High Hawk
Title | High Hawk PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Frykholm |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2024-10-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1609389743 |
It’s 1970, and on the Windy Creek Reservation in South Dakota, amidst the rise of AIM in neighboring Pine Ridge, a baby boy appears nestled in a box of Styrofoam peanuts on the doorstep of St. Rose Catholic Church. His appearance disrupts the predictable, lonely life of longtime reservation priest Father Joe Kreitzer. The child, whom they name Bear, finds refuge under the care of Father Joe’s closest friend and ally, Alice Nighthawk. Thirteen years pass without event, when Alice’s older son, Albert, is mysteriously murdered outside a bar in Rapid City, and Bear is accused of attempting to kill the only person who knows what happened that night. At the same time, Father Joe receives a letter from a person from his past, the only woman who made him question the path of priesthood. She has reached out to Father Joe as one of the few who might help her. To keep Bear’s case from federal prosecution, Father Joe and Alice begin a search for Bear’s long-lost mother. But their journey unearths more than they bargained for, plunging Father Joe into a labyrinth of secrets and revelations. He is forced not only to confront the choices he’s made and the secrets he keeps, but also to see the truth of the lives of the people around him. High Hawk is a rich tapestry of love and history, delving into the delicate intricacies of the past and the redemptive power of second chances. Through evocative prose, the lives of those on the fringes of American culture come alive, navigating adversity and forging connections against all odds.
High as a Hawk
Title | High as a Hawk PDF eBook |
Author | T. A. Barron |
Publisher | Philomel |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Colorado |
ISBN | 9780399237041 |
In 1905, eight-year-old Harriet Peters fulfills her dead mother's dream by climbing Long's Peak in Colorado with the help of an old mountain guide, Enos Mills.
Rosebud Sioux
Title | Rosebud Sioux PDF eBook |
Author | Donovin Arleigh Sprague |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738534473 |
The Sicangu (burnt thighs) received their name when some of the Lakota peoples' legs were burned in a great prairie fire. The French later named them Brule, and two large groups of the band would be settled on two reservations, Rosebud and Lower Brule in South Dakota. Author Donovin Sprague examines the history of the Rosebud Sioux through a collection of photographs and personal family interviews.
Hawk I Fly High
Title | Hawk I Fly High PDF eBook |
Author | Melvin O'dell Hawkins III |
Publisher | FriesenPress |
Pages | 45 |
Release | 2014-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1770974725 |
This short read has a little of everything: inspiration, testimony, comedy, self-help, and mostly perspective. Being a work of fiction, this book allows readers and new readers to open their eyes to the differences outside their own social circle. "Hawk I Fly High" was written to bring something different to the public with the purpose of continuing the hard work of Martin Luther King Jr.; for us all to be one people.
Voices of Wounded Knee
Title | Voices of Wounded Knee PDF eBook |
Author | William S. E. Coleman |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803205680 |
In Voices of Wounded Knee, William S. E. Coleman brings together for the first time all the available sources-Lakota, military, and civilian-on the massacre of 29 December 1890. He recreates the Ghost Dance in detail and shows how it related to the events leading up to the massacre. Using accounts of participants and observers, Coleman reconstructs the massacre moment by moment. He places contradictory accounts in direct juxtaposition, allowing the reader to decide who was telling the truth.
Hawk Davidson
Title | Hawk Davidson PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Reno |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | High interest-low vocabulary books |
ISBN | 9781571283276 |
Hawk Davidson tests extreme sports equipment for ACME Extreme Sports Company. Hawk often finds himself in dangerous situations with Samantha Turner and other adversaries from RIVAL Sports, ACME's top competitor. In this adventure, Hawk helps a friend find out what happened to the water in Desert Lake.
Book of the Fourth World
Title | Book of the Fourth World PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Brotherston |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 1995-11-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521314930 |
The Book of the Fourth World offers detailed analyses of texts that range far back into the centuries of civilised life from what is now Latin- and Anglo-America. At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of our planet. In the course of just a few centuries its original inhabitants, though settled there for millennia and countable in many millions, have come to be perceived as a marginal if not entirely dispensable factor in the continent's destiny. Today the term has been taken up again by its native peoples, to describe their own world: both its threatened present condition, and its political history, which stretches back thousands of years before Columbus. In order to explore the literature of this world, Brotherston uses primary sources that have traditionally been ignored because they have not conformed to Western definitions of oral and written literature, such as the scrolls of the Algonkin, the knotted strings (Quipus) of the Inca, Navajo dry-paintings and the encyclopedic pages of Meso-America's screenfold books.