 | The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence
Publication Date: July 19, 1990| ISBN-10: 0195065751 | ISBN-13: 978-0195065756| Edition: Fourth Impression An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the seventeenth century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations--and Indian responses to them--have shaped contemporary Indian political fortunes. Cornell shows how, in the early days of colonization, Indians were able to maintain their nationhood by playing off the competing European powers; and how the American Revolution and westward expansion eventually caused Native Americans to lose their land...
 |  | Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America: An Anthology
Publication Date: July 27, 2000This marvelous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States--from the creation stories of the first inhabitants, to the tall tales of the Western frontier, to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s, and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope, embracing Big Foot and Windigo, Hiawatha and Uncle Sam, Paul Revere and Billy the Kid, and even the Iroquois Flying Head and Elvis. In the book's section on dogmas and icons, for instance, Leeming and Page discuss the American melting pot, the notion of manifest desti...
|  | A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers)
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| Series: Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For a thousand years and more before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished in these islands. The masterworks of classical Haida sculpture, now enshrined in many of the world's great museums, range from exquisite tiny amulets to magnificent huge housepoles. Classical Haida literature is every bit as various and fine. It extends from tiny jewels crafted by master songmakers to elaborate myth...
|  | The Last of the Mohicans (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)
Publication Date: October 31, 1986| ISBN-10: 0684187116 | ISBN-13: 978-0684187112During the French and Indian War, adventure and tragedy befall two sisters as they travel through the wilderness near Lake Champlain trying to join their father, the British commander of Fort William Henry. Full-color illustrations. ...
|  | Living Stories of the Cherokee
Release Date: June 17, 1998This remarkable book, the first major new collection of Cherokee stories published in nearly a hundred years, presents seventy-two traditional and contemporary tales from the Eastern Band ofCherokee Indians in North Carolina. It features stories told by Davey Arch, Robert Bushyhead, Edna Chekelelee, Marie Junaluska, Kathi Smith Littlejohn, and Freeman Owle—six Cherokee storytellers who learned their art and their stories from family and community.The tales gathered here include animal stories, creation myths, legends, and ghost stories as well as family tales ...
|  | From the Hilltop (Native Storiers: ASeries of American Narratives)
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Native Storiers: ASeries of American Narratives For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen’s stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries set for American Indian characters: migratory, often overlooked, yet carrying tradition with them into a future of difference and possibility. Drawing on American Indian oral traditions and her own Métis upbringing, Jensen tells stories that mix many lives and voices to offer fleeting perspectives on a world t...
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|  | From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies)
Publication Date: February 15, 2000| Series: American Indian Literature & Critical Studies (Book 22) The Din...
|  | American Indian Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 2003American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. One of the most famous Sioux writers and activists of the modern era, Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) recalled legends and tales from oral tradition and used experiences from her life and community to educate others about the Yankton Sioux. Determined, controversial, and visionary, she creatively worked to bridge the gap between her own culture and mainstream American society and advocated for Native rights on a national level. Susan Rose ...
|  | The Old American: A Novel (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Publication Date: November 1, 2001| Series: Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England In 1746, Nathan Blake, the first frame house builder in Keene, New Hampshire, was abducted by Algonkians and held in Canada as a slave. Inspired by this dramatic slice of history, novelist Ernest Hebert has written a masterful new novel recreating those years of captivity.Set in New England and Canada during the French and Indian Wars, The Old American is driven by its complex, vividly imagined title character, Caucus-Meteor. By turns shrewd and embittered, ambitious and despairing, inspired and tormented, ...
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