Author: David A. Robertson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553793579
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Illustrated in vivid colour, 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga is an epic story that follows one Indigenous family over three centuries and seven generations. This compiled edition was originally published as a series of four graphic novels: Stone, Scars, Ends/Begins, and The Pact. Stone introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family’s past if he is to have any future. Edwin learns of his ancestor, Stone, a Plains Cree warrior who came of age in the early 19th century. When Stone’s older brother is tragically killed during a Blackfoot raid, he must overcome his grief to avenge his brother’s death. In Scars, the story of White Cloud, Edwin’s ancestor, is set against the smallpox epidemic of 1870–1871. After witnessing the death of his family one by one, White Cloud must summon the strength to find a new home and deliver himself from the terrible disease. In Ends/Begins, readers learn about Edwin’s father James and his experiences in a residential school. In 1964, two brothers are taken from the warm and loving care of their grandparents, and spirited away to a residential school. When James discovers the anguish that his little brother is living under, it leads to unspeakable tragedy. In The Pact, the guilt and loss of James’s residential school experiences follow him into adulthood, and his life spirals out of control. Edwin, mired in the desolation of his fatherless childhood, struggles to heal. As James navigates his own healing, he realizes, somehow, he must save his son’s life—as well as his own. Find ideas for using this book in your classroom in the FREE Teacher’s Guide for 7 Generations.
7 Generations
Author: David A. Robertson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553793579
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Illustrated in vivid colour, 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga is an epic story that follows one Indigenous family over three centuries and seven generations. This compiled edition was originally published as a series of four graphic novels: Stone, Scars, Ends/Begins, and The Pact. Stone introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family’s past if he is to have any future. Edwin learns of his ancestor, Stone, a Plains Cree warrior who came of age in the early 19th century. When Stone’s older brother is tragically killed during a Blackfoot raid, he must overcome his grief to avenge his brother’s death. In Scars, the story of White Cloud, Edwin’s ancestor, is set against the smallpox epidemic of 1870–1871. After witnessing the death of his family one by one, White Cloud must summon the strength to find a new home and deliver himself from the terrible disease. In Ends/Begins, readers learn about Edwin’s father James and his experiences in a residential school. In 1964, two brothers are taken from the warm and loving care of their grandparents, and spirited away to a residential school. When James discovers the anguish that his little brother is living under, it leads to unspeakable tragedy. In The Pact, the guilt and loss of James’s residential school experiences follow him into adulthood, and his life spirals out of control. Edwin, mired in the desolation of his fatherless childhood, struggles to heal. As James navigates his own healing, he realizes, somehow, he must save his son’s life—as well as his own. Find ideas for using this book in your classroom in the FREE Teacher’s Guide for 7 Generations.
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553793579
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Illustrated in vivid colour, 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga is an epic story that follows one Indigenous family over three centuries and seven generations. This compiled edition was originally published as a series of four graphic novels: Stone, Scars, Ends/Begins, and The Pact. Stone introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family’s past if he is to have any future. Edwin learns of his ancestor, Stone, a Plains Cree warrior who came of age in the early 19th century. When Stone’s older brother is tragically killed during a Blackfoot raid, he must overcome his grief to avenge his brother’s death. In Scars, the story of White Cloud, Edwin’s ancestor, is set against the smallpox epidemic of 1870–1871. After witnessing the death of his family one by one, White Cloud must summon the strength to find a new home and deliver himself from the terrible disease. In Ends/Begins, readers learn about Edwin’s father James and his experiences in a residential school. In 1964, two brothers are taken from the warm and loving care of their grandparents, and spirited away to a residential school. When James discovers the anguish that his little brother is living under, it leads to unspeakable tragedy. In The Pact, the guilt and loss of James’s residential school experiences follow him into adulthood, and his life spirals out of control. Edwin, mired in the desolation of his fatherless childhood, struggles to heal. As James navigates his own healing, he realizes, somehow, he must save his son’s life—as well as his own. Find ideas for using this book in your classroom in the FREE Teacher’s Guide for 7 Generations.
Sacred Civics
Author: Jayne Engle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000601358
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature. The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies, to build, grow, create, and love—matters. Using multiple methodologies to integrate varied knowledge forms and practices, this truly ground-breaking volume includes contributions from renowned and rising voices. Sacred Civics is a must-read for anyone interested in intersectional discussions on social justice, inclusivity, participatory design, healthy communities, and future cities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000601358
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature. The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies, to build, grow, create, and love—matters. Using multiple methodologies to integrate varied knowledge forms and practices, this truly ground-breaking volume includes contributions from renowned and rising voices. Sacred Civics is a must-read for anyone interested in intersectional discussions on social justice, inclusivity, participatory design, healthy communities, and future cities.
Ends/Begins
Author: David Robertson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553792629
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Ends/Begins is the third book in the graphic novel series 7 Generations, which follows the story of one Aboriginal family from the early 19th century to the present day."--Pub. desc.
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553792629
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Ends/Begins is the third book in the graphic novel series 7 Generations, which follows the story of one Aboriginal family from the early 19th century to the present day."--Pub. desc.
Stone
Author: David Robertson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553792270
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Stone introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family's past if he is to have any future. Edwin learns of his ancestor Stone, a young Plains Cree man, who came of age in the early 19th century. Following a vision quest, Stone aspires to be like his older brother, Bear, a member of the Warrior Society. But when Bear is tragically killed during a Blackfoot raid, Stone, the best shot and rider in his encampment, must overcome his grief and avenge his brother's death. Only then can he begin a new life with his bride, Nahoway. It is Stone's story that drives Edwin to embark on his own quest. Stone is the first book in the graphic novel series, 7 Generations. Forthcoming books in this series are Book 2: Scars, the story of the orphan White Cloud, set against the smallpox epidemic of 1870-1871. Book 3: Ends/Begins, the story of Edwin's father, and the residential school saga. Book 4: The Pact, a story of redemption, as father and his son reconcile their past and begin a new journey.
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553792270
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Stone introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family's past if he is to have any future. Edwin learns of his ancestor Stone, a young Plains Cree man, who came of age in the early 19th century. Following a vision quest, Stone aspires to be like his older brother, Bear, a member of the Warrior Society. But when Bear is tragically killed during a Blackfoot raid, Stone, the best shot and rider in his encampment, must overcome his grief and avenge his brother's death. Only then can he begin a new life with his bride, Nahoway. It is Stone's story that drives Edwin to embark on his own quest. Stone is the first book in the graphic novel series, 7 Generations. Forthcoming books in this series are Book 2: Scars, the story of the orphan White Cloud, set against the smallpox epidemic of 1870-1871. Book 3: Ends/Begins, the story of Edwin's father, and the residential school saga. Book 4: The Pact, a story of redemption, as father and his son reconcile their past and begin a new journey.
The Pact
Author: David A. Robertson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553792726
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
The guilt and loss of James’s residential school experiences follow him into adulthood, and his life spirals out of control. Lauren makes a pact with him that will lead to either death or redemption: confront the demons that haunt him or be prepared to forego a life with her and their son, Edwin. Edwin, mired in the desolation of his fatherless childhood, struggles to heal. As James navigates his own healing, he realizes, somehow, he must save his son’s life—as well as his own. When father and son finally meet, can they rebuild their shattered relationship, and themselves, or will it be too late?
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553792726
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
The guilt and loss of James’s residential school experiences follow him into adulthood, and his life spirals out of control. Lauren makes a pact with him that will lead to either death or redemption: confront the demons that haunt him or be prepared to forego a life with her and their son, Edwin. Edwin, mired in the desolation of his fatherless childhood, struggles to heal. As James navigates his own healing, he realizes, somehow, he must save his son’s life—as well as his own. When father and son finally meet, can they rebuild their shattered relationship, and themselves, or will it be too late?
Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Aquila Chase (1618-1670) and his brother, Thomas Chase (d.1652), emigrated from England to Hampton, New Hampshire about 1639. Descendants of the brothers lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in England to the 1500s.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Aquila Chase (1618-1670) and his brother, Thomas Chase (d.1652), emigrated from England to Hampton, New Hampshire about 1639. Descendants of the brothers lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in England to the 1500s.
Teacher's Guide for 7 Generations series
Author: Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553792653
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Teacher’s Guide for 7 Generations series is a FREE resource. The guide includes instruction and activities for each title in the 7 Generations series. In the guide, you will find: ideas for using the books in the classroom activities for reading and responding questions for discussion culminating activities related websites and much more!
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553792653
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Teacher’s Guide for 7 Generations series is a FREE resource. The guide includes instruction and activities for each title in the 7 Generations series. In the guide, you will find: ideas for using the books in the classroom activities for reading and responding questions for discussion culminating activities related websites and much more!
The Fourth Turning
Author: William Strauss
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767900464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767900464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.
Healing Family Patterns
Author: Ariann Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615538945
Category : Ancestral Lineage Clearing
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Change life for the better by altering family patterns that have been passed down for generations with a healing technique called Ancestral Lineage Clearing. Our past and our family's past influence our present and future. Our ancestors' DNA runs through our physical body, and their emotional patterns and energetic patterns continue flowing in our lives unless we take charge of clearing the unhealthy patterns holding us back in this lifetime. Is it time for you to change your life? Healing Family Patterns: Ancestral Lineage Clearing for Personal Growth describes this advanced healing technique that releases negative patterns of our ancestors who influence our present life. By clearing these ancestral patterns we: 1. reclaim the power to control our present and future 2. alter issues concerning prosperity, relationships, health, career and destiny 3. change dysfunctional family patterns of abuse, poverty, abandonment and lack of self-esteem for our children, grandchildren and future generations 4. and, increase our connection with Spirit, the Divine, Creator or God. By a combination of description, storytelling and specific direction, Ariann Thomas informs the reader of how the process of healing of family patterns began and developed in her own life as well as in the lives of her clients. After discussing her theory of the healing process, including a section on time and quantum mechanics theory, the last part of the book takes the reader on a step-by-step instructional phase designed to train the reader in the healing technique the author calls Ancestral Lineage Clearing. Healing Family Patterns: Ancestral Lineage Clearing for Personal Growth gives a unique perspective to help the reader reach the innermost depth to resolve complex long-standing family challenges. Using this method, in just one healing session clients have said they have cleared issues that they had spent decades struggling with and trying to unlock from their bodies and emotional systems. This book can change a person's life and enable them to get what they really want from life; be more comfortable with their family; give them more understanding of their life issues, and leave them in a position where relatives, friends, and others will not be able to push those buttons by clearing out family patterns that no longer serve them. While every reader will not choose to practice the healing technique involved, this book will give readers a direction and a process to heal the family issues that hold back so many people from moving forward in their lives.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615538945
Category : Ancestral Lineage Clearing
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Change life for the better by altering family patterns that have been passed down for generations with a healing technique called Ancestral Lineage Clearing. Our past and our family's past influence our present and future. Our ancestors' DNA runs through our physical body, and their emotional patterns and energetic patterns continue flowing in our lives unless we take charge of clearing the unhealthy patterns holding us back in this lifetime. Is it time for you to change your life? Healing Family Patterns: Ancestral Lineage Clearing for Personal Growth describes this advanced healing technique that releases negative patterns of our ancestors who influence our present life. By clearing these ancestral patterns we: 1. reclaim the power to control our present and future 2. alter issues concerning prosperity, relationships, health, career and destiny 3. change dysfunctional family patterns of abuse, poverty, abandonment and lack of self-esteem for our children, grandchildren and future generations 4. and, increase our connection with Spirit, the Divine, Creator or God. By a combination of description, storytelling and specific direction, Ariann Thomas informs the reader of how the process of healing of family patterns began and developed in her own life as well as in the lives of her clients. After discussing her theory of the healing process, including a section on time and quantum mechanics theory, the last part of the book takes the reader on a step-by-step instructional phase designed to train the reader in the healing technique the author calls Ancestral Lineage Clearing. Healing Family Patterns: Ancestral Lineage Clearing for Personal Growth gives a unique perspective to help the reader reach the innermost depth to resolve complex long-standing family challenges. Using this method, in just one healing session clients have said they have cleared issues that they had spent decades struggling with and trying to unlock from their bodies and emotional systems. This book can change a person's life and enable them to get what they really want from life; be more comfortable with their family; give them more understanding of their life issues, and leave them in a position where relatives, friends, and others will not be able to push those buttons by clearing out family patterns that no longer serve them. While every reader will not choose to practice the healing technique involved, this book will give readers a direction and a process to heal the family issues that hold back so many people from moving forward in their lives.
A House Full of Daughters
Author: Juliet Nicolson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715327
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother’s Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long held just out of sight. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siecle Washington D.C., an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from. A House Full of Daughters is one woman’s investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past. As Juliet finds uncomfortable patterns reflected in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her challenge is to embrace the good and reject the hazards that have trapped past generations.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715327
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother’s Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long held just out of sight. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siecle Washington D.C., an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from. A House Full of Daughters is one woman’s investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past. As Juliet finds uncomfortable patterns reflected in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her challenge is to embrace the good and reject the hazards that have trapped past generations.