Indian - Indian-American Studies - Interest | Indian - Indian-American Studies - Interest
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Jan.01.2010
The Harvard Project on American Indian Edonomic Development aims to understand and foster the conditions under which sustaind, self-determined, social and economic development may be achieved among American Indian nations. It has become a benchmark for current discussion of First Nations econimic...
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May.28.2009
The FORBIDDEN DAUGHTER takes the reader into a world where the corrupt and covert practice of gender-selective abortion still thrives and female children are disappearing. This gripping novel asks: Where can a woman turn when her life’s greatest blessing is seen as a curse?
"Shobhan Bantwal's...
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May.20.2009
My longest book of poems (144 pages), The Alchemy of Opposites contains all the poems that I wish to preserve written since 1992 to its publication in 2000. Although a favorite topic is the natural world (animals, plants, earth, the cosmos), I also appropriate images from various mythologies (...
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Mar.29.2009
In a pristine valley hidden in the Himalayas, Anand has a disturbing vision. His mentor and spiritual guide, the Master Healer Abhaydatta, is apparently in grave danger. What should he do? If he conveys this information to his elders, he’ll waste precious time. But is it wise to take matters into...
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Mar.01.2009
When a snowstorm sweeps the canyon during her search for a wounded mountain lion, BLM agent Jamaica Wild must take refuge in an old Indian School, where children were "Americanized" after being taken from their homes. Exploring, Jamaica discovers the body of an elderly Anglo woman. As...
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Sep.01.2008
INSIDE FRONT COVER FLAP
As Pocahontas was to Jamestown and Sacajawea was to the Lewis and Clark expedition, so was Mary Musgrove to the burgeoning Georgia colony.
Born “Coosaponakeesa” to a Creek mother and an English father, she skillfully straddled two worlds: her Indian...
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Aug.25.2008
In a remote cabin, Skye McDonald lived in a special world where her mixed blood was a blessing. She grew strong and healthy; tall like her grandmother, and she learned the ways of the Highlanders and the Lakota. But then the steel-springed lunge of a mountain lion took her mother from her,...
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Apr.07.2008
The essays in this book weave together the varied strands of experience that contribute to a feminist activist life. The essays touch on many topics: her coming out to her family at a movie theatre; learning to swim; her father's elegance; the bond between Blacks and Jews; the influence of writer...
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