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A Council of Dolls
- A Novel
- By: Mona Susan Power
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 79
From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried….
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5 out of 5 stars
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Valuable Perspective, told with gentleness
- By Liza Michaelson on 10-21-24
- A Council of Dolls
- A Novel
- By: Mona Susan Power
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
a book i wish every 'american' would read
Reviewed: 10-26-23
"English has it's grand beauty that I will always admire, but it also has its agenda."
Mona Susan Power
Mona Susan Power's transformational ability to tell the stories of the deeply woven histories of several generations of women who were sent to, or taken by boarding schools with the nuance of subtle and unspoken kindness, respect and dignity that seems a requirement to live through colonization, woven and tangled with the casualties of those who don't survive and those who do but whose spirits are ravaged and broken by it. She models real friendship - actual friendship - one that is not based on convenience, or transaction, perhaps from a mindset of scarcity but not greed; and the courage to carry on after worlds were burnt and beaten to nothing...This is a book i wish every 'american' would read. Although fiction, it is an historic document that reveals how things got to where we are, from the medical and pharma 'industries,' to public education, to ecologic crises - still extracted from, still perversely anthropocentric and perversely based in domination. Yet this nuance of kindness, respect and dignity prevails in the characters who have the courage to actually do some healing. No magical realism or spiritual bypassing here.
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Sand Talk
- How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
- By: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 584
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 520
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Story5 out of 5 stars 518
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability - and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?
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2 out of 5 stars
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- By Michael D. Phillips on 01-12-21
- Sand Talk
- How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
- By: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
taking notes, journaling for complete integration
Reviewed: 03-30-23
Looking for some deep truth telling with whole-body-resonant humor and all the strategies needed to save the planet that you can carry 'on the back of your hand' from an indigenous perspective?
Tyson Yunkaporta.
I'm not too sure why he is not more sought after by top podcasters, more publishers and world leaders alike. Publisher's note: "A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability - and offers a new template for living." ...I guess they'll catch on in another 20 years. If you get the audio book - where you can listen to (engage with? I did) Yunkaporta's deeply sobering, rugged baritone voice, agile enough to achieve a hilarious but also loving gentle whimsy - be sure to download and study the accompanying PDF where he describes the simple-with-profound-implications drawings in his book narration. The less than great reviews of this book are by those who most likely can't sit with themselves.
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Angela Davis
- An Autobiography
- By: Angela Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Davis
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 365
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 318
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Story5 out of 5 stars 318
Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison-abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. Angela Davis: An Autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in these struggles. Read by Angela Davis herself, this autobiography, told with warmth, brilliance, humor, and conviction, is a classic account of a life in struggle, with echoes in our own time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story of an interesting person
- By Antuane Brown on 03-17-22
- Angela Davis
- An Autobiography
- By: Angela Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Davis
required reading
Reviewed: 02-10-23
Extremely important historical document. Captivating. Engrossing. Essential. Only Dr Davis herself could narrate with the virtuosity of telling her own story at the epicenter of the struggle for human, civil and political freedoms, and the roots of abolition feminism.
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