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HELENE E. HAGAN
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Helene E. Hagan:
The long history of the Black Hills controversy between the Sioux Nation and the U.S. Government involved Yellow Thunder Camp. While the issue has been amply analyzed in many books, it has never been related by someone like this author. It is a first-hand account: the writer lived at YTC, attended court proceedings and established solid friendships with Lakota individuals. In addition to years of research into the Lakota culture, she worked with elders throughout the reservation and was accepted as associate member of the Pine Ridge Grey Eagle Society. She joined them in visits of Black Hills sacred sites.
The author entered the United States at age twenty as a student, schooled in French Literature, Classics and Philosophy. After twenty years of marriage, raising three children and running a French Import business in Palo Alto, she embarked in her American career as a cultural and psychological anthropologist. She has documented some forty years of fieldwork through a variety of substantial essays, crafting a rare collection of fascinating papers about American Indians and Amazigh (Berber and Tuareg) people , a unique book by an immigrant to the United States. From fond memories of Mustapha and her childhood in Morocco, to extensive scholarly research on Egyptian civilization and late writings about the unexplored topic of intermarriages between American Indians and French explorers of North America, the book captivates the reader's attention, always informs, and in some instances, as in The People of Niram, delights in unsuspected irony and wit
RUSSELL MEANS: The European Ancestry of a Militant Indian (2018)
"Meticulously researched and boldly revealing, Russell Means: The European Ancestry of a Militant Indian challenges long-held narratives surrounding one of America’s most controversial Native activists, offering a provocative exploration of identity, heritage, and historical truth." – NewInBooks.com
Genealogy of Russell C. Means and Memoir of fieldwork among the Oglala Lakota people of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota in the 1980s. The book contains a substantial chapter on the neglected story of French Indian unions in Early America, and the subsequent creation of mixed race communities. The last chapter presents "The Russell Means Show" , a Public Access Television series created by Helene Hagan in Los Angeles (2000-2003).
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The photograph displayed on the front cover of the book is that of "Coureur des Bois" Pierre Le Roger, taken in 1889 by unknown photographer, which appeared for the first time in Album Universel, Vol. 19 No. 31, page 721, published on November 29, 1902.
Even though the ancestry of Russell C. Means reveals extensive European origins on both maternal and paternal sides, he was a formally enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, registered as a 15/32nd Indian.
TUAREG JEWELRY:
Traditional Patterns and Symbols (2006)
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This is a unique book about the jewelry , history and legends of Tuareg people of Niger and Mali.
THE SHINING ONES:
Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots of Ancient Egyptian Civilisation
ISBN-0-7388-2567-0 Soft Cover
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TAZZ'UNT (2011)
Ecology, Ritual and Social Order in the Tessaoute Valley of the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
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A rare book in the English language.
FIFTY YEARS IN AMERICA
(2015)
This book is not an autobiography nor a recollection of personal events .
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It is a series of anthropological essays written in the course of fieldwork spanning over 50 years of the author's life.