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
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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 Review Press
ISBN: 9781312514263
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Languages : en
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How Turtle's Back was Cracked

How Turtle's Back was Cracked PDF Author:
Publisher: Dial
ISBN: 9780803717282
Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Turtle's shell is cracked when the wolves plot to stop his boastful ways.

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.

Native American Stories

Native American Stories PDF Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 9781555910945
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature.

Dancing on Our Turtle's Back

Dancing on Our Turtle's Back PDF Author: Leanne Simpson
Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Pub
ISBN: 9781894037501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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By combining provocative prose with photo-essay, Time and the Suburbs explores the disappearance of cities in North America under the weight of suburban, exurban, and other forms of development that are changing the way we live and do politics. Drawing on social theory from Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord to Antonio Negri, this book reconceptualizes the tasks facing activists and social movments. This is both a provocative essay and introduction to important social theory for anyone interested in cites and urban development.

On the Back of a Turtle

On the Back of a Turtle PDF Author: Lloyd E. Divine, Jr.
Publisher: Trillium
ISBN: 9780814213872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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The history of the Huron-Wyandot people and how one of the smallest tribes, birthed amid the Iroquois Wars, rose to become one of the most influential tribes of North America.

How the Turtle Got Its Shell

How the Turtle Got Its Shell PDF Author: Justine Fontes
Publisher: Golden Books
ISBN: 9780307960078
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Delightful retellings of turtle tales from around the world, plus fun facts about turtles, are sure to please all turtle fans.

The Land of the Great Turtles

The Land of the Great Turtles PDF Author: Brad Wagnon
Publisher: 7th Generation
ISBN: 1939053579
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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The Creator gave the Cherokee people a beautiful island with everything they could ever need. It came with only one rule: They must take care of the land and the animals living there. But what happens when the children decide to play with the turtles instead of tending to their responsibilities? The Land of the Great Turtles is a Cherokee origin story that introduces the reader to Cherokee beliefs and values. Written in both Cherokee and English, the book will familiarize readers with the Cherokee syllabary and language.

The Back Of The Turtle

The Back Of The Turtle PDF Author: Thomas King
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443431648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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This is Thomas King’s first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic. In The Back of the Turtle, Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel’s sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel’s family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky? Filled with brilliant characters, trademark wit, wordplay and a thorough knowledge of native myth and story-telling, this novel is a masterpiece by one of our most important writers.

On the Backs of Tortoises

On the Backs of Tortoises PDF Author: Elizabeth Hennessy
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300249152
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world. Finalist for the 2020 E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, sponsored by PEN America Literary Awards The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands’ namesakes—the giant tortoises—as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark relief the paradoxical, and impossible, goal of conserving species by trying to restore a past state of prehistoric evolution. The tortoises, Elizabeth Hennessy demonstrates, are not prehistoric, but rather microcosms whose stories show how deeply human and nonhuman life are entangled. In a world where evolution is thoroughly shaped by global history, Hennessy puts forward a vision for conservation based on reckoning with the past, rather than trying to erase it. “Fresh, insightful . . . Hennessy’s melding of human and natural history makes for thought-provoking reading.” —Booklist (starred review) “Gripping . . . well-researched and thought-provoking . . . whether you’re well-versed in the intricacies of conservation or have only just begun to long for a look at the tortoises yourself. On the Backs of Tortoises is a natural history that asks important questions, and challenges us to think about how best to answer them.” —Genevieve Valentine, NPR “Wonderfully interesting, informative, and engaging, as well as scholarly.” —Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place