Bear Claimed
Bear Claimed

Author: Nikki Jefford

Publisher: Nikki Jefford

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Love made her crazy. A reckless act of passion sealed her fate. There is only so much rejection a woman can take. Taryn has lost patience with her brother's best friend. He said he would claim her. Then grief made him ask for more time. She gave him time. And more time. When the cur falls for another female in the pack, Taryn isn't heartbroken… She is furious! Livid enough to seek out the rugged bear shifter who has been skulking around Wolf Hollow's borders. He was duped once before. Brutus isn't letting the next female get away so easily. The wizards stole his ancestors' mountain community then tricked him out of a mate. He and his brothers are going to make the Wolf Hollow shifters sorry for the role they played. When a spirited she-wolf throws herself, literally, into his arms, Brutus is forced to choose between the feisty beauty he wishes to claim and his duty to avenge his family against the wizards and wolves. Can a wolf and a bear become true mates?

Chosen by the Bear
Chosen by the Bear

Author: Milly Taiden

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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Welcome to the world of the Alpha Claimed. Each story features a strong woman and the man or men that love her. Every book is standalone, but once you read one you'll want to read the others. Piper Rain is a romance author that stopped believing in love. She's been unable to write about it since her divorce and having her heart broken. So she gets away and looks for inspiration out in the mountains. What she didn't expect to find was a sexy, romantic neighbor that would bring the spark of hope back into her heart. Zain Lockwood is happy living out in the woods on his own. Though he is the alpha of a clan, he prefers solitude. Until a strong, beautiful but wounded female ends up as his neighbor. Suddenly, teaching her that love exists and that she is the perfect mate for him becomes his sole focus. With problems with a neighboring Alpha and trying to find a way to romance Piper, Zain has his hands full. Piper's been emotionally hurt and she's not sure that she can love again. Even if it means letting go of the only man who's ever made her feel anything. But it all comes to a head when someone takes his mate. Zain will do anything to make sure Piper's safe, even if it means killing one of his own.

Kiowa Military Societies
Kiowa Military Societies

Author: William C. Meadows

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2012-11-08

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 080618602X

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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.

Bear Tales for the Ages
Bear Tales for the Ages

Author: Larry Kaniut

Publisher: Larry Kaniut

Published: 2003-08-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780970953704

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Collector of bear lore for nearly half a century, author Larry Kaniut has chosen these tales and legends for their focus on the wisdom of bears and the strength of the human spirit in encounters with them. An Alaskan legend himself, Larry brings together 28 amazing stories of encounters with this four-legged wonder of the woods, spanning the time period from 1816 to 1999.

The Bear’s Forbidden Wolf
The Bear’s Forbidden Wolf

Author: Vella Day

Publisher: Erotic Reads Publishing

Published: 2016-07-23

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1941835260

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The Bear’s Forbidden Wolf: Weres & Witches of Silver Lake Book 4

Hopis and the Counterculture
Hopis and the Counterculture

Author: Brian Haley

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2024-10-29

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 081655367X

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This book addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the explosive appropriation of Indigenous identities in the 1960s. It reveals a largely unknown network of Native, non-Indian, and neo-Indian actors who spread misrepresentations of the Hopi that they created through interactions with the Hopi Traditionalist faction of the 1940s through 1980s. Significantly, many non-Hopis involved adopted Indian identities during this time, becoming “neo-Indians.” Exploring the new social field that developed to spread these ideas, Hopis and the Counterculture meticulously traces the trajectories of figures such as Ammon Hennacy, Craig Carpenter, Frank Waters, and the Firesign Theatre, among others. Drawing on insights into the interplay between primitivism, radicalism, stereotyping, and identity, Haley expands on concepts from scholars such as Roy Harvey Pearce’s notion of “isolated radicals” and Jonathan Friedman’s observations regarding the ascendancy of primitivism amid global crises. Haley scrutinizes the roles played by non-Hopi actors and the timing behind the widespread popularization of Hopi religious practices.

Early Last Night
Early Last Night

Author: Kathryn

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2018-05-17

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1982203307

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Life is to be lived. But occasionally, a life comes along that lives outside the boundaries of accepted secular society. When that occurs, a community learns the extent to which an individual will go in order to achieve that which they feel society has denied them. When Cody and Nicole first met, their lives were on a collision course they wouldnt acknowledge and others couldnt comprehend. Girl meets boy. She sees a man much older who seems to fit into the life she envisions for herself. Boy meets girl. He sees a means to his future. The chaos their union brings to their respective families is a scenario played out much too often in todays secular society. Leaving the love of God and his purpose out of any of lifes circumstances brings disastrous consequences. If only they wouldve known.

Freedom of Association
Freedom of Association

Author: Amy Gutmann

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0691219389

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Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential associations, literary societies, national and international charities, and service organizations of seemingly all sorts. Social scientists are engaged in a lively argument about whether decreasing proportions of Americans over the past several decades have been joining secondary associations, but no one disputes that freedom of association remains a fundamental personal and political value in the United States. "Nothing," Alexis de Tocqueville argued, "deserves more attention." Yet the value and limits of free association in the United States have not received the attention they deserve. Why is freedom of association valuable for the lives of individuals? What does it contribute to the life of a liberal democracy? This volume explores the individual and civic values of associational freedom in a liberal democracy, as well as the moral and constitutional limits of claims to associational freedom. Beginning with an introductory essay on freedom of association by Amy Gutmann, the first part of this timely volume includes essays on individual rights of association by George Kateb, Michael Walzer, Kent Greenawalt, and Nancy Rosenblum, and the second part includes essays on civic values of association by Will Kymlicka, Yael Tamir, Daniel A. Bell, Sam Fleischacker, Alan Ryan, and Stuart White.

Bear's Story
Bear's Story

Author: Claire Freedman

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781783706440

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"When Bear's favourite Big Book of Stories falls apart, he is determined to write some stories of his own. He ventures into the forest for inspiration, but writing is harder than he thinks - and he soon discovers that he needs a lot of help from his friends. A delightful book about stories and friendship, featuring a lovable brown bear."--Provided by publisher.