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Comes out of the tradition of evening storytelling, a popular form of entertainment in traditional African societies. This volume offers a collection of 23 Yoruba trickster tales. It includes Ajapa, notable for his strikingly human habits, abilities, weaknesses and disposition, and presents his different aspects including his amusing relations.

Presents the story of Annie Dodge Wauneka (1918-1997). A daughter of the popular Navajo leader Chee Dodge, Wauneka spent most of her early years herding sheep and raising nine children. After her father's death, she entered politics and was often the only woman on the Navajo Tribal Council during the quarter century that she served.

When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-years-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking for her elusive brother, Lazare, the world already seems a plenty confusing place. Could the man who comes to meet her, an elegant black man calling himself Lagrand, actually be her disheveled white brother?

Argentina's established democracy endured the trauma of four major military uprisings between 1987 and 1990, continuing even after the rebels' original motivations faded. Exploring the causes of the rebellions and the rebel movement's development, this title underlines the inherently undefined nature of the democracies.

Max Nordau was a famous writer, a practicing physician, a bourgeois examplar of enterprise and energy when his "Degeneration" appeared in Germany in 1892. He argued that the spirit of the times was characterized by enervation, exhaustion, hysteria, egotism, and inability to adjust or to act.

A modern dictionary of the Creek language of the southeastern United States. It contains over seven thousand Creek-English entries, over four thousand English-Creek entries, and over four hundred Creek place names in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Oklahoma.

Explains the basic steps, opportunities, and challenges to writing about American Indians.

Assesses scholarship on and by Indigenous peoples and the opportunities awaiting them in the Ivory Tower. This title explains how activism shapes the careers of Native academics; the response of academe and Native scholars to issues and needs in Indian Country; and the problems of racism, territoriality, and ethnic fraud in academic hiring.

For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. This title reevaluates the significance of occult philosophy in Renaissance thought and literature, constructing a detailed historical context for his subject.

Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. This book, based on interviews conducted in the 1970s, talks about his eventful life, from the days when the Sioux were learning to farm to later times when alcoholism, the cash economy, and WWII were fast eroding the old customs.

A story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; and, between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother.

Collects the complete Cossack stories of Harold Lamb: every adventure of Khlit the Cossack and those of his friends, allies, and fellow Cossacks. This title features essays Lamb wrote about his stories, informative introductions by popular authors, and a wealth of rare, exciting, swashbuckling fiction.

Incorporating history, politics, and film theory into a compelling narrative, this title explores the life and work of a multifaceted woman whose career was flourishing long before Native films such as Smoke Signals reached the screen.

In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the exciting, moving story of his life to Frank B Linderman, the well-known western writer who had befriended him. This title offers an account of the nomadic, spiritual, and warring life of Plains Indians before they were forced on to reservations.

Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. This title recalls the Chilocco students' loneliness and demoralization, and mutual support binding them together.

Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. This autobiography Of Nat Love includes encounters with Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, a soon-after view of the Custer battlefield, and a successful courtship.

Inspired by references to the "delicious books of Pampille" in Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past", this book is adapted for the modern American kitchen. It includes recipes that are practical for modern cooks.

Describes with detail and humour the place the author calls home in the Bohemian Alps of southeastern Nebraska.

Examines the meaning of liberalism for a slave society, the tension between systems of patriarchy and patronage, and the link between language and power in a largely illiterate society.

Rita Joe is celebrated as a poet, an educator, and an ambassador. In 1989, she accepted the Order of Canada 'on behalf of native people across the nation'. This title tells her story: her education in an Indian residential school, her turbulent marriage, and the daily struggles within her family and community.

Paints a vivid portrait of a woman gloriously out of the step with the conventions of her time. Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians.

Traces the changing views the Heiltsuks (Northwest Coast Indian group) had of themselves and of their past as they encountered colonial powers. This book argues that the multiple perspectives, motives, and events constituting the Heiltsuks' world and history can be productively conceived of as a series of culturally embedded communicative acts.

Includes voices of women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s including Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; and, Rachel Fisher.

John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward from a depot on Mackinac Island to subposts beyond the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. This book focuses on eighteen men who represented the American Fur Company and its successors.

Examines the lives and selected writings of five major contemporary French women writers: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde. Part literary criticism and part biography, this book seeks mainly to shed light on how these writers' works illustrate the fine line that separates fact from fiction.

Illuminates how men and women differ in their experiences of words, work, space, time, love, and sexuality.

Chronicles the life of Francisca de los Angeles (1674-1744), the daughter of a poor Creole mother and mestizo father who became a renowned holy woman in her native city of Queretaro, Mexico.

A depiction of contemporary life in Native America. This book presents an Indian worldview in its holistic complexity and integrity, and is an addition to the literature of white-Indian cultural interrelationships. It presents an account of the author's life on the road, driving throughout Oklahoma and Arkansas teaching poetry in the schools.

A work about the voices, clashes, and traffic of Sao Paulo, a city in the middle of rapid change. It includes public documents as well as dialogue and narration, giving a panorama of the city in a sequence of colorful slices. It dramatizes the problems of exploitation, poverty, racial prejudice, prostitution, state repression, and neocolonialism.

Ever since American soldiers returned home after World War II with a passion for pate and escargots instead of pork and beans, our preferences have moved from cooked to raw, from canned to fresh, from bland to savory, from water to wine. This title includes more than two hundred recipes with chapters on appetizers, soups, salads, sauces, and more.