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 This is my fourth
book! It is a must have for any student of the Russian Language. It encourages friendship
with people who are very different from one another. One on hand we have math, science and a fair haired boy who is a Russian Jew. One other hand we have art, music, literature and a dark skinned boy who is a Christian
American. They speak different languages but something about the images that must be seen through a telescope and something
about the happy sounds produced by a banjo, gives each boy the urge to climb and fence and to learn more. I grew up fearing
Russians who I was told might well bomb me in my sleep. I want to prevent children today of
enduring such irrational fears. Language may be the answer to many problems, issues and difficulties my friends.
~*~ Key Benefits
| ***** | Learning another language gives the learner the ability to step inside the mind and context of that other
culture, to see the world with a second set of eyes. |
| ***** | If businesses are to effectively compete in a global economy, they must learn to
deal with other cultures on their own terms and in a language they can understand |
| ***** | Research shows that knowledge of other languages boosts students' understanding
of languages in general and enables students to use their native language more effectively. |
| ***** | Parents most colleges and universities require a minimum of two years of
high school foreign language instruction for admission. And once enrolled in an undergraduate program, students are likely
to find that their college or university prescribes foreign language courses as requirement for the degree. |
| ***** | It is possible to travel to foreign countries without speaking the native language,
your experience will be largely shaped by your ability or inability to see beyond the surface of the culture. |
| ***** | Knowing another language and culture affords you the unique opportunity of seeing
yourself and your own culture from an outside perspective. |
| ***** | Knowing other languages effectively increases the number of people on the globe with
whom you can communicate, during difficult times this becomes a very big asset. | ~*~ I got the idea that I wanted to write a
series of books that promote the learning of a second
language. In the Presidential Elections of 2008 I even sold the idea to both Democrat
Candidates for President Hillary Clinton (now the Secretary of State) and Barack Obama, who currently serving as President of the United States of America. Clinton
publicly announced her not knowing a second language as a short coming. Obama was in
Texas seeking the Hispanic vote there and also admitted he never learned a second
language and that he would endorse learning one, for the sake of funding, in the public schools in America.
This book was born out of my own inability to really speak a second language. I was
just a 4th grader when the fear of being bombed into oblivion by the former Soviet Union. When
I was in first grade President Kennedy planted this fear into most Americans, when he had to deal with the Soviet
Union's attempts to put rockets carrying warheads at a site in Cuba. Since then every President has in some way
had to deal with our ever increasing nuclear arsenal. A nuclear war is a war that nobody can or will in. In every war men
and women who speak the languages of our enemies become extremely valuable to us. Today in addition to wars we face any number
of issues and problems with other nations of the world, and those who speak multi-languages are increasingly seen as more
valued than the average person in terms of their ability to use language as a tool to help resolve these issues and problems.
America's largest minority group speaks a language other than English. Their language,
Spanish, is one which is needed and often request of those being sought out in the work place
in America today. Bilingual employees are often paid extra for knowing this language. I do not see this demand lessening
in the years ahead. So I am encouraging the learning of Spanish and other languages like Arabic and Chinese with this
and the new books I am producing.
 Did you know that Rodney Grant's
great grandfather was Non-kahhega? He was better known as Ulysses S. Grant? Did you know Graham
Greene had a pet raccoon named Minnie Gribbitz? Did you know that Wes Studi
spoke at President Bill Clinton's inauguration? Did you know that Will Sampson was
a 6 feet 7 inch tall Navy pilot who was a very talented artist? How about the fact that Jay
Silverheels' father was the most decorated Canadian soldier in World War I? Chief
John War Eagle actually spoke very good Sioux? Did you know Iron Eyes Cody's
wife Birdie was a very popular model for the Native American woman who will most likely become the first Native
American Roman Catholic saint, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha? Did you know
Chief Dan George was first a very popular Canadian singer who released at least three records? Speaking of singing
did you know that Chief Yowlache was a Basso Cante singer? Did you know that
Chief John Big Tree was the model for both the Indian Head nickel and the Pontiac hood ornament? These are just
a few of the facts you'll learn in this collection of biographies about the ten best known Native American
film stars. ~*~ “I remember a wonderful teacher I had. His name was Denis F. Carey and he taught me US History and US Government. It was from him I learned how European contact with
the indigenous Native Peoples’ societies in the Americas found widely divergent cultures struggling
to understand and sometimes dominate each other. Conflicts and misunderstandings often resulted in violence. Europeans believed
themselves on a civilizing or dominating mission, helped by their vastly superior weapons technology.
Where they settled in number, they coerced the labor of indigenous people. Most peoples believe their culture and people
superior to all others; the indigenous societies and Europeans were no different. I learned how the indigenous societies
of America speaking over 350 different languages have all but disappeared. I loved the Westerns of the 1950’s
and 1960’s but often Native Peoples were little more than set decorations. Often even their learning
characters got NO credit after the film had finished. The best Native Peoples roles in films were often
given to white actors, who thanks to make-up became red men. Rick & Jim’s THE REAL REEL INDIANS was my humble effort to give credit
where credit was truly long over-due. You can not change the world Mr. Carey once told me, but you can do something about what goes on in your own home, in your own town and often
in your own state! Rick & Jim’s THE REAL REEL INDIANS was my sincere effort to make
a small difference, where I could.” “I
recall as a child being told by both of my parents that I was a Native American and I grew up thinking that. When I got
well into my twenties I began making a serious study of my family (the Payne, Williams, Clark & Rhys families) genealogy and history. I learned the four bloodlines that make me up are largely of Welsh heritage.
I learned too on the Payne side there was a great great grandmother who was Native American, making me at best about 1/32nd
Native American. I keep looking and hoping to find more Native Americans in the woodpile of my roots.”
“ I am a liberal Democrat so not too many words are NOT
in my vocabulary but here are a few; hate, prejudice, discrimination, intolerance and racism. I simply do not like them.
American Indians, Native People or Native Americans have experienced each of these words to the point of almost disappearing
as a direct result of them. Rick & Jim’s THE REAL REEL INDIANS is
my sincere and heartfelt effort to make up for some of that.”
~*~ Key Benefits
| ***** | Can you name ten white film stars? Can you name ten black film stars? Can
you name ten Asian film stars? Can you name ten Native American film stars? I can, answer each of these questions in
the affirmative, and with this book you will be able to at least name 10 Native American film stars...some day I
will write about another ten, like Tantoo Cardinal and Adam Beach. |
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America's Native Peoples are
a national treasure and learning about some of their most famous citizens, helps you see America in a new and exciting
way. | | ***** | If you Westerns and America's only true genre of movies, then this book is an absolute
must! |
 HTML clipboard In the early 1930's my parents met after a rodeo in South Texas. Mom was a trick rider until
she fell from the horse and injured her back. My father enlisted in the US Army Cavalry to
be a pony soldier. He was in the Army when World War II broke out, and the
US Army Cavalry went from being a horse mounted division of the army to being paratroopers and tank operators. My
father went air-borne. As children each of us, and I have 7 siblings learned to ride. I have two brothers who have both
made a living at different points of their lives working with horses as cowboys. It is in our blood. I grew up in the 1950's
and 1960's in front of the family television, which almost always in those days was tuned into a television western.
They shaped the man I grew up to become. We went to rodeos and I got to know all of the famous rodeo cowboys, and I was
in the stands in Cheyenne Wyoming when a very young and talented Lane
Frost was killed by a bull. This book was inspired by my brothers and my nephews and their coping with shyness.
It was my sincere hope that I could nurture the love most Americans have for the American West and the cowboys who helped
make it so famous. It is a part of American history we simply can not afford to lose. This little book will answer
every question you might have about cowboys and their clothes. For example why do we call blue jeans blue jeans? It
is also a great story if I do say so my self! HTML clipboard Key Benefits
| ***** | You will learn much about cowboys, horses and the clothes a cowboy wears. |
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You will learn much about Cheyenne
Wyoming. | | ***** | You will learn something about over-coming shyness. |
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 This was my FIRST
book and I designed it and did the layout and really got involved with it. I had created
Collin as a little cartoon character to bring the credits for a documentary
about the city of Fort Collins, rather like the Pink Panther did for the famous movies by the same name. A lady real estate
sales-person friend of mine encouraged me to write this book after I moved to Fort Collins from Portland, Oregon. I had
witness traffic jams in the city of Fort Collins when traffic stopped to allow a mother Canada Goose and her babies to cross
the road...many times. One Christmas the front page of the local newspaper had the story
of a goose that had to be killed by the Division of Wildlife, because a little boy had gotten a bow and arrow set for Christmas which he had used to attempt to dispatch
a goose on a lake in city park. Geese mate for life, and the idea of a goose loosing its mate made me sad and the more I
thought about it, having grown up on Walt Disney
films, the story of Collin The Canada Goose
just emerged from my thinking onto pages of notes which evolved into a book. My hope
lays with our children so I made it a children's book, which could be colored, allowing them to put themselves into
it. It is very difficult for even experts to tell one goose from another, or even
males from females. So I had the task of making my Collin "different", so I had him survive an owl attach which ruffled his head feathers,
and my character was born. I wrote the story with all the love I have for Fort Collins, Colorado State University and the
city of Fort Collins, which truly is a wonderful place to call home. Charlie
The Shy Cowboy was the direct result of the governor of Wyoming seeing Collin and suggesting I do the same thing for Cheyenne. COLLIN THE CANADA GOOSE is a book that anyone coming
Ft. Collins should read and color. Key Benefits
| ***** | You will learn much about these wonderful creatures called
Canadian Geese. | | ***** | You will learn much about Fort Collins Larimer County Colorado
USA. | | ***** | You will learn something about the relationship of man and the animals God
commanded him to be a good steward of. |
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