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From an acclaimed Indigenous chef comes an extraordinary cookbook that weaves powerful storytelling with 125 intertribal recipes to heal our bodies and restore our foodways—featuring a foreword by bestselling novelist and fellow Oaklandian Tommy Orange.<BR><BR>Chef Crystal Wahpepah has used her growing platform to tell the little-known history of Oakland's tight-knit Native American communities, which were relocated from reservations across the country to the San Francisco Bay area in the 1950s. Crystal's powerful message to reconnect to our foodways and transform generational trauma into strength as well as her healing dishes have been seen on Food Network’s Chopped and Beating Bobby Flay.<BR><BR>The rise of corporate agriculture around the world relies on singular and often genetically modified monocultures plus lots of chemicals and soil additives to produce massive crop yields. And while this approach may economically make sense on paper to feed multitudes at the lowest price point possible, it has harmed our physical health, emotional well-being, and the very creation that supports life. This truth applies not just to Indigenous people, who have been harmed by the federal commodified foods program, but to all of us who have come to rely on cheap and easy processed foods to feed our families. We no longer get the nutrients we need from our food and spend lots of money on supplementing our diets. We develop chronic diseases that can be avoided and even cured through eating habits.<BR><BR>Eat with the seasons, cure your disconnection with the land, and cook colorful, delicious food rooted in the oldest traditions including:<BR><BR>- Three Sisters Veggie Bowls- Sweet Blue Cornbread with Huckleberry Compote- Indigenous Popcorn Balls with Edible Flowers- Strawberry-Sumac Salad with Maple-Sage Vinaigrette- Bison Roast with Chokeberry Rub- Smoked Salmon Dip with Red Chilies and Chips- Acorn Muffins, and much more<BR>A Feather and a Fork includes 125 recipes developed in collaboration with ethnobotanist and food sovereignty advocate Linda Black Elk to explore the environmental, spiritual, physical, and social benefits of each dish as well as raise awareness of and support for indigenous food producers who are preserving heirloom foods and traditions.

Winner of the Stella PrizeWinner of the Magarey Medal for BiographyWinner of the Queensland Literary AwardLonglisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025A larger-than-life champion of Aboriginal self-determination, Tracker Tilmouth was whip-smart, irreverent, startling, and deadly serious, famous for rattling the chains of Australian political life wherever he went. One day he asked a novelist-friend for help with his memoirs. Wright agreed, though she knew it would take a whole community to do his life justice. Thousands of interview hours later, the result was Tracker: a groundbreaking piece of creative oral history, a testament to the power of storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life, and a living monument to a legendary warrior of conscience. 'A magnificent work of collaborative storytelling.' The Age (Australia)

In diesen lyrischen und sich reich aufblätternden Memoiren erfahren wir etwas über die Schönheit von Darryl Babe Wilsons Kindheit, aber auch über seine Herausforderungen als armer Indianer in einer weißen Gesellschaft. Wilson wurde in die Stämme der Achumawi und Atsugewi (oft als Pit River Nation bezeichnet) im Nordosten Kaliforniens hineingeboren und verbrachte seine frühen Jahre mit seiner Familie in einem traditionsverbundenen Leben, bis tragische Ereignisse ihn dazu zwangen, zu lernen, inmitten der Assimilationspolitik der 1950er-Jahre zu überleben. In Am Morgen, als die Sonne unterging verknüpft Wilson Geschichten aus seiner Kindheit und Jugend mit seiner spirituellen Reise, die durch die Generationen widerhallt.

Die amerikanischen Truppen jagen den gefährlichsten Widerstandskämpfer der US-Geschichte - Geronimo. Mit über 5.000 Mann hetzen sie eine Gruppe von vier Dutzend Kriegern, Frauen und Kindern quer durch den Südwesten der USA und das nördliche Mexiko.Verräterische Scouts aus den eigenen Reihen, brutale Skalpjäger und die Kanonen der US-Armee zwingen die Apachen in einen Kampf ums nackte Überleben - und das Blut beider Seiten tränkt die Erde entlang der Grenzregion.Niemandem gelingt es, die flüchtenden Chiricahua zu fassen - bis Geronimo schließlich selbst kapituliert. Die Versprechungen der Generäle entpuppen sich als Lügen, und so beginnt eine beispiellose Odyssee durch 23 Jahre Kriegsgefangenschaft. Das Sterben unter den Apachen geht trotz Friedensvertrag weiter.Geronimo wird zum Aushängeschild der US-Regierung und zum Ausstellungsobjekt verschiedener Wild-West-Shows. Doch wird er jemals seine Heimat wiedersehen, wie es ihm und seiner Familie versprochen wurde? Oder begegnet er vorher seinem Geisterpony?Erfahren Sie die Wahrheit über die Taktiken der US-Regierung zur Zeit der Apachenkriege - und das Ende einer Legende, die bis heute verehrt wird - in Band vier dieser Erfolgsserie.

Wandeln Sie auf den Spuren des legendären Apachen-Kriegers Geronimo - in einem mitreißenden Sammelband, der alle vier Bände der Serie Geronimo - Der Apachen-Krieger enthält!Vom jungen Krieger bis zum gejagten Widerstandskämpfer - erleben Sie die dramatische Lebensgeschichte Geronimos, der sich gegen die Übermacht zweier Nationen stemmt. Der erste Band Frei wie der Wind schildert, wie er sich seinen Kriegernamen im Kampf gegen die Mexikaner verdient und schließlich zum Anführer der Chiricahua-Apachen wird. Doch als die USA und Mexiko Frieden schließen, geraten die Apachen in einen Zweifrontenkrieg ums nackte Überleben.Die weiteren drei Bände führen durch blutige Rachefeldzüge, den Verrat an den Apachen und eine immer brutalere Eskalation des Krieges. Freund wird zu Feind, Hoffnung schlägt in Verzweiflung um, und Geronimo sieht sich gezwungen, mit aller Härte zurückzuschlagen. Nach Jahren der Flucht kapituliert er - doch was folgt, ist eine 23-jährige Gefangenschaft und die bittere Erkenntnis, dass selbst der Frieden keine Gnade kennt.Wird Geronimo je in seine Heimat zurückkehren - oder begegnet er zuvor seinem Geisterpony?Die Autorin erzählt die Geschichte aus Geronimos Perspektive - mit authentischen Apachen-Begriffen, gründlich recherchiert und eindrucksvoll in Szene gesetzt. Sie wirft ein neues Licht auf ein Volk, über das viele Mythen kursieren, und verleiht den Apachen ihre Stimme zurück.Lesen Sie jetzt diesen spannungsgeladenen Sammelband und erleben Sie Ehre, Krieg, Hoffnung und Rache im Herzen des amerikanischen Südwestens.

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER<BR><BR> Bringing together voices from across Turtle Island, a groundbreaking collection of letters from Indigenous writers, activists, and thinkers—to their ancestors, to future generations, and to themselves.<BR><BR>Drawing on the wisdom and personal experience of its esteemed contributors, this first-of-its-kind anthology tackles complex questions of our times to provide a rich tapestry of Indigenous life, past, present, and future. The letters explore the histories that have brought us to this moment, the challenges and crises faced by present-day communities, and the visions that will lead us to a new architecture for thinking about Indigeneity. Taking its structure from the medicine bundle—tobacco, sage, cedar, and sweetgrass—it will stir and empower readers, as well as enrich an essential and ongoing conversation about what reconciliation looks like and what it means to be Indigenous today.<BR><BR>CONTRIBUTORS:<BR>Billy-Ray Belcourt, Cindy Blackstock, Cody Caetano, Warren Cariou, Norma Dunning, Kyle Edwards, Jennifer Grenz, Jon Hickey, Jessica Johns, Wab Kinew, Terese Marie Mailhot, Kent Monkman, Simon Moya-Smith, Pamela Palmater, Tamara Podemski, Waubgeshig Rice, David A. Robertson, Niigaan Sinclair, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Zoe Todd, David Treuer, Richard Van Camp, katherena vermette, Jesse Wente, Joshua Whitehead.

"An engaging romp." — New York Times Book Review"A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don’t: how a surfing legend became the target of eugenic obsession... Gorgeously written and brilliantly researched, this book is both a warning and a wonder." — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Aviator and the ShowmanThe fascinating untold story of one scientist’s pursuit of a legendary surfer in his quest to define human nature, written with the compelling drama and narrative insight of Why Fish Don’t Exist and The Lost City of Z. Deep in the archives of New York’s American Museum of Natural History sits a wardrobe filled with fifty plaster casts of human heads a century old. How they came to be is the story of one of the most consequential, and yet least-known, encounters in the history of science. In 1920, the museum’s director, Henry Fairfield Osborn, traveled to Hawaii on an anthropological research trip. While there, he took a surfing lesson with Duke Kahanamoku, the famous surf-rider and budding movie star. For Osborn, a fervent eugenicist, the tall, muscular Kahanamoku embodied the “pure racial type” he was desperate to understand and, more significantly, preserve, in the human race.Upon his return to New York, Osborn’s fixation grew. He dispatched young scientist Louis Sullivan to Honolulu to measure, photograph, and cast in plaster Kahanamoku and other Hawaiian people. The study touched off a series of events that forever changed how we think about race, culture, science, and the essence of humanity. In Capturing Kahanamoku, historian Michael Rossi draws on archival research and firsthand interviews to weave together a truly fascinating cultural history that is an absorbing account of obsession, a cautionary tale about the subjectivity of science, a warning of the pernicious and lasting impact of eugenics, a meditation on humanity, and the story of a man whose personhood shunned classification.A heady blend of Barbarian Days and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Capturing Kahanamoku is a twentieth-century saga with ever-clearer implications for our times.Capturing Kahanamoku includes 16-20 black-and-white photos throughout.

Growing up on the Nipissing First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario, Christian Allaire wanted to work in the fashion industry, a future that seemed like a remote, and unlikely, dreamHe was first introduced to style and design through his culture’s traditional Ojibwe powwow regalia—ribbon skirts, beaded belts, elaborate headdresses. But as a teenager, he became transfixed by the high-fashion designs and runway shows that he saw on Fashion Television and in the pages of Vogue.His unwavering interest in fashion led him to complete a journalism degree so he could pursue his goal of becoming a full-time fashion writer. After landing his first big magazine job in New York City, Allaire found himself working at the epicentre of the international fashion industry. His dream had come true. Yet he soon realized the fashion world—and his place in it—wasn’t always quite as glamorous as he imagined it would be.From grinding as an unpaid intern, to becoming a glitzy (but overworked) fashion editor, Allaire writes with feeling about the struggle to find his place—and community—in the highly exclusive world of fashion. And he recounts, with great candour, the difficulty of balancing his ambitions with the often-inaccurate perceptions—including his own—of his culture’s place in the realm of fashion.Full of joy, honesty, adversity, and great clothes, From the Rez to the Runway is a gripping memoir about how to achieve your dreams—and elevate others—while always remaining true to yourself.

"Born to a Secwepemc father and Jewish-Irish mother, Julian Brave NoiseCat's childhood was full of contradictions. Despite living in the urban Native community of Oakland, California, he was raised primarily by his white mother. He was a competitive powwow dancer, but asked his father to cut his hair short, fearing that his white classmates would call him a girl if he kept it long. When his father, tormented by an abusive and impoverished rez upbringing, eventually left the family, NoiseCat was left to make sense of his Indigenous heritage and identity on his own. Now, decades later, Noisecat has set across the country to correct the erasure, invisibility, and misconceptions surrounding this nation's First Peoples, as he develops his voice as a storyteller and artist in his own right"--

In the last few years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly history of violence and cultural erasure against Native people in the United States. The US government recently acknowledged its role for the first time with the Department of the Interior’s publication of the “Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report.” In this book, Alicia Carroll tells the history of one form of literary Native resistance to this violence, that of the collaboratively written autobiography. Focusing on work by Hopi boarding school residents, Carroll shows readers that collaborative autobiographical authorship is a practice of Indigenous intellectual sovereignty, using a method they dub indiscipline: a strategy of defying, refusing, or purposefully failing to follow mandates to conform to settler colonial sex and gender norms, including heteronormativity, the binary construct of sex and gender, and the idea of personhood itself.Through collaboratively written autobiography, Carroll argues that Native authors not only resisted colonial attempts to use sex and gender to alienate them from their homelands and bodies, they created an important Indigenous literary genre that informs our understanding of Native life and art today.

In late August of 2013 my Métis husband, Nelson and I had signed up for the Manitoba Historical Fur Trade Tour leaving out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. We had been on a quest to learn more about where his ancestors came from and walk in the places where they had been. This is where we learned about the Hudson Bay Company side of the family and the Homeguard Cree who lived and worked alongside. At York Factory, from high in the cupola of the Depot Building, I saw below the little one-room schoolhouse where Catherine Sinclair, Harriet Ballenden, and Joseph Cook had attended over 200 years before. My husband is a product of that gene pool. Since that trip to Manitoba, I have been on a mission to find all I could about these ancestors and learn how they fit into our Canadian history. I have found beautiful and also tragic stories. I have found stories that make me proud and stories that make me sad. I have found discrepancies in dates and important data that nag at me to get as close to the truth as possible. I have discovered differences in the French Métis and the Scottish Métis, and how these ancestors lived through some turbulent times in our history. I've found the stories of explorers and traders, buffalo hunters, peacemakers, and entrepreneurs, stories of love, commitment, and survival. In many cases I have retained the stories just as I found them. People are becoming more and more interested in finding their roots. Indigenous and Métis especially have become more aware of their place in Canada's history, where they have made valuable contributions, or where they may have been pushed aside in favor of colonization. I have found it exciting to feel the presence of those who have gone before us as I have researched their lives and walked where they once walked. I hope that my book will inspire people to get out and find the places where their story begins just as Nelson and I have done.

Come on a journey to enrich your relationships with the land on which you live and with your ancestors.<BR><BR>Learn to walk in two worlds: the Western world and your inner Indigenous cosmos.<BR> <BR>Through a 52-week journey of reflections, practical exercises, Indigenous storytelling and knowledge-sharing, this guide will support you to respectfully connect with your own ancestors as well as ancestors of the lands where you live, whether you identify as Indigenous or not.<BR> <BR>There are stories to inspire you and help you feel seen, exercises to illuminate blind spots and tools to heal individual and intergenerational wounds. You will learn to divine and work within your own medicine wheel and to enrich your spirit by integrating authentic earth-based rituals and ceremonies into your life.

Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family's totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird and perched on top, Raven.As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide and Native mythology. Throughout, she tells the larger story of how, as she puts it, her "culture is being bleached out", offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds: her naïve childhood love for Pocahontas, her struggles with the Klallam language, the violence she faced at the hands of a close White friend as a teenager.Crisp and powerful, Thinning Blood is at once a bold reclamation of one woman's identity and a searingly honest meditation on heritage, family and what it means to belong.

NOW A DOCUMENTARY CALLED 'WAYUMI' AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING! This is the story of the incredible journey of David Good, the son of an American anthropologist father, and indigenous Yanomami mother who calls the Amazon rainforest her home. Overlapping the story of what David’s mother’s early years were like being raised in the rainforest, the book follows David from childhood to adulthood as he searches for identity, love, acceptance, and the one thing truly missing from his life, his mother. Growing up in a predominantly white population of the US without a mother or a deeper connection to his South American roots, David struggles with issues of identity and relationships. His and his mother’s stories intertwine in a heartbreakingly beautiful climax when they are reunited in the jungle. Beautifully illustrated and co-authored by award winning artist and storyteller, FLuX, Good is a vivid and breathtaking visualization of a highly unusual life’s journey.

Taken to Europe as a slave, he found his way home and changed the course of American history"A captivating, elegantly written biography."-Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street JournalWinner, PROSE Award in Biography from the Association of American Publishers ¿ Winner, 2025 Early American Literature Book Prize ¿ Winner, 2025 New York State Society of Colonial Wars Distinguished Book Award ¿ Winner, 2025 New England Society Book Award ¿ Named a Best Native Studies Book of 2024 by Tribal College JournalAmerican schoolchildren have long learned about Squanto, the welcoming Native who made the First Thanksgiving possible, but his story goes deeper than the holiday legend. Born in the Wampanoag-speaking town of Patuxet in the late 1500s, Squanto was kidnapped in 1614 by an English captain, who took him to Spain. From there, Englishmen brought him to London and Newfoundland before sending him home in 1619, when Squanto discovered that most of Patuxet had died in an epidemic. A year later, the Mayflower colonists arrived at his home and renamed it Plymouth.Prize-winning historian Andrew Lipman explores the mysteries that still surround Squanto: How did he escape bondage and return home? Why did he help the English after an Englishman enslaved him? Why did he threaten Plymouth's fragile peace with its neighbors? Was it true that he converted to Christianity on his deathbed? Drawing from a wide range of evidence and newly uncovered sources, Lipman reconstructs Squanto's upbringing, his transatlantic odyssey, his career as an interpreter, his surprising downfall, and his enigmatic death. The result is a fresh look at an epic life that ended right when many Americans think their story begins.

'Man sieht die Welt nie wieder so wie zuvor, nachdem man sie durch Kimmerers Augen gesehen hat.' Elizabeth GilbertMit 'Geflochtenes Süßgras' eroberte Robin Wall Kimmerer die Herzen und Bestsellerlisten. Wie niemand vor ihr brachte sie darin die Fäden zum Leuchten, durch die sämtliche Lebewesen - Mensch, Tier und Pflanze - auf geheimnisvolle Weise miteinander verwoben sind. Die poetischsten Geschichten ihres Weltbestsellers sind nun in einer liebevoll illustrierten Geschenkausgabe versammelt. In ihrem wichtigsten Text 'Die ehrenhafte Ernte' lehrt uns die Botanikerin den Weg der Indigenen: Demut, Dankbarkeit und Respekt gegenüber einer Natur, von der wir nicht nur nehmen sollten, sondern der wir viel zurückzugeben haben.'Bücher über Umweltschutz lassen mich in der Regel ohnmächtig zurück.  Kimmerer dagegen gibt nicht nur Hoffnung, sondern auch konkrete Beispiele wie das Konzept der ¿ehrenhaften Ernte¿. Und sie zeigt, wie intim wir mit der gesamten lebendigen Welt verbunden sind.'Mithu Sanyal

The 10th anniversary edition<BR><BR>A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation<BR>A New Scientist Best Book of the Year<BR>A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year<BR><BR>¿A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one¿s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.¿<BR>¿Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review<BR><BR>¿The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence. They have a lot to teach us.¿<BR>¿Amitav Ghosh, The Guardian<BR><BR>¿A literary treasure¿a must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence.¿<BR>¿New Scientist<BR><BR>A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon. <BR><BR>A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples¿ rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.

THE POKANOKET TRIBE BELIEVE AND LIVE BY A FUNDAMENTAL RULE: THE STRONGER MUST CARE FOR THE WEAKER. THEY ARE TO TEACH BY EXAMPLE THE NEXT SEVEN GENERATIONS THE WAYS OF YESHUA THROUGH STORYTELLING. WHEN EACH GENERATION DOES SO, THE TEACHING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL HE RETURNS AND BRINGS US INTO HIS GLORY.Kepenum Nepauzshad (Harvest Moon), a modern-day Pokanoket Clan Mother and storyteller, tells a story of the time prior to European contact. This was the time of her great-grandmother twelve times over, also a storyteller, Ukquonokquot Ayeateanen (Rainbow Warror). Painting the story of their past, of the events that impacted their community then and continue to impact them, helps to improve their future.