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Offers oral histories from 41 modern-day elders and leaders from 17 tribes representing the 11 Woodland Nations, a territory that stretches from Oklahoma, US, to Ontario, Canada. Nations represented include the Chippewa, Delaware, Iroquois, Shawnee, and Winnebago. Although experiences of individuals vary greatly, there is a common thread of interrelationship of land and language in sustaining a common identity. Most histories are accompanied by color paintings. An introduction places narratives in their historical context. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Forty-one individuals, from seventeen different tribes, representing eleven nations, tell their stories in Always a People. As descendants of people who shaped the history of the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, the narrators herein continue to feel closely bound to the land from which most of them have been forcibly removed. The eleven nations represented in this volume are the Miami, Potawatomi, Delaware, Shawnee, Peoria, Oneida, Ottawa, Winnebago, Sac and Fox, Chippewa, and Kickapoo. All of the people interviewed here have a very deep and abiding commitment to their families and speak of great-great grandparents as intimately as they do of their parents. All see themselves as real people who do not fit the stereotypes often associated with ""native Americans."" All speak of the urgency for making room for multiple voices drawn from many traditions.
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