Social life and customs
- Author:Menchu, RigobertaSummary:
- Author:Jasilyn ChargerSummary:
How We Go Home shares contemporary first-person stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land, rights, and life. Each of the twelve narrators' lives has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle...
- Author:Loewen, RoydenSummary:
In the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine) to the North American grasslands. They brought with them an array of cultural and institutional features that...
- Author:Kwan, CheukSummary:
From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brought delicious Chinese food across the globe. Unravelling a complex history of cultural migration and world politics, Cheuk Kwan narrates a...
- Author:Mutala, MarionSummary:
A poignant conversation between parent and child across the years.
- Author:Issaluk, JohnnySummary:
Traditionally Inuit played games in order to be physically and mentally prepared for freezing weather, strenuous hunts and other grueling conditions.
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Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skillfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of...
- Author:Lowell, ElizabethSummary:
Fleeing the remarkable love that was prophesied at her birth, Amber the Untouched does not suspect that the wounded warrior with no memory who has come to her in the darkness is that same foretold lover.
- Author:LEAVITT, DavidSummary:
This account of expatriate life in the 'city of the lily' begins by asking why Florence has always proven to be such a popular destination for suicides, then moves into an analysis of what makes the city, in Henry James's...
- Author:Gray, LyndaSummary:
Overview of the diverse and complex lives of First Nations people with subjects including veterans, youth, urbanization, child welfare, appropriate questions to ask a First Nations person, feminism, the medicine wheel, Two-spirit (LGBTQ...
- Author:Beaudry Loiselle, LucienneSummary:
Every February, tens of thousands from all over the globe flock to St. Boniface, Manitoba, to attend the largest winter celebration in Western Canada--Festival du Voyageur. For its duration, these visitors can experience the customs and...
- Author:Treuer, AntonSummary:
Treuer, an Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist, answers the most commonly asked questions about American Indians, both historical and modern. He gives a frank, funny, and personal tour of what's up with Indians, anyway.
- Author:Davidson, Sara FlorenceSummary:
"The invitations have been sent. The food has been prepared. The decorations have been hung. And now the day of the potlatch has finally arrived! Guests from all over come to witness this bittersweet but joyful celebration of Haida...
- Author:DE CRESCENZO, LucianoSummary:
A collection of well-written and very humorous short stories about the Italian city of Naples, and the Neopolitan lifestyle. - Per il professore don Gennaro Bellavista le banalit ̉che si dicono e si scrivono su Napoli e i suoi abitanti...
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- Author:Jefferson, MargoSummary:
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a...
- Author:Elliott, LynneSummary:
Provides an overview of the types of games children played during the Middle Ages.
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For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijiganan, offerings of the possibilities within Anishinaabeg life. Existing...
- Author:Jenkins, DanSummary:
Dan Jenkins work is a series of reflections from the quintessential American redneck--a lover of hot ladies, football, cheeseburgers, and Firebirds.
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Gwynna had fallen from grace once, bearing a stillborn child out of wedlock. Determined to have a respectable future, she finds a position for herself as a nursemaid at Hungerton House. But just as she begins to find her feet, the...