Christian Michael Gonzales Livres

This is a story of a princess whose beauty is such that no man can love her with his heart but only his eyes; this creates a sadness within the princess that is felt by the angels who live within the clouds. The tears of the angels fill the clouds with rain, which falls upon the land, causing it to flood. The king, in turn, sends three knights beyond the city walls into unknown lands to find a man of such character as to love the princess with true heart. Soon after, three friends, a carpenter, a blacksmith, and a farmer, have an epiphany to join the knights on their quest. One of the three is married to a woman whose name is Sara. As the story progresses, the princess and Sara form a friendship that evolves into a romantic relationship.

Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770-1859 explores the development of modern Indigenous identities within the settler colonial context of the early United States. With an aggressively expanding United States that sought to displace Native peoples, the very foundations of Indigeneity were endangered by the disruption of Native connections to the land. This volume describes how Natives embedded conceptualizations integral to Indigenous ontologies into social and cultural institutions like racial ideologies, black slaveholding, and Christianity that they incorporated from the settler society. This process became one vital avenue through which various Native peoples were able to regenerate Indigeneity within environments dominated by a settler society. The author offers case studies of four different tribes to illustrate how Native thought processes, not just cultural and political processes, helped Natives redefine the parameters of Indigeneity. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of early American history, indigenous and ethnic studies, American historiography, and anthropology.