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Warrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To this day, these societies serve to maintain traditional Kiowa values, culture, and ethnic identity. Previous scholarship has offered only glimpses of Kiowa military societies. William C. Meadows now provides a detailed account of the ritual structures, ceremonial composition, and historical development of each society: Rabbits, Mountain Sheep, Horses Headdresses, Black Legs, Skunkberry /Unafraid of Death, Scout Dogs, Kiowa Bone Strikers, and Omaha, as well as past and present women’s groups. Two dozen illustrations depict personages and ceremonies, and an appendix provides membership rosters from the late 1800s. The most comprehensive description ever published on Kiowa military societies, this work is unmatched by previous studies in its level of detail and depth of scholarship. It demonstrates the evolution of these groups within the larger context of American Indian history and anthropology, while documenting and preserving tribal traditions.

Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2014 — Silver Medal Forest of Reading, Silver Birch Awards — Shortlisted MYRCA Award 2016 — Shortlisted Chosen for the Toronto Public Library's 2015 Great Reads for Kids collection “With Red Wolf, Jennifer Dance has come howling out of the wilderness ... and I'm deeply impressed.” — Joseph Boyden, Giller Prize–winning author Life is changing for Canada’s Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they embark on a perilous journey home. But with winter closing in, will Red Wolf and Crooked Ear survive? And if they do, what will they find?

Gathers stories and songs from thirty-one native groups in North America, including the Inupiaqs, the Lushoots, the Catawbas, and the Maliseets.

After losing her family in a rogue attack, Raina is left to put her life back together. Finding a new pack with her wolf, Lela, she is hoping to finally settle down and find her mate. Raina did not understand the significance of her red wolf, Lela, until she discovers just how significant a red wolf is to the entire werewolf community. Faced with new abilities as a red wolf, Raina must navigate how to manage her abilities while also facing ongoing threats of rogues who are trying to kidnap her. When Raina finds her mate, will she be able to finally escape the rogue threat and gain control of her abilities? This is Book One of the Red Wolf's Guardian Series.

Code Talkers and Warriors, part of the insightful new Landmark Events in Native American History set, chronicles Native American life during World War II. This impeccably researched and illustrated volume covers issues such as draft resistance on the basis of religion and sovereignty; the relocation of Native Americans to West Coast defense plants; how the war facilitated assimilationist thinking; the transition to post-war life; and Native American contributions to the war effort, such as the famed code talkers and Iwo Jima.

This collection of short stories includes Evangeline's Mother, in which Henry Vold must cope with, and is changed by, his teenaged daughter's sexually precocious friend; and Elvis Bound, in which the singer disrupts the love life of a ballplayer and his wife.

Set in a river boat community in Arkansas in the 1930s, this poignant story chronicles Aiyana Weir's spirited determination to break away from a life, like that of the women around her, defined and dominated by brutal patriarchy. Aiyana's voice, unique, hesitant and uneducated, expresses the turmoil of her inner world through the details and rhythms of her beloved river and charts her secret pursuit of literacy - her only means of escape from the abuse of her father and the indifference of the man to whom she is casually given. Her grandmother, a mythical figure steeped in wisdom and folklore, and her brother, Lyle, are Aiyana's only allies in her struggle for survival and as shameless plans to leave the river.

For many Plains Indians, being a warrior and veteran has long been the traditional pathway to male honor and status. Men and boys formed military societies to celebrate victories in war, to perform community service, and to prepare young men for their role as warriors and hunters. By preserving cultural forms contained in song, dance, ritual, language, kinship, economics, naming, and other semireligious ceremonies, these societies have played an important role in maintaining Plains Indian culture from the pre-reservation era until today. In this book, Williams C. Meadows presents an in-depth ethnohistorical survey of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche military societies, drawn from extensive interviews with tribal elders and military society members, unpublished archival sources, and linguistic data. He examines their structure, functions, rituals, and martial symbols, showing how they fit within larger tribal organizations. And he explores how military societies, like powwows, have become a distinct public format for cultural and ethnic continuity.

Who said Red's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Once upon a time... As the full moon nears, another danger shadows Sami’s new life. Her pack. A huntsman, a man who knows how to hunt, and kill, wolves like them. With more people she loves in ever growing danger, tensions are on the rise. It doesn’t help to find there may be a traitor in their midsts. One who is helping the huntsman track down and destroy Sami’s new family. A paranormal romance retelling of the fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. Each volume is like an episode of your favorite TV show. Settle in and enjoy the ride! Best ~ Amber Kallyn

Who said Red's afraid of the big, bad wolf? The captivating conclusion to Red’s Wolf Sami and Jonah must fight hard for Redemption, and to save those they claim as family, while being stalked by a murderous wolf. Yet, he’s not the only enemy nipping at their paws. A Hunter, a man who knows how to kill wolves like them, has been called in by the local villagers. With more people Sami loves in ever growing danger, tensions are on the rise. Not only are they being Hunted, there’s a new possibility—a traitor in their midsts. Danger shadowing her at every turn, Sami realizes she’ll do whatever it takes to keep her family, her pack, safe. A paranormal romance retelling of the fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. Each volume is like an episode of your favorite TV show. This bundle includes the last three volumes. Settle in and enjoy the ride! Best ~ Amber Kallyn

First love—found. Meg McKee kept the peace in Sweet Creek as the no-nonsense chief of police. But to elusive Ethan Red Wolf, Meggie wasn't just the town's most capable officer. She was the soul mate he'd run away from, the woman the half-Blackfoot teenager felt he'd never be worthy of. Meg's life hadn't turned out as she'd expected, either. Her marriage had fallen into tatters after she'd conquered breast cancer, and her teenaged son was acting out—on Ethan's land. She knew Ethan still made her heart soar like the eagles that swooped above Sweet Creek's countryside. But would the lingering shadows of the past fade in time to offer them another chance at love— this time, forever?

'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. I cannot wait for the next installment' Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods In this stunning follow-up to his Man Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James draws on myth, fantasy and history to imagine a wholly new world, in which a legendary Tracker is hired to find a missing child... Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say -- as well as the eye of a wolf. Engaged to find a mysterious boy who has disappeared three years before, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a rag-tag group that comes together to search for the boy. Full of striking characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard, a witch and the giant-sized Ogo, this unlikely band follow the lost boy's scent from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers, set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breath-taking adventure that's also an ambitious and involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both. Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star Trilogy.

Travel with a group of mixed mystics to the American southwest, where destiny meets legend and the lines of reality begin to bend. A Wolf In Sedona captures your imagination, feeds your sense of adventure and intrigues your metaphysical mind with a mystery borne of legend, all the while surrounded by a glistening red rock desert of unsurpassed beauty under a sapphire sky. Join a small band of travelers looking for magic in Sedona, Arizona. What they find is far more complicated and challenging to their psychic senses. Call upon the powers of the ancient ones and heed the old ways. Only then will you see through the veil of deception and discover who among them has a hidden agenda that threatens to defile a prophecy of peace. Remember to remember that things are not always what they seem, that free will is a wild card of human nature, and that the path each of us chooses is a direct reflection of the lives we have lived before. Explore a metaphysical maze of magic and mayhem led by elders, shamen, healers, seers and psychic vampires. Alliances are forming among those drawn to coyotes and those drawn to wolves. A confrontation between chaos and order is inevitable.

Red wolves are shy, elusive, and misunderstood predators. Until the 1800s, they were common in the longleaf pine savannas and deciduous forests of the southeastern United States. However, habitat degradation, persecution, and interbreeding with the coyote

Who said Red's afraid of the big, bad wolf? The captivating conclusion to Red’s Wolf One of their own lies near death. Pack mates have been stolen away by the huntsman, and those from the nearby village. Time is ticking quickly, with little left to try and figure out how to save everyone, in a world becoming increasingly hostile. With danger hunting her at every turn, Sami realizes she’ll do whatever it takes to keep her new family safe. A paranormal romance retelling of the fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. Each volume is like an episode of your favorite TV show. Settle in and enjoy the ride! Best ~ Amber Kallyn

Sue spent a lifetime being invisible. Metamorphosis is a deeply vulnerable account of Sue’s journey as she attempts to find love and success. She shares how she became accustomed to paying a high price for acceptance. Sue intertwines her pursuit of professional success and her quest for love from a Native American man who could not openly acknowledge his love for her to his closest friends and family. When she and Michael were alone their relationship was magical, spiritual and deeply fulfilling, but ultimately it represented her invisibility and her willingness to pay for love. In the same way at the height of her career Sue was considered a national expert on law enforcement policy, but she never completely fit in, spending most of her career hiding behind a façade she created for her own protection. When Sue got sick in 2009, all of her worlds collided and she could no longer live life in the same way. It was time to decide if she wanted to wither inside her cocoon or choose to begin to live and thrive.