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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the ...
Lozen (c. 1840 – June 17, 1889) was a warrior and prophet of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache.She was the sister of Victorio, a prominent chief.Born into the Chihenne band during the 1840s, Lozen was, according to legends, able to use her powers in battle to learn the movements of the enemy. [1]
The shaman can treat sickness caused by malevolent spirits; The shaman can employ trances inducing techniques to incite visionary ecstasy and go on vision quests; The shaman's spirit can leave the body to enter the supernatural world to search for answers; The shaman evokes animal images as spirit guides, omens, and message-bearers
Her book presents a picture of a United States still changing in its reciprocal influence with China. [3] At the same time, the title reflects a deliberate rejection of American racism against the Chinese : whereas the term " Chinaman " was a common slur (such as in John Chinaman ), the Chinese referred to themselves as the "China Men" of the ...
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man is a fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce, the third in a series of four books, The Song of the Lioness. [1] It details the knighthood of Alanna of Trebond as she lives in the Bazhir desert after becoming a knight.
Rani Velu Nachiyar formed a woman's army named "udaiyaal" in honour of her adopted daughter – Udaiyaal, who died detonating a British arsenal. Nachiar was one of the few rulers who regained her kingdom and ruled it for 10 more years. Chand Bibi (1550–1599), also known as Chand Khatun or Chand Sultana, was an Indian Muslim woman warrior. She ...
Story The traditional Luo enemies at the time were the jo Lang'o, the Luo name for the Kalenjin community. The Lang'o, tired of being defeated in war by the Luo, sat down with Nandi elders to discuss the issue and came to the conclusion that they would give Lwanda Magere the woman Maryann to marry, claiming it was a gesture of peace.
This book is not a novel Benastan 10:59, 20 March 2008 (UTC) Changed "However, her Chinese, or Asian audience has expressed some harsh criitique of her collection." to "some Asian readers." Though the article gives examples of "harsh critique," this does not constitute nor reflect the entirety of her Asian/Chinese reader base.