A Native American's Message for America


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America is facing its greatest challenges since its inception and the reason for this is that we no longer acknowledge our Creator or His righteous laws. In our arrogance, He has given us over to foolishness and our worst passions. To turn us back to Him, He has allowed us to experience political divisiveness, increasing poverty, the growing threat of natural disasters, while also allowing our enemies to gain strength while we become weaker. As a Native American whose ancestors lived on the edge of America for thousands of years, Rev. Dr. Johnson brings a unique, insightful message for this time. For anyone interested in how this nation became great and why it is now being threatened, this is a must read!




A Native American's Message for America


Book Description

America is facing its greatest challenges since its inceptionand the reason for this is that we no longer acknowledgeour Creator or His righteous laws. In our arrogance, Hehas given us over to foolishness and our worst passions.To turn us back to Him, He has allowed us to experiencepolitical divisiveness, increasing poverty, the growing threatof natural disasters, while also allowing our enemies to gainstrength while we become weaker. As a Native Americanwhose ancestors lived on the edge of America for thousandsof years, Rev. Dr. Johnson brings a unique, insightfulmessage for this time. For anyone interested in how thisnation became great and why it is now being threatened,this is a must read!




The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee


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FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal. "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR "An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation's past.." - New York Times Book Review, front page A sweeping history—and counter-narrative—of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present. The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappear—and not despite but rather because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence—the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.




The Wisdom of the Native Americans


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The teachings of the Native Americans provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the simple beauties of life. This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning. Taken from writings, orations, and recorded observations of life, this book selects the best of Native American wisdom and distills it to its essence in short, digestible quotes — perhaps even more timely now than when they were first written. In addition to the short passages, this edition includes the complete Soul of an Indian, as well as other writings by Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman), one of the great interpreters of American Indian thought, and three great speeches by Chiefs Joseph, Seattle, and Red Jacket.




Giving Thanks


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A Native American Thanksgiving address, offered to Mother Earth in gratitude for her bounty and for the variety of her creatures




Native American Sayings and Quotes


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Native American sayings and quotes from influential Chiefs and countless tribes across what we now call America.




Native American History for Kids


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A chronicle of American indigenous life, this guide captures the history of the complex societies that lived in North America when European explorers first appeared on the continent. Not only a history of tribal nations, this exploration also includes profiles of famous Native Americans and their many contributions--from early leaders to superstar athletes, dancers, astronauts, authors, and actors. Readers will learn about Indian culture through hands-on activities, such as planting a Three Sisters Garden, making beef jerky in a low-temperature oven, weaving a basket out of folded newspaper strips, deciphering a World War II Navajo Code Talker message, and playing Ball-and-Triangle. An important look at life before the settlers until present day, this resource shows that Native American history is the history of all Americans.




Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians


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A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of the standard American history survey. Contributors reassess major events, themes, groups of historical actors, and approaches--social, cultural, military, and political--consistently demonstrating how Native American people, and questions of Native American sovereignty, have animated all the ways we consider the nation's past. The uniqueness of Indigenous history, as interwoven more fully in the American story, will challenge students to think in new ways about larger themes in U.S. history, such as settlement and colonization, economic and political power, citizenship and movements for equality, and the fundamental question of what it means to be an American. Contributors are Chris Andersen, Juliana Barr, David R. M. Beck, Jacob Betz, Paul T. Conrad, Mikal Brotnov Eckstrom, Margaret D. Jacobs, Adam Jortner, Rosalyn R. LaPier, John J. Laukaitis, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Robert J. Miller, Mindy J. Morgan, Andrew Needham, Jean M. O'Brien, Jeffrey Ostler, Sarah M. S. Pearsall, James D. Rice, Phillip H. Round, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and Scott Manning Stevens.




Native Americans in History


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Powerful stories of influential Native Americans—for kids ages 8 to 12 From every background and tribal nation, native people are a vital part of history. This collection of Native American stories for kids explores 15 Native Americans and some of the incredible things they achieved. Kids will explore the ways each of these people used their talents and beliefs to stand up for what's right and stay true to themselves and their community. Becoming a leader—Learn how Sitting Bull led with spiritual guidance and a strong will, and how Tecumseh inspired warriors to protect their communities from white American hostility. Staying strong—Discover athletes like Maria Tallchief, who broke barriers in ballet, and Jim Thorpe, who showed the world that a native man could win Olympic gold. Fighting for change—Find out how Deb Haaland and Suzan Harjo use their activism to raise awareness about Native American issues today. Go beyond other books on Native American history for kids with a closer look at notable native people who helped change the world.




American Indian Moses


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American Indian Moses: An essential and timely message for all Native Americans.A must read to understand their origin and, more importantly, their destiny.Timothy Dom Bucci, the author, was an ordained Evangelist in The Church of Jesus Christ (world headquarters in Monongahela, Pennsylvania). He was a zealous missionary and writer of pamphlets and articles. For over forty years he brought a special message to Native Americans in Oklahoma and various reservations in New York, Arizona, North Carolina and Ontario. He made many friends among the Native Americans and was a close friend of the late Chief Clinton Rickard of the Tuscarora Nation.In this book, Timothy confidently delivers his message that a Native American Indian will rise up among his own people in the near future to deliver them from spiritual bondage and social oppression. As Moses delivered his people thousands of years ago, so will this Native American. Timothy combines Biblical and Ancient American history to draw astonishing spiritual and cultural parallels between the ancient Israelites and the present-day Native American Indians including their common ancestry and destiny.From the PrefaceIn 1975 a small but mighty book was published. There were only several hundred copies printed at that time. Those close to the author of the book held on tightly to their copies since it was out of print before it could gain the audience it deserved. The book I am referring too is "American Indian Moses." We will backtrack for a moment to the late 1950's, would-be-author Timothy Dom Bucci is speaking to me of the great promises in God's plan for the Native Peoples of the America's. I distinctly remember him talking at great length concerning the divine origin of the Translated Ancient American Writings commonly known as the Book of Mormon. As I grew older his encouraging words and the example he set in his life as a disciple of Jesus Christ left a great impression on me. The culmination of his life dedicated to such a beautiful cause was brought forth in the initial printing of this book. But Timothy D. Bucci's calling as a messenger, to spread the news of the brilliant future of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, was brought to paper and ink in the form of "American Indian Moses." Almost thirty years after the first printing a newly updated version is now available to all lovers of truth who desire to understand one of God's great unalterable truths. Never in the history of the United States of America has there been a greater need for a concise composition concerning the future events, which we will be swept up into. Never has there been a greater need for the light of Truth to dispel the spiritual heavy darkness that surrounds both the Native American and the citizens of this nation. I have waited with great enthusiasm for the opportunity to share the information in this book with those who I believe will not only find merit in it, but comfort and hope as it looks to the great events of the near future for both American Indians and Israel. And if not at first then maybe through the workings of the Great Spirit its truth will be confirmed.Read this book thoughtfully and prayerfully because its topic is timely and relevant to each and every one of us and most importantly to the Native Peoples of North, Central and South America. George A. Kovacic, Eldest Grandson