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  • American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children

    A Reader and Bibliography

    by Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette F. Molin, Yvonne Wakim, Michael A. Dorris ...
    The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians. American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children reveals and discusses these images and cultural stereotypes through writings like Kathy Kerner's previously unpublished essay on Thanksgiving and an essay by Dr. Cornell Pewewardy on Disney's Pocahontas film. This edition ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The House of the Seven Gables

    Enriched edition. A Gothic New England Tale of Hereditary Sin, Guilt, Redemption, and a Haunted Ancestral Mansion

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
    Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables" intricately weaves a tale of guilt, retribution, and the haunting specter of the past. Set against the backdrop of a decaying, ancestral mansion in Massachusetts, the novel employs a rich, descriptive style akin to gothic romance, infusing the narrative with themes of hereditary sin and moral decay. Hawthorne's use of symbolism—epitomized by ... Read more

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  • The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696

    by Charles Perrault ...
    What virtues do these stories possess that have kept them alive for so long a time? They have to some degree stimulated and nourished qualities of supreme worth in individual and social life. With the young the struggle against greed and falsehood and pride and cowardice is a very real one, and situations in which these homely, fundamental traits are involved are full of interest and seriousness. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining Head Smashed In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains

    Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains

    by Jack W Brink ...
    At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Blinky Bill Grows Up

    by Dorothy Wall ...
    Series series Blinky Bill
    The Second Book in the series of 3.The character of Blinky first appeared in Brooke Nicholls' 1933 book, Jacko - the Broadcasting Kookaburra, which was illustrated by Wall. Wall then featured Blinky Bill in a series of her own books, including Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian, Blinky Bill Grows Up, and Blinky Bill and Nutsy. The books are considered quintessential Australian children's ... Read more

    $2.14 USD

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  • Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Mound Builders

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes pictures of mounds and other artifacts created by the Mound Builders.*Explains the origins of the Mound Builders, and how their culture influenced today's Native American tribes.*Discusses the mysteries of the Mound Builders and theories about them.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. “There being one of these [mounds] in my neighborhood, I wished ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • OTTISSIPPI THE TRUTH about GREAT LAKES INDIAN HISTORY and The Gateway to the West

    by Cheryl L. Morgan ...
    This volume is an important contribution to history and education.The unknown history and culture now made accessible the extraordianry research and compilation of old and new writings, with interviews.The Great Lakes Tribes, the Northwest Territory and the great competition for the wealth of the heart of the country.From the Origins and migration to the disease and wars, a complete and amazing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Lost Bear

    Lost Bear series, #1

    by Kiran Kaur ...
    Series Book 1 - Lost Bear series
    The Lost Bear is a series of children's books which educate and entertain children aged four and above about different travel destinations.In the first book, 'The Lost Bear in London', the bear gets lost and consequently learns about life in the big city of London. The Lost Bear explores the River Thames, famous buildings such as Big Ben and the Tower of London, British food, the British flag, the ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • Mesa of Sorrows

    A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre

    by James F. Brooks ...
    A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awat'ovi, and the event's echo through American history.The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi, slaughtering their neighboring men, women, and children. While ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South

    by Robin Beck ...
    This book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding how the Indian nations of the early American South emerged from the ruins of a precolonial, Mississippian world. A broad regional synthesis that ranges over much of the Eastern Woodlands, its focus is on the Indians of the Carolina Piedmont - the Catawbas and their neighbors - from 1400 to 1725. Using an 'eventful' approach to social ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins

    by Giorgia Grilli ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins,Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Hatchet and the Plow

    The Life and Times of Chief Cornplanter

    by William W. Betts Jr. ...
    The Seneca war-chief Cornplanter was one of the most prominent and influential of all Native Americans during colonial times and throughout the American Revolution. The son of a Dutch trader and an Indian woman, he lived a long and intensely active life. Drama attended him everywhere.Chief Cornplanters exciting life unfolds in The Hatchet and the Plow, which follows the chief on his wilderness ... Read more

    $8.99 USD