{"product_id":"meditation-on-ceremonies-of-beginnings-the-tribal-college-and-world-indigenous-nations-higher-education-consortium-poems-paperback","title":"Meditation on Ceremonies of Beginnings: The Tribal College and World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years ago, tribal college educator and poet Thomas Davis began writing poems about the tribal college movement, beginning with the founding of College of Menominee Nation in Northern Wisconsin. He had no intention of developing a book out of the poems, using napkins and scraps of papers to create a mostly free verse poetry that chronicled the events and people trying to build a new kind of educational system that would preserve and evolve Indigenous language, history, and culture. Davis gave these poems away and many were lost. Until now. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eMeditation on the Ceremonies of Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e is a new kind of narrative poetry, an informal history of the tribal college movement and the World Indigenous Higher Education Consortium told through poetic verse. It recounts, as acclaimed poet Kimberly Blaeser (Ojibwe) says, \"the liquid fire of oratory\" becoming \"the great song a movement sings.\" \u003cem\u003eMeditation on Ceremonies of Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e captures the dreams and vision of Indigenous leaders in higher education. It tells \u003cem\u003etheir\u003c\/em\u003e story, illuminating how two great movements set out to change the world and succeeded in a multitude of ways, both big and small.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 16, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101320450183,"sku":"9780984547241","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/21102c6c2eb57ed76440e334edff93e9.webp?v=1732392865","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/meditation-on-ceremonies-of-beginnings-the-tribal-college-and-world-indigenous-nations-higher-education-consortium-poems-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}