasks to prepare them for life as domestics. How Mattie and Sarah protect their culture, memories of their family life, and their love for each other makes for a powerful, unforgettable historical novel.
Book Synopsis Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by : Drew Hayden Taylor
Download or read book Motorcycles & Sweetgrass written by Drew Hayden Taylor and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.
Author :Suzanne Greenlaw Publisher :Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing ISBN 13 :0884487628 Total Pages :18 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (844 download)
Book Synopsis The First Blade of Sweetgrass by : Suzanne Greenlaw
Download or read book The First Blade of Sweetgrass written by Suzanne Greenlaw and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected for the Notable Social Studies 2022 List Named to ALA Notable Children's Books 2022 In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making. Musquon must overcome her impatience while learning to distinguish sweetgrass from other salt marsh grasses, but slowly the spirit and peace of her surroundings speak to her, and she gathers sweetgrass as her ancestors have done for centuries, leaving the first blade she sees to grow for future generations. This sweet, authentic story from a Maliseet mother and her Passamaquoddy husband includes backmatter about traditional basket making and a Wabanaki glossary.
Book Synopsis Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition by : Joyce V. Coakley
Download or read book Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition written by Joyce V. Coakley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the African art of sweetgrass basket making in the Christ Church Parish of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Download or read book Sweetgrass written by Mary Alice Monroe and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old hurts and one tragic event have driven the Blakelys apart and now fate could be dealing them the final blow. But could this loss be their redemption? Sweetgrass has been home to the Blakely family for eight generations. But now Sweetgrass– named for the indigenous grass that grows in the area– is in trouble. Bulldozers are levelling surrounding properties, and the Blakelys could be forced to sell the one thing that continues to hold their disintegrating family together. For some of the Blakelys, the prospect of selling Sweetgrass is bittersweet– for others, it is completely unimaginable. As they find the strength to stay and fight, they realise their bond as a family is all they need to stay together.
Book Synopsis Where the River Bends by : Christy Truitt
Download or read book Where the River Bends written by Christy Truitt and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a mother-less child, beautiful Haven Stunham never could find her place in small-town Alabama, having grown up on the riverbanks with an uneducated father and a housekeeper determined to mold her with Old Testament scripture. After graduation, she shakes off her hometown like a fur coat in July and doesn't stop until she runs out of gas on the flipside of Georgia. While life is good in Sweetgrass, destiny waits for her back home. When she returns to Sugar Bend years later to bury her father, the harsh memories begin to soften around the edges. And amidst the emotion of reconciliation, she makes a choice that will change her life as well as her eternity. God uses the consequences of an unplanned pregnancy and the ultimate sickness of her young daughter to demonstrate that Jesus is found in more places than a church pew. He's even found where the river bends. Christy Kyser Truitt has lived in the Deep South her entire life and always near a river. The Demopolis, AL, native currently resides in Auburn, AL, with her husband Brian and four children. She is a graduate of Auburn University where she proudly wore her blue jeans with her pearls as a Kappa Delta. Following a career in banking, Christy is currently a public speaker and uses her journalism degree to write full-time. Her first novel, Serenity Point, was published in 2006.
Download or read book Lab Girl written by Hope Jahren and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father's laboratory; about how lab work became a sanctuary for both her heart and her hands; about Bill, the brilliant, wounded man who became her loyal colleague and best friend; about their field trips - sometimes authorised, sometimes very much not - that took them from the Midwest across the USA, to Norway and to Ireland, from the pale skies of North Pole to tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be her best, and her unswerving dedication to her life's work. Visceral, intimate, gloriously candid and sometimes extremely funny, Jahren's descriptions of her work, her intense relationship with the plants, seeds and soil she studies, and her insights on nature enliven every page of this thrilling book. In Lab Girl, we see anew the complicated power of the natural world, and the power that can come from facing with bravery and conviction the challenge of discovering who you are.
Book Synopsis Circle Unbroken by : Margot Theis Raven
Download or read book Circle Unbroken written by Margot Theis Raven and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a powerful and rhythmic picture book, a grandmother tells the tale of Gullahs and their beautiful sweetgrass baskets that keep their African heritage alive. Reprint.
Download or read book The Word Pretty written by Elisa Gabbert and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Memoir. Cultural Criticism. In THE WORD PRETTY Elisa Gabbert brings together humor and observational intelligence to create a roving and curious series of lyrical essays on writing, reading, and living. Combining elements of criticism, meditation, and personal essay, this book reveals a poet's attention turned to subjects from translation to aphorism, from unreliable memory to beauty and the male gaze.
Book Synopsis A Decent, Orderly Lynching by : Frederick Allen
Download or read book A Decent, Orderly Lynching written by Frederick Allen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers. Combing through original sources, including eye-witness accounts never before published, Frederick Allen concludes that the vigilantes were justified in their early actions, as they fought violent crime in a remote corner beyond the reach of government. But Allen has uncovered evidence that the vigilantes refused to disband after territorial courts were in place. Remaining active for six years, they lynched more than fifty men without trials. Reliance on mob rule in Montana became so ingrained that in 1883, a Helena newspaper editor advocated a return to “decent, orderly lynching” as a legitimate tool of social control. Allen’s sharply drawn characters, illustrated by dozens of photographs, are woven into a masterfully written narrative that will change textbook accounts of Montana’s early days—and challenge our thinking on the essence of justice.
Book Synopsis A Sweet, Sweet Basket by : Margie Willis Clary
Download or read book A Sweet, Sweet Basket written by Margie Willis Clary and published by Sandlapper Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing a tradition that started in Africa, Grandma teaches Keisha how to weave a basket from South Carolina sweet grass.
Book Synopsis Life Woven with Song by : Nora Dauenhauer
Download or read book Life Woven with Song written by Nora Dauenhauer and published by Tucson : University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In prose, Dauenhauer presents stories such as "Egg Boat"--The tale of a twelve-year-old girl fishing the North Pacific for the first time alone - and an autobiographical piece that reveals much about Tlingit lifeways. Then in a section of short, lyrical poems she offers crystalline tributes to her land and people." "In a concluding selection of plays, Dauenhauer presents three Raven stories that were adapted as stage plays from oral version told in Tlingit by three storytellers of her community."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Hiking South Carolina by : Josh Kinser
Download or read book Hiking South Carolina written by Josh Kinser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiking South Carolina covers the best hiking throughout the entire state. This book has the reader traversing from the mountains to the sea in one of the most beautiful and diverse states in the US. No matter where you are in the state, it is likely that this book will have a trail for you to explore nearby. Detailed maps and trail descriptions make navigating these wonderful trails easy, and interesting information about the environment and history of each trail gives hikers a unique insight into the trail that they are exploring.
Book Synopsis Kunu's Basket by : Lee DeCora Francis
Download or read book Kunu's Basket written by Lee DeCora Francis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling frustrated when his first attempt to weave a basket fails, a Penobscot Indian boy receives help and encouragement from his grandfather.
Download or read book Sweetgrass written by Mary Alice Monroe and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mama June and Preston Blakely's lifelong dream has been to hold on to the tract of land left from the family's plantation. When it looks as though they might have to sell, the family struggles to keep the land and remain united.
Book Synopsis Native Harvests by : E. Barrie Kavasch
Download or read book Native Harvests written by E. Barrie Kavasch and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From clambakes to wild strawberry bread, this practical primer on natural foods not only provides recipes for varied Native American dishes but also describes uses of ceremonial, medicinal, and sacred plants. 147 illustrations.
