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The book follows fourteen-year-old Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as "Junior," living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation near Wellpinit, Washington. The book is an epistolary and chronicles Junior's life from the start of the school year to the beginning of summer. It includes both Junior's written record of his life and his ...
The book is based on the author's Gifford Lectures delivered in Aberdeen in 1985. Infinite in All Directions can roughly be summarized as a treatise on the universe and humanity's role and its responsibilities. The lectures were given in two series, and this book is accordingly divided into two parts.
[2] [4] All stories contained within the anthology are tales that have been told orally for centuries within Native American tribes. [6] [7] As the title of the collection suggests, each story contains a character that is known and depicted as a Trickster. [2] This character is the main focus of the story and is typically depicted as an animal ...
Alexander Wolfe's Earth Elder 18 Stories: The Pinayzitt Path, Dr. Dan Musqua's The Seven Fires: Teachings of the Bear Clan, and Edward Benton-Banai's The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway are a few notable works of Anishinaabe literature. These publications are important carriers of knowledge that pass from the ancestors to future ...
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World [1] is a 1988 non-fiction book by American author Jack Weatherford. The book explains the many ways in which the various peoples native to North and South America contributed to the modern world's culture, manufacturing, medicine, markets, and other aspects of modern life.
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son is a collection of essays, published by Dial Press in July 1961, by American author James Baldwin.Like Baldwin's first collection, Notes of a Native Son (publ. 1955), it includes revised versions of several of his previously published essays, as well as new material.
The book contains a selection [Note 1] of questions and answers originally published on his blog What If?, along with several new ones. [1] The book is divided into several dozen chapters, most of which are devoted to answering a unique question. [Note 2] What If? was released on September 2, 2014 and was received positively by critics. A ...