Corn Woman Sings

Corn Woman Sings
Author: Barron Eleanor Druckrey, PhD
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595463436

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"Do you want to know?" the spirit asked twenty-three-year-old Eleanor Barrón Druckrey in 1967. At the time, the young woman was not quite ready. Ten years later and still stalked by spirits day and night, Barrón Druckrey accepted the invitation to embark on a journey of discovery through her dreams. She began to understand a pattern of brilliance and beauty related to the ancient past when magic, wonder, and awe reigned throughout the native cultures in the Americas. Drawn from more than thirty years of recorded dreams, Corn Woman Sings brings Native American traditions to life. Interwoven with Barrón Druckrey's personal stories and discussions on the legends of the great dreamers, Corn Woman's legacy lays a path of transformation and renewal for the modern-day curandera, medicine woman and mystic, in all walks of life. Corn Woman Sings shows you how to start building a dream map that will lead you to personal transformation. It illustrates the process of opening up to your inner self and starting the process of uniting mind, body, and spirit. Only time will tell what you might witness in your dreams.

We'll be in Your Mountains, We'll be in Your Songs

We'll be in Your Mountains, We'll be in Your Songs
Author: Ellen McCullough-Brabson
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2001
Genre: Compact discs
ISBN: 9780826322173

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A remarkable collaboration between a university music professor and her one-time student, a traditional Navajo who teaches on the reservation.

Native American Gardening

Native American Gardening
Author: Michael J. Caduto
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1996
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781555911485

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Using tribal tales from across the country as inspiration, the authors provide practical information about seed preservation, planting and maintaining the garden, reaping and cooking the harvest.

Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman

Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman
Author: Gale P. Jackson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1496217683

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In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, and social and literary criticism, Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman “re-members” and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in performance. These women’s songs and dances provide us with a wealth of polyphonic text that records their reflections on identity, imagination, and agency, providing a collective performed autobiography that complements the small body of pre-twentieth-century African and African American women’s writing. Gale P. Jackson engages with a range of vibrant traditions to provide windows into multiple discourses as well as “new” and old paradigms for locating the history, philosophy, pedagogy, and theory embedded in a lineage of African diaspora performance and to articulate and address the postcolonial fragmentation of humanist thinking. In lyrically interdisciplinary movement, across herstories, geographies, and genres, cultural continuities, improvisation, and transformative action, Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman offers a fresh perspective on familiar material and an expansion of our sources, reading, and vision of African diaspora, African American, and American literatures.

Papago Woman

Papago Woman
Author: Ruth M. Underhill
Publisher: Waveland Press
Total Pages: 115
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478610484

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A valued classic by a foremost female anthropologist! Underhills fine ethnographic work gives us at least a glimpse into a time that will not come again, yet a time that will forever shape the future. Her approach is reverential, without being too sentimental. The study of culture is enriched by Underhills writings, and the life history presented in Papago Woman stands clear as an excellent example of her devotion to her subject.

The Story of Corn

The Story of Corn
Author: Betty Harper Fussell
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780826335920

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In an authoritative, wise, and wholly original blend of social history, art, science, and anthropology, Fussell tells the story of corn in a narrative that is as uniquely hybrid as her subject. The great epic of this amazing grain makes clear that all the civilizations of the Western hemisphere have been built on corn. 250 photos and line drawings.

Women and Therapy in the Last Third of Life

Women and Therapy in the Last Third of Life
Author: Valory Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1317987292

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What is distinct about the last third of life, about women, that makes psychotherapy different? In this diverse collection, the psychological meanings and challenges of the last third of life are explored, as the capacity of the psyche expands, sense of time changes, and some questions take on new vibrance and urgency. Some chapters shine their light on women therapy clients - on their precarious sociocultural predicament in a sexist/ageist time and place, on intrapsychic changes that follow from changing bodies, relationships, involvements and emergent needs of the self. Other chapters enter the largely unexplored territory of changes in the therapy process itself - where some decide against therapy altogether, while others describe a rich revision of familiar elements of therapy, greater authentic presence, a changed standpoint on the power of the therapeutic relationship. Standing inside the ‘‘last third’’ and looking back on their own lives, several women psychotherapists offer a rare window into their private experience across time and their perspectives on the challenges and the gifts that they, and other women, may realize in the last third of their lives as they consider who they have become, who they are, and who they can be. This book was based on a special issue of Women and Therapy.

Women of the Earth Lodges

Women of the Earth Lodges
Author: Virginia Bergman Peters
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780806132433

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Originally published: North Haven: Archon Books, 1995.

Navajo Blessingway Singer

Navajo Blessingway Singer
Author: Frank Mitchell
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826331816

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This life history of a Navajo leader, recorded in the 1960s and first published in 1977, is a classic work in the study of Navajo history and religious traditions. "A skillful, meticulous, and altogether praiseworthy contribution to Navajo studies. . . . Although the focus of Mitchell's autobiography is upon his role as a Blessingway singer, there is much material here on Navajo history and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mitchell attended the government school at Fort Defiance, worked on the railroad in Arizona, served as a handyman and interpreter at several trading posts and the Franciscan missions, and later served as a tribal councilman in the 1930s and as a judge in the 1940s and 1950s. His observations on these experiences are relevant to our understanding of contemporary Navajo life."--Lawrence C. Kelly, Western Historical Quarterly "This book stands easily among the best of the 'native' autobiographies. Narrated by a thoughtful and articulate Navajo leader over a span of eighteen years, this life history is brought into English with none of the selective romanticizing that has spoiled some books. . . . (It is) a superb job of bringing one culture ever closer to another."--Barre Tolken, Western Folklore

A Dream Map to the Sixth Sun

A Dream Map to the Sixth Sun
Author: Eleanor Barron Druckrey Ph.D.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2017-02-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1524580740

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A Dream Map to the Sixth Sun Restoring Harmony and Balance to our Lives is the only tool kit you will need for entering into the age of the Sixth Sun. Set your computer aside, leave your tablet behind. All you will need is your sharpened senses to awaken from the dream of life and enter into a rich period of creativity and personal power. The Sixth Sun is upon us now as promised by the sages of the early Mesoamerican cultures from time immemorial. The lived experience of indigenous people includes sound, color, felt sensations, travel through multiple dimensions, and the presence of other beings, not readily accepted as normal, natural, or real in dominant cultural reality. The era of the Sixth Sun is the doorway through which the feminine comes into its power and reclaims its rightful domain of strength. Redefining what the feminine means for us today is the task that is presented to us. With an Introduction, utilization of dreams, legends of goddesses and gods and history, portraits of the three women of this narrative emerge that tell a story of time travel, discovery of sacred gifts, and meetings with ancestors that interact in proactive ways in their lives. The window to the feminine era opened on December 21, 2012 and emboldens us to manifest the areas of our lives that yearn for expression and recognition.