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Standing in Their Own Light
Author | : Judith L. Van Buskirk |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806158907 |
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The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the Continental Army. Because these veterans left few letters or diaries, their story has remained largely untold, and the significance of their service largely unappreciated. Standing in Their Own Light restores these African American patriots to their rightful place in the historical struggle for independence and the end of racial oppression. Revolutionary era African Americans began their lives in a world that hardly questioned slavery; they finished their days in a world that increasingly contested the existence of the institution. Judith L. Van Buskirk traces this shift to the wartime experiences of African Americans. Mining firsthand sources that include black veterans’ pension files, Van Buskirk examines how the struggle for independence moved from the battlefield to the courthouse—and how personal conflicts contributed to the larger struggle against slavery and legal inequality. Black veterans claimed an American identity based on their willing sacrifice on behalf of American independence. And abolitionists, citing the contributions of black soldiers, adopted the tactics and rhetoric of revolution, personal autonomy, and freedom. Van Buskirk deftly places her findings in the changing context of the time. She notes the varied conditions of slavery before the war, the different degrees of racial integration across the Continental Army, and the war’s divergent effects on both northern and southern states. Her efforts retrieve black patriots’ experiences from historical obscurity and reveal their importance in the fight for equal rights—even though it would take another war to end slavery in the United States.
Standing in the Light
Author | : Severt Young Bear |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1996-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803299125 |
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"An inside view of the Lakota world-of the meaning of Lakota song and dance, of their history, of what it is to be Lakota in America today. . . . A lasting personal tribute to the Lakota way of living."-Whole Earth Review. "A unique, in-depth presentation on Lakota music and the profession of singer, a useful contemporary Oglala representation of the core of their culture, and a version of the involvement of the American Indian Movement on Pine Ridge Reservation, told by a man who was affiliated but not a principal leader. . . . This is a subjective statement, well and persuasively written."-Choice. Severt Young Bear stood in the light-in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and, for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine Singers, a traditional singing and drumming group, he also stood, figuratively, in the light of understanding the cherished Lakota heritage. Young Bear's own life in Brotherhood Community, Porcupine District of the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, is the linchpin of this narrative, which ranges across the landscape of Dakota culture, from the significance of names to the search for modern Lakota identity, from Lakota oral traditions to powwows and giveaways, from child-rearing practices to humor and leadership. "Music is at the center of Lakota life, " says Young Bear; he describes in rich detail the origins and varieties of Lakota song and dance. Severt Young Bear performed with the Porcupine Singers throughout North America, taught at Oglala Lakota College, and served on the Oglala Sioux tribal council. He was music and dance consultant for the films Dances with Wolves and Thunder Heart. This book is the fruit of his longfriendship and collaboration with R. D. Theisz, a fellow Porcupine Singer and professor of communications and education at Black Hills State University.
Standing in the Light
Author | : Sharman Apt Russell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2016-08-10 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0997416203 |
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Sharman Apt Russell's wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. Perhaps no other religious philosophy is as simple and inclusive as pantheism. What is, right now, is divine; there is no god apart from the universe itself. In Standing in the Light, Russell explores the history of this tradition from the Stoic philosophers to the Transcendentalists while reflecting on her own life during a year spent in the mountains and desert of southwestern New Mexico. A season of banding birds, the migration of sandhill cranes, the panicked charge of a young javelina-nature provides the inspiration for meditations on subjects ranging from Buddhist thought to the death of her father, from the Quaker tradition to the sadness of children leaving home, from global warming to the ineffable loneliness of human experience. With a humane heart, an inquisitive mind, and luminescent prose, Sharman Apt Russell invites skeptics, scientists, and seekers everywhere to join her in her exploration of the soul of pantheism.
Journal of the British Archaeological Association
Author | : British Archaeological Association |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044100057876 |
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Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases
Author | : James Main Dixon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112067867710 |
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Why and Why Not Being questions about the Lord s Supper A tract for 1869 Fourth edition Twentieth thousand
Author | : John Charles Ryle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0020062802 |
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Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Pharmacy |
ISBN | : IOWA:31858018390272 |
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Standing in the Light of My Truth
Author | : Shar'Ron Maxx Mahaffey |
Publsiher | : Enlightenment Independent Publ. |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2005-08 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0962114421 |
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