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Summary: Examines the culture, history, and society of the Iroquois.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 WILBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy-so much so that the United States Constitution is said to have been modeled on some of its tenets. But how, perhaps a thousand years before the time of Columbus, did the Five Iroquois Nations (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) come to end the bitter eye-for-eye warfare among them? What brought them together in an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Tales 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7004 BRUCrytzer, Brady.
Summary: Through the life of Guyasuta, one of the period's most influential figures, the book traces how American Indians were affected by the wars leading to American Independence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CRYBird, F. A.
Summary: "This book introduces young readers to the Iroquois people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Iroquois are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0497 BIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0497 BIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRSummary: On his 9th birthday, Omri receives a cupboard that magically brings his 3 in. toy Indian Little Bear to life. They bond, embarking on an amazing adventure, until Omri's friend Patrick brings a 6-shooting cowboy to life and the secret is in danger of being revealed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY INDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INDTaylor, Alan
Summary: The changing relationship of Joseph Brant, a young Mohawk, and Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman is set against the role of the Native American peoples in North America during the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 TAYShannon, Timothy J. (Timothy John)
Summary: Occupying territory between Canada and New York, the Six Nations of the Iroquois League held a strategic position near French, Dutch, and English interests. Although they were formidable adversaries, the Iroquois learned they could strengthen themselves more effectively by forging alliances than by waging war. Skillfully remaining neutral during North America's Anglo-French wars, they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.0497 SHALund, Bill
Summary: Discusses the Iroquois as a modern group with a unique history and its own special practices and customs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973 LUNBierhorst, John.
Summary: Describes how the creation of the world was begun by a woman who fell down to earth from the sky country, and how it was finished by her two sons Sapling and Flint.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 BIERobertson, Robbie
Summary: Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation. Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Gear, W. Michael.
Summary: Captured as slaves when their village is attacked, Odion and his little sister are pursued by their tribe's war chief and other rescuers who are unaware that an evil witch-woman is responsible for the abductions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEASummary: The legendary woodsman known as the Pathfinder, his adoptive Indian father, Chingachgook, and a beautiful Colonial woman, Mabel Dunham, are swept up in a desperate race to rescue a British fort besieged by hostile French forces, and a deadly, unknown traitor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PathfinderBruchac, James.
Summary: A long-tailed rabbit who wants a nibble of the highest, tastiest leaves uses his special snow song in the summertime, despite the protests of the other animals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRUParmenter, Jon.
Summary: Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archaeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the geographic expression of Iroquois social, political, and economic priorities. By reconstructing the late precolonial Iroquois settlement landscape and the paths of human mobility that constructed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 PARBoyden, Joseph
Summary: "History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years istruly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and ultimately all too human in its tragic grandeur. ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYShenandoah, Joanne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clear Light Publishers 1996
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Summary: For over two hundred years no Indian force in America was so powerful and feared as the Iroquois League. Throughout two thirds of this continent, the cry of "The Iroquois are coming!" was enough to demoralize entire tribes. But these Iroquois occupied and controlled a vast wilderness empire which beckoned like a precious gem to foreign powers. France and England secured toeholds and suddenly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ECKBittner, Rosanne
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BITShenandoah, Joanne.
Contents: The legend, Ely S. Parker -- Hasanoanda (leading name) -- She had a dream -- Exiled -- Buffalo Creek treaty -- Turning point (Mocassin dance) -- Assimilation -- Walks two roads -- Galena calls -- Terms of surrender -- Held at bay -- One real American -- Capital bells -- Commissioner -- Dance of the north -- The lengend (reprise).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Feather Music 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC WARShenandoah, Joanne.
Contents: Mother earth speaks (2:41) -- Spirit lingers on (4:01) -- You can hear them dancing (3:33) -- This baby of mine (3:03) -- Skywalker (4:37) -- The Blackfeet nation (3:57) -- Quarter moon (3:13) -- In the middle of the road (3:10) -- Blanket fevers (2:56) -- Please sign here (4:15) -- Patterns of the drum (3:44) -- America (3:30).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Canyon Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN SHELongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 LONHouston, Jean.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quest Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.44 HOUShenandoah, Joanne.
Contents: Giving thanks (4:26) -- Circle (5:26) -- Prepare yourself (6:23) -- Daughter of water (7:12) -- 100 winters (4:30) -- Tell me your dreams (5:15) -- Thunder beings (6:38) -- Earth pulse (3:54) -- Her dance (3:29) -- Help us be peaceful (6:04) -- Everyone stand up (5:36).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Wave Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN SHESpeck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cranbrook Institute of Science 1945