Indianische Literatur

Für seine zweite Anthologie Wapke ("Morgen" in der Sprache der Atikamekw) hat Michel Jean dreizehn Autorinnen und Autoren aus Québec gebeten, ihre Vision der Zukunft ausgehend von ihrer Realität und Kultur in Form von Dystopien zu formulieren. Aus verschiedenen Premières Nations stammend sind darunter längst etablierte, aber auch junge, die hier ihre erste Erzählung veröffentlichen.Herausgekommen ist ein facettenreiches Panorama sehr unterschiedlicher Zukunftsvisionen, die eine düstere und beunruhigende Realität entwerfen, indem sie die brennenden Probleme der Gegenwart - Umweltzerstörung, Klimaerwärmung, Naturkatastrophen, soziale Probleme, Rassismus, in einer Erzählung sogar die gegenwärtige Pandemie, während der die Erzählungen übrigens geschrieben wurden - in eine nähere oder fernere Zukunft weiterdenken, die immer noch vom Leid der autochthonen Bevölkerung und ihren Verletzungen geprägt ist. Neben aller Düsternis blitzt in manchen Erzählungen allerdings auch ein Schimmer von Hoffnung auf Veränderung auf, in dem Wunsch nach einer Rückbesinnung auf Mutter Erde und einer Rückkehr zu den traditionellen Lebensweisen.Ein sehr besonderes Stück Science-Fiction-Literatur und ein spannendes und ungewöhnliches, aber sehr gelungenes Experiment, das, gespiegelt in vielfältigen Zukunftsvisionen, auch Einblicke in die Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der autochthonen Bevölkerung Québecs bietet.Die Autoren der Anthologie: Joséphine Bacon (Innu), Katia Bacon (Innu), Marie-Andrée Gill (Innu), Elisapie Isaac (Inuk), Michel Jean (Innu), Alyssa Jérôme (Innu), Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (Innu), J.D. Kurtness (Innu), Janis Ottawa (Atinamekw), Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau (Cree), Isabelle Picard (Wendat), Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui (Wendat), Jean Sioui (Wendat), Cyndy Wylde (Anicinape und Atikamekw).

The nightmares never cease. Ever since I was a child I have struggled to deal with them. Each night a different horror takes shape, and I see it as if I was there.I wake from these terrifying dreams of another world in which I am running from the strangest visions of evil. Visions that can only exist in nightmares, yet they are all too real to me.Christian Sands is an FBI agent with a unique ability. When his ViCAP unit takes on another serial killer investigation, they soon find themselves in deeper than they bargained for. The killer seems to be ahead of them at every turn.The search for the elusive murderer takes Christian and his unit from the Crossroads of New Mexico deep into the Navajo Nation.This is the large print edition of Shaman - The Awakening, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

Nearly a century and a half ago, Oglala Lakota leader Crazy Horse was tragically killed in custody and buried. His parents whisked away his remains to a location known only to them, safe from marauding trophy seekers and thieves. His grave has never been found.Apparently, until now...Lakota FBI Agent Manny Tanno is called to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation once again. He uncovers a conspiracy to take over a local rancher's business, and the next thing he knows, he's investigating deaths. Murders. Somehow all connected to finding the long-gone body of the sacred Lakota leader.As Manny closes in on the killer, the killer closes in on the final burial place of Crazy Horse.The race is on, for whose destiny will it be-the killer's, or Manny's-or both-to succumb to the very soil that enshrouded the sacred leader, Crazy Horse, for so many generations?

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Bkejwanong means "where the waters part," but the waters of St. Clair River are not a point of separation. The same waters that sustain life on and around Bkejwanong--formerly known as Walpole Island, Ontario--flow down into Chippewas of the Thames, the community to which author Monty McGahey II belongs. While there are no living fluent speakers of Anishinaabemowin in this community, McGahey has fostered relationships with fluent speakers from nearby Bkejwanong. Bkejwanong Dbaajmowinan is a collection of stories from these elders, who understand the vital importance of passing on the language to future generations in order to preserve the beloved language and legacy of the community. Like the waters of St. Clair River, the relationships between language speakers and learners have continued to nourish Anishinaabe communities in Bkejwanong and Chippewas of the Thames, particularly in language revitalization. With English translations, this resource is essential for Anishinaabemowin learners, teachers, linguists, and historians.

Outcast by the Natives who raised her and abused in the world of the Whiteman, Two Blankets struggles to make her own way. Kidnapped by the Chinook on the great Columbia River in the 1850s, a young Nez Perce girl has finally earned a place in the tribe's society, as well as a name-Two Blankets. After the Chinook are forcibly removed to a reservation, though, Two Blankets faces a new struggle: finding a place for herself in the rough and rowdy, all-white community that has replaced them at Johnton's Landing. Acceptance is relatively simple. Keeping herself in the good graces of her husband, the Landing's headman, Marshall Johnston? That is a different matter entirely. To help ease her loneliness and solidify her position with her infertile husband, Two Blankets follows her former tribe and becomes pregnant by her one-time lover, the Chinook warrior Standing Bear. She must convince the suspicious and narcissistic Johnston that the child is his, and then maintain that belief at all costs. It's no easy task, but Two Blankets is no ordinary girl. Using her courage and intelligence-and a little help from her spirit animals, Gray Wolf and White Mouse-she becomes a force to be reckoned with, both on the Landing and beyond. Well-written and exhaustively researched, R.L. Adare's final entry in the Two Blankets Trilogy is a gritty and personal portrayal of life on the Western frontier that will keep you turning pages until the very end.

A twenty-first century adventurer passes through a portal in the time/space continuum and is thrust into the sixteenth century before the coming of the Europeans. He finds himself in the Southwest amongst a tribe of hunter-gatherers on the brink of extinction. They call him "Chee."A young girl, born with a deformity, was declared to be a curse. The superstitions of the tribe required that she be cast out to die of exposure, starvation, or under the fangs of some beast, but she somehow survived. This little forest waif's indomitable spirit and determined courage compel her to seek love, acceptance, and a family.Chee gathers a group of young people who were willing to fight for survival. There are sisters, whose family was captured or killed. There is also a trio of young men, still in their teens, gradually emerging as skilled hunters and valiant warriors. With Chee's help, can they bring hope to the tribe and stop the downward spiral to destruction? Can they bring love to the "curse of the tribe" who had despaired of ever finding a family?

Two hip-hop-loving best friends work a salmon season in Alaska and, with the help of a humorous, sexy social-media vlogger and a 106-year-old pot-smoking resort matron, uncover a back-room side deal and unscrupulous dealings of a sinister lobbyist to thwart the poisonous acid runoff of an evil mine to save the largest wild salmon run in the world.Copper Cobra is Book 4 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, a read-in-an-afternoon novella-length environmental, cli fi adventure, filled with lovable, quirky characters in a candy wrapper of laughter, irreverence, kisses, friendship, satire, fishing, love, and magnificent scenic beauty."In these wonderful stories, Kalfsbeek addresses important environmental issues through the loving, gentle hands of a cast of characters that are easy to connect with. One wants to be part of this healthy gang; it is easy to fall in love with one or two of them. She has found an avenue to address these critical issues that must be talked about but without a heavy hammer. A delightful read that will fill you with hope and a forgotten bounce in your step or pedal." -Chris White, author of Wind, Waves and a Suicidal BoatAvis Kalfsbeek is author of One More Year, Plastic Plankton, and Bike Rock, Books 1, 2, and 3 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, environmental climate adventure fiction. She has an immense love of nature and can be found with her own water dog, Teo, swimming, hiking, and biking wherever their human and canine feet lead them.

What if there were another world, almost like ours, but not quite? It brushes up against us, like the tail end of a dream, but stays just barely out of reach.What if you found a way to go there?Billy Boustany stumbles upon the ability to slip into a surprising new version of his sleepy midwestern city. He begins a journey that is most fun he's had in years. Then it turns into an obsession that upends his life, his family, and everything he knows.A Universe Less Traveled tells Billy's story, framed by tales of other accidental travelers to this mysterious city, and provides a glimpse into an alternate history of the twentieth century.Looking for an escape from the troubles of his failing business, Billy discovers a teeming metropolis with iridescent skyscrapers and throngs of immigrants and tourists from all over the world. As he explores, he meets peculiar allies and experiences raucous celebrations. Billy questions his sanity as he struggles to make sense of this bizarre world. Though he fears screwing up his adventure, he lets his college student daughter in on the secret. Together they go further into this amazing place, until they reach the ultimate destination, a magnificent city of Native Americans that has sprung up at an ancient site. There she begins a relationship with a handsome young man with a startling plan.Billy also meets a formidable enemy - the Knights, a shadowy organization with a mission to keep people like him out of their world. They reveal how the two worlds diverged a century ago and warn him to stay away at all costs.When his daughter disappears at the hands of the Knights, Billy and his wife go on a frantic search to find her in the other city. It leads to heartbreak, then to a new beginning.

Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is more to Native American Folklore than stories of buffalo hunts, teepee living and animal stories. Hundreds of tribes throughout North American created a huge mythological system that has rivaled that of the Greeks. Many of these tales have been lost, or are often hard to find. This collection represents a history that should be remembered. Included in this anthology are a group of collected works from the well-known, to the often-forgotten tribes. Native Americans are a proud people, with a rich heritage. They have recorded a huge amount of their history through storytelling. They were the masters of the North American plains and prairies. In these stories you will relive their history and the lives of one of North America's First People. Among the stories included in this collection are: The Unseen Helpers, The Maiden Who Became A Bear, The Origin Of Death, Hummingbird Has Food, The Beaver Medicine, Salt Woman Is Refused Food. Heluta Plants The Deer, The Son Of The Sun, The Two Gods And The Two Maidens, Arrow Youth, Arrow Boy Triumphs Over His Mockers, Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape From The Cherokee, Corncob Boy, The Buffalo Rock, The Wife Who Was Cast Out By Her Husband, The Mother Who Mourned For Her Daughter, When The Coyote Married The Maiden, The Orphan And The Origin Of Corn, The Hunter And His Dogs, The Task Of Rabbit, Hemp-carrier, The Origin Of Tobacco, The Water People, Origin Of The Alabama Indians, The Swinging Grapevines, The Monster Demon, Big Man-Eater And The Persimmon Tree, The Men Who Went To The Sky, Adventures With Supernatural Beings, The Man And The Ghost, The Seneca Peacemakers, The Faithful Lovers, The Rabbit And The Bear With Flint Body, Story Of The Lost Wife, Legend Of Standing Rock, Story Of The Peace Pipe, The Shawano Wars, The False Warriors Of Chilhowee, The Dog And The Stick, The War Medicine, and many more.

White Feather is back to solve another intricate and twisting mystery. And once again, the old geezers show why life after 65 can still be interesting.St. Jude Methodist Retirement Center is impacted when illegal marijuana grow sites are raided by multi-agency task forces and three members of a Cuban Cartel ring manage to escape. Will Ralph's military experience save him?The prestigious Columbine Ladies Club decides to celebrate their 100th anniversary and Sheriff Bailey and wife Pennie just want to get away for a day. But they do not anticipate the surprises that await them on the famous Royal Gorge Express train trip.Do Maybell and Bessie really overhear a murder taking place?Was that a body or a log in the raging Arkansas River?Are the feisty elderly ladies willing to jump off a train; ride a zip-line; or leap on to a raft and race down the Arkansas River? All aboard for a fast-paced, fun-packed mystery adventure full of laughs, twists, excitement, danger and even tender and heart-warming moments[in this, the fourth book in the White Feather Mystery series.]

"Beautifully written, compelling, challenging and thought-provoking." N. Jennings"Magnificent! ... extremely well written; I enjoyed every minute of it. Casts a critical and compassionate light on the Indian residential school system." T. MooresIn August 1947, Mary Brock boarded a train in Toronto. She was headed for the wilds of Northwestern Ontario and a teaching job at an Indian residential school. Her family was horrified. At the end of her first day of teaching, Mary was horrified too. This was not the exciting adventure she had imagined. But Mary wasn't one to give up. Buoyed by her ideals and pragmatism, she kept showing up.She lasted the academic year. When she boarded the train for home, she knew she had failed, in every way that mattered. The ideals she had come with had shattered on her classroom floor, and a big piece of her heart lay buried behind a small log cabin in the woods.Sixty years later, two unexpected gifts forced her to take a second look back and a more hopeful look forward. Maybe her ideals weren't so naïve after all.

"Nothing to it but a stout heart."On a mission to bring justice to the outlaw gang that murdered his father and brother, Matthew Teller leaves the Choctaw Tribune newspaper for his sister to operate and plunges into an unfamiliar world of darkness and danger. Working inside the coal mines of the Choctaw Nation-one of the most dangerous places in the country-he searches for a man who may have the answers to this six-year-old mystery. But after Matthew uncovers an earth-shattering truth that rocks him to his core, he must decide what right is, and what price he is willing to pay for it.Ruth Ann Teller knows she can handle publishing the Choctaw Tribune-until she loses their biggest advertiser. Now, with Matthew miles away and the future of the newspaper resting squarely on her shoulders, Ruth Ann must make a bold move to keep the newspaper afloat in her brother's absence. She sets it on a course for new success or total disaster.Striking coal miners. Outlaw gangs. An unsolved crime. And a Choctaw family that fights for one another, and for truth.***About the Choctaw Tribune Historical Fiction series:These books let you explore the old Choctaw Nation with Matthew and Ruth Ann Teller, a Choctaw brother and sister pair who own a newspaper, the Choctaw Tribune. They're in the midst of shootouts and tribal upheavals with the coming Dawes Commission in the 1890s. The changes in Indian Territory threaten everything they've known and force them to decide if they are going to take a stand for truth, even in the face of death.A clean historical fiction series with a Western flair, the Choctaw Tribune explores racial, political, spiritual, and social issues in the old Choctaw Nation-and beyond.Books in the series:The Executions (Book 1)Traitors (Book 2)Shaft of Truth (Book 3)Sovereign Justice (Book 4)Fire and Ink (Book 5) (Coming August 2023)Choctaw Tribune Boxset (Books 1 -3)

Book 4 in the Gabriel Hawke NovelsKiller on the loose.Tracking Rivalry.Revenge could get them killed.Fish and Wildlife Oregon State Trooper Gabriel Hawke is set to teach a class at a Search and Rescue conference in Idaho when a dangerous inmate breaks out of prison. It is believed the man is headed to Hells Canyon.Hawke is enlisted to find the escapee. He's paired with a boastful tracker who doesn't follow directions, making them both targets. Before the dust settles, the other tracker is dead and Hawke is twisting in the wind for letting the possible killer get away.

Book 6 in the Gabriel Hawke NovelsAccident or Homicide? State Trooper Gabriel Hawke is called to a vehicle on fire. When the steam and smoke clears, a charred body is slumped over the steering wheel. The Muzzleloader Rendezvous has attendees from all over the Pacific Northwest, but it's the local club that raises Hawke's suspicions. With the president of the club dead, rumors abound. If the gossip and tracking won't reveal the truth to who killed the strutting turkey, Hawke's focus on the truth will.

Reproduction of the original: Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations by William Elliot Griffis

After the tragic loss of both of her parents, Joanie is separated from her siblings and eventually moves to her grandparents' farm in rural Ontario. There she meets an Ojibwe boy who is scarred from experiences at a residential school. The two become friends and together embark on a healing journey towards love, acceptance and self-discovery.

Chicana/Native American private investigator Letty Valdez is hired to look into the death an environmentalist who was studying desert springs when he was shot long-distance. Is his death a freak accident or was he intentionally murdered? An aggrieved wife wants Letty to find proof of her husband’s infidelities. At the same time, Letty receives an urgent appeal to find two missing Army veterans. Both are reported to be in Tucson, Letty’s hometown, in her latest adventure in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Daemon Waters.Despite the disparate crimes she’s investigating, Letty finds tangled threads of deceit and violence that all lead back to each other. Her investigation becomes more urgent when a car bombing and an assassin’s bullet take out two men. Who is behind the crimes and what do they really want?Letty, herself an Army medic veteran of the Iraq War, takes on these jobs while struggling to fend off her own PTSD nightmares that have bedeviled her for years after leaving military service. She’s also is thinking a lot — maybe too much? — about yet another vet, the one who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the one with the lop-sided grin that her dog found up in a tree. Letty is attracted to him, but at the same time, she is deeply concerned about keeping him safe from the assassin’s bullet. She is helped by her new investigator-trainee, Frankie Miranda who is especially clever at solving crimes using a computer, as well as her family and friends, plus her two dog pals, Millie and Teddy.

Bring Me One of Everything is a novel which weaves real-life facts and fiction into an eloquent tale of suspense and intrigue. The title of the book is based on what the management of the Smithsonian is said to have demanded when sending ethnographers to native villages to gather artifacts for its collection: "Bring me one of everything." The novel is several layered stories centered around a troubled writer, Alicia Purcell, who has been commissioned to create the libretto for an opera about an anthropologist named Austin Hart. He earned fame in the 1950s for cutting down and bringing back to museums the largest remaining stand of totem poles in the world. They belonged to the Haida tribes who inhabit the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia. Hart's subsequent suicide creates the mystery Alicia attempts to solve as she consults present-day tribe members, Hart's friends and family, and his personal journals. Added to the complications of her search are Alicia's imperious though ailing mother, a cast-off lover, a narcissistic composer, and her own demons of disaffection. But an overarching question dogs her and the reader: why she is so obsessed with Austin Hart and this quest?

Dead bodies in the wilderness.A child gone missing.Book 2 in the Gabriel Hawke series.Fish and Wildlife State Trooper Gabriel Hawke's job is to find a missing family in the Eagle Cap Wilderness. After finding the parents murdered, can he track a little girl on the run?Hawke is an expert tracker, but he isn’t the only one looking for the child.Even leaving the mountain, the girl isn’t safe. The murderers are looking for something. Something they believe the child possesses.

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