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Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story
A long time ago, fire belonged only to the animals in the land above, not to those on the earth below. Curlew, keeper of the sky world, guarded fire and kept it from the earth. Coyote, however, devised a clever plan to steal fire, aided by Grizzly Bear, Wren, Snake, Frog, Eagle, and Beaver. These brave and resourceful animal beings raided the land above and risked all to steal fire from Curlew. Â Beaver Steals Fire is an ancient and powerful tale springing from the hearts and experiences of the Salish people of Montana. Steeped in the rich and culturally vital storytelling tradition of the tribe, this tale teaches both respect for fire and awareness of its significance, themes particularly relevant today. This unforgettable version of the story is told by Salish elder Johnny Arlee and beautifully illustrated by tribal artist Sam Sandoval. (20051219).
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The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harvesting chokecherries as they had done for countless generations. As the Lewis and Clark Expedition ventured into the territory of a sovereign Native nation, the Salish met the strangers with hospitality and vital provisions while receiving comparatively little in return. Â For the first time, a Native American community offers an in-depth examination of the events and historical significance of its encounter with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition is a startling departure from previous accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Rather than looking at Indian people within the context of the expedition, it examines the expedition within the context of tribal history. The arrival of non-Indians is therefore framed not as the beginning of the history of Montana or the West but as only a recent chapter in a far longer Native history. The result is a new understanding of the expedition and its place in the wider context of the history of Indian-white relations. Â Based on three decades of research and oral histories, this book presents tribal elders recounting the Salish encounter with Lewis and Clark. Richly illustrated, The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition not only sheds new light on the meaning of the expedition but also illuminates the people who greeted Lewis and Clark and, despite much of what followed, thrive in their homeland today. .
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Pia Toya: A Goshute Indian Legend
Pia Toya, or big mountain, is a Goshute legend that describes how the hawk Kinniih-Pia punished the coyote Isapai-ppeh for his trickery, and in the process created the Deep Creek Range. The Deep Creeks are among the most rugged of Utah's many mountain ranges and include Ibapah Peak, with an elevation of 12,089 feet. Located in Utah's west desert near the state border with Nevada, the Deep Creeks are still isolated and little known. Yet they are part of the traditional homelands of the Goshute Indians, whose reservation and tribal headquarters nestle in Ibapah Valley at the foot of the range. The children of Ibapah Elementary School have chosen this illustrated retelling of Pia Toya as a way to honor their heritage. Their luminous paintings, drawings, collages, and border art bring color, light, and life to a traditional creation myth. Their commitment to their culture moved Utah Governor Michael Leavitt to declare November as American Indian History Month and November 22 as Indigenous People's Day in Utah. Included in Pia Toya is a cultural information section about the Goshute Indians, their history, and their lifeways. This beautiful book will be read and enjoyed often, treasured both by children and adults who wish to deepen their understanding and appreciation of a rich indigenous culture..
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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, OTM Academy Doctoral ... Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
This two-volume set LNCS 4805/4806 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 10 international workshops and papers of the OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium held as part of OTM 2007 in Vilamoura, Portugal, in November 2007. The 126 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 241 submissions to the workshops. The first volume begins with 23 additional revised short or poster papers of the OTM 2007 main conferences. Topics of the workshop papers contained are agents, web services and ontologies merging (AweSOMe 2007), context aware mobile systems (CAMS 2007), OTM academy doctoral consortium, mobile and networking technologies for social applications (MONET 2007), ontology content and evaluation in enterprise (OntoContent 2007), obect-role modeling (ORM 2007), pervasive systems (PerSys 2007), peer to peer networks (PPN 2007), reliability in decentralized distributed systems (RDDS 2007), scalable semantic Web knowledge base systems (SSWS 2007), and semantic Web and Web semantics (SWWS 2007).
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