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Author |
: LeAnne Howe |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015053748102 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shell Shaker by : LeAnne Howe
Fiction. Native American Studies. Red Shoes, the most formidable Choctaw warrior of the eighteenth century, was assassinated by his own people. Why does his death haunt Auda Billy, an Oklahoma Choctaw woman accused in 1991 of murdering Choctaw Chief Redford McAlester? Moving between the known details of Red Shoes' life and the riddle of McAlester's death, this novel traces the history of the Billy women whose destiny it is to solve both murders—with the help of a powerful spirit known as the Shell Shaker. "LeAnne Howe has done it. SHELL SHAKER is an elegant, powerful and knock out story. I'm blown away."—Joy Harjo
Author |
: Adrian C. Louis |
Publisher |
: University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2022-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781647790233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1647790239 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Skins by : Adrian C. Louis
By the end of the twentieth century, Adrian C. Louis had become one of the most powerful voices in the canon of Native American literature. Skins, his best-known work, is now offered by the University of Nevada Press with a new foreword by David Pichaske. It’s the early 1990s and Rudy Yellow Shirt and his brother, Mogie, are living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home of the legendary Oglala Sioux warrior Crazy Horse. Both Vietnam veterans, the men struggle with daily life on the rez. Rudy, a criminal investigator with the Pine Ridge Public Safety Department, must frequently arrest his neighbors and friends, including his brother, who has become a rez wino. But when Rudy falls and hits his head on a rock while pursuing a suspected murderer, Iktome the trickster enters his brain. Iktome restores Rudy’s youthful sexual vigor—long-lost to years of taking high blood pressure pills—and ignites his desire for political revenge via an alter ego, the “Avenging Warrior.” As the Avenging Warrior, Rudy takes direct action to punish local criminals. In a violent act, he torches the local liquor store, nearly burning Mogie alive while he is hiding on the store’s roof, plotting to steal booze. Although the brothers reconcile before Mogie dies, he leaves the Avenging Warrior with one final mission: go to Mount Rushmore and blow the nose off George Washington’s face. Louis’s critically acclaimed novel was made into a movie in 2002, directed by Chris Eyre.
Author |
: LeAnne Howe |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1879960907 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781879960909 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Choctalking on Other Realities by : LeAnne Howe
As LeAnne Howe puts it, "The American Indian adventure stories in Choctalking on Other Realities are three parts memoir, one part tragedy, one part absurdist fiction, and one part 'marvelous realism.'" The stories in this book "form the heart of [Howe's] life's journey, so far," chronicling the contradictions, absurdities, and sometimes tragedies in a life lived crossing cultures and borders. Section one is comprised of three stories about Howe's life in the 1980s working in the bond business for a Wall Street firm. Part of an otherwise all-male group of "guerrilla warfare bond traders," Howe was the only American Indian woman, and (out) democrat, in the company. Section two is about her life in the early 1990s traveling abroad as what she calls an "International Tonto" to places like Jordan, Jerusalem, and Romania, and to Japan, where she served as an American Indian representative during the United Nations' "International Year For The World's Indigenous People." Section three reaches back into Howe's experiences in the 1950s as an "unruly Indian girl" as well as the later evolution of her political consciousness and her activism. The epilogue, "A Tribalography," is a literary discussion of how to read Native and indigenous stories. LeAnne Howe is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation and writes fiction, poetry, screenplays, and creative nonfiction, primarily dealing with American Indian experiences. In 2012 she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. Her first novel Shell Shaker received an American Book Award.
Author |
: Beverly Gordon |
Publisher |
: UPNE |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1982-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0874512425 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780874512427 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shaker Textile Arts by : Beverly Gordon
A comprehensive book on the kinds of textiles the Shakers used, how they were produced, and their cultural and economic importance to the communities.
Author |
: LeAnne Howe |
Publisher |
: Coffee House Press |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2019-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781566895408 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1566895405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Savage Conversations by : LeAnne Howe
“Savage Conversations takes place somewhere in between its sources, between sanity and madness, between then and now, between the living and the dead. It pushes past the limitations of textual sources for telling indigenous history and accounts of insanity.” —Barrelhouse Reviews May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln’s claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face and scalp. She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium. Her hauntings may be a reminder that in 1862, President Lincoln ordered the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas in the largest mass execution in United States history. No one has ever linked the two events—until now. Savage Conversations is a daring account of a former first lady and the ghosts that tormented her for the contradictions and crimes on which this nation is founded.
Author |
: Thomas E. Mails |
Publisher |
: Council Oak Books |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780933031456 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0933031459 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cherokee People by : Thomas E. Mails
This book depicts the Cherokees' ancient culture and lifestyle, their government, dress, and family life. Mails chronicles the fundamentals of vital Cherokee spiritual beliefs and practices, their powerful rituals, and their joyful festivals, as well as the story of the gradual encroachment that all but destroyed their civilization.
Author |
: LeAnne Howe |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000116513049 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Miko Kings by : LeAnne Howe
Fiction. Native American Studies. MIKO KINGS: AN INDIAN BASEBALL STORY is an homage to the dusty roads and wind-blown diamonds of America's first moving picture about baseball, His Last Game. Just as Henri Day and his team, the Miko Kings, are poised to win the 1907 Twin Territories' Pennant against their archrivals, the Seventh Cavalrymen from Fort Sill, pitcher Hope Little Leader finds himself embroiled in a plot that will destroy him and the Indian team. Only the town's chimeric postal clerk, Ezol Day, understands the outcome of Hope's last game and how it will affect Indians and baseball for the next four generations. Set in Indian Territory that is about to become part of Oklahoma, MIKO KINGS tells of the turbulent days before statehood when white settlers and gamblers are swindling the Indians out of their land and what has already happened will change its course. "They're stories that travel now as captured light in someone else's telescope," Ezol Day will tell the woman who should have been her granddaughter. In MIKO KINGS, LeAnne Howe bends the pitch of time to return us to the roots of a national game.
Author |
: Lindsey Claire Smith |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2023-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496237286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496237285 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Homelands by : Lindsey Claire Smith
Oklahoma is bound to both the South and the Southwest and their legacies of conquest and Indigenous survivance. At the same time, mobility, ingenuity, cultural exchange, and creative expression—all part of the experience of urbanization—have been fundamental to people of the tribes that call this place home. Tulsa, New Orleans, and Santa Fe, with their importance in histories of geopolitical upheaval and mobility that shaped the establishment of the United States, are key to uncovering the history of urbanization experienced by Native Americans from Oklahoma. Urban Homelands, while examining the overlooked histories of Oklahoma Indigenous urbanization relative to these regions, engages literature and film as not just mirrors of experience but as producers of it. Lindsey Claire Smith brings the work of three-time poet laureate Joy Harjo into conversation with the great Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs and breakout filmmaker Sterlin Harjo. Flying in the face of civic landmarks and settler histories that at once obscure Native origins and appropriate Native culture for tourism, this creative reclaiming of Indigenous cities points toward the productive possibilities of recognizing untold urban histories and the creative relationships with urban space itself.
Author |
: Craig S. Womack |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 468 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806138874 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806138879 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reasoning Together by : Craig S. Womack
A paradigm shift in American Indian literary criticism.
Author |
: Melanie Benson Taylor |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820340661 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820340669 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstructing the Native South by : Melanie Benson Taylor
In Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S. South—literature written by the descendants of tribes who evaded Removal and have maintained ties with their southeastern homelands. In so doing Taylor advances a provocative, even counterintuitive claim: that the U.S. South and its Native American survivors have far more in common than mere geographical proximity. Both cultures have long been haunted by separate histories of loss and nostalgia, Taylor contends, and the moments when those experiences converge in explicit and startling ways have yet to be investigated by scholars. These convergences often bear the scars of protracted colonial antagonism, appropriation, and segregation, and they share preoccupations with land, sovereignty, tradition, dispossession, subjugation, purity, and violence. Taylor poses difficult questions in this work. In the aftermath of Removal and colonial devastation, what remains—for Native and non-Native southerners—to be recovered? Is it acceptable to identify an Indian “lost cause”? Is a deep sense of hybridity and intercultural affiliation the only coherent way forward, both for the New South and for its oldest inhabitants? And in these newly entangled, postcolonial environments, has global capitalism emerged as the new enemy for the twenty-first century? Reconstructing the Native South is a compellingly original work that contributes to conversations in Native American, southern, and transnational American studies.