First People, First Voices
Title | First People, First Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Penny Petrone |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1983-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780802065629 |
Speeches, letters, diaries, journals, petitions, prayers, songs, poems, drama and stories covering Indian writing and oratory in Canada from the 1630s to the 1980s. Generally arranged chronologically, also provides the Indian view of Canadian history.
First People, First Voices
Title | First People, First Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Penny Petrone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780835737708 |
An anthology writings from the seventeenth century to the present designed to show the beginnings and development in Canada of an Indian literary tradition in English.
Voices of the First Day
Title | Voices of the First Day PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lawlor |
Publisher | Inner Traditions |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 1991-11-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780892813551 |
Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100,000 years; in their words, since the First Day. In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of their culture as a source of and guide to transforming our own world view. While not romanticizing the past or suggesting a return to the life of the hunter/gatherer, Voices of the First Day enables us to enter into the mentality of the oldest continuous culture on earth and gain insight into our own relationship with the earth and to each other. This book offers an opportunity to suspend our values, prejudices, and Eurocentrism and step into the Dreaming to discover: • A people who rejected agriculture, architecture, writing, clothing, and the subjugation of animals • A lifestyle of hunting and gathering that provided abundant food of unsurpassed nutritional value • Initiatic and ritual practices that hold the origins of all esoteric, yogic, magical, and shamanistic traditions • A sexual and emotional life that afforded diversity and fluidity as well as marital and social stability • A people who valued kinship, community, and the law of the Dreamtime as their greatest "possessions." • Language whose richness of structure and vocabulary reveals new worlds of perception and comprehension. • A people balanced between the Dreaming and the perceivable world, in harmony with all species and living each day as the First Day. Voices of the First Day is illustrated throughout with more than 100 extraordinary photographs, bark paintings, line drawings and engravings. Many of these photographs are among the earliest ever made of the Aboriginal people and are shown here for the first time.
First Voices
Title | First Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Anne Monture |
Publisher | Inanna Publications & Education |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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A collection of articles that examine many of the struggles that Aboriginal women have faced, and continue to face, in Canada. Sections include: Profiles of Aboriginal Women; Identity; Territory; Activism; Confronting Colonialism; the Canadian Legal System; and Indigenous Knowledges. Photographs and poetry are also included. There are few books on Aboriginal women in Canada; this anthology provides a valuable addition to the literature and fills a critical gap in the fields of Native Studies, Cultural Studies and Women's Studies.
Pilgrim Voices
Title | Pilgrim Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Roop |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 2015-05-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1504010167 |
A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and a C. S. Lewis Noteworthy book: A rich history of the pilgrim experience, as recorded in real diaries Nearly four hundred years after the pilgrims left England in search of a better life, their stories still resonate with Americans today. In this account, the pilgrims’ own writings of their adventures and hardships are brought to life for young readers. This touching account shows the pilgrims’ voyage on the Mayflower, their first meeting with the native people, and the hardships of hunger, illness, and death that they faced during their first winter. Finally, after more than a year in the New World, they celebrate the harvest and truly give thanks.
Our Voices
Title | Our Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Colette Corr, Michael Dunn, Manisha Kapil, Claudia Moon and Pickens Miller |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1440110395 |
Can you imagine giving voice to your greatest fears? Can you imagine wondering if what you know is true? Can you imagine being told you have schizophrenia? Who would you talk to? What would you do? We have experienced these very things. We are people who live every day with schizophrenia, and we want to share our stories. Our Voices tells you what it's like to be diagnosed with a major mental illness, to live with symptoms, and to navigate the mental health system. We created this book to share our personal perspectives and to illuminate the shared perceptions, experiences and challenges people with schizophrenia face. Colette, Manisha, Michael, Claudia and Pickens, the masterminds and architects of Our Voices, are writers, painters, poets, swimmers, activists, volunteers, readers, friends, and family members. Here they share their voices and those of 20 others, to illustrate the daily experience of schizophrenia.
Voices in First Person
Title | Voices in First Person PDF eBook |
Author | Lori Marie Carlson |
Publisher | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-08-26 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 9781416906353 |
WANTING TO BELONG. WANTING TO GO HOME. LOVE. REGRET. FAMILY LEGENDS. DREAMS. REVENGE. ENGLISH. SPANISH. This eclectic, gritty, and groundbreaking collection of short monologues features twenty-one of the most respected Latino authors writing today, including Sandra Cisneros, Oscar Hijuelos, Esmeralda Santiago, and Gary Soto. Their fictional narratives give voice to what it's like to be a Latino teen in America. These voices are yearning. These voices are angry. These voices are, above all else, hopeful. These voices are America.