Bitterroot A Memoir

Author : Steven Faulkner
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780825307218

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Bitterroot - A Memoir by Steven Faulkner Pdf

Using the letters of the 19th-century explorer Pierre Jean De Smet, Steven Faulkner and his eighteen-year-old son, Alex, follow De Smet across the High Plains to the fur trappers’ rendezvous on the Green River, then on to the Lewis and Clark Trail. Lewis and Clark take them over the Rockies (a part of their journey that almost killed the explorers) into the homeland of the Nez Perce whose fate (recorded by a young warrior named White Thunder) is strangely tied to these emissaries from the east. By road, foot, mountain bike, and canoe, Steven and Alex experience the vast landscape and try to capture an understanding of the Wild Northwest, an understanding supported by many chance encounters with modern residents: Bubba, the LA gangster taking refuge in Idaho’s mountains; Jean, the retired school teacher who has a visceral hatred of the EPA; Mary the dog trainer who fought the Forest Service for ten years and won—losing $100,000 in the process; the Knife Lady who is raising nine kids in a blue school bus; the combative waitress who misinforms us about the Chinese Massacre of Rock Springs; the drug-addicted boy whose search for his father finds an unexpected ending.

Author : Gary Geddes
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781553659693

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Drink the Bitter Root by Gary Geddes Pdf

Drink the Bitter Root is an international story about the ethical and environmental footprint world nations are leaving in Africa in their determined efforts to destabilize and loot the continent. In the spirit of Robert Kaplan and Samantha Power, Gary Geddes sets out in search of justice, healing and reconciliation. He begins his journey at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, then travels to Rwanda, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Somaliland, crossing Lake Victoria and the Great Rift Valley, where human life began. Geddes’s quest takes the form of an intimate personal travelogue. Although he confronts the dark realities of abduction, rape, mutilation and murder, drawing on painful encounters, interviews and adventures that occur along the way, Geddes also brings back amazing stories of survival and unexpected moments of grace. His poet's eye and self-deprecating humor draw us ever more deeply into the lives of some amazing Africans, while never forgetting the complicity we all feel in the face of tragic events unfolding there. In the words of author and Africanist Ian Smillie, Drink the Bitter Root is not only poignant, literate and funny, but also “a deeply textured journey without maps into the unexplored rifts of sub-Saharan Africa, the human experience, and the psyche. It’s also the masterful handling of a full palette.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-24
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0803273584

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Rebuilding the Indian by Anonim Pdf

The building of a vintage Indian Chief motorcycle is more than the restoration of a bike?it?s the resurrection of a dream. Rebuilding the Indian chronicles one man?s journey through the fearful expanse of midlife in a quest for peace, parts, and a happy second fatherhood. Fred Haefele was a writer who couldn?t get his book published, an arborist whose precarious livelihood might just kill him, and an expectant father for the first time in over twenty years. He was in a rut, until he purchased a box of parts not so euphemistically referred to as a ?basket case? and tackled the restoration of an Indian Chief motorcycle. With limited mechanical skills, one foot in the money pit, and a colorful cast of local experts, Haefele takes us down the rocky road of restoration to the headlong, heart-thrilling rush of open highway on his gleaming midnight-blue Millennium Flyer.

Author : D. J. Lee,Dj Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870710001

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Remote by D. J. Lee,Dj Lee Pdf

The story of one woman's journey into the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana to investigate the disappearance of her friend and discover the truth about her family.

Author : Marilyn Kriete
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950495116

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Paradise Road by Marilyn Kriete Pdf

A restless child of the 1960s, Marilyn yearns for love, hippiedom, and escape from her mother's control. At 14, she runs nearly a thousand miles away to Vancouver, British Columbia, eventually landing herself in a Catholic home for troubled girls. At 16, she's emancipated, navigating adulthood without a high school diploma, and craving a soulmate. When she falls in love with Jack, the grad student living next door, life finally seems perfect. The two embark on a cross-continental bicycle trip, headed for South America, but before they reach Mexico, Jack dies. Utterly shattered, Marilyn does the hardest thing she can imagine: a solo bicycle trip, part tribute, part life test. She conquers her fears but goes wildly off course, chasing her heart as she falls into a series of tragicomic rebounds. Two itinerant years later, a chain of events in Montana's Bitterroot Mountains leads to a peace she never expected to find. Reminiscent of "Wild" and "Travelling with Ghosts," Marilyn's journey portrays a life unmoored by grief, brought to shore again."Paradise Road" was selected as the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club's International Book of the Month for March 2021.

Author : Susan Devan Harness
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496210883

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Bitterroot by Susan Devan Harness Pdf

2019 High Plains Book Award Winner for the Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive father about her “real” parents. He replied that they had died in a car accident not long after she was born—except they hadn’t, as Harness would learn in a conversation with a social worker a few years later. Harness’s search for answers revolved around her need to ascertain why she was the target of racist remarks and why she seemed always to be on the outside looking in. New questions followed her through college and into her twenties when she started her own family. Meeting her biological family in her early thirties generated even more questions. In her forties Harness decided to get serious about finding answers when, conducting oral histories, she talked with other transracial adoptees. In her fifties she realized that the concept of “home” she had attributed to the reservation existed only in her imagination. Making sense of her family, the American Indian history of assimilation, and the very real—but culturally constructed—concept of race helped Harness answer the often puzzling questions of stereotypes, a sense of nonbelonging, the meaning of family, and the importance of forgiveness and self-acceptance. In the process Bitterroot also provides a deep and rich context in which to experience life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Geology
ISBN : PSU:000021358609

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Memoir by Anonim Pdf

Author : Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:097883588

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Memoir by Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Pdf

Author : Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011086696

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Memoir - State of Montana, Bureau of Mines and Geology by Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Pdf

Author : Melissa Guida-Richards
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781623178727

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What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption--The Workbook by Melissa Guida-Richards Pdf

A companion to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption, this practical workbook guides readers to better understand transracial adoption and do the work of anti-racist, trauma-informed parenting. A must-read for white parents who have transracially adopted or prospective parents considering transracial adoption, this follow-up to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption offers a wealth of activities, templates, and questions for self-reflection. Melissa Guida-Richards, who learned at the age of 19 that she was adopted from Colombia as an infant, addresses the complexities of transracial adoption with insight, compassion, and the wisdom of lived experience. Through thought-provoking questions and activities, Guida-Richards guides you to: Consider the role of infant-mother bonding and understand developmental trauma in adoptees Understand the complex history of adoption; recognize illegal and unethical practices, such as trafficking operations and baby factories; and ask the important questions when working with adoption agencies Look more deeply at implicit bias, white saviorism, and white fragility Locate and utilize adoption-competent mental health care Offer culturally aligned education, community, and resources to your child Acknowledge the effects of racism and celebrate your child’s race and culture Throughout the workbook, Guida-Richards guides you to break free from toxic positivity, understand and drop defenses, engage in difficult conversations, and learn to listen to your child’s experience. Whether you are a potential parent considering a transracial adoption, a parent of an adopted child, or a therapist or advocate working with adoptive families, this practical and engaging workbook will help you “do the work” of furthering anti-racist, child-centered, and trauma-informed parenting.

Author : Rebecca Wellington
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780806194509

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Who Is a Worthy Mother? by Rebecca Wellington Pdf

Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. Adoption practices are woven into the fabric of American society and reflect how our nation values human beings, particularly mothers. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women’s reproductive rights places an even greater emphasis on adoption. As a mother, historian, and adoptee, Rebecca C. Wellington is uniquely qualified to uncover the policies and practices of adoption. Wellington’s timely—and deeply researched—account amplifies previously marginalized voices and exposes the social and racial biases embedded in the United States’ adoption industry. The history of adoption is rarely told from an adoptee’s perspective. Wellington remedies this gap by framing the chronicle of adoption in America using her own life story. She describes growing up in a family with which she had no biological connection, giving birth to her own biological children, and then enduring the death of her sister, who was also adopted. As she reckons with the pain and unanswered questions of her own experience, she explores broader issues surrounding adoption in the United States, including changing legal policies, sterilization and compulsory relinquishment programs, forced assimilation of babies of color and Indigenous babies adopted into white families, and other liabilities affecting women, mothers, and children. According to Wellington, US adoption practices in America are shrouded in secrecy, for they frequently cast shame on unmarried women, women struggling with fertility, and “illegitimate” babies and children. As the United States once again finds itself embroiled in heated disputes over women’s bodily autonomy—disputes in which adoption plays a central role—Wellington’s book offers a unique and much-needed frame of reference.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Geology
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030041202211

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U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margo I. Toth,Max Wyss,Ted G. Theodore,U.S. Geological Survey Library,J. S. Stacey,Richard Scott Sasscer,Robert Y. Koyanagi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Classification
ISBN : OSU:32435022084040

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U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin by Margo I. Toth,Max Wyss,Ted G. Theodore,U.S. Geological Survey Library,J. S. Stacey,Richard Scott Sasscer,Robert Y. Koyanagi Pdf

Author : Max D. Crittenden,Peter J. Coney,George Herbert Davis,George Hamilton Davis
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813711539

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Cordilleran Metamorphic Core Complexes by Max D. Crittenden,Peter J. Coney,George Herbert Davis,George Hamilton Davis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Geology
ISBN : MINN:31951P00161021N

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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper by Anonim Pdf