By revisiting some of the classics of the genre and offering critical readings of their distinctive qualities and shades of meaning, Purdy celebrates their dynamic literary qualities. Interwoven with this personal reflection on the last thirty years of work in the genre are interviews with prominent Native American scholars and writers (including Paula Gunn Allen, Simon Ortiz, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, and Louis Owens), who offer their own insights about Native literatures and the future of the genre. In this book their voices provide the original, central conversation that leads to read.
By revisiting some of the classics of the genre and offering critical readings of their distinctive qualities and shades of meaning, Purdy celebrates their dynamic literary qualities. Interwoven with this personal reflection on the last thirty years of work in the genre are interviews with prominent Native American scholars and writers (including Paula Gunn Allen, Simon Ortiz, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, and Louis Owens), who offer their own insights about Native literatures and the future of the genre. In this book their voices provide the original, central conversation that leads to read.
Without Destroying Ourselves is an intellectual history of Native activism seeking greater access to and control of higher education in the twentieth century. John A. Goodwin traces themes of Henry Roe Cloud’s (Ho-Chunk) vision for Native intellectual leadership and empowerment in the early 1900s to the later missions of tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and education-based, self-determination movements of the 1960s onward. Vital to Cloud’s work was the idea of how to build from Native identity and adapt without destroying that identity. As the central themes of the movement for Native control in higher education developed over the course of several decades, a variety of Native activists carried Cloud’s vision forward. Goodwin explores how Elizabeth Bender Cloud (Ojibwe), D’Arcy McNickle (Salish Kootenai), Jack Forbes (Powhatan-Renapé, Delaware Lenape), and others built on and contributed to this common thread of Native intellectual activism. Goodwin demonstrates that Native activism for self-determination was never snuffed out by the swing of the federal government’s pendulum away from tribal governance and toward termination. Moreover, efforts for Native control in education remained a vital aspect of that activism. Without Destroying Ourselves documents this period through the full accreditation of TCUs in the late 1970s and reinforces TCUs’ continuing relevance in confronting the unique needs and challenges of Native communities today.
Life-long friends and veterans of war, Clay and Tom settle into their ideal lives, fishing the rugged, picturesque coastline of the Pacific Northwest during its annual salmon runs. Haunting local bars, trekking the rainforest of coastal mountains, feasting on local abundance with friends and lovers, they seem destined to carry on longstanding traditions of generations who have aligned their lives to the land and sea in a small, bucolic fishing port. That is, until a corporate consortium builds a fish hatchery and processing plant in its bay, at a time when the ill effects of climate change and depleting resources conspire to rupture the community’s fabric. The tensions, violence, and intrigue that result threaten to bring it all crashing down.
ABOUT THE BOOK: "Riding Shotgun is powered by quirky characters whose actions reveal the odd twists and turns of the American character in the latter 20th century, and today." "At once a travel narrative and a journey into the wild west of the latter 20th century, Riding Shotgun gives voice to the common, and uncommon, people whose lives play out in relative obscurity, although they are the indicators of our society's civic health." Riding Shotgun Into The Promised Land follows a returning war veteran as he tries to reintegrate into family and friends, but instead finds himself on a journey over the blue highways that trace the course of the Oregon Trail. In the hundred and fifty years since tens of thousands traveled the route looking for a new start, the land and people have changed, and the folks he encounters-from genetic engineers to militia members, Native Americans to New Age gurus-mark that change, but also reveal a core good will hidden in unexpected places. Coming home from a war is no easy matter, and if you are an inherently unlucky individual like the protagonist, it gets even more complicated. No longer interested in the things that still center his friends, he walks away from job and home looking for warmth and some vague idea of connections, only to fall into a series of events that spirals out of his control and sends him on a journey back across the Oregon Trail in modern times, looking for home. Attempting to act as a responsible citizen in the era of global warming, he accidentally kills a scientist; escaping the scene, he falls in with a truck driver who is also a gun runner for an anti-government militia; spending his last dollars for a good meal and night's lodging, he accepts a ride from a college co-ed financing her education through prostitution; looking for work, he is befriended by a family of Native Americans and given a job that provides him the time and insight necessary to reinvent himself. There is more: failed towns, racist posses murdering immigrants, and an itinerant New Age guru hopping from meeting to meeting in his BMW along this well worn, mythic trail. FROM THE PUBLISHER, RIVER CANYON PRESS: During the production of this title, we took great care to reduce the use of raw materials, paper, inks, and energy--even incorporating those choices into the manuscript design and final book size. The layout and editing was completed electronically, and our decision to print this title domestically eliminates the need for over-ocean shipping.
Many Americans are familiar with the real, but repeatedly stereotyped problem of alcohol abuse in Indian country. Most know about the Prohibition Era and reformers who promoted passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, among them the members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. But few people are aware of how American Indian women joined forces with the WCTU to press for positive change in their communities, a critical chapter of American cultural history explored in depth for the first time in In League Against King Alcohol. Drawing on the WCTU’s national records as well as state and regional organizational newspaper accounts and official state histories, historian Thomas John Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country. His work reveals how Native American women in the organization embraced a type of social, economic, and political progress that their white counterparts supported and recognized—while maintaining distinctly Native elements of sovereignty, self-determination, and cultural preservation. They asserted their identities as Indigenous women, albeit as Christian and progressive Indigenous women. At the same time, through their mutual participation, white WCTU members formed conceptions about Native people that they subsequently brought to bear on state and local Indian policy pertaining to alcohol, but also on education, citizenship, voting rights, and land use and ownership. Lappas’s work places Native women at the center of the temperance story, showing how they used a women’s national reform organization to move their own goals and objectives forward. Subtly but significantly, they altered the welfare and status of American Indian communities in the early twentieth century.
The story is about brothers Ed and John growing up with their dog and pony on the campus of Berry Schools, now Berry College, in the hills of North Georgia and their relationships with students and staff. The campus is one of the largest campuses in the world, which leads to many funny and interesting experiences. Their Military Service during W.W.II. Back together after the war they both marry and finish their college education at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.
John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. The study provides a summary of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and analyses key episodes from 1900 to 2000. These include attempts to censure Olga Nethersole for her production of Sappho in 1901 and the theatre riots of 1913 that greeted the Abbey Theatre's production of Playboy of the Western World. Houchin explores the efforts to suppress plays in the 1920s that dealt with transgressive sexual material and investigates Congress' politically motivated assaults on plays and actors during the 1930s and 1940s. He investigates the impact of racial violence, political assassinations and the Vietnam War on the trajectory of theatre in the 1960s and concludes by examining the response to gay activist plays such as Angels in America.
With a chapter on public procurement by Sarah Hannaford ; A commentary on JCT forms of contract by Adirian Williamson, and a commentary of the infrastructure conditions of contract by John Uff
The Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political contexts for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 16 sets comprising this series.The essays in the set combine biography, criticism, and in some cases, original interviews to tell the story of each author. This set includes 70 biographical/critical essays on such writers as Rachel Carson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Gary Snyder and 12 general subject essays.
The second edition of History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago is a tribute to Frank Randall's vision and resource to Chicago area architects, engineers, preservation specialists, and other members of the building industry."--BOOK JACKET.
Few people would argue with the films selected for detailed notices and reviews in this book. Many of the movies are award-winners, and most chalked up impressive figures at the box-office. Who would dispute the inclusion of Citizen Kane or Rebecca or The Best Years of Our Lives? However, along with The Yearling and Reap the Wild Wind and Hello, Frisco, Hello, I've also included a few surprises. A magnificent publication. -- Rodney Bourke in International Movie Making (April 2006).
Divided into two parts, this text examines both the general principles that permeate medical law and issues which arise in relation to specific areas of medical treatment.
This edition provides an authoritative and detailed account of contract law. It is essential reading for any student of contract law, and a valuable source of reference for practitioners and academics.
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