The Dying Athabaskan

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984084927
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dying Athabaskan by : Brady Harrison

Download or read book The Dying Athabaskan written by Brady Harrison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hired to interview a Canadian artist on the 25th anniversary of his most infamous creation, "The Dying Athabaskan," Ritu Agarwal wonders if she may be getting in over her head: Niall O'Keevan, a notorious fabulist, hates to talk about himself or his work and he has been known to spin lies and tell tales. Yet Ritu needs the work, and when she meets O'Keevan at his studio, he begins to tell her the story behind the sculpture of a bizarre, shattered man: how much of it is true, and has the young freelancer discovered the key when she wonders aloud if the statue is really three people pieced together into one monstrous form. . . ? "The Dying Athabaskan" won Twelve Winters Press's Publisher's Long Story Prize.

Shadows on the Koyukuk

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Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0882409301
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (824 download)

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Book Synopsis Shadows on the Koyukuk by : Jim Rearden

Download or read book Shadows on the Koyukuk written by Jim Rearden and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I owe Alaska. It gave me everything I have.” Says Sidney Huntington, son of an Athapaskan mother and white trader/trapper father. Growing up on the Koyukuk River in Alaska’s harsh Interior, that “everything” spans 78 years of tragedies and adventures. When his mother died suddenly, 5-year-old Huntington protected and cared for his younger brother and sister during two weeks of isolation. Later, as a teenager, he plied the wilderness traplines with his father, nearly freezing to death several times. One spring, he watched an ice-filled breakup flood sweep his family’s cabin and belongings away. These and many other episodes are the compelling background for the story of a man who learned the lessons of a land and culture, lessons that enabled him to prosper as trapper, boat builder, and fisherman. This is more than one man's incredible tale of hardship and success in Alaska. It is also a tribute to the Athapaskan traditions and spiritual beliefs that enabled him and his ancestors to survive. His story, simply told, is a testament to the durability of Alaska's wild lands and to the strength of the people who inhabit them.

Dying Words

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444359614
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Book Synopsis Dying Words by : Nicholas Evans

Download or read book Dying Words written by Nicholas Evans and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result. Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our collective intellectual heritage Questions why such linguistic diversity exists in the first place, and how can we can best respond to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while they are still with us Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, and draws on a wealth of vivid examples from his own field experience Brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual ‘last speakers’ and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries

The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317528875
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying by : Christopher M Moreman

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying written by Christopher M Moreman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. Comprising over fifty-two chapters from a team of international contributors, the companion covers: funerary and mourning practices; concepts of the afterlife; psychical issues associated with death and dying; clinical and ethical issues; philosophical issues; death and dying as represented in popular culture. This comprehensive collection of essays will bring together perspectives from fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, psychology, archaeology and religious studies, while including various religious traditions, including established religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism as well as new or less widely known traditions such as the Spiritualist Movement, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and Raëlianism. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy and literature.

Teaching Western American Literature

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496221273
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Teaching Western American Literature by : Brady Harrison

Download or read book Teaching Western American Literature written by Brady Harrison and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume experienced and new college- and university-level teachers will find practical, adaptable strategies for designing or updating courses in western American literature and western studies. Teaching Western American Literature features the latest developments in western literary research and cultural studies as well as pedagogical best practices in course development. Contributors provide practical models and suggestions for courses and assignments while presenting concrete strategies for teaching works both inside and outside the canon. In addition, Brady Harrison and Randi Lynn Tanglen have assembled insights from pioneering western studies instructors with workable strategies and practical advice for translating this often complex material for classrooms from freshman writing courses to graduate seminars. Teaching Western American Literature reflects the cutting edge of western American literary study, featuring diverse approaches allied with women's, gender, queer, environmental, disability, and Indigenous studies and providing instructors with entrée into classrooms of leading scholars in the field.

Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060977280
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun by : Velma Wallis

Download or read book Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun written by Velma Wallis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-09-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of Two Old Women, Velma Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important voices in Native American writing. A national bestseller, her empowering fable won the Western State Book Award in 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award in 1994. Translated into 16 languages, it went on to international success, quickly reaching bestseller status in Germany. To date, more than 350,000 copies have been sold worldwide. Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun follows in this bestselling tradition. Rooted in the ancient legends of Alaska's Athabaskan Indians, it tells the stories of two adventurers who decide to leave the safety of their respective tribes. Bird Girl is a headstrong young woman who learned early on the skills of a hunter. When told that she must end her forays and take up the traditional role of wife and mother, she defies her family's expectations and confidently takes off to brave life on her own. Daagoo is a dreamer, curious about the world beyond. Longing to know what happens to the sun in winter, he sets out on a quest to find the legendary "Land of the Sun." Their stories interweave and intersect as they each face the many dangers and challenges of life alone in the wilderness. In the end, both learn that the search for individualism often comes at a high price, but that it is a price well worth paying, for through this quest comes the beginning of true wisdom.

Villagers, Athabaskan Indian Life Along the Yukon River

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Publisher : New York : Random House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Villagers, Athabaskan Indian Life Along the Yukon River by : Claire Fejes

Download or read book Villagers, Athabaskan Indian Life Along the Yukon River written by Claire Fejes and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of author's trip up the Tanana and Yukon rivers visiting Athabaskan Indian villages along the way.

Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806134482
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness by : Lionel Youst

Download or read book Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness written by Lionel Youst and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While captain of the tribal police, Thompson was assigned to investigate the Warm House Dance, the Siletz Indian Reservation version of the famous Ghost Dance, which had spread among the Indians of many tribes during the latter 1880s. He witnessed the sense of empowerment it brought to some on the reservation. Thompson became a proselytizer for the Warm House Dance, helping to carry its message and performance from Siletz along the Oregon coast as far south as Coos Bay."--BOOK JACKET.

The Great Death

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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466872187
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great Death by : John Smelcer

Download or read book The Great Death written by John Smelcer and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Death arrived with the man from downriver, the one who came with the light-colored strangers and had little red spots covering his body. Thirteen-year-old Millie and her younger sister, Maura, are fascinated by the guests, but soon sickness takes over their village. As they watch the people they know and love die, the sisters remain unaffected and begin to realize that they will have to find a new home. Alone in the cold Alaskan winter of 1917, struggling to overcome the obstacles nature throws their way, the girls discover that their true strength lies in their love for each other. John Smelcer's spare and beautiful prose shapes the sisters' story with tenderness and skill, presenting a powerful tale of determination, survival, and family.

Two Old Women

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060723521
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Two Old Women by : Velma Wallis

Download or read book Two Old Women written by Velma Wallis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).

Shem Pete's Alaska

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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1889963577
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (899 download)

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Book Synopsis Shem Pete's Alaska by : James Kari

Download or read book Shem Pete's Alaska written by James Kari and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shem Pete (1896-1989), the colorful and brilliant raconteur from Susitna Station, Alaska, left a rich legacy of knowledge about the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina world. Pete was one of the most versatile storytellers and historians in twentieth-century Alaska, and his lifetime travel map of approximately 13,500 square miles is one of the largest ever documented in this degree of detail anywhere in the world. This expanded edition of Shem Pete's Alaska presents 973 named places in 16 drainage-based chapters. The names form a reconstructed network from the vantage points of the life experiences of Shem Pete and other Dena'ina and Ahtna speakers. It is annotated with comments and stories by Shem Pete and more than 50 other contributors, plus historic references, vignettes, copious photographs, historic maps, and shaded-relief placename maps. The authors provide perspective on Dena'ina language and culture, as well as a summary of Dena'ina geographic knowledge and placename research methodology. This beautifully produced edition is a treasure for all Alaskans and for anyone interested in the "personal connectedness to a beautiful land" voiced by Dena'ina elders. From the foreword by William Bright: "Shem Pete's experience and wisdom as an elder of the Dena'ina Athabascan Indians shine through this work like the sun—as do the skill and devotion of James Kari, James Fall, and the other Dena'ina, Ahtna, Alaska Native, and Anglo-American people who contributed to making the book a reality. . . . We have a volume that offers a vivid picture of Native Alaskan culture, history, geography, and language, with added glimpses of oral literature and music. . . . All Native American Peoples, indeed, all traditional communities in the world would be fortunate and proud to have this kind of record of their life and culture."

Alaska Native Art

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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1889963798
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (899 download)

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Book Synopsis Alaska Native Art by : Susan W. Fair

Download or read book Alaska Native Art written by Susan W. Fair and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives are the subject of this landmark volume, which examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twentieth century. Ranging across the state from the islands of the Bering Sea to the interior forests, Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Examples of work from Tlingit, Aleutian Islanders, Pacific Eskimo, Athabascan, Yupik, and Inupiaq artists make this volume the most comprehensive study of Alaskan art ever published. Alaska Native Art examines the concept of tradition in the modern world. Alaska Native Art is a volume to treasure, a tribute to the incredible vision of Alaska's artists and to the enduring traditions of all of Alaska's Native peoples.

Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056756150X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Book Synopsis Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony by : Marion Grau

Download or read book Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony written by Marion Grau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a progressive Christian approach to soteriology and missiology in a global, postcolonial context. This book proposes an integration of gospel and culture. It aims to steer a third course towards an integration of the knowledge and treasures, the losses and laments of Christianities forged in colonizing and colonized societies.

Proceedings of the Annual Spring Meeting

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Annual Spring Meeting by : American Ethnological Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Spring Meeting written by American Ethnological Society and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Indigenous Languages of the Americas

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197673465
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Book Synopsis The Indigenous Languages of the Americas by : Lyle Campbell

Download or read book The Indigenous Languages of the Americas written by Lyle Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.

Indian Rock Writings

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Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1649522401
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)

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Book Synopsis Indian Rock Writings by : Samuel E. Hunter

Download or read book Indian Rock Writings written by Samuel E. Hunter and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effigy Hill, Inscription Canyon, Black Mountain Complex, Superior Valley, Barstow, California 05/2018 Indian Rock Writings represents a paradigm shift in American Indian studies, from illegally contrived cultural obscuration to actual documented historical fact... For seven thousand years, the history surrounding the Battle of Bear Paw, in the Black Mountain Complex, Superior Valley of Southern California, was taught to ‘oot (proto-Uto-Aztecan) children using Indian rock writings. This Native American history is confirmed by Southern Ute Elder Dr. James Jefferson, PhD, and representatives from countless Ute enclaves throughout the United States, Central and South America. “We already know all these things,” stipulates Dr. Jefferson, confirming the contents of the book in accordance with Indian law. In the 1850s, this battle and all Indian history were stolen from the Native Americans by an attorney for the railroads, mining and banking industries. Here within these covers is a preliminary primer, dictionary, and thesaurus with which to supplement a small portion of recorded Indian history. A history recovered from Indian rock writings spanning several thousand years and two thousand miles from Southern California to Illinois, Texas to Montana. Perhaps the contents will inspire more field research and unmask Indian truths obscured by design for more than one hundred sixty-five years...

Alliance in Eskimo Society

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Alliance in Eskimo Society by : American Anthropological Association

Download or read book Alliance in Eskimo Society written by American Anthropological Association and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A STUDY OF ESKIMO SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS.