Author: Anne Matthews
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226510965
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Chronicles the campaign by Frank and Deborah Popper to return to the Buffalo Commons on the Great Plains.
Where the Buffalo Roam
Author: Anne Matthews
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226510965
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Chronicles the campaign by Frank and Deborah Popper to return to the Buffalo Commons on the Great Plains.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226510965
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Chronicles the campaign by Frank and Deborah Popper to return to the Buffalo Commons on the Great Plains.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417665884
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Records the experiences of a free-lance writer who embarked on a zany journey into the drug culture.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417665884
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Records the experiences of a free-lance writer who embarked on a zany journey into the drug culture.
Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
Author: Chelsea Vowel
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551528800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
“Education is the new buffalo” is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. The assumption is that many of the pre-Contact ways of living are forever gone, so adaptation is necessary. But Chelsea Vowel asks, “Instead of accepting that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways, will never come back, what if we simply ensure that they do?” Inspired by classic and contemporary speculative fiction, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo explores science fiction tropes through a Métis lens: a Two-Spirit rougarou (shapeshifter) in the nineteenth century tries to solve a murder in her community and joins the nêhiyaw-pwat (Iron Confederacy) in order to successfully stop Canadian colonial expansion into the West. A Métis man is gored by a radioactive bison, gaining super strength, but losing the ability to be remembered by anyone not related to him by blood. Nanites babble to babies in Cree, virtual reality teaches transformation, foxes take human form and wreak havoc on hearts, buffalo roam free, and beings grapple with the thorny problem of healing from colonialism. Indigenous futurisms seek to discover the impact of colonization, remove its psychological baggage, and recover ancestral traditions. These eight short stories of “Métis futurism” explore Indigenous existence and resistance through the specific lens of being Métis. Expansive and eye-opening, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo rewrites our shared history in provocative and exciting ways.
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551528800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
“Education is the new buffalo” is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. The assumption is that many of the pre-Contact ways of living are forever gone, so adaptation is necessary. But Chelsea Vowel asks, “Instead of accepting that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways, will never come back, what if we simply ensure that they do?” Inspired by classic and contemporary speculative fiction, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo explores science fiction tropes through a Métis lens: a Two-Spirit rougarou (shapeshifter) in the nineteenth century tries to solve a murder in her community and joins the nêhiyaw-pwat (Iron Confederacy) in order to successfully stop Canadian colonial expansion into the West. A Métis man is gored by a radioactive bison, gaining super strength, but losing the ability to be remembered by anyone not related to him by blood. Nanites babble to babies in Cree, virtual reality teaches transformation, foxes take human form and wreak havoc on hearts, buffalo roam free, and beings grapple with the thorny problem of healing from colonialism. Indigenous futurisms seek to discover the impact of colonization, remove its psychological baggage, and recover ancestral traditions. These eight short stories of “Métis futurism” explore Indigenous existence and resistance through the specific lens of being Métis. Expansive and eye-opening, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo rewrites our shared history in provocative and exciting ways.
Where the Buffalo Roam
Author:
Publisher: Ideals Publications
ISBN: 9780824985844
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This expansion of the original verse includes the animals, plants, and geographical features of the American Southwest. Provides additional information on the history of the region and the habits of the wildlife.
Publisher: Ideals Publications
ISBN: 9780824985844
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This expansion of the original verse includes the animals, plants, and geographical features of the American Southwest. Provides additional information on the history of the region and the habits of the wildlife.
Great Plains
Author: Michael Forsberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022668167X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected ecosystem in North America. But all is not lost on the prairie. Through lyrical photographs, essays, historical images, and maps, this beautifully illustrated book gets beneath the surface of the Plains, revealing the lingering wild that still survives and whose diverse natural communities, native creatures, migratory traditions, and natural systems together create one vast and extraordinary whole. Three broad geographic regions in Great Plains are covered in detail, evoked in the unforgettable and often haunting images taken by Michael Forsberg. Between the fall of 2005 and the winter of 2008, Forsberg traveled roughly 100,000 miles across 12 states and three provinces, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, to complete the photographic fieldwork for this project, underwritten by The Nature Conservancy. Complementing Forsberg’s images and firsthand accounts are essays by Great Plains scholar David Wishart and acclaimed writer Dan O’Brien. Each section of the book begins with a thorough overview by Wishart, while O’Brien—a wildlife biologist and rancher as well as a writer—uses his powerful literary voice to put the Great Plains into a human context, connecting their natural history with man’s uses and abuses. The Great Plains are a dynamic but often forgotten landscape—overlooked, undervalued, misunderstood, and in desperate need of conservation. This book helps lead the way forward, informing and inspiring readers to recognize the wild spirit and splendor of this irreplaceable part of the planet.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022668167X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected ecosystem in North America. But all is not lost on the prairie. Through lyrical photographs, essays, historical images, and maps, this beautifully illustrated book gets beneath the surface of the Plains, revealing the lingering wild that still survives and whose diverse natural communities, native creatures, migratory traditions, and natural systems together create one vast and extraordinary whole. Three broad geographic regions in Great Plains are covered in detail, evoked in the unforgettable and often haunting images taken by Michael Forsberg. Between the fall of 2005 and the winter of 2008, Forsberg traveled roughly 100,000 miles across 12 states and three provinces, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, to complete the photographic fieldwork for this project, underwritten by The Nature Conservancy. Complementing Forsberg’s images and firsthand accounts are essays by Great Plains scholar David Wishart and acclaimed writer Dan O’Brien. Each section of the book begins with a thorough overview by Wishart, while O’Brien—a wildlife biologist and rancher as well as a writer—uses his powerful literary voice to put the Great Plains into a human context, connecting their natural history with man’s uses and abuses. The Great Plains are a dynamic but often forgotten landscape—overlooked, undervalued, misunderstood, and in desperate need of conservation. This book helps lead the way forward, informing and inspiring readers to recognize the wild spirit and splendor of this irreplaceable part of the planet.
Follow the Blackbirds
Author: Gwen Nell Westerman
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628950404
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
In language as perceptive as it is poignant, poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past, present, and future of the Dakota people. An intricate balance between the singularity of personal experience and the unity of collective longing, Follow the Blackbirds speaks to the affection and appreciation a contemporary poet feels for her family, community, and environment. With touches of humor and the occasional sharp cultural criticism, the voice that emerges from these poems is that of a Dakota woman rooted in her world and her words. In this moving collection, Westerman reflects on history and family from a unique perspective, one that connects the painful past and the hard-fought future of her Dakota homeland. Grounded in vivid story and memory, Westerman draws on both English and the Dakota language to celebrate the long journey along sunflower-lined highways of the tallgrass prairies of the Great Plains that returns her to a place filled with “more than history.” An intense homage to the power of place, this book tells a masterful story of cultural survival and the power of language.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628950404
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
In language as perceptive as it is poignant, poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past, present, and future of the Dakota people. An intricate balance between the singularity of personal experience and the unity of collective longing, Follow the Blackbirds speaks to the affection and appreciation a contemporary poet feels for her family, community, and environment. With touches of humor and the occasional sharp cultural criticism, the voice that emerges from these poems is that of a Dakota woman rooted in her world and her words. In this moving collection, Westerman reflects on history and family from a unique perspective, one that connects the painful past and the hard-fought future of her Dakota homeland. Grounded in vivid story and memory, Westerman draws on both English and the Dakota language to celebrate the long journey along sunflower-lined highways of the tallgrass prairies of the Great Plains that returns her to a place filled with “more than history.” An intense homage to the power of place, this book tells a masterful story of cultural survival and the power of language.
Buffalo Music
Author: Tracey E. Fern
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618723416
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Beautifully told by Tracey Fern and warmly illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Lauren Castillo, this is the story of one woman's quest to save the buffalo that once roamed the West. Based on the work of Mary Ann Goodnight, a pioneer credited with forming one of the first captive buffalo herds in the late 1800s and saving them from extinction.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618723416
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Beautifully told by Tracey Fern and warmly illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Lauren Castillo, this is the story of one woman's quest to save the buffalo that once roamed the West. Based on the work of Mary Ann Goodnight, a pioneer credited with forming one of the first captive buffalo herds in the late 1800s and saving them from extinction.
Where the Buffalo Roam
Author: Michael Zimmer
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781410496683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Zimmer is the winner of the Western Heritage Wrangler Award for The Poacher's DaughterBorn a slave on an east Texas cotton plantation, Clay Little Bull was captured by the Kiowa as a child and raised among the wild tribes. But at the age of twenty, he began a journey in search of freedom. A sweeping western adventure in the classic tradition of Lonesome Dove, this is a remarkable novel of friends, enemies, blood feuds, and the yearning of restless souls.
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781410496683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Zimmer is the winner of the Western Heritage Wrangler Award for The Poacher's DaughterBorn a slave on an east Texas cotton plantation, Clay Little Bull was captured by the Kiowa as a child and raised among the wild tribes. But at the age of twenty, he began a journey in search of freedom. A sweeping western adventure in the classic tradition of Lonesome Dove, this is a remarkable novel of friends, enemies, blood feuds, and the yearning of restless souls.
Fear and Loathing
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780446698221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The "gonzo" political journalist presents his frankly subjective observations on the personalities and political machinations of the 1972 presidential campaign, in a new edition of the classic account of the dark side of American politics. Reprint.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780446698221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The "gonzo" political journalist presents his frankly subjective observations on the personalities and political machinations of the 1972 presidential campaign, in a new edition of the classic account of the dark side of American politics. Reprint.
The Buffalo Are Back
Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the Dust Bowl, and from the brink of extinction to the majestic herds that now roam our national parks. Paired with gorgeous paintings by landscape artist Wendell Minor, Jean Craighead George’s engaging text will inspire a new generation to understand and protect nature’s delicate balance.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the Dust Bowl, and from the brink of extinction to the majestic herds that now roam our national parks. Paired with gorgeous paintings by landscape artist Wendell Minor, Jean Craighead George’s engaging text will inspire a new generation to understand and protect nature’s delicate balance.