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• Closed-captioned.
• Videodisc release of a videocassette produced in 1997.
• Distributed by Video Out Distribution, Vancouver, BC. –Container.
• Produced by Full Regalia Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with Bravo!, The Shaw Children’s Programming Initiative, the Cable Production Fund, BC Cultural Services, Vision TV, CFRN-TV, CIBC.
• Three urban Native teens are whisked away to an imaginary land by a magical raven. Here, the young people meet a totem pole whose characters (a raven, a frog and a bear) come to life, becoming their teachers, guides and friends – demonstrating their significance to Northwest Native cultures and allowing the teens to understand the strength of their own traditions. –Container.
• AUGSBURG COLLEGE LINDELL LIBRARY’S copy of this DVD is available only to Augsburg students, faculty, and staff, and to participating members of the Cooperating Libraries in Consortium shared catalog. It may not be lent out to a wider audience.

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• Coast Salish Indians — British Columbia.
• Coast Salish Indians — Folklore.
• Indian art — British Columbia.
• Indian mythology — British Columbia.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Totem poles — British Columbia.
• Hunt, J. Bradley.

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• Geniusz makes Anishinaabe botanical information available to native and non-native healers and educators and emphasizes the Anishinaabe culture that developed the knowledge and practice. Teaching the way she was taught — through stories — Geniusz brings the plants to life with narratives that explain their uses, meaning, and history — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references ( pages 357-361) and index.
• Traditional Anishinaabe teaching about plants — Indinawemaaganag : all of my relatives — Conifers — Three food plants — Four traditional plants in the Anishinaabeg culture — Medicinal plants.

Subjects:

• Ojibwa Indians — Ethnobotany.
• Ojibwa Indians — Ethnobotany — History — Sources.
• Ojibwa Indians — Folklore.
• Ethnobotany — North America.
• Plants, Useful — North America.
• Medicinal plants — North America.

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• Ancestral Mounds deconstructs earthen mounds and myths in examining their importance in contemporary Native communities. Two centuries of academic scholarship regarding mounds have examined who, what, where, when, and how, but no serious investigations have addressed the basic question, why? Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological studies, Jay Miller explores the wide-ranging themes and variations of mounds, from those built thousands of years ago to contemporary mounds, focusing on Native southeastern and Oklahoma towns. Native peoples continue to build and refurbish mounds each summer as part of their New Year’s celebrations to honor and give thanks for ripening maize and other crops and to offer public atonement. The mound is the heart of the Native community, which is sustained by song, dance, labor, and prayer. The basic purpose of mounds across North America is the same: to serve as a locus where community effort can be engaged in creating a monument of vitality and a safe haven in the volatile world — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-181) and index.
• Archaeological Time Frame — Kinship Codes — Graphic Codes — Mounding Up — Breaking Ground — SEeing Mounds — Modern Mounding — Mounds in Full.

Subjects:

• Mounds — Oklahoma.
• Indians of North America — Oklahoma — Antiquities.
• Ethnology — Oklahoma.
• Indians of North America — Funeral customs and rites — Oklahoma.
• Indians of North America — Oklahoma — Religion.
• Indians of North America — Oklahoma — Social life and customs.
• Community life — Oklahoma.
• Monuments — Social aspects — Oklahoma.
• Oklahoma — Antiquities.
• Oklahoma — Social life and customs.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-271) and index.
• Preface: In search of treasure — Introduction: Sacrificial land — Empty except for Indians : early impressions of Navajo rangeland — Prospecting for magic ore in America’s new frontier — Cowboys and Indians in Navajo country — Hot spots: justice, power, and gender in the radioactive present — Monsters and mountains: competing geographies of uranium — The big hurt: boom and bust on contested ground — Conclusion. Zombie mines.
• Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S. nuclear weapons and energy programs. By 1942, mines on the reservation were the main source of uranium for the top-secret Manhattan Project. Today, the Navajo Nation is home to more than a thousand abandoned uranium sites. Radiation-related diseases are endemic, claiming the health and lives of former miners and nonminers alike. Traci Brynne Voyles argues that the presence of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) land constitutes a clear case of environmental racism. Looking at discursive constructions of landscapes, she explores how environmental racism develops over time. For Voyles, the wasteland, where toxic materials are excavated, exploited, and dumped, is both a racial and a spatial signifier that renders an environment and the bodies that inhabit it pollutable. Because environmental inequality is inherent in the way industrialism operates, the wasteland is the other through which modern industrialism is established. In examining the history of wastelanding in Navajo country, Voyles provides an environmental justice history of uranium mining, revealing how just as civilization has been defined on and through savagery, environmental privilege is produced by portraying other landscapes as marginal, worthless, and pollutable –The publisher.

Subjects:

• Navajo Indians — Government relations — History — 20th century.
• Navajo Indians — Health and hygiene — History — 20th century.
• Uranium mines and mining — Political aspects — Southwest, New — History — 20th century.
• Uranium mines and mining — Social aspects — Southwest, New — History — 20th century.
• Radiation — Health aspects — Southwest, New — History — 20th century.
• Navajo Indian Reservation — History — 20th century.
• Southwest, New. fast (OCoLC)fst01244556
• United States — Navajo Indian Reservation. fast (OCoLC)fst01241521
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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Part of the series Amerind studies in anthropology;Amerind studies in anthropology.
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• Beyond Germs challenges the hypothesis that the massive depopulation of the New World was primarily caused by diseases brought by Europeans, which scholars used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous peoples of North America. Contributors argue that blaming germs downplays the active role of Europeans in inciting wars, destroying livelihoods, and erasing identities — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction / Paul Kelton, Alan C. Swedlund, and Catherine M. Cameron — Death, uncertainty, and rhetoric / David S. Jones — Population decline and culture change in the American midcontinent : bridging the prehistoric and historic divide / George R. Milner — Colonialism and decline in the American southeast : the remarkable record of la Florida / Clark Spencer Larsen — Beyond epidemics : a bioarchaeological perspective on Pueblo-Spanish encounters in the American southwest / Debra l. Martin — Identity erasure and demographic impacts of the Spanish caste system upon the indigenous populations of New Mexico / Gerardo Gutiérrez — Contagion, conflict, and captivity in interior New England : Native American and European contacts in the middle Connecticut River valley of Massachusetts, 1640-2004 / Alan C. Swedlund — The effects of warfare and captive-taking on indigenous mortality in post-contact North America / Catherine M. Cameron — Remembering Cherokee mortality during the American Revolution / Paul Kelton — Quality of life : native communities within and beyond the bounds of institution in California / Kathleen l. Hull — Not microbes alone : colonialism, health, and indigenous demographics / James F. brooks.

Subjects:

• Indians of North America — Mortality.
• Indians of North America — Population.
• Indians, Treatment of — North America.
• Indians of North America — History.
• Indians of North America — Social conditions.
• North America — Ethnic relations.
• Indians, North American — history.
• Population Dynamics.
• History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
• North America.
• Ethnic relations. fast (OCoLC)fst00916005
• Indians of North America. fast (OCoLC)fst00969633
• Indians of North America — Mortality. fast (OCoLC)fst00969857
• Indians of North America — Population. fast (OCoLC)fst00969877
• Indians of North America — Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst00969904
• Indians, Treatment of. fast (OCoLC)fst00970120
• North America. fast (OCoLC)fst01242475
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographic references (pages 133-134) and index.
• Guatemala : a land as colorful and varied as its weavings — Introduction — Cecilia Cirin Chacach — Hoagares Santa María de Guadalupe — Eugenia Tepaz López — Chimaltenango and the 1976 earthquake — Herminia Santos — Lola Sapalú — It’s all about chocolate and color — Antonio Ramírez Sosóf — Emilia Chay Poz — Cortes : Maya women’s skirts — Juan de Dios Rodas Gálvez — Jaspe : the steps involved — The dyehouse — Bacilia Tomasa Chanchavac — Salcajá : mecca for weavers — Demetrio Ramos — Marcelino Emilio Xiloj de Leon — The people of the corn — Ana Pu Ferpuac — Ana Ceto — Semana santa : holy week — Catarina Aguilar Cruz — María Raymundo — The k’ot : the two-headed eagle — Vicente Lainez Caba — Domingo Asicona — Amalia Güe — Some history of Samac, Cobán, Alta Verapaz — Susana López — Catarina Amperez Siana — Cotton : from peasant to king to peasant — Ana María Gonzalez Cirin.
• Guatemala is a land of contrasts: stunning mountain, river, and cloud forest landscapes with the constant threat of volcanic eruptions, mudslides, earthquakes, and brutal upheavals. Against this backdrop, the indigenous Maya and their Ladino compatriots persist in creating some of the loveliest and most colorful textiles the world has known. Their weaving, spinning, and basketmaking have sustained them economically and culturally against the pressures of change and a thirty-six year armed conflict that decimated their population. In Traditional Weavers of Guatemala, twenty artisans share their personal histories, hopes, and dreams along with the products of their hands and looms –Inside cover.

Subjects:

• Maya textile fabrics — Guatemala.
• Indian textile fabrics — Guatemala.
• Weavers — Guatemala — Biography.
• Guatemala. fast (OCoLC)fst01205154
• Biography. fast (OCoLC)fst01423686

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• Emma Morris, Flavia Fontes, editors Charles Newman, original music Tom Hurwitz, Janet Kern, cinematographers.
• DVD NTSC.
• Includes full public screening rights for non-profits, public schools, university libraries/departments, corporations, etc. CU-AVMC
• In English.
• This disc is a burned DVD-R and may not play in some DVD players or drives.
• For hundreds of years, the Nez Perce were recognized as one of America’s greatest horse tribes. In the 21st century they made a decision both reverent and bold: to bring horses back to their tribal lands and lives, and to bring the powerful medicine of horses to their children. Horse Tribe is an epic story of vision and grit, a community in conflict, a man in crisis, and a beloved herd at risk –Container.

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• Nez Perce Tribe — Social life and customs.
• Horses — Breeding — Idaho.
• Documentary films. lcgft
• Nonfiction films. lcgft

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• Enter the Maya world through the pages of this book. Understand the roots of Maya culture and costume as it is expressed in their ancient history and legends, and in their ever-evolving, colorful, beautifully handcrafted dress. You will see exquisite gauze fabrics that trace their origins from the 9th century AD to a present-day lowland village festival wear that blends Roman Catholicism and paganism, reverence and mockery gloriously brocaded and embroidered wardrobes that tie communities together, embroidery techniques that reflect displacements and migrations – in other words, fabrics that trace the history and evolution of a people.
• Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 207-208).
• 1. A classic family dispute — 2. The daughters of the EarthLord — 3. From airy gauze to cutting edge fashion — 4. Origins of Maya ceremonial costume — 5. The revival of ancient design — 6. Patterns of time — 7. the revolution and the running stitch — 8. Cross stitch embroidery — 9. Crossroads and competition — 10. A foray into Tojolabal country — 11. Vestidos — 12. Chiapanec and Zoque cultural revivals — 13. Living in the Twenty-first Century.

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• Maya textile fabrics — Mexico — Chiapas.
• Hand weaving — Mexico — Chiapas.
• Mexico — Chiapas. fast (OCoLC)fst01202769

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Part of the series Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives 1;Routledge research in transnational indigenous perspectives 1.
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• In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected, at times even foreshadowed and initiated, many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the transnational turn. Global trends of identity politics, performativity, cultural performance and ethics, comparative and revisionist historiography, ecological responsibility and education, as well as issues of social justice have shaped and been shaped by discussions in Native American and Indigenous Studies. This volume brings together distinguished perspectives on these topics by the Native scholars and writers Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Diane Glancy (Cherokee), and Tomson Highway (Cree), as well as non-Native authorities, such as Chadwick Allen, Hartmut Lutz, and Helmbrecht Breinig. Contributions look at various moments in the cultural history of Native North America–from earthmounds via the Catholic appropriation of a Mohawk saint to the debates about Makah whaling rights–as well as at a diverse spectrum of literary, performative, and visual works of art by John Ross, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, Emily Pauline Johnson, Leslie Marmon Silko, Emma Lee Warrior, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Stephen Graham Jones, and Gerald Vizenor, among others. In doing so, the selected contributions identify new and recurrent methodological challenges, outline future paths for scholarly inquiry, and explore the intersections between Indigenous Studies and contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies at large — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Literary transmotion : survivance and totemic motion in Native American Indian art and literature / Gerald Vizenor — Native dramatic theory in a Bird house / Diane Glancy — First Nations writing : a personal history / Tomson Highway — Reading through peoplehood : towards a culturally responsive approach to Native American literary discourse / Billy J. Stratton — Evil and sacrifice in Native North American literature : Johnson, Momaday, Vizenor, Erdrich / Helmbrecht Breinig — Games Indians play : reflections on sports as cultural practice and historical template in contemporary Native American literature and film / Hans Bak — Re-scripting indigenous America : earthworks in native art, literature, community / Chadwick Allen — In the shadow of the Marshall court : nineteenth-century Cherokee conceptualizations of the law / Sabine N. Meyer — A whale of a problem : indigenous tradition vs. ecological taboo / Maria Moss — Globalizing indigenous histories : comparison, connectedness, and new contexts for Native American history / Sami Lakomäki — Catherine Tekakwitha : the construction of a saint / Michael Draxlbauer — Memory, community, and historicity in Joseph Bruchac’s The journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 / Hsinya Huang — Indianthusiasts and mythbusters : (de- )constructing transatlantic others / Hartmut Lutz.

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• American literature — Indian authors — History and criticism.
• Canadian literature — Indian authors — History and criticism.
• Indians in literature.
• Indians of North America — Ethnic identity.
• Nordamerika. (DE-588)4042483-2 gnd
• Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635

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Part of the series The Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity;Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
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• Map on end papers.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-377) and index.
• Foreword / by the Makah Tribal Council and Makah Cultural and Research Center — Acknowledgments — A note about words and naming — Introduction: Just where does one get a license to kill Indians? — The power of Wickaninnish ends here — Inveterate wars and petty pilferings — Depending on the success or good-will of the Natives — I want the sea — An anomaly in the Indian Service — Everything is played out here — Conclusion: Events happen when you get a whale — Afterword / by Micah McCarty
• For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity. Unlike most other indigenous tribes whose lives are tied to lands, the Makah people have long placed marine space at the center of their culture, finding in their own waters the physical and spiritual resources to support themselves. This book is the first to explore the history and identity of the Makahs from the arrival of maritime fur-traders in the eighteenth century through the intervening centuries and to the present day.–Provided by publisher

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• Makah Indians.
• Maritime anthropology — Washington (State)
• Washington (State) fast (OCoLC)fst01204703

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