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Author
Publisher
Red Bird Publishing
Pub. Date
c2023.
Language
English
Description
J.D. Colbert's columns, titled "Sour Sofkee," published in Native Oklahoma Magazine, are now compiled into a well-annotated collection. His new book, "The Fus Yvhikv: A Mvskoke Creek Humorist in Modern Oklahoma," offers a fresh and humorous take on divisive political issues. Colbert, a Muscogee-Creek writer, follows in the tradition of early Native American authors like Alexander Posey and Acee Blue Eagle, known for their Muscogee Dialect Writings....
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Tracking a full five generations of the Grayson family and basing his account in part on unprecedented access to the forty-four volume diary of G.W. Grayson, the one-time principal chief of the Creek Nation, Claudio Saunt tells not only of America's past, but of its present, shedding light on one of the most contentious issues in Indian politics, the role of "blood" in the construction of identity. Overwhelmed by the racial hierarchy in the United...
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Tink, tink, tink, tink, sang cone-shaped jingles sewn to Grandma Wolfe's dress. Jenna's heart beats to the brum, brum, brum, brum of the powwow drum as she daydreams about the clinking song of her grandma's jingle dancing. Jenna loves the tradition of jingle dancing that has been shared by generations of women in her family, and she hopes to dance at the next powwow. But she has a problem -- how will her dress sing if it has no jingles?
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2024.
Language
English
Description
"Few people today know that the forty-sixth state could have been Sequoyah, not Oklahoma. The Five Tribes of Indian Territory gathered in 1905 to form their own, Indian-led state. Leaders of the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Muscogees, and Seminoles drafted a constitution, which eligible voters then ratified. In the end, Congress denied their request, but the movement that fueled their efforts transcends that single defeat. Researched and interpreted...
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