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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Blue Hand Books has updated its store!
Blue Hand Books
We've jazzed up the webs store and added the new book REMEDIES by Patricia Busbee! Check it out!
And Paypal is our method of payment - easy, right?
We've jazzed up the webs store and added the new book REMEDIES by Patricia Busbee! Check it out!
And Paypal is our method of payment - easy, right?
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Driving Desire to Find Her Roots: REMEDIES hits Amazon
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| http://www.amazon.com/Remedies-Patricia-Cotter-Busbee/dp/1479171980/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367174985&sr=1-1&keywords=remedies%2C+busbee FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“Remedies,” a powerful new work by
Patricia Cotter-Busbee is the latest release from Blue Hand Books.
Using an unusual image-driven vignette
style, Cotter-Busbee’s latest work of “autobiographical fiction” tells the
story of a life pulsating with pain and pride.
Cotter-Busbee describes her creating style
as “playing with the edges, melding, contracting, expanding, anchoring, setting
boundaries, knowing when to tear down the fence, and when to listen to the sign
that says, ‘stay off the grass’.”
Busbee, an adoptee herself, knows
first-hand the longings, musings and unanswerable questions forged from a
childhood of doubt. She has always had a driving desire to discover her
own roots. Like the main character in “Remedies,” Cotter-Busbee traced her
family roots back to a Native American ancestry.
She now lives in the Asheville, N. C.,
area.
Cotter-Busbee is currently working on a
second novel, “Forty-Four Houses,” a sequel to “Remedies.”
She is co-author of the 2012 anthology
“Two Worlds: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects,” along with award-winning
journalist Trace DeMeyer. “Two Worlds” is available on Amazon and Kindle.
The book is now on Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1479171989, Price: $14.99
(PAPERBACK).
Early reader comment:
"Remedies....a fascinating book. Bold artwork foretell a powerful read. The author has a creative, playful layout which helps balance misery with humor, strange thinking, and mysticism. The heroine survives Darkness while hunting the Light. I look forward to the sequel.....Jaga'de.
MEDIA CONTACT: Trace A. DeMeyer
tracedemeyer@yahoo.com
Patricia Cotter-Busbee
writingintheriver@gmail.com
Blue Hand Books is a collective of Native
American authors based in western Massachusetts.
Contact: Trace A. DeMeyer, 413-285-0115 (message)
Photos available upon request.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Poem films?
Ok, we have been busy getting the word out about Ojibwe Hunter by Jim Chavers but we came across a fantastic idea of poem films by Heid Erdrich!
Poet Heid Erdrich finds herself 'pre-occupied'
by Marianne Combs (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2013/03/poet-heid-erdrich-finds-herself-pre-occupied.shtml)
Heid Erdrich shared her poetry at an event for Minnesota State Arts Board grant winners.
(What a super cool idea!!) (Can you make one? Why not?)
Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway, has joined a growing number of poets that are finding new life - and new audiences - for their work in the form of videos. Erdrich says a video, when done right, makes the poem "ever-so-much-more-so itself."
"Since I first started writing, I have always thought of my poems as little movies," explains Erdrich. "After seeing a few other poets start making book trailers, I decided I wanted to make little poem films.
"Last winter I worked as a creative consultant to Zorongo Dance Theater, I had the chance to create poems as a kind of libretto inspired by Susan Di Palma's family story. Those poems form the basis of guiding imagery that I shared with Jonathan Thunder who was making animations for Zorro in the Land of the Golden-breasted Woodpecker. It was a thrill to collaborate that way and I realized that I wanted to do more--especially with Jonathan. He worked on all three of my poem films."
WATCH: http://youtu.be/FntPbLGH3IY
http://youtu.be/AcBYpZUcqHY
Monday, April 8, 2013
New anthology: Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time
- Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time
- Vine Deloria, Jr. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Trace A. DeMeyer (founder of Blue Hand Books)
Last year well-known poet-author MariJo Moore (who lives in North Carolina and was mentored by Vine Deloria Jr.) contacted me and invited me to co-edit a new anthology about quantum physics and thoughts about this "time" we are experiencing and how Indigenous people view the universe.
MariJo put out a call for Native American writers and many responded immediately with essays, poems and stories. Forty Native writers from across the world participated and this collection is dedicated to the late literary genius Vine Deloria, Jr. who himself has a extraordinary essay about quantum physics in this book.
MariJo is also an artist and created the beautiful mosaic for the cover and now our book is available and can be purchased as an ebook and paperback on Amazon and from www.marijomoore.com.
I was so honored she asked me - and happy to be able to write about my own experience studying quantum physics and healing. For this book, I wrote an essay FOUR SOULS. I learned from many teachers over a long time and felt it was time to share these stories.
We need to connect with our souls especially now - many many people feel that this period of time is important and worldwide our human feelings are rapidly changing. Indigenous People have long told stories to keep balance and command respect of our planet MOTHER EARTH. I do believe the Mayan were suggesting a new mindset for all of us - a greater belief that we are all connected as humans on this planet and related to every living thing.
The Lakota use the phrase: Mitakuye Oyasin which means we are all related. Indeed we are all related and sharing this planet.
This anthology contributors: Suzan Shown Harjo, Gabriel Horn, John Trudell, Dean Hutchins, Lois Red Elk, Suzanne Zahrt Murphy, Amy Krout-Horn, Jack D. Forbes, John D. Berry, Sidney Cook Bad Moccasin, III, Trace A. DeMeyer, Clifford E. Trafzer, William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., Bobby González, Duane BigEagle, Carol Bachofner, Lela Northcross Wakely, Georges Sioui, Keith Secola, Mary Black Bonnet, Kim Shuck, Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Dawn Karima Pettigrew, Stephanie A. Sellers, Natalie Kindrick, Basil H. Johnston, Barbara-Helen Hill, Alice Azure, Phyllis A. Fast, Doris Seale, Terra Trevor, Denise Low, Vine Deloria Jr., Jim Stevens, ire’ne lara silva, Susan Deer Cloud, Odilia Galván RodrÃguez, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Tony Abeyta, and MariJo Moore.
''All the tribes say the universe is just the product of mind … It fits perfectly with the Quantum. Indians believe the universe is mind, but they explore the spiritual end of it, not the physical end.” -Vine Deloria Jr. (from the introduction in new anthology)
EARLY REVIEWS:
“Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time offers a very clear contrast between the Western science view of the cosmos as an object for study -- something external to the scientists -- and the Native American view of each person being a participating part of a dynamical, living web of connections. This anthology will be very useful in opening up readers to a vision and experience of the Native American worldview, which is presented expertly throughout the text as one of flux and change.” - Dr. F. David Peat, Theoretical Physicist, founder of the Pari Center for New Learning in Italy, and author of Blackfoot Physics and Science, Order and Creativity (with David Bohm)
Read this review: www.prairiemary.blogspot.com
Related articles
- Vine Deloria, God is Red (onebookafteranother.wordpress.com)
Monday, March 18, 2013
NEW TITLE: Ojibwe Hunter published
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| Buy NOW: https://www.createspace.com/4135955 |
Unforgettable hunting adventures: OJIWBE HUNTER
(Ojibwe-giiyosewinini)
New
title published by Blue Hand Books
The Native American publishing collective Blue Hand Books in
western Massachusetts has just released its new title Ojibwe Hunter by incarcerated writer James Chavers Jr., a member of
the Bois Forte Band in Nett Lake, Minnesota. Publisher Trace A. DeMeyer began
working with James Chavers in 2012 to develop a book from his true hunting,
trapping and fishing stories (which happened from 1971 to 1988). It is available at the Create Space (Amazon) store (see photo caption above).
“Even though Jim is in prison in Minnesota, I talk to him every week on the phone about our progress with his first book,” DeMeyer said. “We are very pleased his nephew Charles Grolla contributed different chapters on animals, Traditional Ojibwe Hunting, and a glossary of Ojibwe words for all the animals on their Nett Lake-Bois Fort reservation. I love this book. It’s a real treasure. Jim’s hunting adventures with his little dog Wiggie are unforgettable.”
“Even though Jim is in prison in Minnesota, I talk to him every week on the phone about our progress with his first book,” DeMeyer said. “We are very pleased his nephew Charles Grolla contributed different chapters on animals, Traditional Ojibwe Hunting, and a glossary of Ojibwe words for all the animals on their Nett Lake-Bois Fort reservation. I love this book. It’s a real treasure. Jim’s hunting adventures with his little dog Wiggie are unforgettable.”
Raised in the northwoods of Wisconsin, DeMeyer said she
enjoyed working on these stories. “My adoptive dad Sev was a hunter-trapper-fisherman
so Jim’s hunting stories are so much like my dad’s oral retelling – his
tracking deer, his missed shots, the points on the rack of horns on a buck he’d
just shot. Jim has several hundred
stories but we’ve selected some of the best for his first book.”
Chavers’ best friend of 40 years was Vince
Shute, a legend in Minnesota. Shute’s land bordered the Bois
Forte reservation in northern Minnesota. Shute became famous for his daily visitors:
wild black bears. There is a black bear sanctuary on Shute’s former home-site
in Orr, Minnesota today. “This is where most of the stories take place in Ojibwe Hunter,” DeMeyer said.
In the introduction, Chavers
writes, “Over
30 years, I hunted moose, deer, timber wolves, lynx, bobcats, wolverine… and I
trapped fisher, rabbit, beaver, otter, muskrat, mink, weasel, raccoon and fox
every winter on Vince Shute’s property. I also caught fish so my family ate
plenty of walleye, musky, croppies, bass, blue gills, suckers, bullheads, cat
fish and sturgeon. My stories take place after I met Vince Shute in 1968 when
I was 12 years old.”
For more information, visit www.bluehandbooks.blogspot.com and
to purchase the paperback or ebook, visit www.Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1482004977, $9.99 (paperback). (The ebook will be out soon)
Media Contact: Trace A. DeMeyer, email:
tracedemeyer@yahoo.com, 413-258-0115 (message).
Ebooks store: www.bluehandbooks.com
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