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He is currently working on translations of further unpublished works by Victor Serge and Daniel Guérin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":10277350851,"sku":"Voices of the Paris Commune","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/9781629631004.jpg?v=1629293875"},{"product_id":"sisters-in-spirit-haudenosaunee-iroquois-influence-on-early-american-feminists","title":"Sisters In Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence On Early American Feminists","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Sally Roesch Wagner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNative Voices Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2001, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781570671210\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"content-body\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-body\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecounts, with documentation, the influence of the Iroquois model of freedom on women’s early struggle for freedom and equality in the United States. 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She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":10286114819,"sku":"Braiding Sweet Grass","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/9781571313560.jpg?v=1670093467"},{"product_id":"when-miners-march","title":"When Miners March","description":"\u003cp\u003eby William C. 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This book allows us to see, even \u003cem\u003efeel\u003c\/em\u003e the racism of just a generation or two ago—and Pilgrim shows that elements of it continue, even today. See it! Read it! Feel it! Then help us all transcend it!” —James W. Loewen, author of \u003ca title=\"Lies My Teacher Told Me\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/lies-my-teacher-told-me\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and coeditor of \u003cem\u003eThe Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e“The museum has been one of my treasured go-to resources for teaching people about the deep-seated roots of the racism that persists in our collective subconscious. Only by facing our history and its hold on our psyche can we construct a better culture. This work is invaluable.”\u003cbr\u003e —damali ayo, author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Rent a Negro\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eObamistan! 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