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Adventures of Indiana Jones An American Civil Liberties Union handbook Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) ; 145 Columbia guides to American Indian history and culture Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation ; v. 11 Histories of the American frontier Indigenous Americas Power of art Story of man library The Indians of North AmericaFilter By Series
Adventures of Indiana Jones An American Civil Liberties Union handbook Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) ; 145 Columbia guides to American Indian history and culture Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation ; v. 11 Histories of the American frontier Indigenous Americas Power of art Story of man library The Indians of North AmericaJacobs, Wilbur R.
Contents: Indian-white contact: background. The white man's frontier in American history: the impact upon the land and the Indian -- Unsavory sidelights on Colonial trade -- Wampum and the protocol of treaty-making -- White gift-giving: French skills in managing the Indians -- Indian-white contact: frontier conflicts. -- British Indian-white relations: Edmond Atkin's scheme for imperial control -- A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1197 JACHurt, R. Douglas.
Contents: British America -- The Spanish Southwest -- Spanish Alta California -- The Pacific Northwest -- The trans-Appalachian frontier -- The southern nations -- The Black Hawk War -- The Great Plains -- The Far West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 HURKeppeler, Jill
Summary: "The idea of the American frontier means a lot to many Americans' images of themselves and their country. Everyone has heard stories or watched movies showing tough, brave settlers crossing the continent, daring harsh weather, hostile natives, and rough terrain to nobly "tame" the frontier and expand the United States. But is this image true to life? Young readers will get a wider perspective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.01 KEPSmithsonian American Art Museum
Contents: From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLODuthu, N. Bruce.
Summary: Indian tribes have a legal status unique among America's racial and ethnic groups: they are also sovereign governments that engage in governmental relations with Congress. The self-rule of Native tribes long predates the founding of the United States, and that peculiar status has led to legal and political disputes--with vast sums of money hanging in the balance. From cigarette taxes to control...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 DUTCrytzer, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CRYPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROEccles, W. J. (William John)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 1979
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 ECCOrchard, William C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 ORCPevar, Stephen L.
Contents: 1. A history of federal Indian policy -- 2. Definitions: Indian, Indian tribe, Indian country, and Indian title -- 3. The trust responsibility -- 4. Indian treaties -- 5. Federal power over Indian affairs -- 6. Tribal self-government -- 7. State power over Indian affairs -- 8. Criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country -- 9. Civil jurisdiction in Indian country -- 10. Taxation -- 11. Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Illinois University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.08 PEVSummary: Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE INDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF InSummary: This original, eight-part series on four volumes, documents the history of American Indian achievement, its defining role in the growth of the country, and its influence on current events. The series highlights the many contributions of American Indians that have influenced and shaped the history of the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Ambrose Video Publishing 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 HISRuoff, A. LaVonne Brown.
Summary: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 RUOLambert, Valerie
Summary: "This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it sketches the visions of the future that Indians at the BIA and in Indian Country have been crafting for themselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 LAMBrown, Dee
Summary: Documents and personal narratives record the experiences of Native Americans during the nineteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 970.5 Brown 1971Bierhorst, John.
Summary: Over forty cultures are represented by sixty-four selected myths and tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native BierhorstSummary: Life, death, heroism, tragedy-subjects that, until the latter half of the 20th century, propelled the canon of Western art. How do the abstractions of Mark Rothko figure in that tradition? Are they, in a sense, its swan song? This program depicts Rothko's engagement with timeless themes that dominated his thinking long after the mythic grandeur of Abstract Expressionism had yielded to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.4 FOWContents: Great Lakes Indian art : an introduction / by David W. Penney -- Representational and symbolic forms in Great Lakes-area wooden sculpture / by Evan M. Maurer -- Horse imagery in Native American art / by David W. Penney and Janet Stouffer -- Dreams and designs : iconographic problems in Great Lakes twined bags / by Ruth Bliss Phillips -- Beaded twined bags of the Great Lakes Indians / by Nancy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press, and the Detroit Institute of Arts 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 GreatArt Ensemble of Chicago
Contents: Coming soon (1:31) -- African woman = Umafazi w ese Afriki (13:54) -- Fundamental destiny (9:13) -- Fresh start (6:41) -- Khauleza = Hurry up (2:43) -- The bottom line (5:31) -- Black man = Indoda emnyama (9:18)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DIW 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ARTGrandin, Greg
Summary: "From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall. Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States' belief in itself as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GRAArt of Noise (Musical group)
Contents: A time for fear (Who's afraid) -- Beat box (Diversion one) -- Snapshot -- Close (to the edit) -- Who's afraid (of the Art of Noise) -- Moments in love -- Momento -- How to kill -- Realization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Records 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ARTContents: Principles and themes -- Introduction: landscape and symbol / Richard F. Townsend -- Pre-Columbian images of time / Anthony F. Aveni -- The persistence of Maya tradition in Zinacantan / Evon Z. Vogt -- Mankind and the earth in America and Europe / Vincent Scully -- The Southwest -- Mimbres art: form and imagery / J.J. Brody -- The architecture of the ancient Southwest / Stephen H. Lekson --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Art Institute of Chicago 1992