Author: Joseph Medicine Crow
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The oral historian of the Crow tribe collects stories which introduce the world of the Crow Indians, including its legends, humorous tales, history, and everday life.
From the Heart of the Crow Country
Author: Joseph Medicine Crow
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The oral historian of the Crow tribe collects stories which introduce the world of the Crow Indians, including its legends, humorous tales, history, and everday life.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The oral historian of the Crow tribe collects stories which introduce the world of the Crow Indians, including its legends, humorous tales, history, and everday life.
Crow Country
Author: Kate Constable
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1742691706
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
From the author of the Chanters of Tremaris series comes a contemporary time travel fantasy, grounded in the landscape of Australia Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from Crow. And Crow has work for you. Sadie isn't thrilled when her mother drags her from the city to live in the country town of Boort. But soon she starts making connections--with the country, with the past, with two boys, Lachie and Walter, and, most surprisingly, with the ever-present crows. When Sadie is tumbled ba.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1742691706
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
From the author of the Chanters of Tremaris series comes a contemporary time travel fantasy, grounded in the landscape of Australia Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from Crow. And Crow has work for you. Sadie isn't thrilled when her mother drags her from the city to live in the country town of Boort. But soon she starts making connections--with the country, with the past, with two boys, Lachie and Walter, and, most surprisingly, with the ever-present crows. When Sadie is tumbled ba.
Parading Through History
Author: Frederick E. Hoxie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521485227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Exploring the links between the nineteenth-century nomadic life of the Crow Indians and their modern existence, this book demonstrates that dislocation and conquest by outsiders drew the Crows together by testing their ability to adapt their traditions to new conditions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521485227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Exploring the links between the nineteenth-century nomadic life of the Crow Indians and their modern existence, this book demonstrates that dislocation and conquest by outsiders drew the Crows together by testing their ability to adapt their traditions to new conditions.
Memoirs of a White Crow Indian (Thomas H. Leforge)
Author: Thomas H. Leforge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Two Leggings
Author: Two Leggings
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803283510
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Fur traders observed that no other Indians of the Upper Missouri were so well dressed or bragged of their tribal affiliation as frequently or as vociferously as the Crow. Two Leggings, the teller of the story you are about to read, was above all else a Crow warrior. His story tells us quite as much of tribal values that motivated and guided his actions as it does of his personal escapades. He was one of the last Crow Indians to abandon the warpath.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803283510
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Fur traders observed that no other Indians of the Upper Missouri were so well dressed or bragged of their tribal affiliation as frequently or as vociferously as the Crow. Two Leggings, the teller of the story you are about to read, was above all else a Crow warrior. His story tells us quite as much of tribal values that motivated and guided his actions as it does of his personal escapades. He was one of the last Crow Indians to abandon the warpath.
Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians
Author: Robert Harry Lowie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Beginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservation in Montana. He listened to tales that for many generations had been told around campfires in winter. Vivid tales of Old-Man-Coyote in his various guises; heroic accounts of Lodge-Boy and the Thunderbirds; supernatural stories about Raven-Face and the Spurned Lover; and other tales involving the Bear-Woman, the Offended Turtle, the Skeptical Husband--all these were recorded by Lowie.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Beginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservation in Montana. He listened to tales that for many generations had been told around campfires in winter. Vivid tales of Old-Man-Coyote in his various guises; heroic accounts of Lodge-Boy and the Thunderbirds; supernatural stories about Raven-Face and the Spurned Lover; and other tales involving the Bear-Woman, the Offended Turtle, the Skeptical Husband--all these were recorded by Lowie.
Wizard of the Crow
Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966254917
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966254917
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
As the Crow Flies
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 142996720X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century. Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow. That day comes suddenly when his grandfather dies leaving him the floundering business. With the help of Becky Salmon, an enterprising young woman, Charlie sets out to make a name for himself as "The Honest Trader". But the brutal onset of World War I takes Charlie far from home and into the path of a dangerous enemy whose legacy of evil follows Charlie and his family for generations.
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 142996720X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century. Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow. That day comes suddenly when his grandfather dies leaving him the floundering business. With the help of Becky Salmon, an enterprising young woman, Charlie sets out to make a name for himself as "The Honest Trader". But the brutal onset of World War I takes Charlie far from home and into the path of a dangerous enemy whose legacy of evil follows Charlie and his family for generations.
As The Crow Flies
Author: Veronique Tadjo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1803288787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
From the winner of the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Award, As the Crow Flies is Véronique Tadjo's evocative collection of short stories. Writing in exquisite, poetic prose, Véronique Tadjo weaves together a rich tapestry of characters – all nameless and faceless – as they tell their stories of parting and return, losing and gaining, suffering and healing. Like a bird in flight, Tadjo travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, creating a lyrical and moving portrait of the interconnectedness of human life. 'A mosaic of 20th-century life.' Guardian
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1803288787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
From the winner of the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Award, As the Crow Flies is Véronique Tadjo's evocative collection of short stories. Writing in exquisite, poetic prose, Véronique Tadjo weaves together a rich tapestry of characters – all nameless and faceless – as they tell their stories of parting and return, losing and gaining, suffering and healing. Like a bird in flight, Tadjo travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, creating a lyrical and moving portrait of the interconnectedness of human life. 'A mosaic of 20th-century life.' Guardian
The Teaching of Little Crow
Author: Angelina Heart
Publisher: Heart Flame Publishing
ISBN: 9780972661805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
"A novel that provides applied spirituality through a fictional format. It is representative of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the soul of man and his reunion with all parts of himself, including his Divine Counterpart. It is a compelling story of Twin Flames and the spiritual requirements each must make in order to rise to Love's True Standard, "--Cover
Publisher: Heart Flame Publishing
ISBN: 9780972661805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
"A novel that provides applied spirituality through a fictional format. It is representative of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the soul of man and his reunion with all parts of himself, including his Divine Counterpart. It is a compelling story of Twin Flames and the spiritual requirements each must make in order to rise to Love's True Standard, "--Cover