The Secret of No Face (an Ireokwa Epic)
Author: Everett Parker
Publisher: Healdsburg, Calif. : Native American Publishing Company
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Everett Parker
Publisher: Healdsburg, Calif. : Native American Publishing Company
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barbara Alice Mann
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780820441535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas provides a thorough, organized look at the social, political, economic, and religious roles of women among the Iroquois, explaining their fit with the larger culture. Gantowisas means more than simply «woman» - gantowisas is «woman acting in her official capacity» as fire-keeping woman, faith-keeping woman, gift-giving woman; leader, counselor, judge; Mother of the People. This is the light in which the reader will find her in Iroquoian Women. Barbara Alice Mann draws upon worthy sources, be they early or modern, oral or written, to present a Native American point of view that insists upon accuracy, not only in raw reporting, but also in analysis. Iroquoian Women is the first book-length study to regard Iroquoian women as central and indispensable to Iroquoian studies.
Author: Barbara Alice Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0197655440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stories of the primordial woman who married a bear, appear in matriarchal traditions across the global North from Indigenous North America and Scandinavia to Russia and Korea. In The Woman Who Married the Bear, authors Barbara Alice Mann, a scholar of Indigenous American culture, and Kaarina Kailo, who specializes in the cultures of Northern Europe, join forces to examine these Woman-Bear stories, their common elements, and their meanings in the context of matriarchal culture. The authors reach back 35,000 years to tease out different threads of Indigenous Woman-Bear traditions, using the lens of bear spirituality to uncover the ancient matriarchies found in rock art, caves, ceremonies, rituals, and traditions. Across cultures, in the earliest known traditions, women and bears are shown to collaborate through star configurations and winter cave-dwelling, symbolized by the spring awakening from hibernation followed by the birth of "cubs." By the Bronze Age, however, the story of the Woman-Bear marriage had changed: it had become a hunting tale, refocused on the male hunter. Throughout the book, Mann and Kailo offer interpretations of this earliest known Bear religion in both its original and its later forms. Together, they uncover the maternal cultural symbolism behind the bear marriage and the Original Instructions given by Bear to Woman on sustainable ecology and lifeways free of patriarchy and social stratification.
Author: Geary Hobson
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780826305688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gives a sampling of the work of contemporary young American Indian writers.
Author: David E. Washburn
Publisher: Inquiry International
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780822942061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jack W. Marken
Publisher: A H M Publications
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Abraham Chapman
Publisher: New York : New American Library
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection, drawing on Indian memories, symbolism and critical evaluations, adds to our understanding of both the traditional and contemporary literature of and about the American Indian. The whole spectrum of thought about Indian literature is covered here, starting with a Seneca legend on the origin of storytelling; progressing to nineteenth century commentaries by writers such as the Christian convert George Copway (Kah-Ge-Ga-Bowh), novelist William Gilmore Simms, and pioneer anthropologist Daniel G. Brinton; and finally presenting modern-day views by Tristram P. Coffin, Kenneth Rexroth, N. Scott Momaday, Jorge Luis Borges, and Paula Gunn Allen. The subject of Indian humor is delightfully examined by Vine Deloria, Jr., and the now classic texts of scholars such as Franz Boas and Constance Rourke are also included.