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Summary: Once forced to hide their heritage, Native Americans now enjoy both an acceptance and a celebration of their history and culture. By presenting the experiences of Native Americans from a wide array of fields including artisans, performers, and teachers, this program shows how many tribes are returning to the traditions and spirituality of their ancestors. Among those interviewed are Kevin...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about Native American religions with Suzan Shown Harjo, executive director of The Morning Star Institute in Washington, D.C. Topics of discussion include the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978; some common aspects of the approximately 300 remaining Native American religions being practiced in the U.S. today; the concepts of a supreme...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: For the nearly two million Native Americans, representing 500 Indian nations, life in the U.S. today is a frustrating struggle to retain their ancient ways while functioning in the modern world, to carve out an identity in an overwhelmingly non-Indian culture. This program examines the needs and problems of today's Native Americans, both those who live on the reservation and those who have...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Cobb, Daniel M.

Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NAT

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NAT

DuVal, Kathleen

Summary: "In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Weso, T. F. Pecore (Thomas F. Pecore)

Summary: "Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022

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Boekhoff, P. M. (Patti Marlene)

Summary: Discusses Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region and their customs, family life, organizations, food gathering, beliefs, housing, and other aspects of daily life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kidhaven Press 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BOE

Allitt, Patrick.

Summary: Examines religion not only as a set of formal beliefs, ideas, communal or institutional loyalties, and styles of worship, but also as an influence on the rest of American society. Investigates the subtle but important links which have long brought religion into close contact with the intellectual, social, economic, and political concerns of Americans.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 200 ALL

Mikoley, Kate

Summary: This book explores the meaning, history, and purpose behind several Native American ceremonies and celebrations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 MIK

January, Brendan

Contents: The Native Americans -- A chronological history -- Traditional ways -- Everyday life -- Beliefs and mythology.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree 2005

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 704.0397 JAN

Summary: This program explores the many similarities among tribal nations, including a profound respect for nature, myth, and tradition; matriarchal governance; a communal lifestyle; a belief in an afterlife; and the use of pictographs, symbols, and patterns rather than an alphabet-based language. Also featured are brief scenes of re-created warfare: the French and Iroquois vs. the British as a part of...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Versluis, Arthur

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Element 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 VER

Barnes, Ian

Summary: This fascinating book explores the history of the native peoples of North America, from the early arrival of humans from Asia and their migration throughout the continent, the first and subsequently devastating contacts with European explorers and settlers, to the present day plight of the surviving tribes and their attempts to adapt to modern society. Particular emphasis is placed on the role...

Format: cartographic

Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books, an imprint of Book Sales, a division of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 BAR

Krasner, Barbara

Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the northeastern United States, including the Abenaki, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Nattagansett, Ojibwe, Pequot, Powhatan, and Wampanoag nations. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974 KRA

Barnes, Ian

Summary: Explores the history of the native peoples of North America, from the early arrival of humans from Asia and their migration through the continent, the first and subsequently devastating contacts with European explorers and settlers, to the present day plight of the surviving tribes and their attempts to adapt to modern society.

Format: cartographic

Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 BAR

Summary: Steve Jones investigates what constitutes Native American blood, then follows three individuals as they use DNA matching of a female gene to attempt to confirm a genetic link between themselves and their Pequot ancestors. How Native Americans were disconnected from their heritage is examined by several tribal members, and the point is made that some want to establish their Indian bloodlines to...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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McNeese, Tim

Summary: For thousands of years, before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Europeans, the vast American landscape was home to millions of Native Americans, whose ancestors still remain on the land today. They formed a wide variety of regional cultures, dotting the unspoiled environs stretching from the stark, red rock formations of the Southwest to the thick forestlands of the Northeast....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 MCN
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 970.004 MCN

Powell, Marie

Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the arctic and subarctic regions, including the Inuit, Yup'ik, Unangan, Northern Athabaskan, Innu, Cree, Ojibwe, and Atikamekw nations. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970 POW

Summary: Dramatic shot of Indian chief up close; mythology of Native American culture

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950

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Summary: MS's of an American Indian (wearing war headdress) showing a group of scrawny white girls (some of whom wear Indian-associated accoutrements) how to shoot arrows.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1922

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Summary: A collection of short films focused on Native American peoples.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NAT

Gagne, Tammy

Summary: In the years following Christopher Columbus's expedition, Europeans made homes for themselves in the Americas and pushed out the indigenous peoples already living there. Many popular stories about life in the early American colonies have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of American Colonization dives into the myths about colonization and brings the truth...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: 973.2 GAG

Yasuda, Anita

Summary: An overview of the Native American tribes of the Great Plains, including the Crow, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Comanche, Arapaho, Sioux, Mandan and Pawnee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 YAS

Summary: A chronology of significant social, political, economic, cultural, and educational events in the history of Native Americans in the U.S. and Canada. Includes cross-references, twenty-four tribal chronologies, and more than eighty illustrations and maps.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: U.X.L. 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 NAT

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