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  • Behind the White Picket Fence

    Life In the North with the HBC
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    Born in the early 1950s, Ron Gosbee grew up in unusual circumstances: living in remote Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) trading posts with his father, mother, and his two sisters. As the family sustained their distinctive way of life amidst the...


  • The Elusive Conquest of Queen Califa

    California History Revisited
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    It was then that John and I were slapped awake by the brilliant color and majestic presence of our hosts. The walls and ceilings that gave us shelter by night had, in the morning’s light, come alive with the vivid forms of men, deer, mountain...


  • 404 Years

    An Auto/biography
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    In the early seventeenth century, the sounds of the Atlantic whispering in her ears, Elizabeth Haney rides a ship bearing her from England to the burgeoning colony of Virginia, where she will join her husband, John. It is there that the two will...


  • Cigar Box Lithographs Volume VI

    Serenading America's Indigenous Peoples
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    For close to a decade, Charlie Humber’s discovery and documentation of the forgotten stories hidden beneath century-old wooden cigar box lids continues. In 2018, the initial volume of his series, headlined Cigar Box Lithographs: The Inside...


  • All but One

    Saga of the Abducted Putman Children of Gonzales Texas
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    ALL BUT ONE is a 19th Century account of the Putman children of Gonzales, Texas, who were kidnapped by Comanche's, and their father’s relentless search to find and bring them home. Spanning four decades—the 1820s to 1860s—this dramatic novel,...


  • Approaching Dawn

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    Approaching Dawn is the story of a prophecy fulfilled and of teachings passed through generations of Anishinabe. It is the story of one woman’s journey through the trauma of residential school, the reality of racism, the degradation of addictions...


  • Written on Stone

    A Novel of Empowerment
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    Written on Stone is an epic tale which comes alive across the enormous abyss of time. It explores the psyche and spirit of a people who are forced to leave their homeland in search of a better future. The Ainu of Japan, and others who come from...


  • Paths and Journeys

    An original collection of short stories from the heart and soul of Eeyou Istchee, Cree Homeland
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    Like the light and the darkness of life, we all walk on both sides many times, taking our steps carefully and sometimes foolishly, where things may happen, either good, bad or both. I have walked in light and in darkness, and with those people...


  • Mohawks on the Nile

    Journey of the Warrior Spirit
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    The inclusion of Mohawks and the Nile River in the same sentence seems a bit incongruous. American Indians in general and Mohawks in particular have remained relatively anonymous throughout contemporary American society. Joe Jacobs, whose mother...