Indian Literature

Every schoolchild knows the story of how Pocahontas saved the life of Captain John Smith, but that's not the whole story. The Native American princess Pocahontas was born near the end of the sixteenth century as the daughter of Powhatan, chief of the Powhatan confederacy. It was Pocahontas, known as Matoaka by her clan, who interceded on behalf of John Smith in 1608 and then persuaded her father to bring food to the starving colonists at Jamestown.

In 1768, John Long set out from Gravesend in England, bound for Canada and a position as a clerk. Quickly developing an affection for the First Nations people he encountered, he determined to learn native languages and thereby make him useful in the 'Indian Trade' living first among Mohawks at Cahnuaga (Kahnawake) and later, among Ojibwa and Cree people north of Lake Superior. Long's journal provides a thrilling depiction the life of a fur trader in the late 18th century. It is a dangerous world, where starvation, torture, murder, war, disease and misfortune are constant threats.

This young adult historical novel, tells the fictional account of young Mary Shirley, who just wants a normal life with friends her age and someday, suitors. She is brave, tenacious, and prone to be rash. The settlers along Indian Creek in Western Virginia are siding against King George, except Papa. He has declared loyalty and intends to remove the family to Kentucky territory. After discovering surveys with strange riddles, Mary witnesses her papa exchange documents between a patriot neighbor and a known loyalist. She believes Papa is a cowardly traitor, endangering the family.

From the author of the best-selling Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight comes a health and diet book specifically for women. Rujuta's holistic approach to health, weight and diet has made her one of the most sought-after dieticians in the country. In Women and the Weight Loss Tamasha, Rujuta walks you through the different phases of life, from being a teenager to pregnancy to menopause.

Usually it takes Stringer a little while to rile folks in a new town. But no sooner does he step off the train in Tulsa, than some sidewinder is doing his best to turn Stringer into yesterday's news. The hot story in Tulsa is the oil boom. It seems you can't dig a grave without hitting black gold. And Stringer's there to write the story. But MacKail's never seen such a sorry assortment of low-down, hornswoggling bushwhackers. Because, as Stringer well knows, where there's money, there's outlaws and lawyers....

परिस्थितीमुळे किंवा आवडीने काहीजण, काही उद्योगधंदा न करता, गावोगाव फिरत राहतात. नशिबानं मिळेल ते खाणं आणि रात्री मिळालाच तर निवारा, हेच त्यांचं जीवन. असेच दोन जण कडाक्याच्या थंडीत प्रवास करताना वाटेत भेटतात.काही तास एकत्र चालत राहतात.

ಕುಪ್ಪಣ್ಣ ಭಟ್ ಮತ್ತು ಅಪ್ಪಣ್ಣ ಭಟ್ ಅವರು ಮಟ್ಟಾದ ಜಮೀನಿನ ಪಾಲಕರು. ಒಬ್ಬರು ಶ್ರೀಮಂತರಾಗಿ ರೂಪಾಂತರಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ, ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬರು ಅನೇಕ ತೊಂದರೆಗಳನ್ನು ಎದುರಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ .. ಹೇಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಏಕೆ? ಇದು ಅವರ ಕಥೆ.

महाजन मनिलेंडरच्या कंजुषपणाच्या अनेक कथा गावात सांगितल्या जात असत. आपल्या मुलाच्या बालवाडी पासून महाविद्यालयापर्यंतचे सर्व शिक्षणाचा खर्च पोस्टकार्डाच्या एकाच बाजूला लिहिलेला होता. एकदा अण्णा महाजनांनी दूध पिऊन भांडं इतकं स्वच्छ केलेलं की त्याच भांड्यात बायकोने दूध घेतले. अण्णांनी कधीही आंघोळीला साबण लावला नाही किंवा कपड्यांना पाचशे एकचा बार लावला नाही. कधीही जोड्यांना दुरूस्त केला नाही किंवा कपड्यांना

रघुवीर कुलकर्णी लिखित व्यक्तिचित्र - बाबुराव कामत. शिवाजी पार्कची गर्दी. त्या गर्दीच्या माना वर. आकाशामध्ये गॅसच्या फुग्यांच्या झुपक्याला एक थर्माकोलची पाटी लटकलेली.

Meet the residents of Gammage, New York, a town on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, when inspiration strikes. Why not go native, and open a casino? With Not Enough Indians, actor, writer, producer, and former Saturday Night Live cast member Harry Shearer joins the ranks of such comedian/authors as Steve Martin and Michael Palin with a brilliantly funny, whip-smart satire of greed, collusion, distrust, and betrayal in the halls of Washington and the casinos of Native America.

With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms India's biggest internal security threat. It traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised.

The story involves a huge diamond, the moonstone, originally stolen from an Indian shrine. The gem is given to an English girl on her 18th birthday but disappears that same night. What follows is a spellbinding mystery that to this day has the power to draw the listener into its world of danger, suspense, and surprise.

A surgeon flees a scandal in the city and accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds before sunrise.

Three fun-loving Anglo-Asian sisters rule the roost since their mom died. They’ve got a reputation at school for being the coolest babes in town, and what they don’t need is an interfering Auntie-ji from India cramping their style. The girls decide the only way out of the problem is an arranged marriage - for their auntie.

In The Big Fifty, another name for the famous Sharps rifle, reality of frontier life becomes brutally clear to 12-year-old Coady McIlvain. He falls in with a buffalo sharpshooter, and the two must survive the unforgiving terrain and hostile enemies.

Set in the rugged frontier of the West, this unforgettable sequel to Janet Dailey's best selling novel The Proud and the Free begins when Lije Stuart, the handsome son of Temple and The Blade Stuart, returns to the Cherokee Nation after 4 years at Harvard. As the American Civil War rages across the country, the Stuarts, too, are torn apart by an old family feud.

Termed the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, Ramona is the story of 3 cultures - Indian, Mexican, and Anglo - locked in combat. The upheaval and injustice are humanized through the romance of a beautiful half-Indian orphan who grow up as the ward of Señora Moreno in privileged surroundings, then falls in love with an Indian and joins him in a life of poverty and tragedy. The Ramona Pageant in Hemet, California, based on this romance, has played each year since 1923, reenacting the transition period between Mexican traditions and the new U.S. and state governments.

Elmer Kelton is hailed as the greatest Western author of all time by the Western Writers of America and has earned six Spur Awards during his impressive career. In Badger Boy, Kelton effortlessly sweeps listeners back to the post-Civil War Texas frontier, where ranger Rusty Shannon hopes to settle down as a respectable farmer. But trouble brews when Rusty captures Badger Boy, a white child raised by the Comanches who murdered his parents.

The American frontier in the 1700s produced some men of utter ruthlessness, and Jim Girty was one of the worst. Living among the Delaware Indians in the Ohio Valley, Girty and his brothers incited acts of savagery and war against the white settlers. One of Jim Girty's targets was the Village of Peace, a settlement of Christian Indians who had been converted by Moravian missionaries.

„Dacă Holden Caulfield ar fi fost un adolescent orb cu veleități literare, pasionat de Panciatantra și de Europa Liberă, în anul de grație 1971, al României Tezelor din iulie? Dacă lumea lui s-­ar fi văzut redusă la percepțiile tuturor simțurilor cu excepția celui al vederii, amplificând astfel nu doar acuitatea lor, cât și un puternic sentiment al revoltei?