Mary Giraudo Beck has lived Ketchikan, Alaska, since 1951, when she married a third-generation Alaskan. Besides rearing a family, she taught literature and writing courses for thirty years at Ketchikan Community College, a branch of the University of Alaska. Mary has an abiding interest in the Native culture of Southeast Alaska and a commitment to recording its oral literature. Previous works include two books, Heroes and Heroines in Tlingit-Haida Legend and Shamans and Kushtakas: North Coast Tales of the Supernatural, essays on Native mythology, and articles on travel by small boat to towns and Native communities in Southeast Alaska.
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Beck: Potlatch
Among the Northwest Coast Indians (Tlingit, Haida, and others), potlatches traditionally are lavish community gatherings marking important events, such as funerals or marriages. In celebrations that …
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Zangerl & Welsch: Rückenfitness für die Schule
Von der Bayerischen Landesstelle für den Schulsport entwickelte Übungen für einen gesunden Rücken speziell für den Sportunterricht Rückenfitness für die Schule Ein gesunder Rücken ist wichtig – das i …
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John Beck: Dirty Wars
Since World War II, the American West has become the nation’s military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the Wes …
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David R. M. Beck: Seeking Recognition
In 1855 the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw tribes of Oregon signed the Empire Treaty with the United States, which would have provided them rights as federally acknowledged tribes with formal relati …
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David R. M. Beck: Struggle for Self-Determination
Drawing on meticulous archival research and a close working relationship with the Menominee Historic Preservation Department, David R. M. Beck picks up where his earlier work, Siege and Survival: His …
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David R. M. Beck & Rosalyn R. LaPier: City Indian
Robert G. Athearn Award from the Western History Association In City Indian Rosalyn R. La Pier and David R. M. Beck tell the engaging story of American Indians who migrated to Chicago from across Ame …
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David R. M. Beck: Unfair Labor?
Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tri …
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David R. M. Beck: Unfair Labor?
Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tri …
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€36.10
Sandra Kostner & Elham Manea: Lehren aus 9/11
Die Terroranschläge am 11. September 2001 erschütterten die im Westen weit verbreitete Vorstellung, Islamismus stelle allenfalls eine Bedrohung für die muslimische Welt dar. Die USA reagierten auf 9/ …
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Marieluise Beck: Ukraine verstehen
Der Ruf des Maidan nach Recht und Freiheit rückte die Ukraine in das öffentliche Bewusstsein Deutschlands. Das Land, das in seiner Geschichte nur für einen Wimpernschlag seine nationale Eigenständigk …
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Beck: The Devil’s Daughter
The Carpathian Mountains have long stood as the jewel of Eastern Europe, with their magnificent peaks, steeped in folklore and mystery. But in the village of Gura Haith, something lurks in the night, …
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Beck: The Onyx Seed – A Story of Survival
The world is dead, but the earth lives on as humanity is brought to the edge of extinction by a well-orchestrated bio-terrorist attack. But in the bowels of Los Angeles, Marty and Lucas, working in a …
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Beck & Behrends: Deutsch-ukrainische Geschichten
Die Ukraine war fur die deutsche Offentlichkeit lange Zeit ein fernes Land, nahezu eine terra incognita. Sie wurde entweder durch die russische Brille oder nur im Zusammenhang mit den deutschen Graue …
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