#Daunis

[mythos05reviews]

TW: drug addiction, suicide, murder, assault, rape

2.6 stars

I did really like this book in the beginning but as the book progressed, I felt as if my list of cons grew longer. (You can read this and draw your conclusion; this is just my personal opinion.) I was excited at first because I had liked Warrior Girl Unearthed and expected a similar reading experience. It started fine but went downhill when I was about 40% through the book. I felt that at that point it was trying to cover too much ground. To me, it felt that the story was spread thin and left many things unresolved. While I did learn about Ojibwe culture and language, it does become lost with everything else going on.

The romance in this story was unnecessary (at least for me it felt distracting and like instant love). With everything else going on, I saw zero chemistry between the characters. To me, this came off as instant love. Instead of helping in character development, I believe it actually stunted them. Jamie felt like a generic character, whose predominant personality trait is his job and being "hot." Also, his saying, "I love how you see the world," was an immediate ick. It felt, a manic pixie dream girl, and not like other girls. This is further established by Daunis's inner monologue. Although I liked the fact that she was a huge science geek and played hockey, I didn't really like the ongoing comments she had about her girls. (This happens more towards the beginning.) This is notable by calling the girlfriends of hockey players 'parasitic': "I won't be a wannabe anglerfish trying to latch on to a guy who is already taken. There are more comments like this throughout the book. This never really gets addressed unless it shows that her comments about these girls were correct.

Overall, it was an okay book but certain plot points made it drag on. I am likely not going to be recommending this book to anyone at this time

[meg-does-art]

Rules: Make a poll of your favorite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

Thanks @crabs-with-sticks for the tag! This was harder than I thought it would be but I picked out a handful.

I tried not to pick characters I only liked for their romance, or characters from media where I like male/nb characters more & would only pick them because they fit the category for the poll. Hence no Dragon Age, Mass Effect, etc.

Also I almost put Female V (Cyberpunk 2077), Female Hawke (DA2) and Female Shepard (ME series) but didn’t since they’re all technically just female versions of a character…but they’re my favourites otherwise <3

Oh & I tag @rosieofcorona @hajima-7 @arkhaminfinite @vulcanofmirkwood1701 & anyone else who wants to do this. No pressure of course and sorry if you were already tagged/already did this and I missed it!

[indigenous-character-tournament]

Ken Hotate is canonically Indigenous. He is of the fictitious Wamapoke tribe.

Daunis Fontaine is canonically Ojibwe.

[philoursmars]

Marseille, Vieille-Charité, Musée d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne.

femme drapée (recolorisée) - Tanagra, Béotie, 350 av. J-C.

askos - Daunie, Pouilles, 400 av. J-C.

anse double de situle - Etrurie, IVe s. av. J-C.

buste de Silène - Grande-Grèce

vase à passoire - Daunie, Pouilles, 300 av. J-C.

banqueteur sur une kliné - Grande-Grèce

poupée en ivoire - Arles, IVe s. apr. J-C. ; dé en ivoire, époque romaine

joueuse de tympanon, Tanagra, 300 av. J-C. ; femmes, Béotie 350 av. J-C. ; femme, Cyrénaïque, 400 av. J-C.

[somestorythoughts]

Read a really good book once where at one point the guy's like "what he lied to you so every guy is a liar?" And it's just like.

Dude.

Buddy.

Idiot.

YOU MET HER WHILE UNDERCOVER FOR THE FBI AND DELIBERATLY GOT CLOSE TO HER FOR INFO.

Out of context the line has a point but in context I want to shake the idiot till some sense shakes lose from his brain. He spends a significant chunk of the book lying about something please dude recognize this!

[arteeofficial]

Esplorando il Fascino di CasaAccadia e Rione Fossi: Un Connubio di Eleganza e Storia

Ho avuto il privilegio di vivere un’esperienza indimenticabile che ha coniugato l’eleganza di CasaAccadia con il mistero storico di Rione Fossi ad Acacdia. CasaAccadia, un gioiello di lusso, si trova in un’incantevole angolo della Puglia, mentre Rione Fossi, un borgo abbandonato tra i Monti Dauni, offre un viaggio avvincente nel cuore della storia. CasaAccadia: Un alloggio di Lusso e…

[jessread-s]

Thanks to Macmillan Children's Publishing Group and NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review

✩ 🎣🌱Review:

“Warrior Girl Unearthed” is a powerful novel about reclamation. 

Boulley does a fantastic job familiarizing her readers with Ojibwe customs and traditions through the perspective of the main character Perry Firekeeper-Birch as she spends the summer looking for ways to return the ancestral remains of the Warrior Girl to her tribe. The context provided about NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, is very informative and shows that like many other laws in the system, it is flawed when inadequately enforced, as is the case Boulley’s novel. Perry’s frustration and despair radiates off the page and cannot help but weigh heavy on the reader’s heart every time she is denied access to her people’s sacred items and ancestral remains when she goes by-the-book. Left with no choice, Perry organizes a heist to reclaim what rightfully belongs to the Ojibwe tribe. 

While Perry begins to set her plans in motion, Indigenous women begin to disappear. This element of mystery further immersed me in the story and spreads awareness about the MMIW movement. Boulley’s shocking revelations about the killer’s connection to the stolen artifacts and remains had me on the edge of my seat! 

At its core, “Warrior Girl Unearthed” honors the history of Indigenous people and sheds light on their experiences with past and present injustices. I could not recommend it more.

➤ 4.75 stars

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[rowanyourlocalarsonist]

Using Goodreads is kinda frustrating sometimes. I couldn't find a certain book by Angeline Bouley at first because i wrote "Fire keeper's daugher" and not "Firekeeper's daughter"... It would be nice if the site was a little more forgiving regarding spelling errors!

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Nida Vasiliauskaitė atsiskleidė kartu su Šeimų Sąjūdžiu (video)

Nida Vasiliauskaitė atsiskleidė kartu su Šeimų Sąjūdžiu (video)

Pasirodo, kad didžiojo filosofė Nida Vasiliauskaitė yra tokių pačių pažiūrų kaip ir tarybinis Šeimų sąjūdis.

[indigodreams]

Hideaway Cat 🎨Rosemary Daunis

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[religio-iapygiorum]

THANA

.: iapygian deity associated with deer :.

[IMG TRANSCRIPTION (mirrored): Ψana. IMG SOURCE: F.G. D’Andria, Archeologia dei Messapi (Bari: Edipuglia, 1990), 232.]

.: :.

Inscriptions dedicated to Thana are found in several locations across Messapia. One inscription is on a pottery sherd found at the sanctuary of Scala di Furno, where deer bones were also found, and surrounding sherds can be reconstructed to form part of the image of a fawn.

A few scholars suggest that since she is clearly associated with deer, Thana was thus syncretized with Artemis. However, plenty of inscriptions devoted to Artemis (spelled Artamis in Messapic) are also found across Iapygia, so they seem to have been two separate deities in this time and place.

Thana is also the name of a goddess found in Illyria (nearby in the modern-day Western Balkans), where she is a goddess of forestry and hunting. Thana is often portrayed with different iconography from Roman Diana or Greek Artemis; in Illyria, she’s nearly always paired with the deity Vidasus, another woodlands god.

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Sources:

J.-L. Lamboley, Recherches sur les messapiens (Roma: École Française de Rome, 1996), 431-432.

Maria Teresa Laporta, “Divinità femminili e titoli sacerdotali nel Pantheon messapico,” in Studia di antichità linguistiche in memoria di Ciro Santoro (Bari: Cacucci, 2006), 217-242.

Ciro Santoro, “Il lessico del ‘divino’ e della religione messapica,” in Atti del IX Convegno dei Comuni Messapici, Peuceti e Dauni, Oria 24-25 novembre 1984 (Bari: Societa di Storia per la Puglia, 1989), 139-80.

[occhietti]

Art "LADY IN MY GARDEN"

by Rosemary Margaret Daunis

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Nature and Young Adult Lit

This may be a strange slightly rambling post, but one thing led to another. As I bicycle to work each day, there are several oak trees to pass which means that lately there are many, many acorns to dodge. Recently on Threads, author Jen Ferguson [Those Pink Mountain Nights] mentioned having a load of acorns raining down on the roof. This got me thinking about the chapter in Braiding Sweetgrass when the author's grandfather gathers up pecans during a year with an extraordinarily large crop. That story is a good one and may be found here. From there I leapt to thinking about nature and young adult lit because that's what my brain does.

Obviously, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer and Monique Gray Smith was the first young adult book that came to mind. It's a beautiful memoir with a look at Indigenous science and the natural world. The illustrations by Nicole Neidhardt are fantastic and make it an excellent book to pour over. See our review here.

This led me to thinking about Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. In it, the main character has learned about nature through Indigenous teachings, but also through schooling and texts. There were parallels between Kimmerer's lived experience and the fictional account of Daunis. You can learn more about the book in our Group Discussion.

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert is a book that that involves the outdoors and romance. We had a Group Discussion for this one too. In that discussion, Jessica mentioned Alexis Nicole Nelson, also known as The Black Forager. Looking at the acorns around me I wondered if she had done a video about them and yup, that is a thing she's collected and talked about. I don't know if she will be writing a book for young adults anytime soon, but for now, there is an incredible amount of video content on Tiktok, Instagram, and YouTube including the relatively new Crash Course Botany class.

Reflecting on nature, there is an awful lot of things that can go wrong so there are also quite a few dystopian and sci-fi books that are concerned with the environment, disasters, and climate change.

The Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation is based on Octavia E. Butler’s novel of the same name and is by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. The story follows a young girl as she navigates a world that is in severe distress. She is not only trying to survive, but she is contemplating faith and what it means to her and what it could look like for others.

The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He is another survival type of story in the midst of natural disasters due to climate change. The story revolves around two sisters.

Want by Cindy Pon really digs into the economic disparities in relation to climate change and environmental issues. It's set in Taipei not too far in the future. You can read more about this awesome book in our Group Discussion.

Orleans by Sherrie L. Smith is an older title, but also delves into some of these issues of the environment and economic disparities. Here is our review.

Are there other books about nature and the environment that you think we've missed or should watch for in the future?

[indigenous-character-tournament]

Revali is Indigenous-coded. He is part of the Rito, who shares a similar culture to many Andean tribes. One of the submitters provided [this analysis], which included research into pottery, textiles, and architecture.

Daunis Fontaine is canonically Ojibwe.

[neechees]

God love Jonathan Joss, but I think Daunis should've won purely because she's the main Ojibwe character in a book written by an Ojibwe author & then Ken Hotate isnt even from a real tribe, & he's a minor character who briefly appears & has a couple of funny lines

[mercerislandbooks]

Book Notes: Warrior Girl Unearthed

You know how it feels when you read a book that comes out of nowhere and you’re totally blown away? And then that author comes out with their second book and you both really, really want to read it and you’re also afraid it won’t live up to the experience of the first? That was me with Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley. I’d listened to Boulley’s first novel, Firekeeper’s Daughter, and I loved that it was so different from anything I’d read before. The audio book gave me an aural experience of the Anishinaabemowin language that I certainly wouldn’t have had just by reading the book. It was so many things at once — a crime novel, a bittersweet romance, a coming of age story of a young woman with a foot in two very different cultures, trying to reconcile what she can, let go of what she can’t. It was beautiful and heartbreaking and informative without being preachy. So when Warrior Girl Unearthed came out this month, I felt an internal hesitation before opening it up. One night I decided to just read a chapter or two, see what I thought. The next thing I knew I was half way through the book.

You don’t need to have read Firekeeper’s Daughter to enjoy Warrior Girl Unearthed, but it is set ten years later in the same community. Our protagonist, Perry Firekeeper-Birch, is the young cousin of Daunis Fontaine, the central character of Firekeeper’s Daughter. Perry is all set to have a summer of slack in 2014, but an incident with a bear, her car, and a metal fence leaves her in debt to her Aunt Daunis, who signs her up for the last spot in the Kinomaage Summer Internship program. Perry is assigned to work with Cooper Turtle, the supervisor of the tribal museum, and through his mentorship begins to learn about the ancestral remains languishing in universities and museums (despite laws requiring their cataloging and repatriation to the tribes they belonged to). Perry’s sense of justice is kindled and then put to the test as she learns the extent to which artifacts are being withheld from their original tribes. In the meantime, women from the community are going missing and Perry doesn’t want to be next.

This was just as compelling a read as Firekeeper’s Daughter. Once I started, I couldn’t put it down. And, like with Firekeeper’s Daughter, Angeline Boulley is a master at giving the reader a window into Perry’s life as a mixed Native and Black young woman — life within the tribal community of Sault Ste Marie and Sugar Island — and the weighty history that each person carries with them. I felt like I learned alongside Perry about the history of ancestral remains and the efforts of tribes to repatriate the bones and the cultural materials of their people. I felt Perry’s frustration at the way in which people and institutions refuse to respect those bones and artifacts. Boulley includes a list of resources at the end so the reader can dive deeper into the original materials Cooper assigns Perry to read in the book. And the book itself is gorgeous, with a cover designed by Caldecott winner Michaela Goade (We Are Water Protectors). Island Books also has a limited supply of beautiful page overlays from Goade to enjoy as a gift with purchase!

— Lori