Using text and his own paintings, the author describes the experiences of Indians of North America in general as well as his experiences growing up as a Plains Cree Indian in Canada
For use in schools and libraries only. Using text and his own paintings, the author describes the experiences of Indians of North America in general as well as his experiences growing up as a Plains Cree Indian in Canada.
Since its debut in the 1940s, Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" has become one of the best-loved and most timely folk songs in America, inspiring activism and patriotism for all.
A 2019 NPR Staff Pick “Written ‘in sorrow and anger,’ this is a brilliant and urgently necessary book, eloquently making the case against bigotry and for all of us migrants—what we are not, who we are, and why we deserve to be ...
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Though these are not political' poems per se, they are slices of reality compressed into thumbnail sketches that give the reader a sympathetic view of the lives of third world citizens and the inequities between rich and poor nations.
On perceptions and portrayals of hoboes, see Nels Anderson, The American Hobo: An Autobiography (Leiden: Brill, 1975), 2, quoted in John C. Schneider, “Tramping Workers 1890–1920: A Subcultural View,” in Monkkonen, Walking to Work,215, ...
This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage"--
When Pumetacom ignored a summons from Plymouth to explain, the colony dispatched Hugh Cole to investigate, only for him to stumble on a community seemingly preparing for war. Twenty or thirty Wampanoag men brandishing clubs intercepted ...
The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2011. Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie. New York: Viking, 2002. Rodnitzky, Jerome.
In this brief, powerful, timely, and hopeful book, Jedediah Purdy explores how we might begin to heal our fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other.