Finding Right Relations

Finding Right Relations
Author: Marianne O. Nielsen
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-05-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0816544093

Colonialism has the power to corrupt. This important new work argues that even the early Quakers, who had a belief system rooted in social justice, committed structural and cultural violence against their Indigenous neighbors.

Finding Right Relations

Finding Right Relations
Author: Marianne O. Nielsen
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-05-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816545294

Quakers were one of the early settler colonist groups to invade northeastern North America. William Penn set out to develop a “Holy Experiment,” or utopian colony, in what is now Pennsylvania. Here, he thought, his settler colonists would live in harmony with the Indigenous Lenape and other settler colonists. Centering on the relationship between Quaker colonists and the Lenape people, Finding Right Relations explores the contradictory position of the Quakers as both egalitarian, pacifist people, and as settler colonists. This book explores major challenges to Quaker beliefs and resulting relations with American Indians from the mid-seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century. It shows how the Quakers not only failed to prevent settler colonial violence against American Indians but also perpetuated it. It provides historical examples such as the French and Indian War, the massacre of the Conestoga Indians, and the American Indian boarding schools to explore the power of colonialism to corrupt even those colonists with a belief system rooted in social justice. While this truth rubs against Quaker identity as pacifists and socially conscious, justice-minded people, the authors address how facing these truths provide ways forward for achieving restitution for the harms of the past. This book offers a path to truth telling that is essential to the healing process.

All Our Relations US Edition

All Our Relations US Edition
Author: Tanya Talaga
Publisher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 148700575X

Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding Finalist, 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Tanya Talaga, the bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples — youth suicide. “Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. She brings each story to life, skillfully weaving the stories of the youths’ lives, deaths, and families together with sharp analysis... The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” — Publishers Weekly *Starred Review* “Talaga has crafted an urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario... Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.” — Booklist *Starred Review* In this urgent and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonized nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience marked by the violent separation of Peoples from the land, the separation of families, and the separation of individuals from traditional ways of life — all of which has culminated in a spiritual separation that has had an enduring impact on generations of Indigenous children. As a result of this colonial legacy, too many communities today lack access to the basic determinants of health — income, employment, education, a safe environment, health services — leading to a mental health and youth suicide crisis on a global scale. But, Talaga reminds us, First Peoples also share a history of resistance, resilience, and civil rights activism. Based on her Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy series, All Our Relations is a powerful call for action, justice, and a better, more equitable world for all Indigenous Peoples.

Calling in "The One"

Calling in
Author: Katherine Woodward Thomas
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 030742037X

Are you frustrated by stymied relationships, missed connections, and the loneliness of the search for someone to spend the rest of your life with? Are you ready, instead, to find “The One”? In Calling in “The One,” Katherine Woodward Thomas shares her own personal experience to show women that in order to find the relationship that will last a lifetime, you have to be truly open and ready to create a loving, committed, romantic union. Calling in “The One” shows you how. Based on the Law of Attraction, which is the concept that we can only attract what we’re ready to receive, the provocative yet simple seven-week program in Calling in “The One” prepares you to bring forth the love you seek. For each of the 49 days of Thomas’s thoughtful and life-affirming plan, there is a daily lesson, a corresponding practice, and instruction for putting that lesson into action in your life. Meditation, visualization, and journaling exercises will gently lead you to recognize the obstacles on your path to love and provide ways to steer around them. At the end of those 49 days, you will be in the ideal emotional state to go out into the world and find “The One.” An inspirational approach that offers a radical new philosophy on relationships, Calling in “The One” is your guide to finding the love you seek.

All Our Relations

All Our Relations
Author: Tanya Talaga
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1925693945

The world’s Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonised nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience marked by the violent separation of Peoples from the land, the separation of families, and the separation of individuals from traditional ways of life — all of which has culminated in a spiritual separation that has had an enduring impact on generations of Indigenous children. As a result of this colonial legacy, too many communities today lack access to the basic determinants of health — income, employment, education, a safe environment, health services — leading to a mental health and youth suicide crisis on a global scale. But, Talaga reminds us, First Peoples also share a history of resistance, resilience, and civil rights activism, from the Occupation of Alcatraz led by the Indians of All Tribes, to the Northern Ontario Stirland Lake Quiet Riot, to the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which united Indigenous Nations from across Turtle Island in solidarity. All Our Relations is a powerful call for action, justice, and a better, more equitable world for all Indigenous Peoples.

Finding the Love of Your Life

Finding the Love of Your Life
Author: Neil Clark Warren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1992
Genre: Love
ISBN: 0671892010

In 25 years of counseling couples, Dr. Neil Clark Warren discovered that marriages most often fail because people simply choose the wrong person to marry. In this Gold Medallion award-winner, an 11-month Christian Booksellers Association bestseller, Dr. Clark shares ten proven principles for finding the perfect mate.

Reshaping the University

Reshaping the University
Author: Rauna Kuokkanen
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0774840846

In the past few decades, the narrow intellectual foundations of the university have come under serious scrutiny. Previously marginalized groups have called for improved access to the institution and full inclusion in the curriculum. Reshaping the University is a timely, thorough, and original interrogation of academic practices. It moves beyond current analyses of cultural conflicts and discrimination in academic institutions to provide an indigenous postcolonial critique of the modern university. Rauna Kuokkanen argues that attempts by universities to be inclusive are unsuccessful because they do not embrace indigenous worldviews. Programs established to act as bridges between mainstream and indigenous cultures ignore their ontological and epistemic differences and, while offering support and assistance, place the responsibility of adapting wholly on the student. Indigenous students and staff are expected to leave behind their cultural perspectives and epistemes in order to adopt Western values. Reshaping the University advocates a radical shift in the approach to cultural conflicts within the academy and proposes a new logic, grounded in principles central to indigenous philosophies.

All Our Relations

All Our Relations
Author: Winona LaDuke
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1608466612

How Native American history can guide us today: “Presents strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos.” —Whole Earth Written by a former Green Party vice-presidential candidate who was once listed among “America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty” by Time magazine, this thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community. “Moving and often beautiful prose.” —Ralph Nader “Thoroughly researched and convincingly written.” —Choice

The Secret of Love

The Secret of Love
Author: Arabella Sheraton
Publisher: Bublish, Inc.
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0996444483

In this self-help book on finding the right love partner, romance author Arabella Sheraton outlines a 10-step, fool proof plan for finding the person who is perfect for you. You don’t need a long drawn out explanation: Ms. Sheraton (with some pithy advice from Jane Austen) gets to the heart of the matter and show readers how finding love begins and ends with them. Find out how to shed the pain of past relationships; create the blueprint of your perfect match; get back into the dating scene and avoid the pitfalls. Find out what men want! Find out what women want! Find out how to dump that old baggage. Find the right person for you the right way.

The Real Rules

The Real Rules
Author: Barbara De Angelis
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2011-03-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0307422844

Do you really believe you can find true love by playing games? Get real! Real secrets about men. Real truth about love. When love becomes a game, everybody loses. Bestselling author and renowned relationship expert Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., knows what woman really need today—and it’s not a relationship built on lies and manipulation. Instead, she offers a real alternative: The Real Rules. The real rules are not about trying to be what a man wants so he’ll marry you. They're not about fear—fear of being alone, fear of “blowing” a relationship with one wrong move. The real rules are about becoming the confident, unique woman you really are and finding a man who loves you because of it. In The Real Rules, Barbara De Angelis won’t just teach you how to get a man—she’ll teach you how to get the right man, and create a love that lasts forever. Learn: • How to Stop Sabotaging Your Love Life with the Old Rules • The Six Most Important Character Traits to Look for in a Man • What Men Really Want in a Woman (And in the Bedroom) • When and How to Ask a Man for a Commitment • How to Avoid the Wrong Men and Attract the Right Ones . . . and more