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Classic wisdom collection Earthsong collection Great courses (DVD) Penguin classicsKimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2022
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Summary: "As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KIMKimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 305.8 KIMArden, Harvey.
Summary: The spirit journey into the lives, minds, and natural world philosophy of Native American spiritual Elders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words Pub. 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 299.7 ARDLuger, Chelsey
Summary: "A revolutionary wellness guide rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge, offering wisdom for spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing from Native American wellness activists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.8997 LUGCharleston, Steven
Summary: "Native America has confronted apocalypse for more than four hundred years. Choctaw elder Steven Charleston tells the stories of four Indigenous prophets who helped their people learn strategies for surviving catastrophe, using their lessons and wisdom as guidance for how we can face the uncertainty of the modern age"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 191.089 CHAConfucius.
Summary: The classic collection of conversations and sayings by the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius, containing his teachings on ethics, politics, and religion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 181 CONKimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phanes Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ward & Eis Gallery 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.97 EISSilko, Leslie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 SILMankiller, Wilma Pearl
Summary: "Nineteen prominent Native artists, educators, and activisits share their candid and often profound thoughts on what it means to be a Native American woman in the early 21st century. Their stories are rare and often intimate glimpses of women who have made a conscious decision to live every day to its fullest and stand for something larger than themselves."--Pub. desc.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MANArden, Harvey.
Summary: Two journalists in a narrative that is part adventure tale, part reflection and epiphany, embark on a dramatic "spirit journey" into the living wisdom of Native American spiritual elders -- Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 ARDBierhorst, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.1 BIELaDuke, Winona.
Summary: "An overview of efforts by Native Americans to regain cultural and genetic patrimony and the conditions needed for traditional spiritual practices, including tribal histories, analysis of changes to nutrition, economy, and physical environment, and actions taken toward pollution abatement, dam removal, land and cultural reclamation, and alternative energy production"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: South End Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 LADSummary: "A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth's future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 WE1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 WE
Weso, T. F. Pecore (Thomas F. Pecore)
Summary: "Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022
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Summary: This teaching story tells how everything in creation follows the path in the great circle of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Afton Historical Society Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977.004 PEAHardy, Grant
Summary: "[This series] is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential philosphers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, [the student will be introduced to] the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism."--Www.thegreatcourses.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: "This new translation of The Upanishads is at once delightfully simple and rigorously learned, providing today's readers with an accurate, accessible rendering of the core work of ancient Indian philosophy. The Upanishads are often considered the most important literature from ancient India. Yet many academic translators fail to capture the work's philosophical and spiritual subtlety, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.5 KATBryant, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis)
Contents: The history of yoga -- Yoga prior to Patañjali -- The Vedic period -- Yoga in the Upaniṣads -- Yoga in the Mahābhārata -- Yoga and Sāṅkhya -- Patañjali's yoga -- Patañjali and the six schools of Indian philosophy -- The Yoga sūtras as a text -- The commentaries on the Yoga sūtras -- The subject matter of the Yoga sūtras -- The dualism of yoga -- The Sāṅkhya metaphysics of the text -- The goals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 181.452 BRYSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009