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Field of Honor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Field of Honor

Premise: "A secret underground civilization of Choctaws, deep beneath the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, has evolved into a high-tech culture, supported by the labor of slaves kidnapped from the surface."

Black Silk Handkerchief
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Black Silk Handkerchief

Hom-Astubby, a Choctaw lawyer-turned-photographer, suddenly finds himself at the center of the biggest manhunt and the biggest media event in Colorado's history when he befriends a huge abandoned dog while on vacation.

Social Work Practice with Culturally Diverse People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Social Work Practice with Culturally Diverse People

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-10-18
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  • Publisher: SAGE

The image of society is rapidly changing, challenging the social worker to adjust to a more culturally diverse clientele. Social workers are dealing with individuals who are from more diverse backgrounds, better informed, more politically active, and more aware of his or her rights. How does today's helping professional address the growing gaps in societal needs? Social Work Practice with Culturally Diverse People addresses the ambivalent and ambiguous changes in society, which have conditioned and constrained the willingness, ability, and efforts of social workers to provide culturally competent services to those different from mainstream society. Dhooper and Moore outline each of the major...

Sioux
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Sioux

A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Sioux Indians.

Gothic to Multicultural
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 543

Gothic to Multicultural

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-01-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction, twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The collection opens with considerations of gothic as light and dark in Charles Brockden Brown, war and peace in Cooper’s The Spy, Antarctica as world-genesis in Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the link of “The Custom House” and main text in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, reflexive codings in Melville’s Moby-Dick and The Confidence-Man, Henry James’ Hawthorne as self-mirroring biography, and Stephen Crane’s working of his Civil War episode in The Red Badge of Courage. Two compo...

Trends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Trends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-15
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings at PAKDD Workshops 2016, held in conjunction with PAKDD, the 20th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Auckland, New Zealand, in April 2016. The 23 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The workshops affiliated with PAKDD 2016 include: Biologically Inspired Data Mining Techniques, BDM; Machine Learning for Sensory Data Analysis, MLSDA; Predictive Analytics for Critical Care, PACC; as well as Data Mining in Business and Finance, WDMBF.

Exploring Indigenous Novels in Grades 5–10
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

Exploring Indigenous Novels in Grades 5–10

The fictional worlds created by many contemporary American and Canadian Indigenous novelists for young people provide unique access to the lived experiences of Indigenous people, past, present, and future and the often inaccessible worlds they inhabit. Readers aged 10-16 will gain many insights about Indigenous people and themselves—Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike—through sustained immersion in fictional worlds where Indigenous people are foregrounded, active, autonomous, respected, and valued. Exploring Indigenous Novels in Grades 5-10: Literature Studies Focusing on Indigenized Worlds, a companion book for Indigenous Novels, Indigenized Worlds, offers teachers and students ...

Navajo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Navajo

A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Navajo Indians.

The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 585

The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists

While Native Americans are perhaps the most studied people in our society, they too often remain the least understood and visible. Fictions and stereotypes predominate, obscuring substantive and fascinating facts about Native societies. The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists works to remedy this problem by compiling fun, unique, and significant facts about Native groups into one volume, complete with references to additional online and print resources. In this volume, readers can learn about Native figures from a diverse range of cultures and professions, including award-winning athletes, authors, filmmakers, musicians, and environmentalists. Readers are introduced to Native U.S. se...

Speaking for the Generations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Speaking for the Generations

Presents profiles of such authors as Leslie Marmon Silko, Gloria Bird, Esther B. Belin, Daniel David Moses, and Victor D. Montejo