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Framing Chief Leschi

Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice

By: Lisa Blee

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Framing Chief Leschi

Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice

By: Lisa Blee

Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice

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1469612844

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Monumental Mobility

The Memory Work of Massasoit

By: Lisa Blee,Jean M. O'Brien

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Monumental Mobility

The Memory Work of Massasoit

By: Lisa Blee,Jean M. O'Brien

Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit began to move and proliferate in ways one would not expect of generally stationary monuments tethered to place. The plaster model was donated to the artist's home state of Utah and prominently displayed in the state capitol; half a century later, it was caught up in a surprising case of fraud in the fine arts market. Versions of the statue now stand on Brigham Young University's campus; at an urban intersection in Kansas City, Missouri; and in countless homes around the world in the form of souvenir statuettes. As Lisa Blee and Jean M. O'Brien show in this thought-provoking book, the surprising story of this monumental statue reveals much about the process of creating, commodifying, and reinforcing the historical memory of Indigenous people. Dallin's statue, set alongside the historical memory of the actual Massasoit and his mythic collaboration with the Pilgrims, shows otherwise hidden dimensions of American memorial culture: an elasticity of historical imagination, a tight-knit relationship between consumption and commemoration, and the twin impulses to sanitize and grapple with the meaning of settler-colonialism.

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UNC Press Books

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1469648415

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On Gold Mountain

The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

By: Lisa See

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On Gold Mountain

The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

By: Lisa See

From the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author’s Chinese-American family, combining years of research with “fascinating family anecdotes, imaginative details, and the historical details of immigrant life” (Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club). "As engagingly readable as any novel." —Los Angeles Times Book Review In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather arrived in America, where he prescribed herbal remedies to immigrant laborers who were treated little better than slaves. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Lisa herself grew up playing in her family's antiques store in Los Angeles's Chinatown, listening to stories of missionaries and prostitutes, movie stars and Chinese baseball teams. See’s family history encompasses secret marriages, entrepreneurial genius, romance, racism, and much more, as two distinctly different cultures meet in a new world in this “lovingly rendered…vivid tableau of a family and an era” (People).

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Vintage

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1101910089

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Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination

By: Mary E. Kite,Bernard E. Whitley, Jr.,Lisa S. Wagner

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Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination

By: Mary E. Kite,Bernard E. Whitley, Jr.,Lisa S. Wagner

Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what psychological theory and research have to say about the nature, causes, and reduction of prejudice and discrimination. It balances a detailed discussion of theories and selected research with applied examples that ensure the material is relevant to students. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and addresses several interlocking themes. It first looks at the nature of prejudice and discrimination, followed by a discussion of research methods. Next come the psychological underpinnings of prejudice: the nature of stereotypes, the conditions under which stereotypes influence responses to other people, contemporary theories of prejudice, and how individuals’ values and belief systems are related to prejudice. Explored next are the development of prejudice in children and the social context of prejudice. The theme of discrimination is developed via discussions of the nature of discrimination, the experience of discrimination, and specific forms of discrimination, including gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, and appearance. The concluding theme is the reduction of prejudice. The book is accompanied by a comprehensive website featuring an Instructor Manual that contains activities and tools to help with teaching a prejudice and discrimination course; PowerPoint slides for every chapter; and a Test Bank with short answer and multiple-choice exam questions for every chapter. This book is an essential companion for all students of prejudice and discrimination, including those in psychology, education, social work, business, communication studies, ethnic studies, and other disciplines. In addition to courses on prejudice and discrimination, this book will also appeal to those studying racism and diversity.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000589471

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Constructing Social Research

The Unity and Diversity of Method

By: Charles C. Ragin,Lisa M. Amoroso

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Constructing Social Research

The Unity and Diversity of Method

By: Charles C. Ragin,Lisa M. Amoroso

Constructing Social Research answers the question: What is social science? Updated throughout with new references and examples, the Third Edition of this innovative text by Charles C. Ragin and Lisa M. Amoroso shows the unity within the diversity of activities called social research to help students understand how all social researchers construct representations of social life using theories, systematic data collection, and careful examination of that data.

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SAGE Publications

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1544322445

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Why Women Protest

Women's Movements in Chile

By: Lisa Baldez

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Why Women Protest

Women's Movements in Chile

By: Lisa Baldez

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Cambridge University Press

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0521010063

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Modes of Discipline

Women, Conservatism, and the Novel After the French Revolution

By: Lisa Wood

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Modes of Discipline

Women, Conservatism, and the Novel After the French Revolution

By: Lisa Wood

Brings together British women writers who opposed what they figured as the poison of revolutionary thought, and who used the novel form in their search for a vehicle to carry a counterrevolutionary antidote. Reading Jane West, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Brunton, Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, and Jane Porter in relation to each other and to their antirevolutionary contemporaries, this study shows that they developed an alternative feminine (but not feminist) discourse within the broader context of conservative print culture.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838755275

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9780838755273

The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods: A-L ; Vol. 2, M-Z Index

By: Lisa M. Given

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The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods: A-L ; Vol. 2, M-Z Index

By: Lisa M. Given

An encyclopedia about various methods of qualitative research.

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1412941636

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Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion

Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador's Civil War

By: Anna Lisa Peterson

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Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion

Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador's Civil War

By: Anna Lisa Peterson

Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion explores the ways that Salvadoran Catholics sought to make sense of political violence in their country in the 1970s and 1980s by constructing a theological ethics that could both explain repression in religious terms and propose specific responses to violence. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book highlights the ways that progressive Catholicism offered a justification and tools for political resistance in the face of extraordinary destruction. Using the case of Catholicism in El Salvador, the book explores the nature of religious responses to social crisis and the ways that ordinary believers construct and strive to live by ethical systems. By highlighting the importance of theological belief, of narrative, and of religious rationality in political mobilization, it touches questions of general interest to readers concerned with the social role of religion and ethics.

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240

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SUNY Press

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0791431819

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9780791431818

Alias Hook

By: Lisa Jensen

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Alias Hook

By: Lisa Jensen

Meet Captain James Benjamin Hook, a witty, educated Restoration-era privateer cursed to play villain to a pack of malicious little boys in a pointless war that never ends. But everything changes when Stella Parrish, a forbidden grown woman, dreams her way to the Neverland in defiance of Pan's rules. From the glamour of the Fairy Revels, to the secret ceremonies of the First Tribes, to the mysterious underwater temple beneath the Mermaid Lagoon, the magical forces of the Neverland open up for Stella as they never have for Hook"--

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Macmillan

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1250042151

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Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines

Professional Intimacy in Hospital Nursing

By: Lisa C. Ruchti

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Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines

Professional Intimacy in Hospital Nursing

By: Lisa C. Ruchti

Every day, hospital nurses must negotiate intimate trust and intimate conflict in an effort to provide quality health care. However, interactions between nurses and patients—which often require issues of privacy—are sometimes made more uncomfortable with inappropriate behavior, as when a patient has a racist and/or sexist outburst. Not all nurses are prepared to handle such intimacy, but they can all learn how to "be caring." In Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines, Lisa Ruchti carefully examines this fragile relationship between intimacy and professional care, and provides a language for patients, nurses, and administrators to teach, conduct, and advocate for knowledgeable and skilled intimate care in a hospital setting. She also recommends best training practices and practical and effective policy changes to handle conflicts. Ruchti shows that "caring" is not just a personality characteristic but is work that is structured by intersections of race, gender, and nationality.

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Temple University Press

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1439907544

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9781439907542

Transportation Long Ago and Today

By: Lisa M. Bolt Simons

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Transportation Long Ago and Today

By: Lisa M. Bolt Simons

What was getting from place to place like in the days of old? What were some of the biggest inventions that brought us to the fantastic subway systems found in cities today? Discover how transportation has changed over hundreds of years, and where it might be headed in the future.

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Capstone

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1491402989

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Story Of Reo Joe

Work, Kin, And Community

By: Lisa Fine

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Story Of Reo Joe

Work, Kin, And Community

By: Lisa Fine

A collision of history and memory.

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Temple University Press

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1592137881

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9781592137886

Pen and Parchment

Drawing in the Middle Ages

By: Melanie Holcomb,Lisa Bessette

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Pen and Parchment

Drawing in the Middle Ages

By: Melanie Holcomb,Lisa Bessette

Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588393186

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9781588393180

Henry Ford

A 4D Book

By: Lisa M. Bolt Simons

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Henry Ford

A 4D Book

By: Lisa M. Bolt Simons

Introduces the life and career of the automotive engineer and industrialist Henry Ford.

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154352771X

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Suburban Warriors

The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition

By: Lisa McGirr

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Suburban Warriors

The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition

By: Lisa McGirr

In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B. Utt that "barefooted Africans" were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Yet, in Utt's home district of Orange County, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century. Suburban Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education; pro-life Democrats gradually drawn into conservative circles; and new arrivals finding work in defense companies and a sense of community in Orange County's mushrooming evangelical churches. We learn what motivated them and how they interpreted their political activity. Lisa McGirr shows that their movement was not one of marginal people suffering from status anxiety, but rather one formed by successful entrepreneurial types with modern lifestyles and bright futures. She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western libertarianism. While introducing these rank-and-file activists, McGirr chronicles Orange County's rise from "nut country" to political vanguard. Through this history, she traces the evolution of the New Right from a virulent anticommunist, anti-establishment fringe to a broad national movement nourished by evangelical Protestantism. Her original contribution to the social history of politics broadens—and often upsets—our understanding of the deep and tenacious roots of popular conservatism in America.

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Princeton University Press

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1400866200

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9781400866205

The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

By: Lisa McGirr

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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

By: Lisa McGirr

“[This] fine history of Prohibition . . . could have a major impact on how we read American political history.”—James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement still familiar today: the war on alcohol was waged disproportionately in African American, immigrant, and poor white communities. Alongside Jim Crow and other discriminatory laws, Prohibition brought coercion into everyday life and even into private homes. Its targets coalesced into an electoral base of urban, working-class voters that propelled FDR to the White House. This outstanding history also reveals a new genome for the activist American state, one that shows the DNA of the right as well as the left. It was Herbert Hoover who built the extensive penal apparatus used by the federal government to combat the crime spawned by Prohibition. The subsequent federal wars on crime, on drugs, and on terror all display the inheritances of the war on alcohol. McGirr shows the powerful American state to be a bipartisan creation, a legacy not only of the New Deal and the Great Society but also of Prohibition and its progeny. The War on Alcohol is history at its best—original, authoritative, and illuminating of our past and its continuing presence today.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393248798

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9780393248791

Gender and Governance

By: Lisa D. Brush

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Gender and Governance

By: Lisa D. Brush

States are where the power lies, and power is gendered. With these simple statements, Lisa Brush turns a gendered lens on states, power, and governance, showing the inherent inequalities in political systems and gender systems and how they intersect. Her gender lens allows a clear assessment of the different effects state power and social polices have on men and women, highlighting both difference and dominance in the governance of gender. She then turns her eye on the way in which state power supports male dominance, the gender of governance. Her nuanced arguments supported by cases from the American and other western political systems will make this book a useful antidote to traditional textbooks on government, the state, politics, and social policy.

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Rowman Altamira

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0585483086

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9780585483085

Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy

By: Lisa D. Brush

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Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy

By: Lisa D. Brush

Drawing on longitudinal interviews, government records, and personal narratives, feminist sociologist Lisa Brush examines the intersection of work, welfare, and battering. Brush contrasts conventional wisdom with illuminating analyses of social change and social structures, highlighting how race and class shape women's experiences with poverty and abuse and how "domestic" violence moves out of the home and follows women to work.Brush's unique interview data on work-related control, abuse, and sabotage, together with administrative data on earnings, welfare, and restraining orders, offer new empirical insights on the impact of work requirements and other post-welfare rescission changes on the lives of low-income and battered mothers. Personal narratives provide first-hand accounts of women's perceptions of the broad forces that shape the circumstances of their everyday lives, their health, their prospects, their ambitions, and their diagnoses of their world. Deftly integrating the political and the personal, the administrative and the narrative, the economic and the emotional, Brush underscores the vital need to reexamine ideas, policies, and practices meant to keep women safe and economically productive that instead trap women in poverty and abuse.With her fresh approach to problems people often see as intractable, Brush offers a new way of calculating the costs of battering for the policy makers and practitioners concerned with the well being of poor, battered women and their families and communities.

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Oxford University Press

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0195398505

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9780195398502

Wicca Nature Magic

A Beginner's Guide to Working with Nature Spellcraft

By: Lisa Chamberlain

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Wicca Nature Magic

A Beginner's Guide to Working with Nature Spellcraft

By: Lisa Chamberlain

Lisa Chamberlain shows you how to harness nature energies to enhance and improve your life—whether you’re well versed in other forms of magic but are just discovering nature magic, or are new to magic altogether. For most Witches, nature is the most sacred earthly manifestation—the practice of nature magic has endless potential. Bestselling author Lisa Chamberlain covers how nature was harnessed in ritual and magic by our pagan ancestors; the significance of trees and other plants to Wiccan cosmology and ritual practice; advice for forging (and deepening) personal magical connections with trees near you; profiles of 13 common magical trees and key flowers and plants—their lore, energetic properties, and magical uses; nature spirits; how to safely and respectfully harvest magical ingredients from nature; ideas for making your own wand; nature magic spells, meditations, rituals, and more.

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Union Square & Co.

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1454941073

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9781454941071

Framing Chief Leschi

Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice

By: Lisa Blee

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Framing Chief Leschi

Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice

By: Lisa Blee

In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians. A party of militiamen traveling through Nisqually country was ambushed, and two men were shot from behind and fatally wounded. After the war, Chief Leschi, a Nisqually leader, was found guilty of murder by a jury of settlers and hanged in the territory's first judicial execution. But some 150 years later, in 2004, the Historical Court of Justice, a symbolic tribunal that convened in a Tacoma museum, reexamined Leschi's murder conviction and posthumously exonerated him. In Framing Chief Leschi, Lisa Blee uses this fascinating case to uncover the powerful, lasting implications of the United States' colonial past. Though the Historical Court's verdict was celebrated by Nisqually people and many non-Indian citizens of Washington, Blee argues that the proceedings masked fundamental limits on justice for Indigenous people seeking self-determination. Underscoring critical questions about history and memory, Framing Chief Leschi challenges readers to consider whether liberal legal structures can accommodate competing narratives and account for the legacies of colonialism to promote social justice today.

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UNC Press Books

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1469612852

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9781469612850

The Potato Experience

Wonderful Ways with Potato Outers and Innards : Recipes, Illustrations, Calligraphy, and Hand-lettering

By: Lisa Tanner

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The Potato Experience

Wonderful Ways with Potato Outers and Innards : Recipes, Illustrations, Calligraphy, and Hand-lettering

By: Lisa Tanner

Features recipes for potato skins and potato fillings made with fish, chicken, meat, cheese, and vegetables and includes ideas for appetizers, salads, entrees, and sandwiches.

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