Native Science

After a notorious drug lord murders his sister, John takes the law into his own hands. A wanted man, on the run for his life and craving sanctuary, John makes his way north and finds refuge in a place called Haven - and with the beautiful Lakota Grae. Drawn into a fight against overwhelming odds, John has one more war left to fight - and one last chance for redemption.

The 2012 Apocalypse happened ... just not in the way anyone expected. How have we not noticed? Simple: civilized man has lost touch with himself. How then can he expect to be in touch with the world he smothers in a crypt of concrete and steel? Only Wolf Howl, a Native American whose spiritual center is still intact, notices the change. But that same spirituality and the power derived from it has made the last Lakota shaman a hunted man.

Tia and her brother have been asked to leave their village to find their father's long lost friend, TaTisho. As they near the village of TaLequa, they are trapped on a dangerous island where death awaits them.

Das Leben der 23-jährigen Graphikdesignerin April May ändert sich abrupt, als sie eines Nachts mitten in Manhattan auf die mysteriöse Skulptur eines gigantischen Roboters stößt, den sie "Carl" nennt und von dem sie und ihr bester Freund Andy noch in der Nacht ein Video drehen und ins Netz stellen. Als klar wird, dass weltweit in zig Städten identische Carl-Skulpturen aufgetaucht sind, verbreitet sich das Video binnen kürzester Zeit millionenfach im Netz und macht April schlagartig berühmt. In der weltweiten Hysterie, die nun ausbricht, befindet sich April im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit.

In Extinction and the Human, Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them. He focuses especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison. Ultimately, he argues, it is the critical assessment of ideas of human exceptionalism that provides a necessary counterpoint both to apologies for human mastery over nature and deep ecology's attempts to erase the human.

This article explores one of the great Indians of our time who successfully used the skills he learned at Carlisle to fight for the Indian way of life. His actions and arguments were ultimately responsible for the Indian New Deal and had a very heavy influence on the United States in the early 1900s.

When the American government was founded, the Founders and Framers assumed a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. That government is dying. It is under the authority of not we, the people, but rather a small elite that is trying to snuff out the great experiment of man ruling himself - the common man - the man that within the right system of government can attain his purpose to achieve happiness.

Xeechagillapxtuurii jumps into the raging current to be carried downstream in search of his vision. He finds his vision, including the one he is looking for. But this world is totally foreign to him. Nobody understands him. Somehow he must gain her trust and communicate with them. Somehow he must get her to want to come back to his world to help him save it. Sylvia is a college student. When she sees a hippie being driven towards her truck, she responds as she always does when she sees someone in need - she opens the door and pull some blankets from the back for him to wrap up in.

Insightful, telling, ironic, and moving, 14 Native-American legends reflect a nomadic non-property-owning culture, with a reverence for all things natural.

Questo audiolibro completo, ricco di approfondimenti e racconti ti svela i segreti della tradizione culturale e spirituale degli Indiani d'America. Scoprirai cosa significa per un indiano l'unione con la natura, avrai accesso alla conoscenza della potenza del pensiero dei nativi americani. Ti verrano svelati i segreti della visione dell'uomo e della natura, del sacro e del trascendente e di tutto ciò che si pone oltre i limiti della conoscenza razionale.

Immergiti nella meravigliosa vastità della cultura dei nativi americani, scopri l'impressionante potenza della loro spiritualità ed entra in contatto con l'incredibile patrimonio di tradizioni, racconti, insegnamenti, leggende e ispirazioni che hanno lasciato. Entrare in contatto con le tradizioni, gli usi, i costumi e la visione dei nativi americani significa riscoprire la tua identità, ti permette di risvegliare la tua capacità di ascoltare ed connetterti con le forze della natura e con il grande spirito di cui ognuno di noi è parte.

David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth present 100 home projects designed to inspire and empower anyone who wants to help save our native flora and fauna in the face of habitat loss and climate change. This book focuses on saving creatures and plants that are especially vulnerable but that can be successfully helped by our efforts, such as bees, frogs, butterflies, birds, trees, and wildflowers.

This audiobook details the movement of people and cultures around the world - from the early migrations of Homo erectus out of Africa 50,000 years ago to modern refugee movements and migrations. Through intimate first hand accounts, Migrations explores famous (and infamous) movements in history, from the Middle Passage and Trail of Tears to the California Gold Rush and the Windrush generation.

Climate change has caused a global water crisis. China has occupied three Canadian prairie provinces and is hauling fresh river water from Hudson Bay to Beijing by the northwest passage which is open year-round. The story has special insights into Canada's water resources, geography, and history. Environmentalists who appreciate the north and Canada's water resources will enjoy listening to Jeremiah Coffey's first novel.

After the US is ravaged by ecological disasters, Maya Roberts, a young herbalist, must travel in the hazardous high desert to find healing plants for her community, which has been stricken by some new, fatal illness. There, she encounters a remarkably peculiar Navajo named Howling Sky, who is able to trigger rare phenomena - impossible occurrences. But is Howling Sky a man - or a ghost?

When a new trooper starts working at the Southwest Library, she meets Alaya, the Librarian's daughter. But for Henrietta, a soldier with a secret, this young woman may hold the key to expelling the invaders. The events that follow launch Henrietta on a journey that is dangerous and epic, leading her into the councils of the invaders and chieftains of the tribes that rule the desert land of the Southwest. But an even greater danger is coming. Something is moving into the land, something more evil even than the dominating ruling clans. Messengers warn of a mounted menace moving down from the ...

Na tien jaar gevangenschap komt Tookie abrupt vrij. Gedreven door haar in de cel ontdekte liefde voor boeken begint ze aan een nieuw hoofdstuk. Ze vindt een baan als boekverkoper bij een kleine boekhandel in Minneapolis die is gespecialiseerd in inheems-Amerikaanse verhalen. Daar ontmoet ze Flora, haar 'irritantste favoriete klant'. Altijd was zij in de boekhandel te vinden, totdat ze op Allerzielen plotseling overlijdt. Maar ze verdwijnt niet. Wanneer Flora's geest in de winkel terugkeert en haar blijft achtervolgen, wordt Tookie gedwongen het mysterie rondom Flora's leven en haar dood te ontrafelen.

As a youth, Kochen witnessed the death of his father at the hands of a gruesome spirit that stalked his village's farmlands. From that moment forth, he became a ward of the priests of the village in the cliffs. As he grew, he would begin to experience horrific visions, gifts from the spirits, that all of the other priests dismissed. When the ancient enemies of the Cliff People raid the village and steal Kochen away, they set in motion world-changing events, which threaten to break the shackles that bind the spirits to the Earth.

Australia is home to some of the most unusual animals in the world. Did you know, millions of years ago, all the continents were clumped into one large landmass? When the continents began to break away, South America, Antarctica, and Australia were still stuck together. Later, South America connected to North America, but Australia separated. It kept evolving in isolation, which is why the animals of Australia can look very different from animals anywhere else in the world.

Jimala, an aborigine warrior, was born 20 years after his tribe was cursed. He was the symbol that the tribe had finally broken the curse. That was until in his 23rd year, a spear to the chest devastated their hope. Upon his death, he was transported to the sky world, where he awaited his ride on the stars to his new body. An American physician weary of 12-hour shifts arrives at her Boston hospital amid an electrical storm. Rushing through the revolving doors, she was apprised of the imminent birth just as the power snaps off.