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Being Cowlitz

How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity

By: Christine Dupres

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Being Cowlitz

How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity

By: Christine Dupres

Without a recognized reservation or homeland, what keeps an Indian tribe together? How can members of the tribe understand their heritage and pass it on to younger generations? For Christine Dupres, a member of the Cowlitz tribe of southwestern Washington State, these questions were personal as well as academic. In Being Cowlitz: How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity, what began as the author’s search for her own history opened a window into the practices and narratives that sustained her tribe’s identity even as its people were scattered over several states. Dupres argues that the best way to understand a tribe is through its stories. From myths and spiritual traditions defining the people’s relationship to the land to the more recent history of cultural survival and engagement with the U.S. government, Dupres shows how stories are central to the ongoing process of forming a Cowlitz identity. Through interviews and profiles of political leaders, Dupres reveals the narrative and rhetorical strategies that protect and preserve the memory and culture of the tribe. In the process, she creates a blueprint for cultural preservation that current and future Cowlitz tribal leaders--as well as other indigenous activists--can use to keep tribal memories alive.

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Being Cowlitz

How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity

By: Christine Dupres

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How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity

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The Kids on Ford Street

By: Christine Chatterton

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The Kids on Ford Street

By: Christine Chatterton

The Kids on Ford Street is a humorous memoir of growing up around Detroit in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It is the authors memories of the true escapades of herself, her two older brothers, and her baby sister, written from her childhood point of view. This was a time when kids were kids. Detroit was a growing, vibrant city, and life on Ford Street was always an exciting adventure. Follow the frequently funny, sometimes scary, occasionally sad, and often downright extraordinary life of Richard, Mike, Christine, and Sue as they get in and out of trouble despite the best efforts of their loving parents.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543431208

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9781543431209

The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination

By: Elizabeth Christine Russ

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The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination

By: Elizabeth Christine Russ

In a provocative new approach toward understanding transnational literary cultures, this study examines the specter of the plantation, that physical place most vividly associated with slavery in the Americas. For Elizabeth Russ, the plantation is not merely a literal location, but also a vexing rhetorical, ideological, and psychological trope through which intersecting histories of the New World are told. Through a series of precise, in-depth readings, Russ analyzes the discourse of the plantation through a number of suggestive pairings: male and female perspectives; U.S. and Spanish American traditions; and continental alongside island societies. To chart comparative elements in the development of the postslavery imagination in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, Russ distinguishes between a modern and a postmodern imaginary. The former privileges a familiar plot of modernity: the traumatic transition from a local, largely agrarian order to an increasingly anonymous industrialized society. The latter, abandoning nostalgia toward the past, suggests a new history using the strategies of performance, such as witnessing, reticency, and traversal. Authors examined include The Twelve Southerners, Fernando Ortiz, Teresa de la Parra, Eudora Welty, Antonio Benítez Rojo, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, and Mayra Santos-Febres, among others. Applying sharp analyses across a broad range of texts, Russ reveals how the language used to imagine communities influenced by the plantation has been gendered, racialized, and eroticized in ways that oppose the domination of an ever-shifting "North" while often reproducing the fundamental power divide. Her work moves beyond the North-South dichotomy that has often stymied scholarly work in Latin American studies and, importantly, provides a model for future hemispheric approaches.

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019537715X

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Ignite the Genius Within

Discover Your Full Potential

By: Christine Ranck,Christopher Lee Nutter

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Ignite the Genius Within

Discover Your Full Potential

By: Christine Ranck,Christopher Lee Nutter

Works to increase creative potential through the use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to stimulate the unconscious and the mind-body connection, and includes a podcast soundtrack.

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Penguin

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052595094X

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9780525950943

Offerings

By: Christine Sunderland

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Offerings

By: Christine Sunderland

Jack's haunted by fears of the past. Madeleine holds a powerful secret. And Rachelle is running away. For the last seventeen years, her husband, Jack, and son, Justin, have been Madeleine Seymour's world. Then, during Justin's wedding reception, Jack collapses. Jack needs surgery, and he insists it be performed by the doctor who perfected the procedure. But the doctor isn't reachable, and time is running out. Dr. Rachelle DuPres, plagued by memories of a deadly failure, flees America to search out her roots in her ancestral village in Provence, France. But as she tries to locate the graves of her Catholic uncles and her Jewish parents, will their roles in the Holocaust bring more angst-or the answers she so desperately seeks? A poignant story about choices made along the way...and the miracles of the heart. Set in the breathtaking beauty of France. The second in a trilogy. Don't miss Pilgrimage, the first title in the trilogy (set in Italy): It was a day when nothing should have gone wrong...but everything did.

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1602901716

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Being Cowlitz

Being Cowlitz

Being Cowlitz

Being Cowlitz

The Kids on Ford Street

The Kids on Ford Street

The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination

The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination

Ignite the Genius Within

Ignite the Genius Within

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Offerings

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