House of Many Gods
House of Many Gods

Author: Kiana Davenport

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0345515455

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From Kiana Davenport, the bestselling author of Song of the Exile and Shark Dialogues, comes another mesmerizing novel about her people and her islands. Told in spellbinding and mythic prose, House of Many Gods is a deeply complex and provocative love story set against the background of Hawaii and Russia. Interwoven throughout with the indelible portrait of a native Hawaiian family struggling against poverty, drug wars, and the increasing military occupation of their sacred lands. Progressing from the 1960s to the turbulent present, the novel begins on the island of O’ahu and centers on Ana, abandoned by her mother as a child. Raised by her extended family on the “lawless” Wai’anae coast, west of Honolulu, Ana, against all odds, becomes a physician. While tending victims of Hurricane ‘Iniki on the neighboring island of Kaua’i, she meets Nikolai, a Russian filmmaker with a violent and tragic past, who can confront reality only through his unique prism of lies. Yet he is dedicated to recording the ecological horrors in his motherland and across the Pacific. As their lives slowly and inextricably intertwine, Ana and Nikolai’s story becomes an odyssey that spans decades and sweeps the reader from rural Hawaii to the forbidding Arctic wastes of Russia; from the poverty-stricken Wai’anae coast to the glittering harshness of “new Moscow” and the haunting, faded beauty of St. Petersburg. With stunning narrative inventiveness, Davenport has created a timeless epic of loss and remembrance, of the search for family and identity, and, ultimately, of the redemptive power of love.

Lo-to-Kah (Classic Reprint)
Lo-to-Kah (Classic Reprint)

Author: Verner Z. Reed

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781331164166

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Excerpt from Lo-to-Kah The six tales that make up this little book were composed hastily, and at long intervals, and all of them were written in the scant leisure that falls to the lot of a busy man of business. This may, in part, account for their imperfections. The supernatural is taken into account, to a great extent, because it is taken into account in the lives of the Indians. I hope to have the leisure and good fortune, at a later time, to study and treat fully of the religion of the Ute Indians, but for the purpose of explaining the mystical references in these stories, it will suffice to say that some of the Utes believe in the re-incarnation of the soul, in the power to send the spirit (they do not know the term "Astral body") away from the physical body, and in the possibility of holding communion with the spirits of the dead. However, I have not attempted to confine myself to their literal beliefs. These stories are published in the hope that they will serve to amuse the limited number of people who may read them. If they serve no other purpose than to introduce the pictures of L. Maynard Dixon and Charles Craig in new fields, the writer believes that they will not have been published in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Lo-To-Kah
Lo-To-Kah

Author: Verner Z. Reed

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781376793062

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Lo-to-kah
Lo-to-kah

Author: Verner Zevola Reed

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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Six tales of the Ute Indians.

Lo-To-Kah
Lo-To-Kah

Author: Verner Zevola Reed

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781357945527

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Osage Indian Bands and Clans
Osage Indian Bands and Clans

Author: Louis F. Burns

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0806351128

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The grandson of an Osage Indian, author Louis Burns wrote this primer to help persons of Osage descent trace their paternal lineage and to introduce researchers to Osage culture and the nuances of its language. The book opens with a discussion of the Osage dispersion from Missouri to Oklahoma and Kansas from about 1800 to 1870. Mr. Burns provides very helpful maps showing the concentration of the various tribal bands in each state. Next comes a summary of the richest sources of 19th-century Osage heritage, namely, Jesuit records, a great source of information concerning baptisms, marriages and interments; U.S. Government Annuity Rolls; and Osage Mission records, the best source of Osage family data. The aforementioned is followed by a list of tribal towns, as extracted from Jesuit records, and a list of Osage bands as found in the Annuity Rolls of 1878. When these sources are used in conjunction with the author's detailed listing of clans and their members, which furnishes names in both phonetic Osage and English, researchers stand a good chance of tracing their Native American heritage from about 1800 to the present. The balance of this carefully crafted volume focuses on aspects of the language, some knowledge of which is indispensable for successful research. Featured are an index to Osage names in Osage and in English, a listing of and indexes to kinship terms, a critical pronunciation key to Osage, and a conversion table for Osage Indian syllables. Mr. Burns' seminal work concludes with a bibliography of tribal literature.