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Originally titled: Land and spirit in native America, 2012.
An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.
Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era—a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The overarching concern of Native American Freemasonry is with how Masonry met specific social and personal needs of Native Americans, a theme developed across three periods: the revolutionary era, the last third of the nineteenth century, and the years following the First World War. Joy Porter positions Freemasonry within its historical context, examining its social and political impact as a transatlantic phenomenon at the heart of the colonizing process. She then explores its meaning for many key Native lea...
Toys--those celebrated childhood cohorts and lead actors in children's imaginative play--have a fantastic history of heroism in fiction. From teddy bears that guard sleeping babies to plastic soldiers and cowboys who lay siege to wooden block castles, toys are often the heroes of the stories children inspire authors to tell. In this collection of new essays, scholars from a great range of disciplines examine fictional toys as protectors of the children they love, as heroes of their own stories, and as champions for the greater good in the writings of A.A. Milne, Hans Christian Andersen, William Joyce, John Lasseter and many others.
Being Frank Prewett -- The complicated experience of combat in the First World War -- "Shell-Shock" -- Primitivism, "Toronto" Prewett & Dr. William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864-1922) -- Adopting the "Toronto" Personality at Lennel & meeting Siegfried Sassoon -- Prewett's friendship with Robert Graves & trauma poetry -- An "Iroquois" at Oxford and Garsington -- Repratriated to suburbanizing Canada : November 1919-January 1921 -- "Mad in the Peace" : farming & trauma poetry -- Prewett responds to changes in the land -- Conclusion: Protest memory and soft primitivism.
Born on the Seneca Indian Reservation in New York State, Arthur Caswell Parker (1881-1955) was a prominent intellectual leader both within and outside tribal circles. Of mixed Iroquois, Seneca, and Anglican descent, Parker was also a controversial figure-recognized as an advocate for Native Americans but criticized for his assimilationist stance. In this exhaustively researched biography-the first book-length examination of Parker’s life and career-Joy Porter explores complex issues of Indian identity that are as relevant today as in Parker’s time. From childhood on, Parker learned from his well-connected family how to straddle both Indian and white worlds. His great-uncle, Ely S. Parker...
To everyone who meets him, Rob Barrington lives a charmed life. He's young, handsome and a Princeton graduate who holds a responsible position in his family's lucrative ad agency. Then Susan Ashton appears at his offifi ce door and introduces him to a new world of sexual pleasure. Soon she possesses him body, soul and mind. Although he's deliriously happy, he becomes the eye of a storm and his world soon spins out of control. Through all of this, he is drawn closer and closer to her flfl ame which will either warm or destroy him.
This book accurately depicts Native American approaches to land and spirituality through an interdisciplinary examination of Indian philosophy, history, and literature. Indian approaches to land and spirituality are neither simple nor monolithic, making them hard to grasp for outsiders. A fuller, more accurate understanding of these concepts enables comprehension of the unique ways land and spirit have interlinked Native American communities across centuries of civilization, and reveals insights about our current pressing environmental concerns and American history. In Land and Spirit in Native America, author Joy Porter argues that American colonization has been a determining factor in how we perceive Indian spirituality and Indian relationships to nature. Having an appreciation for these traditional values regarding ritual, memory, time, kinship, and the essential reciprocity between all things allows us to rethink aspects of history and culture. This understanding also makes Indian film, philosophy, literature, and art accessible.
This book discusses women who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to the various endeavors through which they have fulfilled their lives and contributed to the city of Birmingham. Despite experiencing degrees of gender, racial, class or ideological discrimination, these women are goal-directed and determined, rendering knowledge, experience, and wisdom to readers.
A warm and inviting picture book which offers an imaginative and creative look at the arrival of a new baby. Meet the Tiny Penguins! The Tiny Penguins LOVE helping humans to keep their house tidy, and they have one special rule - stay out of sight! But when they see a sad little girl, Gertie, hiding under her bed, they decide SOME rules are made to be broken.