Firewater Myths

Firewater Myths
Author: Joy Leland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1976
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

A revision and expansion of the author's thesis (M.A.), University of Nevada, Reno, 1972. Bibliography: p. 139-153. Includes index.

Fighting Firewater Fictions

Fighting Firewater Fictions
Author: Richard Thatcher
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 840
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780802086471

Fighting Firewater Fictions calls for community re-organization around a band development policy that looks beyond the reserve

Firewater

Firewater
Author: Harold Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2016
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780889774377

A passionate call to action from a veteran prosecutor, Firewater examines alcohol--its history, its myths, and its devastating impact on Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike.

Dictionary of Nature Myths

Dictionary of Nature Myths
Author: Tamra Andrews
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0195136772

Comprehensive and cross-referenced, this informative volume is a rich introduction to the world of nature as experienced by ancient peoples around the globe. 51 halftones.

Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene

Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene
Author: Mary Fifield
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2021-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1625571151

A Sámi woman studying Alaska fish populations sees our past and future through their present signs of stress and her ancestral knowledge. A teenager faces a permanent drought in Australia and her own sexual desire. An unemployed man in Wisconsin marvels as a motley parade of animals makes his trailer their portal to a world untrammeled by humans. Featuring short fiction from authors around the globe, Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene takes readers on a rare journey through the physical and emotional landscape of the climate crisis--not in the future, but today. By turns frightening, confusing, and even amusing, these stories remind us how complex, and beautiful, it is to be human in these unprecedented times.

The First Fire: A Cherokee Story

The First Fire: A Cherokee Story
Author: Bradley Wagnon
Publisher: 7th Generation
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2020-08-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 193905351X

First Fire is an ageless Cherokee myth about the revered water spider in their culture. The story happens in a time when animals could do many of the things that people do. The Creator gave the animals the world to live on, but they were without a source for heat at night. Great Thunder and his sons saw the plight of the animals so he sent lightning down to strike a tree. The tree burst into flames but the tree was on an island. Many animals tried to bring the fire over the water to the shore, but they were all unsuccessful. One small creature, the Water Spider, then volunteered. Curious, the animals said to her “We know you could get there safely, but how would you bring the fire back without getting burned?” Water Spider was successful and to this day, the water spider is revered in Cherokee culture.

Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon

Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon
Author:
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2000-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780816519729

Perhaps you know them for their deer dances or for their rich Easter ceremonies, or perhaps only from the writings of anthropologists or of Carlos Castaneda. But now you can come to know the Yaqui Indians in a whole new way. Anita Endrezze, born in California of a Yaqui father and a European mother, has written a multilayered work that interweaves personal, mythical, and historical views of the Yaqui people. Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon is a blend of ancient myths, poetry, journal extracts, short stories, and essays that tell her people's story from the early 1500s to the present, and her family's story over the past five generations. Reproductions of Endrezze's paintings add an additional dimension to her story and illuminate it with striking visual imagery. Endrezze has combed history and legend to gather stories of her immediate family and her mythical ancient family, the two converging in the spirit of storytelling. She tells Aztec and Yaqui creation stories, tales of witches and seductresses, with recurring motifs from both Yaqui and Chicano culture. She shows how Christianity has deeply infused Yaqui beliefs, sharing poems about the Flood and stories of a Yaqui Jesus. She re-creates the coming of the Spaniards through the works of such historical personages as AndrŽs PŽrez de Ribas. And finally she tells of those individuals who carry the Yaqui spirit into the present day. People like the Esperanza sisters, her grandmothers, and others balance characters like Coyote Woman and the Virgin of Guadalupe to show that Yaqui women are especially important as carriers of their culture. Greater than the sum of its parts, Endrezze's work is a new kind of family history that features a startling use of language to invoke a people and their past--a time capsule with a female soul. Written to enable her to understand more about her ancestors and to pass this understanding on to her own children, Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon helps us gain insight not only into Yaqui culture but into ourselves as well.

Earth, Fire, Water, Air

Earth, Fire, Water, Air
Author: Mary Hoffman
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Air
ISBN: 9780525454205

Uses myths, legends, images, and ideas from around the world to tell how four basic natural elements have inspired people in the past.

The Urge

The Urge
Author: Carl Erik Fisher
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0525561455

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction—a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives—by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself “Carl Erik Fisher’s The Urge is the best-written and most incisive book I’ve read on the history of addiction. In the midst of an overdose crisis that grows worse by the hour and has vexed America for centuries, Fisher has given us the best prescription of all: understanding. He seamlessly blends a gripping historical narrative with memoir that doesn’t self-aggrandize; the result is a full-throated argument against blaming people with substance use disorder. The Urge is a propulsive tour de force that is as healing as it is enjoyable to read.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat it. With uncommon empathy and erudition, Carl Erik Fisher draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery as he traces the history of a phenomenon that, centuries on, we hardly appear closer to understanding—let alone addressing effectively. As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Fisher was soon face-to-face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of the condition that had plagued his family for generations, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that the current quagmire is only the latest iteration of a centuries-old story: humans have struggled to define, treat, and control addictive behavior for most of recorded history, including well before the advent of modern science and medicine. A rich, sweeping account that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and public policy, The Urge illuminates the extent to which the story of addiction has persistently reflected broader questions of what it means to be human and care for one another. Fisher introduces us to the people who have endeavored to address this complex condition through the ages: physicians and politicians, activists and artists, researchers and writers, and of course the legions of people who have struggled with their own addictions. He also examines the treatments and strategies that have produced hope and relief for many people with addiction, himself included. Only by reckoning with our history of addiction, he argues—our successes and our failures—can we light the way forward for those whose lives remain threatened by its hold. The Urge is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinician’s urgent call for a more expansive, nuanced, and compassionate view of one of society’s most intractable challenges.