Download or read book Native North Americans in Literature for Youth written by Alice Crosetto and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native North Americans have rich and diverse cultures and traditions. However, many misconceptions, prejudices, and stereotypes exist due to the lack of understanding and ignorance of these cultures. It is important that children and adolescents learn about and appreciate the invaluable contributions that North American Native groups have made to American society. Equally important is the availability of resources that accurately and objectively portray the historical events that occurred when European settlers displaced thousands of Native North Americans from their ancestral homelands. In Native North Americans in Literature for Youth, Alice Crosetto and Rajinder Garcha identify hundreds of appropriate and quality resources, including books, Internet sites, and media titles for K-12 students and educators. Entries are subdivided into chapters covering geographic regions, history, religions, social life, customs and traditions, nations, oral tradition, biographies, and fiction. Additionally, there are chapters for general reference resources, curricular resources for educators, media, and Internet sites. Annotations provide complete bibliographical descriptions of the entries, and each entry is identified with the grade level for which it is best suited. Reviews, awards, series, and URLs for supplemental online resources are also included. Anyone—especially students, teachers, librarians, and parents—interested in locating useful and accurate resources regarding Native North Americans will find this reference book a helpful and essential tool.

Download or read book Kuna Art and Shamanism written by Paolo Fortis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana—wooden anthropomorphic carvings—which play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Paolo Fortis at last brings to light this crucial cultural facet, illuminating not only Kuna aesthetics and art production but also their relation to wider social and cosmological concerns. Exploring an art form that informs birth and death, personhood, the dream world, the natural world, religion, gender roles, and ecology, Kuna Art and Shamanism provides a rich understanding of this society's visual system, and the ways in which these groundbreaking ethnographic findings can enhance Amerindian scholarship overall. Fortis also explores the fact that to ask what it means for the Kuna people to carve the figure of a person is to pose a riddle about the culture's complete concept of knowing. Also incorporating notions of landscape (islands, gardens, and ancient trees) as well as cycles of life, including the influence of illness, Fortis places the statues at the center of a network of social relationships that entangle people with nonhuman entities. As an activity carried out by skilled elderly men, who possess embodied knowledge of lifelong transformations, the carving process is one that mediates mortal worlds with those of immortal primordial spirits. Kuna Art and Shamanism immerses readers in this sense of unity and opposition between soul and body, internal forms and external appearances, and image and design.

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Download or read book Tales of the Dinner Belle written by Brenda Stanley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy, quick, and delicious recipes. Simple steps and simple ingredients that make home style cooking something everyone can do.

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Download or read book Birkon Mikdash M at written by Jeremy Gimbel and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking publication fills a need for a handy source for Shabbat, weekday, and holiday blessings and songs. Created by NFTY, this attractive ebook can be used in the home, the synagogue, camps, youth groups, weddings, and anywhere that Jews gather. Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Download or read book The Ascendancy written by John Weiskopf and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a beanstalk starts growing out of the rubble of the World Trade Center, chaos erupts in New York City. Jack Tott, a twenty-six-year-old musician, believes that if he climbs the beanstalk, he will somehow find the means to help save his dying sister. Caitlin Bingham, an archaeoastronomer, suspects that the beanstalk is related to the mysterious disappearance of Pachakutek, a planet she recently discovered. But the lands and inhabitants in the world above the beanstalk are beyond anything Jack or Caitlin could have imagined. A strange cave, a huge thorn maze, a dapper five-foot-tall mosquito, a paranoid bird who is the last of his species, and an ancient Incan civilization are just part of the adventure that awaits Jack and Caitlin. With a lightning-quick pace and basis in real events of the twenty-first century, The Ascendancy offers hope and a new mythology for the world at this volatile point in our history.

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Download or read book Mishkan T filah For Gatherings written by Elyse D. Frishman and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lightweight edition of Mishkan T'filah, combining weekday and Shabbat services. Perfect for meetings, conferences, kallot, and retreats. Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Download or read book Lust Geass Vol 3 written by Osamu Takahashi and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Makoto’s confession, Souta finds himself having to balance a delicate three-way relationship. Trying to keep both lust-crazed girls satisfied while also keeping his cheating a secret from Rikka is hard enough, but Zepar isn’t through with him yet…as the next to fall victim to her curse is none other than their homeroom teacher, Tateaki-sensei! Faced with the domineering charms of a lonely adult woman, will Souta be sucked into yet another immoral affair?