Book Description
A fascinating look at Lakota lifeways and history through the voices of medicine men and White Hat s personal stories"
Author : Albert White Hat
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Lakota Indians
ISBN : 9781607811770
A fascinating look at Lakota lifeways and history through the voices of medicine men and White Hat s personal stories"
Author : Scott M. Youngstedt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739173502
Surviving with Dignity explores three key interconnected themes--structural violence, suffering, and surviving with dignity--through examining the lived experiences of first and second-generation migrant Hausa men in Niamey over the past two decades in the current neoliberal moment. Colonialism, state mismanagement, structural adjustment, and global neoliberalism have inflicted structural violence on Nigeriens by denying them human and particularly socioeconomic rights and relegating them to a status at--or very near--the bottom of UN Human Development Index in each year of the past decade. As a result of structural violence, most Hausa of Niamey suffer grinding and intractable poverty that has intensified over the past two decades. Suffering is a recurrent and expected condition; it is the normal condition. The central goal of the book is to explain the material (migration and informal economy work) and symbolic (meaning-making) strategies that Hausa individuals and communities have deployed in their struggles not only to literally survive in the face of economic austerity on the outer periphery of the global economy, but also to survive with dignity. Despite daunting challenges, many Hausa men find strength and patience in their humble devotion to Islam, cherish their vibrant sociability and gracious hospitality, deeply value extraordinary conversational virtuosity and knowledge, deploy humor in complex transcendent, defensive and self-critical ways, perpetuate a sense of hope and optimism for the future, articulate their own modernities, and strive relentlessly to feel connected to the modern world at large. Extreme poverty created by socioeconomic injustice constitutes an unacceptable assault on human dignity. Hausa men's remarkable strength does not negate the reality of the socioeconomic injustices they face. Their dire poverty in a world of plenty is unacceptable even when they handle it gracefully.
Author : John D. Loftin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253341969
Includes material on shamanism, death, witchcraft, myth, tricksters, and kachina initiations.
Author : Therese Zoe
Publisher : Land Is Our Storybook
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781897252444
Therese Zoe, from Gamètì in the Northwest Territories, shares her love of her community and translates the sacred stories and traditional wisdom of Elders.
Author : Andrei V. Golovnev
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501727222
The Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia is one of the few remaining places on earth where a nomadic people retain a traditional culture. Here in the tundra, the Nenets—one of the few indigenous minorities of the Russian North—follow a lifestyle shaped by the seasonal migrations of the reindeer they herd. For decades under Soviet rule, they weathered harsh policies designed to subjugate them. How the Nenets successfully resisted indoctrination from a powerful totalitarian state and how today they face new challenges to the survival of their culture—these are the subjects of this compelling and lavishly illustrated book.The authors—one the head of a team of Russian ethnographers who have spent many seasons on the peninsula, the other an American attorney specializing in issues affecting the Arctic—introduce the rich culture of the Nenets. They recount how Soviet authorities attempted to restructure the native economy, by organizing herders into collectives and redistributing reindeer and pasture lands, as well as to eradicate the native belief system, by killing shamans and destroying sacred sites. Over the past century, the Nenets have also witnessed the piecemeal destruction of their fragile environment and the forced settlement of part of their population. To understand how this society has survived against all odds, the authors consider the unique strengths of the culture and the characteristics of the outside forces confronting it.Today, the Yamal is known for a new reason: it is the site of one of the world's largest natural gas deposits. The authors discuss the dangers Russian and Western developers present to the Nenets people and recommend policies for land use which will help to preserve this remarkable culture.For information on the documentaries about life—both human and animal—above the Arctic Circle that Andrei V. Golovnev and Gail Osherenko have made, visit www.filmsfromthenorth.com.
Author : Winona LaDuke
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1608466620
“Through the voices of ordinary Native Americans . . . LaDuke is able to transform highly complex issues into stories that touch the heart.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States The indigenous imperative to honor nature is undermined by federal laws approving resource extraction through mining and drilling. Formal protections exist for Native American religious expression—but not for the places and natural resources integral to ceremonies. Under what conditions can traditional beliefs be best practiced? From the author of All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, Recovering the Sacred features a wealth of native research and hundreds of interviews with indigenous scholars and activists. “Documents the remarkable stories of indigenous communities whose tenacity and resilience has enabled them to reclaim the lands, resources, and life ways after enduring centuries of incalculable loss.” —Wilma Mankiller, author of Every Day is a Good Day
Author : Paula L. W. Sabloff
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780924171901
"Dr. D. Bumaa, 20th-century historian at the National Museum of Mongolian History, then presents the exciting history of Mongolia's century-long struggle to establish independence, first from Manchu Chinese feudal overlords and then from Soviety Communists.".
Author : Frances Densmore
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 1913
Category : History
ISBN : 5875565926
Author : Carolyn Kremers
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This stunning narrative written by a teacher of the Yup'ik Eskimo village of Tununak ""is a memoir worth reading, "" reports the ""Anchorage Daily News.""
Author : Holly Doyne
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Iraq War, 2003-2011
ISBN : 0595375952
In April 2003, I said goodbye to my husband and children before leaving for Kuwait on a 12-month hardship tour. It was to be at least six months before mid-tour, if leave would be allowed by then. Checked in, and caught Lufthansa out of Frankfurt. Ever have one of those dreams in which you taxi forever and go nowhere? This was one of those off the end of the earth type experiences. With that, U.S. Army Physician Holly Doyne departed Germany for an assignment to Camp Doha as Command Surgeon, ARCENT-Kuwait, for what became a prolonged tour. This is her record of that time. It is about battling with the heat and the dust in the desert. It is about ordered chaos and confusion tempered with caring. It is a warm and lively account by a determined and compassionate physician who went to conquer, assigned to a location where making a difference really mattered.