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A major American writer at the turn of this millennium, Leslie Marmon Silko has also been one of the most powerful voices in the flowering of Native American literature since the publication of her ……続きを見る

First graders use their imaginations a lot so it's best to introduce visual learning. This book is a complement to your child's traditional school textbook. Since it is composed of bold images laid ……続きを見る

Why is it important to know who the early settlers were? To trace our culture and traditions, of course! This educational book presents what would otherwise be a boring subject for young children. T……続きを見る

This book addresses the intersections between the interdisciplinary realms of Ecocriticism and Indigenous and Native American Studies, and between academic theory and pragmatic eco-activism conducte……続きを見る

The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for ……続きを見る

Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, b……続きを見る

How Faulkner, Welty, Lytle, and Gordon reimagined and reconstructed the Native American past in their work. In this book, Annette Trefzer argues that not only have Native Americans played an active ……続きを見る

“The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully.” Where the Truth Lies collects forty years of essays and speeches that award-winning author Rudy Wiebe……続きを見る

Sparkling with magical realism, this book follows nine seemingly separate stories that dovetail in an unexpected and profound climax. It begins with a mysterious pow-wow to be held inside a colossal……続きを見る

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on cont……続きを見る

This anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the nat……続きを見る

Learning American history is more effective if done via pictures. Children are attracted to the vibrant colors of meaningful pictures. It's easier to imagine previous events when there are pictures ……続きを見る

A long time ago, people looked on the Native Americans because they had a rather peculiar way of living. But did you know that despite the prejudice, there were Native Americans who changed the worl……続きを見る

In Indigenous Cities Laura M. Furlan demonstrates that stories of the urban experience are essential to an understanding of modern Indigeneity. She situates Native identity among theories of diaspor……続きを見る

For thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition. Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all car……続きを見る

Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound and challenging analysis of late capitalist society in America and more widely, and the ways in which powerful minority elites ensu……続きを見る

Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to ……続きを見る

The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their C……続きを見る

"The old pacific capital" (1882) is an account of a journey undertaken by Robert Louis Stevenson in Monterey, Mexico, in 1880. The work is written in the form of essay and in the first part describe……続きを見る

Attraverso una rigorosa lettura storica e con numerosi riferimenti al cinema, al fumetto e alla letteratura, l’autore ripercorre le vicende delle guerre indiane e della conquista del West americano.……続きを見る

L'Impero inca fu il più vasto impero precolombiano del continente americano. La sua esistenza va dal XIII secolo fino al XVI secolo e la sua capitale fu Cuzco, nell'attuale Perù. L'autore Francesco ……続きを見る

In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisisーor the Kanehsatake Resistanceーexposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the wake of the failure of the Meec……続きを見る

A murderous whirlwind, an evil child-abducting witch-woman, a masked cannibal, terrifying scalped men, a mysterious man-slaying flint creature: the oral tradition of the Caddoan Indians is alive wit……続きを見る

Red Thunder is a memoir of a People. The story draws from the oral history of the Schi-tsu-umsh Indians, now called the Coeur d'Alene Tribe in Northern Idaho. This unique portrayal of pre-European N……続きを見る

In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading s……続きを見る

Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral tradition in their ancient languages and a more recent tradition of written English. Penny Petrone traces the two paths that link the cultural past of arcti……続きを見る

Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth……続きを見る

Since the 1980s, poets in Canada and the U.S. have increasingly turned away from the use of English, bringing multiple languages into dialogueーand into conflictーin their work. This growing but und……続きを見る

Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditi……続きを見る

Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivit……続きを見る