A San Diego writer and publicist has tapped the Pala Indian Reservation as the backdrop for a debut novel that she will showcase at a pow-wow this weekend in Temecula.
The tale is a multi-cultural love story that draws upon several San Diego settings as well as local Native American themes and images.

Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by hunwut
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by RACHEL FILIPINAS
May 22, 2008

The basic history of the United States of America should be a familiar story to any college student, but writer and UC Davis professor emeritus Jack D. Forbes wants to rethink the way textbooks cover American history.

In his latest book The American Discovery of Europe, Forbes inspects a different role of [...]

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Steven Newcomb / Indigenous Law Institute
April 11, 2008
The background perspective of ”Pagans in the Promised Land” is the original free existence of American Indian peoples in this hemisphere, an existence spanning many thousands of years, an existence that is grounded in the linguistic, cognitive, cultural, moral and spiritual traditions of our indigenous ancestors. The [...]

Posted on April 11th, 2008 by hunwut
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Reports from the Rez by Gordon Johnson
Aysha Somasundaram, Bookslut
Gordon Johnson’s Fast Cars and Frybread is a slim volume of collected columns from the Press-Enterprise in Riverside County, California spanning 1993 to 2000 — forty-three of them, to be exact. Johnson is a Cahuilla/Cupeño member of the Pala Indian Reservation. In Johnson’s introduction, he mentions his [...]

Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by hunwut
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By Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
2/11/2008
HIGHLAND CA - For the last eight years, San Manuel tribal elder Pauline Murillo has captured the history of her tribe in pictures and words.
She has had two books published. Her autobiography, “Living in Two Worlds: The Life of Pauline Ormego Murillo,” chronicles her life on the reservation from the time [...]

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Steven Newcomb/ Indigenous Law Institute
January 25, 2008
My book, ”Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery” (Fulcrum, 2008), unpacks many layers of meaning found in the 1823 Supreme Court ruling Johnson v. M’Intosh. It poses an alternative view by identifying the doctrine of ”Christian” discovery in U.S. law, and posits that [...]

Posted on January 25th, 2008 by hunwut
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By S.J. Wilson — The Navajo Hopi Observer
January 09, 2008
PEACH SPRINGS AZ. - Quail, deer, elk, wild onions, prickly pear and other flora and fauna of northern Arizona were common foods among the Hualapai and other tribes of the region.
In an effort to preserve traditional food knowledge among their people, the Hualapai Ethnobotany Project, which [...]

Posted on January 9th, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Steven Newcomb / Indigenous Law Institute
January 04, 2008
In February 2008, my book, ”Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery,” will be released by Fulcrum Publishing in Golden, Colo. The book uses major findings in the theory of the human mind (cognitive theory) as a framework for challenging the presumption that [...]

Posted on January 4th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Dixie Reid - Bee Staff Writer
The idea was for them to tell their stories, prompted only by the personal photographs they themselves chose.
Those oral histories and prized images became the heart of “First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians” by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland (Heyday Books, 288 pages, $23.95).
“First Families” becomes a [...]

Posted on October 7th, 2007 by admin
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