Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back

Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back PDF Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Greenfield Center, N.Y. : Greenfield Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Contains poems by fifty-two contributors from thirty-five different native American nations.

Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back

Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back PDF Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Greenfield Center, N.Y. : Greenfield Review Press
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Contains poems by fifty-two contributors from thirty-five different native American nations.

Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back

Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back PDF Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Greenfield Review Press
ISBN: 9781312514263
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back

Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back PDF Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Greenfield Center, N.Y. : Greenfield Review Press
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Contains poems by fifty-two contributors from thirty-five different native American nations.

The Earth on Turtles Back

The Earth on Turtles Back PDF Author: Carol Pugliano-Martin
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
ISBN: 1616726741
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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This book is about the Native American legend that planet earth is formed from a small lump of dirt placed on a giant turtle's back.

Handbook of Native American Literature

Handbook of Native American Literature PDF Author: Andrew Wiget
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135639175
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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The Handbook of Native American Literature is a unique, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to the oral and written literatures of Native Americans. It lays the perfect foundation for understanding the works of Native American writers. Divided into three major sections, Native American Oral Literatures, The Historical Emergence of Native American Writing, and A Native American Renaissance: 1967 to the Present, it includes 22 lengthy essays, written by scholars of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. The book features reports on the oral traditions of various tribes and topics such as the relation of the Bible, dreams, oratory, humor, autobiography, and federal land policies to Native American literature. Eight additional essays cover teaching Native American literature, new fiction, new theater, and other important topics, and there are bio-critical essays on more than 40 writers ranging from William Apes (who in the early 19th century denounced white society's treatment of his people) to contemporary poet Ray Young Bear. Packed with information that was once scattered and scarce, the Handbook of Native American Literature -a valuable one-volume resource-is sure to appeal to everyone interested in Native American history, culture, and literature. Previously published in cloth as The Dictionary of Native American Literature

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics PDF Author: Roland Greene
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691154910
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1678

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Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.

A Second Look

A Second Look PDF Author: Andie Peterson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452087873
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Four-hundred-twenty-five books are reviewed in this superb collection. A Second Look, Native Americans in Childrens Books gives a thorough examination of the books as a guide for parents, teachers, librarians, and administrators interested in books for children. Anyone involved in selecting books will find this guide useful in working through the maze of available materials. Andie Peterson, one of the few women to be awarded an Eagle Feather, has provided a meaningful criteria to help in judging books. She outlines ways for objectively studying books to draw conclusions as to the suitability for the reader. She writes candidly about books filled with stereotypes, hurtful images, and damaging text and illustrations. She writes eloquent, glowing reviews of the books that are real treasures. She writes: On a daily basis, children must face the hidden curriculum that lets them know where they fit in, whether they can achieve their goals, whether they even dare to dream. An overwhelming part of that hidden curriculum begins with books that are more narrative and illustrations; they are books that carry a message of politics and values. Andie advises that in selecting Native American books, the non-Native child must be considered, also. She counsels that hurtful books set in motion attitudes of prejudice that persist for years. She states that she has reviewed books with older copyrights because they are still on the shelves in libraries and available via the Internet. She says reading the older books helps to understand how adults have formed ideas about Native people. She says: After all, if its in a book in the library, people believe it to be true. Its time to disturb the peace and end the ritual of damage. A Second Look, Native Americans in Childrens Books By Andie Peterson

The American Humanities Index

The American Humanities Index PDF Author: Stephen H. Goode
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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Turtle Island

Turtle Island PDF Author: Eldon Yellowhorn
Publisher: Annick Press
ISBN: 1554519454
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Unlike most books that chronicle the history of Native peoples beginning with the arrival of Europeans in 1492, this book goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like pre-contact. The title, Turtle Island, refers to a Native myth that explains how North and Central America were formed on the back of a turtle. Based on archeological finds and scientific research, we now have a clearer picture of how the Indigenous people lived. Using that knowledge, the authors take the reader back as far as 14,000 years ago to imagine moments in time. A wide variety of topics are featured, from the animals that came and disappeared over time, to what people ate, how they expressed themselves through art, and how they adapted to their surroundings. The importance of story-telling among the Native peoples is always present to shed light on how they explained their world. The end of the book takes us to modern times when the story of the Native peoples is both tragic and hopeful.

Turtle's Song

Turtle's Song PDF Author: Alan Brown
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702231537
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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I am Turtle. My eyes are black, my shell is green. Wide ocean calls me, as I lie curled in the dark. Tides roar in my blood, surf pounds in my heart. A lyrical journey of the life of a Green Turtle from hatchling beneath the sand of a coral beach, through wanderings at sea, to adulthood and returning to lay eggs of its own. Award winning illustrator Kim Toft's magnificent silk painting perfectly capture the precarious life of the Green Turtle, while author Alan Brown's poignant, mythical story sounds a hymn to this ancient but now endangered creature.