They Called Me Uncivilized

Author : Walter Littlemoon,Jane Ridgway
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440162787

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They Called Me Uncivilized by Walter Littlemoon,Jane Ridgway Pdf

Walter Littlemoon's memoir, They Called Me Uncivilized, is a call to awareness from within the heart of Wounded Knee. In telling his story, Littlemoon describes the impact federal Indian policies have had on his life and on the history of his family. He gives a rare view into the cruelty inflicted on generations of Native American children through the implementation of U.S. government boarding schools, which resulted in a muted truth, called Soul Wound by some. In addition, and for the first time, his narrative provides a resident's view of the 1973 militant Occupation of Wounded Knee and the lasting impact that takeover has had on his community. His path toward a sense of peace and contentment is one he hopes others will follow. Remembering and telling the truth about traumatic events are prerequisites for healing. Many books have been written by scholars describing one aspect or another of Native American life, their history, their spirituality, the 1973 occupation, and a few have tried to describe the boarding schools. None have connected the dots. Until the language of the everyday man is used, scholarly words will shut out the people they describe and the pathology created by federal Indian policy will continue.

Author : Adrian Pei
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830873920

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The Minority Experience by Adrian Pei Pdf

It's hard to be in the minority. If you're the only person from your ethnic or cultural background in your organization or team, you probably know what it's like to be misunderstood or marginalized. You might find yourself inadvertently overlooked or actively silenced. Even when a work environment is not blatantly racist or hostile, people of color often struggle to thrive—and may end up leaving the organization. Being a minority is not just about numbers. It's about understanding pain, power, and the impact of the past. Organizational consultant Adrian Pei describes key challenges ethnic minorities face in majority-culture organizations. He unpacks how historical forces shape contemporary realities, and what both minority and majority cultures need to know in order to work together fruitfully. If you're a cultural minority working in a majority culture organization, or if you're a majority culture supervisor of people from other backgrounds, learn the dynamics at work. And be encouraged that you can help make things better so that all can flourish.

Author : Arnold Krupat
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438480084

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Changed Forever, Volume II by Arnold Krupat Pdf

After a theoretical and historical introduction to American Indian boarding-school literature, Changed Forever, Volume II examines the autobiographical writings of a number of Native Americans who attended the federal Indian boarding schools. Considering a wide range of tribal writers, some of them well known—like Charles Eastman, Luther Standing Bear, and Zitkala-Sa—but most of them little known—like Walter Littlemoon, Adam Fortunate Eagle, Reuben Snake, and Edna Manitowabi, among others—the book offers the first wide-ranging assessment of their texts and their thoughts about their experiences at the schools.

Author : M.G. Vassanji
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385683814

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Everything There Is by M.G. Vassanji Pdf

From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada’s finest and most celebrated writers, comes a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire. Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College, London, and one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld theory, the first step in a grand unification of forces and a Theory of Everything. A family man profoundly influenced by his pious father, Nurul is happily married to Sakina Begum by an arranged marriage. They have three children. But when Nurul travels to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to give a public lecture at Harvard, he falls in love with a graduate student, Hilary Chase. At the same time, Nurul Islam's outspoken, philosophical views about the nature of physics and God have earned him the ire of fundamentalist preachers in Pakistan. He makes enemies of the political and military establishments when he refuses to contribute to Pakistan's nuclear weapons project. Meanwhile, a contingent of physicists begins a smear campaign, claiming that Nurul Islams's contribution to the unification theory was plagiarized. All these events converge upon Sakina Begum who, smarting from her husband's betrayal, unwittingly commits a betrayal of her own. Everything that has worked together as though preordained since his childhood to take him to the pinnacle of scientific achievement suddenly falls apart. An exceptionally wise and intimate account of love, honour, guilt and genius, Everything There Is gives us an engaging portrait of a traditional, spiritual man facing the onslaught of inescapable forces.

Author : Corinne Hostenne
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770976238

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Reclaiming My Life from Broken Promises by Corinne Hostenne Pdf

These poems are about my life experience. They are a glimpse into my journey of reclaiming my life. I began writing poetry as a way of releasing stress, loneliness, and sadness. When I moved to Calgary I had no one to talked to. I felt very alone and out of place, and I had no idea what I was going to do with myself. All of my friends were in Montréal, along with everything I had ever owned. I only had five hundred dollars in my wallet, and two suitcases full of toys, clothes, and important documents....

Author : Serra J. Hoagland,Steven Albert
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781421446578

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Wildlife Stewardship on Tribal Lands by Serra J. Hoagland,Steven Albert Pdf

"The editors have brought together a volume of papers and essays written by tribal fish and wildlife managers and researchers about the work they do. This book will help wildlife professionals and conservationists in private and public sectors draw lessons from the expertise of indigenous peoples in North America, and advise them on how best to incorporate long-established successful Native methods in their own practices"--

Author : Mary Agnes Tincker,Monaldini (Signor.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600057253

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Signor Monaldini's Niece. A Novel of Italian Life by Mary Agnes Tincker,Monaldini (Signor.) Pdf

Author : Traver Boehm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578945061

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Man UNcivilized by Traver Boehm Pdf

This is the guidebook for the newly emerging paradigm of masculinity. One that includes and celebrates both the primal and divine aspects of men.

Author : Rachel Rinaldo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199948109

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Mobilizing Piety by Rachel Rinaldo Pdf

"Investigates how different approaches to religious interpretation influence Indonesian women's engagement with global Islam and feminism. It also explores the consequences of a more public Islam for women's participation in the public sphere. The book is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork between 2002 and 2010 with four different groups of women activists in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. The groups include a secular feminist NGO (Solidaritas Perempuan), a Muslim women's rights NGO (Rahima), the women's group of one of the country's largest Muslim organizations (Fatayat N.U.), and women in a conservative Muslim political party (the Prosperous Justice Party). The women in these have all been deeply influenced by the ongoing Islamic revival. In addition, they are part of the urban middle class. The women of Rahima and Fatayat N.U. are influenced by global feminism and Islamic discourses. They use Islam to express feminist and liberal ideals of equality and rights, and they strive to integrate these frameworks in their own lives. In contrast, women in the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) reject feminism as Western and secular and are more influenced by global Islamic discourses. Although some scholars argue that pious Islam and liberal ideals are incompatible, these activists embrace modernity and sometimes speak in terms of individual agency, empowerment, and rights. The women of Solidaritas Perempuan maintain a balance between their secular activism and personal religiosity. The overall conclusion of Mobilizing Piety is that the Islamic revival has not stymied but has in fact helped to empower many Indonesian women, especially by allowing them to participate in national debates about moral and religious issues"--

Author : Ignacy Krasicki
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810110393

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The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom by Ignacy Krasicki Pdf

ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST POLISH NOVEL EVER WRITTEN IN 1776.

Author : Jayson Beaster-Jones,Brian Diettrich,Jane Freeman Moulin,Michael Hugh Webb
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199862542

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Bollywood Sounds by Jayson Beaster-Jones,Brian Diettrich,Jane Freeman Moulin,Michael Hugh Webb Pdf

This title surveys the music of seventy years of Hindi films and provides a long-term investigation of film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions. Focusing on the music of Hindi language films (id est Bollywood) in their historical, social, and commercial contexts, the author pays special attention to the meanings that songs generate inside and outside film narratives and within Indian society at large.

Author : Leon Uris
Publisher : Estate of Leon Uris
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475606232

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QB VII by Leon Uris Pdf

Sir Adam Kelno has spent his whole life covering up his past. After his political beliefs land him in Jadwiga, Poland’s worst concentration camp, Kelno earns privileges with the Nazis by performing inhumane operations on Jewish prisoners. Now, after rebuilding his name in a British colony and being knighted by the British monarchy, Kelno finally feels safe returning to London. But his past catches up with him when the novelist Abraham Cady publishes a book naming Kelno one of the most sadistic doctors at Jadwiga. Anxious to quell the rumors, Kelno charges Cady with slandering his name. As the court proceeding draws out, Cady must fight to avenge his past as Kelno fights to save his future. An instant bestseller and the basis for the first miniseries in history, winning 6 Primetime Emmys, QB VII explores human nature under the most dire of circumstances. In Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust --born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration camp was the site of his family's extermination--Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also named eminent surgeon Sir Adam Kelno as one of Jadwiga's most sadistic inmate/doctors. Kelno has denied this and brought furious charges. Now unfolds Leon Uris' riveting courtroom drama--one of the great fictional trials of the century. "You open the book and start reading. Quicker than you can say Uris you are caught up at once in the unfolding conflict . . . . It's a professional job all the way . . . . Dramatic, impassioned."—The New York Times Book Review "A fine suspense story, an excellent courtroom story, written with genuine passion. You won't put it down once you've picked it up. It is the author of Exodus at his best."—Newsweek

Author : Vivi Holt
Publisher : Black Lab Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781545430712

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Cherished by Vivi Holt Pdf

Camilla Brown always wanted a family of her own. But it seemed destiny had other plans. She’d begun to feel as though she'd always be in the background, helping others build their families, leaving her dreams to wilt and die. That is, until the handsome Winston Frank comes courting at the church picnic. But then, Sheriff Clifford Brentwood sweeps her off her feet, literally! Both men make her pulse race. Both are determined to claim her love. Only one can win her heart. When an unexpected danger threatens her very life, Camilla will have to make a choice. Who will she choose?

Author : Charles Sampford,Ramesh Thakur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317637530

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Institutional Supports for the International Rule of Law by Charles Sampford,Ramesh Thakur Pdf

The rule of law is widely seen as the cornerstone of any effective polity and increasingly a vital component of the international political system. If the international rule of law were to be strengthened, it would greatly contribute to trade, security, human rights and global cooperation in a range of fields. Yet, in many areas the rule of law seems almost absent in international affairs. This book explores the institutions that support the effectiveness of the rule of law domestically. It focuses on the extent to which similar institutions already exist at international level and analyses the possibility of their further development. The authors speculate on how the international rule of law might be advanced in the future, thereby suggesting potential strategies for strengthening the international rule of law. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and combining the fields of international relations, politics and law, this book covers a range institutions including: UN Security Council International Court of Justice Human rights machinery Regional human rights International Criminal Court World Trade Organization International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations. It will be of strong interest to students and scholars of international relations, international organisations, global governance, international law, migration law, international peace and security law, applied ethics, political economy, political science and sociology.

Author : GOH Bee Chen,Baden Offord
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317185680

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Activating Human Rights and Peace by GOH Bee Chen,Baden Offord Pdf

Human rights and peace issues and concerns have come about at a critical time. The world has recently witnessed a plethora of turning points that speak of the hopes and vulnerabilities which are inherent in being human and demonstrate that change in the service of human rights and peace is possible. At the same time, however, other events indicate that wherever there is life, there is vulnerability in a world characterized by instability and endemic human suffering. On top of all this, the collapse of the global financial system and the serious, rapid destruction of the environment have brought the world to a precarious state of vulnerability. Activating human rights and peace is, therefore, a project that is always in progress, and is never finally achieved. This enlightening collection of well thought through cases is aimed at academics and students of human rights, political science, law and justice, peace and conflict studies and sociology.