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Provides a comprehensive textbook for students, scholars, and laypersons to learn to speak and understand the language of the Omaha Nation. The original and creative pedagogical method used in this textbook - teaching the Omaha language through Omaha culture - consists of a structured series of lesson plans.

“No novel could contain more dramatic events than the history of Cripple Creek.”—Wyoming Library Roundup“This is the fascinating story of the great Cripple Creek gold mines. But it is not told with fantasy: here are the plain facts of one of the most unbelievable incidents of our history, of a place in the Colorado mountains where a man threw his hat into the air, dug where it fell, and struck a rich vein of ore. . . . It is a fascinating story and the author has told it well.”—Paul Engle, Chicago Tribune“Money Mountain mines as rich a vein of human interest, of solid accomplishment combined with picturesque skullduggery, as one is likely to find in all the annals of the western frontier. . . . Virtually every page bears evidence of patient researching through old newspaper files, court records, pioneer reminiscences and other obscure sources likely to throw light on events in and about the town during the fifteen years [1892–1907] when it was riding high. . . . Highly rewarding reading to anyone curious to know what manner of life was lived in the wide-open mining towns of the West.”—Oscar Lewis, New York Herald Tribune Books“A roaring story of a roaring town. . . . It’s an authentic contribution to the matter of the American West and dandy reading.”—Saturday Review“Cripple Creek has found its historian. Money Mountain is sure to stand for years as a valid picture of that bizarre camp.”—New York Times Book Review

The best stories create traditions, and this novel by celebrated Native American writer Gerald Vizenor is a marvelous conjunction of trickster stories and literary ingenuity. Chair of Tears is funny, fierce, ironic, and deadly serious, a sendup of sacred poses, cultural pretensions, and familiar places from reservations to universities.

A collection of humorous essays portraying western Nebraska life and culture of the 1950s. It includes anecdotes on small-town baseball and the polio epidemic of 1952 that provide a historic backdrop to the story of a wide-eyed boy exploring the limits of his universe.

Explores the relationship between fathers and sons, the dead and the living, the natural and the unnatural. This work reveals the ordinary and the extraordinary genius of a place, a time, a solitary soul embedded in the minutiae of the everyday.

The author was a young tenderfoot army second lieutenant, commissioned out of college, and newly married, when he received his orders for Vietnam in 1966. At that time the war was rapidly escalating: the US hoped for a quick resolution of the conflict through massive amounts of American firepower and troop strength. This title tells his story.

Examines the impact of affirmative action on all higher education hiring practices. The authors look at the extent to which a two-tier employment system exists. In such a system minorities and women are more likely to make their greatest gains in non-elite positions rather than in faculty and administrative positions.

Walker's narrative dramatically captures his pursuit and embodiment of the American dream.

Lee Martin tells us in his memoir, “I was never meant to come along. My parents married late. My father was thirty-eight, my mother forty-one. When he found out she was pregnant, he asked the doctor, ‘Can you get rid of it?’” From such an inauspicious beginning, Martin began collecting impressions that, through the tincture of time and the magic of his narrative gift, have become the finely wrought pieces of Such a Life.   Whether recounting the observations of a solemn child, understood only much later, or exploring the intricacies of neighborhood politics at middle age, Martin offers us a richly detailed, highly personal view that effortlessly expands to illuminate our world.   At a tender age Martin moved to a new level of complexity, of negotiating silences and sadness, when his father lost both of his hands in a farming accident. His stories of youth (from a first kiss to a first hangover) and his reflections on age (as a vegan recalling the farm food of his childhood or as a writer contemplating the manual labor of his father and grandfather) bear witness to the observant child he was and the insightful and irresistible storyteller he’s become. His meditations on family form a highly evocative portrait of the relationships at the heart of our lives.

The Haida people make their home on the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and on Prince of Wales Island off the coast of southern Alaska. This book offers a description of the syntax of two Haida dialects.

Collecting the finest Jewish writing from around the world, this title maps a complex tradition of Jewish discourse marked by a profound awareness of the literary past, by the failure of a long-anticipated Austrian-Jewish symbiosis, and by the unparalleled tragedy of the Shoah.

The advent of poison gas in World War I shocked Britons at various levels of society, yet by the end of the conflict their nation was a leader in chemical warfare. This work uncovers the complicated history of this weapon of total war and illustrates the widening involvement of society in warfare.

Presents the story of the Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph and the events leading up to his now-famous declaration: "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." Alan E. Grey weaves a historically accurate biography full of colourful stories gleaned from careful research, telling a fascinating tale and offering the reader a thorough history of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce war.

Offering a performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, this book provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews.

Here is a rich and serious novel of the violent West. Full of the authentic sounds and colours of Wyoming cattle country in the late nineteenth century, it tells the true story of a long-vanished time - the era of the cowhands and the bloody Johnson County range wars.

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly slowed the program's momentum, and arms production fell dangerously behind schedule. This book tells the story of the great Nebraska scrap drive of 1942.

An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, this book depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century.

College can be a complex time for Latinas, who are traditionally expected to leave home when they get married. This is a collection of personal essays addressing the varied landscape of the Latina experience in higher education. It shows that there is no one Latina college experience.

Drawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, this book examines unruliness as both an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response.

Showcases the prose of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating female wanderers and includes previously unpublished stories and an unfinished novel. This volume exemplifies author's creation of identity in fiction as her writing explores the world of prostitutes, Bedouins, and French colonists in exotic tales of love and conquest.

Not just the whimsical coming-of-age story of a young woman ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also the reflection of a distinctly feminine view of nature

This in-depth introduction and analysis expands our understanding and deepens our enjoyment of a Native cinema landmark

In 1862 enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and depredations they had been forced to bear. Hundreds of whites were killed. Women were taken captive. Told from the point of view of Judith Raveling, a young woman widowed by the uprising, Scarlet Plume draws on the brutal history of the conflict from beginning to end.

The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. This volume includes the text of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation; an introduction by David E. Wilkins; an essay by Gerald Vizenor; and articles first published in Anishinaabeg Today by Jill Doerfler.

Offers a rare workaday look at the importance of food in Antarctic history and culture

Presents the most complete account to date of Soviet Jews during World War II and the Holocaust (1941-45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals dictated the treatment of Jews.

Reveals the rich possibilities for research along the nexus of narrative and mind

Such was the battle that raged between Cousin K and me: good done badly; evil done well."" And such is the twisted logic of good and bad, right and wrong, knitted into this novella by one of the most powerful voices to emerge from North Africa in our time.

Both a tribute to the unique experiences of individual Native Americans and a celebration of the values that draw American Indians together, All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) explores contemporary Native life. This is a rich account of Native American life in contemporary America, revealing not a monolithic ""Indian"" experience but a mosaic of diverse peoples.

With little to no recognition from the general public, navy enlisted aircrewmen performed heroically in the Korean War. Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class Jack Sauter was one such aircrewman. From the excitement and thrill of being catapulted from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the tedium of service at sea, the author describes in detail his service in the Korean air war.