Cherokee Dragon

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806133708

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Cherokee Dragon by Robert J. Conley Pdf

Few writers portray Native American life and history as richly, authentically, and insightfully as Robert J. Conley. Conley represents an important voice of the Cherokee past. The novels in his Real People series combine powerful characters, gripping plots, and vivid descriptions of tradition and mythology to preserve Cherokee culture and history. In Cherokee Dragon, the tenth novel in the series, Robert Conley explores the life if Dragging Canoe, the last great war chief of the united Cherokee tribe. In the late eighteenth century, as the English settlers begin steadily encroaching upon the Cherokee lands, the Nation divided among several towns and many chiefs?unites in a series of battles. But the united front is not one that lasts: Dragging Canoe’s belief that they must fight the settlers to preserve their lands and their culture is far from universal.

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417754370

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Cherokee Dragon: A Novel of the Real People by Robert J. Conley Pdf

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826339539

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A Cherokee Encyclopedia by Robert J. Conley Pdf

A Cherokee Encyclopedia is a quick reference guide for many of the people, places, and things connected to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees, as well as for the other officially recognized Cherokee groups, the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokees. From A Cherokee Encyclopedia "Crowe, Amanda Amanda Crowe was born in 1928 in the Qualla Cherokee community in North Carolina. She was drawing and carving at the age of 4 and selling her work at age 8. She received her MFA from the Chicago Arts Institute in 1952 and then studied in Mexico at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel under a John Quincy Adams fellowship. She had been away from home for 12 years when the Cherokee Historical Association invited her back to teach art and woodcarving at the Cherokee High School. . . ." "Fields, Richard Richard Fields was Chief of the Texas Cherokees from 1821 until his death in 1827. Assisted by Bowl and others, he spent much time in Mexico City, first with the Spanish government and later with the government of Mexico, trying to acquire a clear title to their land. They also had to contend with rumors started by white Texans regarding their intended alliances with Comanches, Tawakonis, and other Indian tribes to attack San Antonio. . . ."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN : WISC:89058276197

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Journal of Cherokee Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ray Raphael
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307455994

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Revolutionary Founders by Ray Raphael Pdf

In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh, new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers whose revolutionary ideals outstripped those of the “Founding Fathers.” While the Founding Fathers advocated a break from Britain and espoused ideals of republican government, none proposed significant changes to the fabric of colonial society. Yet during this “revolutionary” period some people did believe that “liberty” meant “liberty for all” and that “equality” should be applied to political, economic, and religious spheres. Here are the stories of individuals and groups who exemplified the radical ideals of the American Revolution more in keeping with our own values today. This volume helps us to understand the social conflicts unleashed by the struggle for independence, the Revolution’s achievements, and the unfinished agenda it left to future generations to confront.

Author : Daniel Heath Justice
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816646392

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Our Fire Survives the Storm by Daniel Heath Justice Pdf

Once the most powerful indigenous nation in the southeastern United States, the Cherokees survive and thrive as a people nearly two centuries after the Trail of Tears and a hundred years after the allotment of Indian Territory. In Our Fire Survives the Storm, Daniel Heath Justice traces the expression of Cherokee identity in that nation’s literary tradition. Through cycles of war and peace, resistance and assimilation, trauma and regeneration, Cherokees have long debated what it means to be Cherokee through protest writings, memoirs, fiction, and retellings of traditional stories. Justice employs the Chickamauga consciousness of resistance and Beloved Path of engagement—theoretical approaches that have emerged out of Cherokee social history—to interpret diverse texts composed in English, a language embraced by many as a tool of both access and defiance. Justice’s analysis ultimately locates the Cherokees as a people of many perspectives, many bloods, mingled into a collective sense of nationhood. Just as the oral traditions of the Cherokee people reflect the living realities and concerns of those who share them, Justice concludes, so too is their literary tradition a textual testament to Cherokee endurance and vitality. Daniel Heath Justice is assistant professor of aboriginal literatures at the University of Toronto.

Author : Christopher B. Teuton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496211118

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Deep Waters by Christopher B. Teuton Pdf

Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christopher B. Teuton begins with a study of Mesoamerican writings, Diné sand paintings, and Haudenosaunee wampum belts. He proposes a theory of how and why indigenous oral and graphic means of recording thought are interdependent, their functions and purposes determined by social, political, and cultural contexts. The center of this book examines four key works of contemporary American Indian literature by N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Ray A. Young Bear, and Robert J. Conley. Through a textually grounded exploration of what Teuton calls the oral impulse, the graphic impulse, and the critical impulse, we see how and why various types of contemporary Native literary production are interrelated and draw from long-standing indigenous methods of creative representation. Teuton breaks down the disabling binary of orality and literacy, offering readers a cogent, historically informed theory of indigenous textuality that allows for deeper readings of Native American cultural and literary expression.

Author : Diane Glancy,Linda Rodriguez
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496235008

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Unpapered by Diane Glancy,Linda Rodriguez Pdf

Unpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor always clearly documented, and citizenship is a legal and political matter of sovereign nations determined by such criteria as blood quantum, tribal rolls, or community involvement. Those who claim a Native cultural identity often have family stories of tenuous ties dating back several generations. Given that tribal enrollment was part of a string of government programs and agreements calculated to quantify and dismiss Native populations, many writers who identify culturally and are recognized as Native Americans do not hold tribal citizenship. With essays by Trevino Brings Plenty, Deborah Miranda, Steve Russell, and Kimberly Wieser, among others, Unpapered charts how current exclusionary tactics began as a response to "pretendians"--non-indigenous people assuming a Native identity for job benefits--and have expanded to an intense patrolling of identity that divides Native communities and has resulted in attacks on peoples' professional, spiritual, emotional, and physical states. An essential addition to Native discourse, Unpapered shows how social and political ideologies have created barriers for Native people truthfully claiming identities while simultaneously upholding stereotypes.

Author : Jennifer McClinton-Temple,Alan Velie
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1566 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438140575

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Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature by Jennifer McClinton-Temple,Alan Velie Pdf

Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.

Author : Jo Carson
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN : 9780821417539

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Teller Tales by Jo Carson Pdf

"All my work fits in my mouth," Jo Carson says. "I write performance material no matter what else the pieces get called, and whether they are for my voice or other characters' voices . . . they are first to be spoken aloud." Following an oral tradition that has strong roots in her native Tennessee, the author of Teller Tales invites the reader to participate in events in a way that no conventional history book can. Both stories in this book are set in East Tennessee in the mid-eighteenth century and share certain characters. The first narrative, "What Sweet Lips Can Do," recounts the story of the Overmountain Men and the battle of King's Mountain, a tide-turning battle in the American Revolution. "Men of Their Time" is an exploration of white-Cherokee relationships from early contact through the time of the Revolution. Although not well known to the outside world, the stories recounted in Teller Tales are cornerstones in the heritage of the Appalachian region and of American history. In ways that will appeal to young and old alike, Jo Carson's irreverent telling will broaden the audience and the understanding for the stories of native Americans, settlers, explorers, and revolutionaries of early America.

Author : Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820481696

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Foundations of First Peoples' Sovereignty by Ulrike Wiethaus Pdf

Foundations of First Peoples' Sovereignty is an innovative collection of essays offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic of sovereignty for Indigenous nations. Presenting contemporary initiatives and scholarship in the humanities on behalf of First Peoples, the volume affirms and explores the dynamic interplay between tribal community action and reflection, academic work, and the commonalities shared by Indigenous nations globally.

Author : Shirley Andrews
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Atlantis
ISBN : 156718023X

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Atlantis by Shirley Andrews Pdf

Using information from classical and Atlantean scholars, scientists and psychics, this book traces the history of the continent of Atlantis from its beginnings to its destruction. The author traces the origins of occult science to the Atlanteans and charts the migration of Atlantis' survivors.

Author : Chris D'Lacey
Publisher : Orchard Books
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408314449

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Fly, Cherokee Fly by Chris D'Lacey Pdf

When Darryl discovers a homing pigeon with a broken wing, things look bleak - after all who wants a pigeon with a broken wing? But Darryl has never had a pet - and he is determined to keep her. Soon his patience is rewarded and Cherokee starts to fly again. But then a more menacing struggle begins - with someone whose secret knowledge of the pigeon's past threatens to separate Darryl from his beloved Cherokee forever.....

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015055805769

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Cherokee by Anonim Pdf

A collection of photographs which profile the culture and people of the Cherokee tribes.

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806183718

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Cherokee Thoughts by Robert J. Conley Pdf

Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people’s history, and what it means to be Cherokee. Readers who think they know Conley will find an abundance of surprises in these pages. He reveals historical information not widely known or written about, such as Cherokee Confederate general Stand Watie’s involvement in the infamous Reconstruction treaty forced upon his people in 1866, and he explains his admiration for such characters as Ned Christie and Henry Starr, whom some might consider criminals. From legendary figures Dragging Canoe and Nancy Ward to popular icons like Will Rogers to contemporary “Cherokee Wannabes”—people seeking ancestral roots whether actual or fanciful—Conley traces the dogged persistence of the Cherokee people in the face of relentless incursions upon their land and culture. “Cherokees are used to controversy,” observes Conley; “in fact, they enjoy it.” As provocative as it is entertaining, Cherokee Thoughts will intrigue tribal members and anyone with an interest in the Cherokee people.