McGovern, Ann.
Summary: Describes the daily life of the Sioux Indians, their clothing, food, games, and customs before and after the coming of the white man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1992
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MCGSummary: It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view, stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 355 Warrior 2019Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WARSummary: Comprehensive history of six great Indian nations, dramatically filmed on location. Also includes the stories of four heroic Native American leaders: Geronimo, Quanah, Parker Chief Joseph and Crazy Horse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRELeBeau, Patrick Russell
Summary: Rethinking Michigan Indian History is a teaching tool that honors the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi and the twelve federally recognized tribes of Michigan by recognizing their role and place in Michigan history--exploring what most people know (or do not know) about them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 LEBCrytzer, 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 CRYFranklin, Paula Angle
Summary: An overview of eight areas where the North American Indian lived, describing daily life, clothes, homes, hunting, and culture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McKay 1979
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 970.1 Franklin 1979Hyde, Anne Farrar
Summary: "A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HYDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HYDBangs, Jeremy Dupertuis
Summary: Transcriptions of more than four hundred Native American land conveyances from Plymouth Colony court records are now accessible to researchers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 BangsSteel, Danielle.
Summary: This centuries-spanning novel interweaves the lives of two women: a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is a story of courage in the face of the unknown.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESummary: Featuring Native American art and culture, this award-winning quarterly magazine engages its readers with diverse articles about the fascinating and often overlooked histories of American Indian nations and the contemporary challenges facing Native peoples across the Western Hemisphere. From Alaska's Native villages to the Andean communities of South America, American Indian tells inspiring and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Magazines - previous years, Call number: 2023-FallCall number: 2023-Winter
Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Summary: A collection of Indian fairy tales that have been passed on to their children from generation to generation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1916
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 SCHCurtis, Edward S.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weathervane Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0497 CURWilbur, C. Keith
Summary: Describes the history and customs of the prehistoric Woodland Indians as well as the Central Algonquian, Coastal Algonquian, and Iroquois tribes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.4 WILLund, Bill
Summary: Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Ojibwa people, covering their daily life, customs, relations with the government and others, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973 LUNFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Museum of the American Indian 2000
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5 available in Magazines - previous years, Call number: 2022-FallCall number: 2022-Spring
Call number: 2022-Summer
Call number: 2022-Winter
Call number: 2023-Spring
2 available in Magazine, Call number: 2023-Summer
Call number: 2024-Spring
Summary: Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INDMurdoch, David Hamilton
Summary: A look at the culture of North American Indian tribes focuses on their clothing, pottery, weapons, masks, baskets, and carvings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2005
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Summary: Indian Territory refers to those remaining southwest lands that had become home, primarily, to the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole) following their removal from the southeastern states in 1833. Indian Territory is bounded on the north by Kansas, on the east by Arkansas, on the south by Texas, and on the west by Oklahoma. The bulk of this book consists...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2005
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 GannettSummary: "These are the stories, poems and images that echo the lives of contemporary American Indians living in Michigan. The contributors' narratives and art address themes of the land, the lakes, family, the search for center, ideas of time and the past, communalism and our Native communities on and off reservation homelands, along with story-telling, Indian education, the Michigan urban Indian...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Michigan University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 VOICEMiranda, Deborah A.
Summary: "In this beautiful and devastating book, part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir, Deborah Miranda tells both the stories of her Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen family and the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. Reassembling the shards of her people's past, she creates a work of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MIRPrevost, Toni Jollay.
Contents: V. 1. In Wisconsin and elsewhere -- v. 2. In Ontario and Quebec, Canada -- v. 3. Indians from New York.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1995
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.371 PREVOST VOL. ONECall number: R-GEN 929.371 PREVOST VOL. TWO
Summary: 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