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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...me. He would be patient, and watch the outcome of the battles between the Great Sioux Nation and the blue coats. In his night visions he had already... ...he gnarled hand flicked the silver fish onto the flat rock. The fish gasped for air and then, after a moment, lay still. The old Chief lifted the si... ...of the land? The idea is strange to us .. .Ifwe do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part o... ...rn will be rewarded with a night vision and a meeting with the Soul Bearer, the guardian of the golden thread that connects the spirit world to the ... ...ul of every Indian Nation who opposed the white man's will. 1 was chosen as the guardian to The Soul Bearer protect the Golden Thread, and I did w... ...A campus and read up on the inimitable Aaron Matloch. In short, it read: multi-national mining industrialist, multi-billionaire, and the richest ma... ...ee hundred years, and w2nted to know if 1 could be of assistance in getting the National Geographic Soci­ ety interested in doing a story. Of course,... ...Seat­ tle." The floor to ceiling glass windows created a post card view of the city and the ocean. "You're right, we don't get many sun­ sets." Hawk... ...don't think 1 can go through with this, Ray." "Small town boy 'fraid of the big city?" she taunted. "Ray, I'm serious. 1 need some help, not sarcasm...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...d.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of... ...ng in modern day religion. I enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York for a post-graduate degree, hoping to fill the gap within ... ... my bosom. On all things there came a fair, lovely look, as if a different air stood over them. It is a look that seems ready to come sometimes on tho... ... a less intensive scale. They appear to have been primarily organized on a city to city, or town to town, basis with local shrines, temples, and pries... ...s breathing drills are first performed which aim at clearing the passage of air in the nostrils. Then pride, anger, hatred, covetousness, sloth, stupid... ...epresentation continued in Chris- tianity and continues up to the present. Guardian angels, one as- signed to each Christian, and patron saints are ve... ...orenda would be seen as sacred or holy from a Western viewpoint. Among the Sioux, a white man was called “wakan” (a possessor of orenda) at first, not... ...had attained, they had a sound economy and lively trade, they had a strong national defense, they had a government on the basis of the consent of the ... ...the Apostle, A & C Black, London, 1931. Smith, Gary: “Utah’s Rock Art,” in National Geographic, vol. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 296 157, no. 1, Jan. 198...

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...or additional information on those items please write or email me. This book is based on my own experiences and is written from the point of view o... ..._________________________________________________________________ ____ located in city of _________________ County of ______________________ b) Stre... ...__________________________________________________ __________________ located in City of _________________ County of ______________________ b) Stre... ... any laundry, clothing, sheets, etc. from any window, rail, porch or balcony nor air or dry any of same within any yard area or space; (f) Not cause... ...out the prior written consent of Lessor; Lillian R. Villanova 96 (g) Keep all air conditioning filters clean and free from dirt; (h) Keep all lav... ...mouth, Pocahontas, Polk, Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Sac, Scott, Shelby, Sioux, Story, Tama, Taylor, Union, Van Buren, Wapello, Warren, Wash... ...ass, Teton, Toole, Treasure, Valley, Wheatland, Wibaux, Yellowstone, Yellowstore National Park Nebraska: Tax Lien Certificate State 93 Counties Ad... ...ardson, Rock, Saline, Sarpy, Saunders, Scotts Bluff, Seward, Sheridan, Sherman, Sioux, Stanton, Thayer, Thomas, Thurston, Valley, Washington, Wayne,... ...ace and How to Save the Sale. She has been certified, by the United States Coast Guard, as an Instructor Trainer, and as a Sexual Harassment Trainin...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

... the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks above the present city of Alton they found some rude and fantastic Indian paintings, which ... ...re they entered the realms of spring. The hazy sunlight, the warm and drowsy air, the tender foliage, the opening flow ers, betokened the reviving li... ...’ and visited an imposing Indian monarch in the Teche country, whose capital city was a substantial one of sun baked bricks mixed with straw—better ho... ...you are, gentlemen. Leave him to me; he’s my meat.” Then he jumped up in the air three times and cracked his heels together every time. He flung off a... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ... to scrub while his boat tarried at our town, and he would sit on the inside guard and scrub it, where we could all see him and envy him and loathe hi... ...icular trouble in the night, for the thousand mile wall of dense forest that guards the two banks all the way is only gapped with a farm or wood yard ... ...g as it should be wise enough not to carry the thing too far and provoke the national government into amending the licensing system, steamboat owners ... ... it its name, Not many years ago this locality was a favorite resort for the Sioux Indians on account of the fine fishing and hunting to be had there,...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...are over the shed. We were being filtered out into the river boat for Jersey City. You may imagine how slowly this filtering proceeded, through the de... ...on which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sense of calamity, and to judg... ...he state, who had got in at some way station, pronounced it, with a doctoral air, “a fever and ague morning.” The Dutch widow was a person of some cha... ...veracious in talk, but broidered as fancy prompted, and built castles in the air out of her past; yet she had that sort of candour, to keep me, in spi... ...idious offers of correspondence in the future; but I was per- petually on my guard, and parried their assaults with inward laughter. I am sure Dubuque... ...d, because they are imperfectly acquainted with English. They are held to be base, because their dexterity and frugality enable them to underbid the l... ...will say, “Why do you not write a great book? paint a great picture?” If his guardian angel fail him, they may even persuade him to the attempt, and, ... ... rope ladder; and if dirt be any proof of sincerity, the man was savage as a Sioux. I had the pleasure of his acquaintance; he appeared grossly stupid... ... proud to remember) as a friend. Like my old soldier, he was far gone in the national com- plaint. Unlike him, he had a vulgar taste in letters; scarc...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ck blew wild. A girl on a hilltop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. The eternal aching comedy of expectant you... ...ankato lies between cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties with the Indians, and the c... ... Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She ... ...l over with red rubber stamps.” 16 Main Street “Don’t you get sick of the city?” “St. Paul? Why, don’t you like it? I don’t know of any lovelier view... ... something to say about run- ning Gopher Prairie, but you take it in a big city of two- three hundred thousand, and I’m just one flea on the dog’s bac... ...with plaster of river mud, and ropes of twisted grass for laths. It has an air of centuries. In its solid rooms Carol and Kennicott found prints from ... ...grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exquisite, solitary. A bras... ... appropriation from the state and combined a new city hall with a national guard ar- mory. Dave had given verdict, “What these mouthy young- sters tha... ...he trekked in was built afterward by the soldiers as a defense against the Sioux. The four cab- ins were inhabited by Maine Yankees who had come up th...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

.... NOONDAY IN CHEPE ’TWA S NOONDA Y IN CHEPE. High Tide in the mighty River City!— its banks wellnigh overflowing with the myriad-waved Stream of Man! ... ...t or study, and indifferent to the din around him, sat the boy. A careless guardian was he of the treasures confided to him. The crowd passed in Chepe... ...,—the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebra... ... the coffee-house, and was seen canter- ing on a magnificent Arab past the National Gallery. “Who is yon spark in blue and silver? He beats Joe Addiso... ... wits of London with admiration? His galloping charger had returned to the City; his splendid court-suit was doffed for the citizen’s gabardine and gr... ...ard of the prison; but I dussay Hemmy will git you a little hoil for your ‘air.” The Prisoned One laughed loud and merrily. “My guardian understands m... ...little hoil for your ‘air.” The Prisoned One laughed loud and merrily. “My guardian understands me not, pretty one—and thou? what sayest thou? From th... ...ewith to garnish the hotel, and all the Irish in Paris were invited to the national festival. I and Prince Talleyrand danced a double hornpipe with Pa... ...awnee,” he said, “or wag my jaw, if so be necessity bids me to speak, by a Sioux’s council-fire and I can patter 71 Burlesques Canadian French with t...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

... Moments................................120 Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City .....................................................121 I Heard You... ...s Up and Consumes...133 Trickle Drops....................................134 City of Orgies....................................134 Behold This Swarthy... ...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...flickering around me, Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of, Contact daily and hourly that will not release m... ...d of the pastoral plains, the grass fields of the world! land of those sweet air’d interminable plateaus! Leaves of Grass –Whitman 33 Land of the he... ...occult convolutions! Root of wash’d sweet flag! timorous pond snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you! Mix’d tussled hay of head, beard... ... association marching two and two, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 66 (They go to guard some corpse, the flag tops are draped with black muslin.) I hear th... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ...UNE 25, 1876) From far Dakota’s canyons, Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence, Haply to day a mournful wall, h...

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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

...ny. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what they h... ... hopeless drunkards, as I myself have witnessed, he was like a painstaking guardian. And he never told a story that couldn’t have gone into the column... ...e across and liked or who seemed tired and invalidish on the ship. And so, guarded against his heart and, having his niece with him, he went round the... ... They seem to like the bath attendants, with their cheer- ful faces, their air of authority, their white linen. But, for myself, to be at Nauheim gave... ...nsive elegance; the mien of the diners as they came in every evening—their air of earnestness as if they must go through a meal prescribed by the Kur ... ...Baedeker, as easily about any old monument as she could about any American city where the blocks are all square and the streets all numbered, so that ... ...dd, obstinate way, did not like my presence. But they were hampered by the national manners of these occasions. Florence had her own sitting- room. Sh... ...ne evening she went into Edward’s gun-room—he had gone to a meeting of the National Reserve Committee. On the table beside his chair was a decanter of... ...on the body of a man who was at their disposal. They were like a couple of Sioux who had got hold of an Apache and had him well tied to a stake. I tel...

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