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In "The Doc's Tales", you will find ten interesting stories that, with a little help from your imagination, will make you live incredible adventures in different parts of the world: from mountains, oceans, caves, forests, cities, small towns, even the characters' homes. You will fight dragons, know Indian tribes in the old west, live the thrill of contact with beings from other planets, the mystery of magic, the great pirate battles and their quest...
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"I did not know Indians were allowed to write like this," remarked an Indian admirer of "Impressing the Whites" in 2004. He had also read "The Revised Kama Sutra" while a student at the IIT (Kharagpur), and found "Impressing the Whites" and me after a difficult search. The book includes "The Fourteen Commandments of Impressing the Whites," and "The New Spiritual Colonialism," and a letter to Salman Rushdie. The games that whites, blacks, and other...
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No one knows Indian food like Madhur Jaffrey. For more than forty years, the godmother of Indian cooking ("The Independent on Sunday") has introduced Western home cooks to the vibrant cuisines of her homeland. Now, in "Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking, " the seven-time James Beard Award winning author shares the delectable, healthful, vegetable- and grain-based foods enjoyed around the Indian subcontinent. Vegetarian...
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From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?" to "What's it like for natives who don't look native?" to "Why are Indians so often imagined rather than understood?", and beyond, Everything...
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From the incredible legacy of Tris Speaker and memories from Cleveland Stadium to how the movie Major League has taken root in fans' hearts, this is the ultimate fanatics' guidebook to all things Cleveland Indians. This detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Indians fan should know, including the team's history in Cleveland as the Naps; the 455-game sellout streak; legend Bob Feller; and modern stars such as Jim Thome, Kenny...
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If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and why gang violence affects American Indian youth more than any other group, do not look to history. There is no doubt that white settlers devastated Indian communities in the 19th, and early 20th centuries....
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The Native American Indians are the group of people that were already in America even before it was discovered by Christopher Columbus. As a people, they had their own culture, traditions, language and beliefs. However, all that changed when pilgrims arrived. In order to preserve their unique culture, this book was created. Learn all that you can about the Native American Indians.
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"I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, 'Your people have a beautiful culture.' . . . I made many lifelong friends at college, and they supported but also challenged me with questions like, 'Why should Indians have reservations?'"What have...
14) Come sundown
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Plenty Man novels volume 2
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Torn between a nation on the rise and his own adoptive culture, Honore Greenwood is forced to lead the fight for Comanche freedom against his old friend Kit Carson. In the end, it becomes difficult to tell enemy from ally, and he knows his loyalty to the Indians may cost him everything.
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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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More than 160 tribes are featured in this outstanding new encyclopedia, which presents a comprehensive overview of the history of North America's Native peoples. From the Apache to the Zuni, readers will learn about each tribe's history, traditions, and culture, including the impact of European expansion across the land and how tribes live today. Features include maps of ancestral lands; timelines of important dates and events; fact boxes for each...
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Father Knows Best volume 23
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Kathy is much younger than Bud and Betty. Though they love her they often do want to play with her. Kathy is tired of being left alone with her dolls to play. She wants to have a real baby sister to play with.
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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
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The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...
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