[PDF] The Corn Woman eBook

Author : Angel Vigil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 1994-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313069891

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The culture, history, and spirit of the Hispanic Southwest are brought to readers through this fascinating collection of 45 cuentos (stories and legends) from the region. From ancient creation myths of the Aztecs and traditional tales of Spanish colonialists to an eclectic sampling of the work of modern Latino storytellers, this book provides a rich tapestry of both obscure and well-loved stories-religious stories; animal tales; stories of magic, transformation, and wisdom; and chistes (short comic tales). Fifteen tales are also presented in Spanish. The origin and historical development of the stories are examined in an introductory chapter. A discussion of dichos (proverbs) and adivinanzas (riddles) illuminates the larger context of the oral tradition in which the tales have flourished. Lavishly illustrated with pictures of original paintings and sculpture by contemporary Latino artists, this fascinating collection will appeal to children and adults alike and is a must for the multicultural class

Author : Renee Fajardo
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category :
ISBN : 9780972447270

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An anthology of photographs and stories of multi-generational and multi-cultural women of the Southwest, whose lives and work embody the spirit of community.

Author : Marilou Awiakta
Publisher : Fulcrum Group
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781555911447

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A weaving of essays, poems, and stories centering on the life- giving story of the Corn-Mother.

Author : Jason Offutt
Publisher : CamCat Publishing, LLC
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0744304512

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Beware of what lurks in the corn. Fairies don’t exist. At least that’s what Thomas Cavanaugh’s parents say. But the events of that one night, when he follows a fairy into the cornfield on his parents’ farm, prove them wrong. What seems like a destructive explosion was, Thomas knows, an encounter with Dauðr, a force that threatens to destroy the fairy’s world and his sanity. Years later, after a troubled childhood and a series of dead-end jobs, he is still haunted by what he saw that night. One day he crosses paths with a beautiful young woman and a troubled young man, soon realizing that he first met them as a kid while under psychiatric care after his encounters in the cornfield. Has fate brought them together? Are they meant to join forces to save the fairy’s world and their own? Or is one of them not who they claim to be?

Author : Barron Eleanor Druckrey, PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595463436

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"Do you want to know?" the spirit asked twenty-three-year-old Eleanor Barrón Druckrey in 1967. At the time, the young woman was not quite ready. Ten years later and still stalked by spirits day and night, Barrón Druckrey accepted the invitation to embark on a journey of discovery through her dreams. She began to understand a pattern of brilliance and beauty related to the ancient past when magic, wonder, and awe reigned throughout the native cultures in the Americas. Drawn from more than thirty years of recorded dreams, Corn Woman Sings brings Native American traditions to life. Interwoven with Barrón Druckrey's personal stories and discussions on the legends of the great dreamers, Corn Woman's legacy lays a path of transformation and renewal for the modern-day curandera, medicine woman and mystic, in all walks of life. Corn Woman Sings shows you how to start building a dream map that will lead you to personal transformation. It illustrates the process of opening up to your inner self and starting the process of uniting mind, body, and spirit. Only time will tell what you might witness in your dreams.

Author : Neil Michael O'Mara
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1783332115

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A young Native American believes an ancestor killed nearly three hundred years ago haunts him. He also has the conviction that he and his family are tormented at every twist and turn of their lives by the injustices exacted on their people both in the past and modern day. Spurred on by this ancient warrior spirit, his life is punctuated by his quest to vindicate the wrongs of the past and present. However this is not the only force at work in his life. Unpredictable change is at hand by a woman who appears to stand for everything he doesn't care for, the established order.

Author : Wanda Corn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520947460

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This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America’s Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her topic the grand neo-classical Woman’s Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a structure celebrating modern woman’s progress in education, arts, and sciences. Looking closely at the paintings and sculptures women artists made to decorate the structure, including the murals by Mary Cassatt and Mary MacMonnies, Corn uncovers an unspoken but consensual program to visualize a history of the female sex and promote an expansion of modern woman’s opportunities. Beautifully written, with informative sidebars by Annelise K. Madsen and artist biographies by Charlene G. Garfinkle, this volume illuminates the originality of the public images female artists created in 1893 and inserts them into the complex discourse of fin de siècle woman’s politics. The Woman’s Building offered female artists an unprecedented opportunity to create public art and imagine an historical narrative that put women rather than men at its center.

Author : Gilbert L. Wilson
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0873516605

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This that I now tell is as I saw my mothers do, or did myself, when I was young. My mothers were industrious women, and our family had always good crops; and I will tell now how the women of my father's family cared for their fields, as I saw them, and helped them. --Buffalo Bird Woman

Author : Lois Lenski
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1453227520

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A Newbery Honor book inspired by the true story of a girl captured by a Shawnee war party in Colonial America and traded to a Seneca tribe. When twelve-year-old Mary Jemison and her family are captured by Shawnee raiders, she’s sure they’ll all be killed. Instead, Mary is separated from her siblings and traded to two Seneca sisters, who adopt her and make her one of their own. Mary misses her home, but the tribe is kind to her. She learns to plant crops, make clay pots, and sew moccasins, just as the other members do. Slowly, Mary realizes that the Indians are not the monsters she believed them to be. When Mary is given the chance to return to her world, will she want to leave the tribe that has become her family? This Newbery Honor book is based on the true story of Mary Jemison, the pioneer known as the “White Woman of the Genesee.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Author : Sue Littleton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781463584917

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This, the story of the transformation of corn from world plant to the mainstay of the great civilizations of the New World, is an enthralling, historically correct adventure. Tel cuento de la transformacion del maiz, de planta salvaje al sosten principal de la civilizaciones del Nuevo Mundo, es una fascinante aventura, historicament correcta. Corn is a domesticated plant of the New World, as ancient as the wheat and rice of the Old World. Corn does not seem to be a likely heroin, yet "Corn Woman, Mujer Maiz" brings her to life. In this tale of growth to maturity, adaptation in those who love her, and ironic twists of plot as a vengeful captive in a foreigh land, corn is a persona, as Corn Woman, Corn Mother. Presented in English and Spanish.