LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john steckley

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  • The Chippewas of Georgina Island
    John Steckley
    In this unique book, John Steckley presents stories of the Chippewas of Georgina Island. For centuries, the people have lived not only on Georgina Island but also on Snake Island, another, smaller island located in Lake Simcoe. There they have educated their children, tended crops, gathered medicinal herbs, served in wartime, and built thriving communities. Drawing on a wealth ...
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    21,75 €

  • Sophia B. Jones
    John Steckley
    It was while researching a new edition of his introductory sociology textbook that author and teacher John Steckley became curious. Who was the first Canadian Black woman to become a medical doctor? Online research as well as visits to museums in Ontario and British Columbia led him to Sophia B. Jones, a trailblazer as yet little known in her own country. In this fascinating bo...
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    16,42 €

  • Stories for Mia
    John Steckley
    In this charming collection of stories, John Steckley describes the (mainly) imaginary adventures of his granddaughter Mia. Whether it’s foiling bullying at school or a robbery at a restaurant, investigating a case of baby-snatching carried out by aliens, or saving a pair of orphaned bear cubs, Mia’s adventures are sure to entertain readers young and old.I was very fortunate to...
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    12,11 €

  • The Names of the Wyandot
    John Steckley
    In this unique book, John Steckley discusses and catalogues the various names of the Indigenous people known as the Wyandot, including clan names, nicknames, differences in naming conventions by gender, and the names the Wyandot gave to the European settlers they encountered.Following first contact with Europeans in the early 17th century, the Wyandot were forced to move severa...
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    32,45 €

  • De Religione
    John L. Steckley
    De Religione, the longest-surviving text in the Huron, or Wendat, language, was written in the seventeenth century to explain the nature of Christianity to the Iroquois people, as well as to justify the Jesuits’ missionary work among American Indians. In this first annotated edition of De Religione, linguist and anthropologist John L. Steckley presents the original Huron text s...
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    35,57 €

  • Parrots
    John Steckley
    'There are five parrots in front of me on the floor in a caged-in area that used to be half of our living room. Two of them, Stanee and Louis, are conures, both with the slender bodies and red tails that give them a name that means ‘flame tails’. There are two Quaker parrots, Quigley and Tikkifinn, closely related to the conures but a little stockier as suits the cooler climate...
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    29,47 €