The quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world's most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people...
Social life and customs
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Author:Hurston, Zora NealeSummary: - Author:Dorais, Louis-JacquesSummary:
Words of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author's decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable,...
- Author:MUNRO, AliceSummary:
A collection of short stories: Royal beatings, Privilege, Half a grapefruit, Wild swans, The beggar maid, Mischief, Providence, Simon's luck, Spelling, Who do you think you are?
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Author:Olsen, SylviaSummary:Joey is a happy Nuu-chah-nulth boy, eager to help and quick to see the bright side of things. But when he loses his beloved grandmother, the sun goes out in his world. Fortunately, she has left something of herself behind--a song, which...
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Author:Lowinger, Kathy, Yellowhorn, EldonSummary:What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the...
- Author:Joyal, Michael, Hemphill, LucySummary:
In this final installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hemphill once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the forest and the quiet sentinels that...
- Author:SHANNON, RobSummary:
The advent of the town's Power House not only supplied electricity, but, wonder of wonders, ICE! Wheat farming, sheep mustering, learning to fly and coping with city ways are all recounted. Most striking of all is the theme of one...
- Author:Yurk, JonSummary:
A provocative look at the vital connection between human beings, the natural world and meaningful knowledge. While tracking a lion with a Samburu headman and then, later, eluding human assailants who may be tracking him, Jon Turk...
- Author:Tardif, Marie-Josée, Rankin, DominiqueSummary:
Born on the banks of the majestic Harricana River, in the Abitibi region of Quebec, young Dominique Rankin was intended to succeed his father as Hereditary Chief and Medicine Man. But colonial encroachment on Indigenous Lands and...
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Author:Kulbak, MosheSummary:This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the 20th century. The Zelmenyaners describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by...
- Author:Diamond, Jared M.Summary:
Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.
- Author:Kingston, Maxine HongSummary:
- Author:Connerney, RichardSummary:
India's future will be determined not only by economic development, but also by a dynamic traditional culture that continues to develop along its own lines sometimes in concert, and sometimes in conflict with material enrichment. India...
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Author:King, ThomasSummary:In his 2003 Massey lecture, award-winning author and scholar Thomas King looks at the breadth and depth of Native experience and imagination. Beginning with Native oral stories, King weaves his way through literature and history,...
- Author:Patel, SajniSummary:
Strong-willed and proudly single, an engineer walks out when her parents set her up with a lawyer -- but when work brings them together again, she just might give love a second chance. Liya Thakkar is a successful biochemical engineer,...
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Author:Alexie, ShermanSummary:In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature - the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks...
- Author:LIM, CatherineSummary:
One morning in Singapore more than fifty years ago, The Venerable One, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver Frond, is amusing herself with a comic song-and-dance act based on popular gossip - about him...
- Author:Rebus, AnnaSummary:
Provides information on the Sioux Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
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Author:Meuse, Theresa, Stevens, ArthurSummary:Matthew loves to play games with his friends and share his toys with them. But most of all he loves to share the special treasures that remind him of his First Nations culture. Perhaps his favourite treasure is the medicine pouch that...
- Author:Webster, ChristineSummary:
Provides information on the Salish Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
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