Up River

Author : Edmund Metatawabin,Alexandra Shimo
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307399885

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Up Ghost River by Edmund Metatawabin,Alexandra Shimo Pdf

A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting trauma, and the spirit he rediscovered within himself and his community through traditional spirituality and knowledge. After being separated from his family at age 7, Metatawabin was assigned a number and stripped of his Indigenous identity. At his residential school--one of the worst in Canada--he was physically and emotionally abused, and was sexually abused by one of the staff. Leaving high school, he turned to alcohol to forget the trauma. He later left behind his wife and family, and fled to Edmonton, where he joined a First Nations support group that helped him come to terms with his addiction and face his PTSD. By listening to elders' wisdom, he learned how to live an authentic First Nations life within a modern context, thereby restoring what had been taken from him years earlier. Metatawabin has worked tirelessly to bring traditional knowledge to the next generation of Indigenous youth and leaders, as a counsellor at the University of Alberta, Chief in his Fort Albany community, and today as a youth worker, First Nations spiritual leader and activist. His work championing Indigenous knowledge, sovereignty and rights spans several decades and has won him awards and national recognition. His story gives a personal face to the problems that beset First Nations communities and fresh solutions, and untangles the complex dynamics that sparked the Idle No More movement. Haunting and brave, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing.

Author : Olive Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004066111

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Up River by Olive Pierce Pdf

A portrait in photos and words of the realities of life in a small Maine fishing village.

Author : Stella Bowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781459500686

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My River by Stella Bowles Pdf

When Stella was told she couldn't swim in her back yard river because hundreds of houses flushed their raw sewage into it she decided to try to do something about the issue. This is the true story of Stella's astonishingly successful grade six science project to clean up the LaHave River.

Author : Brent Douglas Galloway
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1728 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780520098725

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Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem by Brent Douglas Galloway Pdf

An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Hydroelectric power plants
ISBN : UCR:31210024874354

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City of Spokane Upriver Dam Hydroelectric Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Alexander Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN : UCR:31210018621720

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Chemical Data for Water Samples Collected During Four Upriver Cruises on the Mississippi River Between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1990-April 1992 by John Alexander Moody Pdf

Author : Matthew Coolidge,Center for Land Use Interpretation
Publisher : Center for Land Use Interpreta
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0922233292

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Up River by Matthew Coolidge,Center for Land Use Interpretation Pdf

Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River as familiar as their own backyard yet only have a superficial knowledge of the landscape and land use of this river's waterfront. This beautiful book deepens readers' understanding with an aerial portrait of the river's shores from the Battery, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, to the river's origin near Albany. Focusing on man-made sites rarely seen by those who travel along the river's banks -- some of which can only be seen aerially -- the book showcases the shore area's vanishing (or vanished) avenues, prisons, power plants, quarries, parks, condos, and redevelopments. Up River's photos and accompanying succinct text tell the story of how this river was used in developing industry and modern America from Revolutionary times through 19th-century exploitation of the waterfront to the beginnings of environmental activism that protects famous vistas from the quarriers of the Palisades.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030098982

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Upriver Hydroelectric Project, Spokane River, Spokane County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven B. Miles
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170906

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Upriver Journeys by Steven B. Miles Pdf

Tracing journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, this book describes the circulation of people through one of the world’s great river systems between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Steven B. Miles examines the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier, and the role of migration in sustaining families and lineages in the homeland of what would become a global diaspora. Based on archival research and multisite fieldwork, this innovative history of mobility explores a set of diasporic practices ranging from the manipulation of household registration requirements to the maintenance of split families. Many of the institutions and practices that facilitated overseas migration were not adaptations of tradition to transnational modernity; rather, they emerged in the early modern era within the context of riverine migration. Likewise, the extension and consolidation of empire required not only unidirectional frontier settlement and sedentarization of indigenous populations. It was also responsible for the regular circulation between homeland and frontier of people who drove imperial expansion—even while turning imperial aims toward their own purposes of socioeconomic advancement.

Author : New York Times
Publisher : Crown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307498519

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Upriver and Downstream by New York Times Pdf

Upriver and Downstream gathers seventy columns about fishing—from freshwater to saltwater, from small ponds to the Great Lakes, from the Pacific Northwest to post-Soviet Russia—written for the “Outdoors” column of the New York Times. Contributors include such celebrated names as Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, Nelson Bryant, Peter Kaminsky, Ernest Schweibert, and Robert H. Boyle. Short, evocative, informative, and entertaining, here are pieces about fly-fishing for wild brook trout, bait-fishing for striped bass, casting into tailwaters, or angling in midwinter. The settings range from Hudson River piers to the Florida Everglades, from Iceland to the Amazon, and the fish include everything from the common sunfish to the esoteric paddlefish. These engaging essays remind us of what fishing is all about: companionship and solitude, challenge and relaxation, nature and technology, from coast-to-coast to around the globe. Rich with the particulars of water, light, and air, as well as a keen awareness of, as Verlyn Klinkenborg puts it in his introduction, “what is happening out there—in the deep, in the shallows, at the end of the line,” these reflections and recollections beautifully capture the natural world and one of life’s most challenging, perennial pursuits.

Author : James McVey
Publisher : Arbutus Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 097661040X

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The Wild Upriver and Other Stories by James McVey Pdf

In The Wild Upriver and Other Stories, 13 literary short stories cover three years in the life a young man whose world is changing as fast as he is, both threatened by civilization. Jack Young must create a path to adulthood from a wilderness cabin, through the woods and dunes, down the river, and out on the waters of Lake Michigan, where smooth glass can turn unforgiving waves in minutes. Jack is often alone, even with others, but a keen observer both of himself and the world around him. James McVey's first published book introduces an accomplished writer with rare economy of style who works confidently in simple declarative sentences.

Author : Joseph T. Hallinan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812968446

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Going Up the River by Joseph T. Hallinan Pdf

The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the world has ever known. In Going Up The River, Joseph Hallinan gets to the heart of America’s biggest growth industry, a self-perpetuating prison-industrial complex that has become entrenched without public awareness, much less voter consent. He answers, in an extraordinary way, the essential question: What, in human terms, is the price we pay? He has looked for answers to that question in every corner of the “prison nation,” a world far off the media grid — the America of struggling towns and cities left behind by the information age and desperate for jobs and money. Hallinan shows why the more prisons we build, the more prisoners we create, placating everyone at the expense of the voiceless prisoners, who together make up one of the largest migrations in our nation’s history.

Author : Gillian Candler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Aquatic insects
ISBN : 0947503358

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Up the River by Gillian Candler Pdf

The sixth title in the award-winning `explore & discover¿ series, Up the River: Explore & discover New Zealand¿s rivers, lakes and wetlands gives children an opportunity to look under the surface and see what special creatures live, around New Zealand¿s freshwater habitats ¿ our creeks, rivers, lakes and wetlands. Included in this title are animals ranging from the familiar p ̄u'keko to the rarely seen bittern, from the iconic eel to tiny whitebait, and some of the many barely known aquatic insects. Swimmable and drinkable fresh water are hot topics, and Up the River shows that many native animals depend on healthy waterways for a habitat, and their presence is often used as a sign of the water¿s health. Beautifully illustrated and impeccably researched, this is a wonderful and intriguing way for children to learn about New Zealand¿s freshwater environments. Previous `explore & discover¿ titles have: won the Elsie Locke Medal for non-fiction (2013), received Storylines awards (2014, 2015) and been finalists in the NZ Children¿s Book Awards (2013, 2015).

Author : Michael F. Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674744899

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Upriver by Michael F. Brown Pdf

In this remarkable story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for their pugnacity and fierce independence—remain determined, against long odds, to live life on their own terms. When Brown took up residence with the Awajún in 1976, he knew little about them other than their ancestors’ reputation as fearsome headhunters. The fledgling anthropologist was immediately impressed by his hosts’ vivacity and resourcefulness. But eventually his investigations led him into darker corners of a world where murderous vendettas, fear of sorcery, and a shocking incidence of suicide were still common. Peru’s Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s forced Brown to refocus his work elsewhere. Revisiting his field notes decades later, now with an older man’s understanding of life’s fragility, Brown saw a different story: a tribal society trying, and sometimes failing, to maintain order in the face of an expanding capitalist frontier. Curious about how the Awajún were faring, Brown returned to the site in 2012, where he found a people whose combative self-confidence had led them to the forefront of South America’s struggle for indigenous rights. Written with insight, sensitivity, and humor, Upriver paints a vivid picture of a rapidly growing population that is refashioning its warrior tradition for the twenty-first century. Embracing literacy and digital technology, the Awajún are using hard-won political savvy to defend their rainforest home and right of self-determination.

Author : Roo Borson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106018530508

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Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida by Roo Borson Pdf

In Roo Borson’s new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to increase its powers of concentration, to hearken simultaneously to the fully impinged-upon senses, the reflecting mind with its griefs and yearnings, the heart with its burden of live memory. Always “the line bends as the river bends,” a quick ever-adjusting music that carries in its current those cherished, perishable, details of eye and ear, mid-life reflections on loss and home, the subtle shifts in season suddenly made strange and re-awakened. Recurrently, probingly, the line returns to the place of poetry in our lives. In the spirit of Basho’s famous journey to the far north, Borson’s “short journey” reminds us of the role of poetry in shaping and deepening our engagement with the world.