Category Archive for 'cultures'

Realism

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

An Edinburgh Intl. Festival and National Theater of Scotland presentation of a play in one act written and directed by Anthony Neilson. Sets and costumes, Miriam Buether, lighting, Chahine Yavroyan; original music and sound, Nick Powell. Opened, reviewed Aug. 14, 2006. Running time: 1 HOUR, 30 MIN. With: Paul Blair, Louise Ludgate, Shauna Macdonald, Stuart [...]

A Maasai ‘s Story *By Keserian Moore, M’buti’s Brother*

Monday, August 14th, 2006

By Karen Lynn Vidra , The Texas Tornado Keserian Chege Moore is my name, and I am 28 years of age. I was born in Eldoret, near Nairobi, in the month of April (what day, I really cannot recollect; we Maasai really don’t keep track of dates or time), and I am the oldest of [...]

Amaroq’s Story

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

By Karen Lynn Vidra , The Texas Tornado My name is Amaroq George Anatuvuk, and I am a ten-year-old Inuit boy. I live in Nome, Alaska, with my mom, Eve, and my dad, Raymund, and my little sisters Tanana and Naiomi. Tanana is eight, and my baby sister, Naiomi, is five. We don’t live in [...]

An Examination of “White Scabs” in Fools Crow

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

A prolific and popular writer, James Welch has captured the attention of both Native and non-Native readers since his first publication of poems, Riding the Earthboy 40, in 1971. Welch continued to dazzle and captivate his readers into the twenty-first century with several highly acclaimed novels presenting stories about tribal lives and culture in both [...]