• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    3 days ago

    Unironically;

    Our Land Was A Forest: An Ainu Memoir (Transitions-Asia and the Pacific) by Kayano Shigeru
    
    Harukor: An Ainu Woman’s Tale (Voices from Asia) by Katsuichi Honda
    
    Yukara, Epos of the Ainus: Study and Translation of Kamuy-Yukara by Kiyoko Miura (2014-05-09)
    
    Images of the Ainu: Identities and Histories of Japan’s Indigenous People by Midori Minami
    
    The Conquest of Ainu Lands by Brett L. Walker
    
    The Song the Owl God Sang: The Collected Ainu Legends of Chiri Yukie
    
    Ainu Spirits by Ui Makiko
    
    Beyond Ainu Studies, Edited by Mark James Hudson, ann-elise lewallen, Mark K. Watson
    
    The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan by Ann-Elise Lewallen
    
    Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu by Donald L. Philippi
    
    First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim, Edited by Judith Roche and Meg McHutchinson
    
    Ainu Folklore: Traditions and Culture of the Vanishing Aborigines of Japan by Carl Etter
    

    Plus the forced assimilation of the Kingdom of Ryukyu on Okinawa and a few other places in the region.