Speaking of Indians (Deloria Jr Vine)(Paperback)

Speaking of Indians (Deloria Jr Vine)(Paperback)

Ella Deloria could speak intimately about Indian ways because she belonged to a Yankton Sioux family. A distinguished scholar who studied with Franz Boas at Columbia University, she had the gift of language and the understanding necessary to bridge races. Originally published in 1944, this book is

Speaking of India: Bridging the Communication Gap When Working with Indians (Storti Craig)(Paperback)

'Storti's cultural observations about India are spot on.' - Ranjini Manian, CEO, Global Adjustments and author of Doing Business in India for DummiesWesterners and Indians are working more closely together and in greater numbers than ever before. The opportunities are vast, but so is the cultural

The Horse Indians (Bolen Robert D.)(Paperback)

The Horse Indians is the story of the history of the Wind River Wyoning Eastern Shoshoni Indians that left that region in 1500 and traveled into northern Texas and New Mexico. They subsequently came to be called the comanche Indians and the 'LOrds of the Southern

Waterlily (Deloria Ella Cara)(Paperback)

'Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint pairing of scholarship and fiction.'--KirkusWhen Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their

The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe (Ingstad Helge)(Paperback)

Available in English for the first time, The Apache Indians tells the story of the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad's sojourn among the Apaches near the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona and his epic journey to locate the 'lost' group of their brethren in the Sierra Madres in the 1930s. Ingstad

Speaking Out on Governance (Midanek Deborah Hicks)(Paperback)

Speaking Out on Governance presents a range of viewpoints concerning the role of today's corporation and its board of directors. The author engages in candid discussion with subject matter experts including boardmembers, corporate attorneys, academics, institutional investors, regulators, and

End of Everything - (Astrophysically Speaking) (Mack Katie)(Paperback / softback)

Speaking and Listening (Tiearney Janna)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a comprehensive photocopiable series, covering a range of speaking and listening topics. This book provides teachers notes that include activity objective, summary of activities, background information, list of things to prepare before the lesson, suggestions on how to teach the lesson,

How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts (Densmore Frances)(Paperback)

'Learn the natural ways of the Chippewa Indians with this great book from Dover.' -- Texas Kitchen and Garden and MoreThe uses of plants -- for food, for medicine, for arts, crafts, and dyeing -- among the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota and Wisconsin show the great extent to which they understood

Teaching and Researching Speaking (Hughes Rebecca)(Paperback)

Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to researching spoken language and their practical application to teaching, classroom materials, and assessment. The history and current practices of teaching and researching speaking are presented through the lens of

Understanding Public Speaking: A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory (Mohan Braj)(Paperback)

Public speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art. This book illustrates the use of various linguistic devices and persuasive strategies with examples from the speeches of powerful orators in history. It systematically draws on the various approaches to public speaking and persuasive discourse to

Speaking of Universities (Collini Stefan)(Paperback)

A devastating analysis of what is happening to our universities Does 'marketization' threaten to destroy what we most value about education? Will this new era of 'accountability' distort what it purports to measure? What do we mean by a 'public' system of higher education and how should we defend

Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California (O'Neill Sean)(Paperback)

Despite centuries of intertribal contact, the American Indian peoples of northwestern California have continued to speak a variety of distinct languages. At the same time, they have come to embrace a common way of life based on salmon fishing and shared religious practices. In this

Now I Know 4 Speaking and Vocabulary Book (Lambert Viv)(Paperback / softback)

Practice and extension of the Student Book vocabulary for each unit Extra speaking tasks focusing on the big questions of the unit, allowing students to explore the topics in more depth through pairwork Extra work on speaking strategies covered in the Student

Speaking Tunisian: A Love Story With Recipes (Naouai Dorothea Biba)(Paperback)

Speaking Tunisian is part food memoir, part cultural inquiry, part travel narrative and all of it a love story.Food as language, food as teacher, food as community and peace maker. Biba and Ali come from different worlds, meet by sheer chance, fall in love, open a caf and then a restaurant, raise

Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest (Clark Ella E.)(Paperback)

This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above

The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest (Jennings Francis)(Paperback)

In this iconoclastic book, Francis Jennings recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion. The traditional history of early America paints the colonies as a transplantation of European culture to a new continent--a 'virgin land' in which Native Americans were assigned the

Assessing Speaking in Context: Expanding the Construct and Its Applications (Salaberry M. Rafael)(Paperback)

This book takes a critical perspective of research on assessing speaking in second and foreign languages. Chapters focus on the complexity brought about by actual interactional competence in speaking tasks and discuss how testing and assessment models and practices can incorporate recent research

North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction (Perdue Theda)(Paperback)

Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (Roach Joseph)(Paperback)

The colorful handmade costumes of beads and feathers swirl frenetically, as the Mardi Gras Indians dance through the streets of New Orleans in remembrance of a widely disputed cultural heritage. Iroquois Indians visit London in the early part of the eighteenth century and give birth to the

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Hamalainen Pekka)(Paperback)

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 - Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine - Winner of the MPIBA Reading the West Book Award for

The Ponca Tribe (Howard James H.)(Paperback)

The culture of the Ponca Indians is less well known than their misfortunes. A model of research and clarity, The Ponca Tribe is still the most complete account of these Indians who inhabited the upper central plains. Peaceably inclined and never numerous, they built earth-lodge villages, cultivated

New England Indians (Wilbur C. Keith)(Paperback)

This beautifully presented book offers an informed and fascinating account of the eighteen major tribes that lived in pre-colonial New England. Each group is extensively profiled addressing tribal practices and way of life. The illustrated narrative describes Indian shelters, agriculture, fishing,

Gospel Fluency Handbook: A practical guide to speaking the truths of Jesus into the everyday stuff of life (Connelly Ben)(Paperback)