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RABBIT PLANTS THE FOREST. (Deborah L. Duvall with Murv Jacob as illustrator, University of New Mexico Press, 32pp., hardcover - $18.95)
RABBIT PLANTS THE FOREST is a story based on characters from Cherokee tradition including Jistu (Rabbit) and his friends Otter, Saloli (Squirrel) and the mysterious Wampus Cat.
Based on the ancient Cherokee teaching that squirrels keep the woods alive and should not be hunted, RABBIT PLANTS THE FOREST combines Jacob's color paintings and a blending of Cherokee tales with scientific facts about animals and their places in our world.
Author Deborah L. Duvall was born and raised in Tahlequah, Okla., where she has lived and worked on numerous projects and cultural endeavors over the years. Jacob, a descendant of Kentucky Cherokees, is known for his intricate paintings of Cherokee village scenes, people and animal dances. His illustrations for these books are as detailed and rich as any of his award-winning paintings. (April)
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THE QUOTABLE WILL ROGERS. (Joseph Carter, Gibbs Smith Publisher, 96 pp., hardcover - $12.95)
Will Rogers is one of the most often-quoted people in the world. Joseph Carter has compiled a collection of the best of what Will Rogers had to say in a 96-page book. Each page of the book of Rogers' life as an entertainer, humorist, radio personality, actor and newspaper columnist contains a Rogers quote.
Carter has gathered many never-before-published photographs and quotes from Rogers' many years of writings, some well-known, others not often heard or seen in print.
Carter and his wife Michelle manage the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore and 400-acre 1879 birthplace ranch near Oologah, Okla. Carter, a former White House speech writer, university vice president and newsman, wrote NEVER MET A MAN I DIDN'T LIKE: The Life and Writings of Will Rogers, consulted in the opening of the Broadway musical "The Will Rogers Follies: A Life in Revue" and assisted the University of Oklahoma in publishing the scholarly five-volume PAPERS OF WILL ROGERS. (2005)
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STOLEN CONTINENTS: 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas. (Ronald Wright, Mariner Books, 464 pp., paperback - $17)
STOLEN CONTINENTS is a single-volume report that tells the stories of the conquest and survival of ?ve great American cultures - Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Their words tell their strange, tragic experiences including incidents up to the 21st century.
Wright was born in England to a Canadian father and an English mother and now lives in British Columbia, Canada. His nonfiction book includes the bestseller TIME AMONG THE MAYA. (2005)
GENOCIDE OF THE MIND: New Native American Writing. (Edited by MariJo Moore and forward by Vine Deloria Jr., Nation Books, 352 pp., paperback - $12)
After five centuries of Euro-centrism, many people have little idea that Native American tribes still exist or which traditions belong to what tribes. America's Indigenous peoples have been stereotyped as spiritual gurus, pagan savages, Indian princesses or pitiful burdens on society.
However, there has been a movement to accurately describe Native cultures and histories. In particular, writers have explored the experience of urban Indians - individuals who live in two worlds struggling to preserve traditional Native values within the context of an ever-changing modern society. GENOCIDE OF THE MIND is a collection of essays that record the determination of people from more than 25 different tribes to bring the Native American experience into the 21st century. (2003)
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RADIO ON: A Listener's Diary. (Sarah Vowell, St. Martin's Press, 256 pp., paperback - $13.95)
There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Sarah Vowell turned hers on and listened - closely, critically and creatively - for an entire year.
Her series of impressions and reflections regarding contemporary American culture are an extended meditation on media and society.
Vowell, Cherokee, originally from Oklahoma, is a contributing editor for public radio's "This American Life" and is the author of TAKE THE CANNOLI, PARTLY CLOUDY PATRIOT and ASSASSINATION VACATION. (1997)
- Travis Snell