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Jacobs, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1197 JAC

Pevar, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Illinois University Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.08 PEV

Pevar, Stephen L.

Summary: "Federal Indian Law encompasses nearly 400 Indian treaties, hundreds of federal statutes, and thousands of court decisions. When the first edition of The Rights of Indians and Tribes was published in 1983, it firmly established itself as the only book explaining Federal Indian Law in a clear and easy-to-understand way for students and practitioners of Indian law, tribal advocates, government...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 PEV

Keppeler, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.01 KEP

Swanton, John Reed

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 1979

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

Malkasian, Carter

Summary: If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that were on the front line. These small places are the heart of the war. Malkasian's War Comes to Garmser promises to be a landmark account of the war in Afghanistan. The author, who spent nearly two years in Garmser, a community in war-torn...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 MAL

Orchard, William C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1975

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 ORC

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown.

Summary: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1991

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

Duthu, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 DUT

Crytzer, 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 CRY

Stiles, T. J.

Summary: A new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. Historian T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person--capable yet insecure, intelligent...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUSTER, GEORGE STI

Summary: In the 2nd century BCE, the Cimbri and Teuton tribes began to move southward from their Scandinavian homeland, Jutland. Soundly defeating the Roman army at Noricum in 113 BCE, they set in motion an era of migration that spelled the beginning of the end of Roman military and political supremacy. This program examines the reasons why these Germanic peoples left their homeland, explores their...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Cash, Johnny

Contents: As long as the grass shall grow -- Apache tears -- Custer -- The talking leaves -- The ballad of Ira Hayes -- Drums -- White girl -- The vanishing race.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CAS

Summary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009

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

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Contents: V.1. ALGIC RESEARCHES: General considerations -- Preliminary observations --Ojeeg Anuug, or The summer-maker -- The celestrial sisters -- Tau-Wau-Chee-Hezkaw, or The white feather -- Peboan and Seegwun: an allegory of the seasons -- The red lover -- Iamo, or The undying head -- Mon-Daw-Min, or The origin of Indian corn -- Peeta Kway, or The tempest -- Manabozho, or The Great incarnation of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 398.22 SCH
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 398.2 SCH

Harris, Robert L.

Summary: In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper--a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland's most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years. Here he transports us to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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Oh Wonder (Musical group)

Summary: Prior to releasing their debut album, the London based songwriting duo of Anthony West and Josephine Gucht were featured on Radio 1 BBC playlist as well as being named The Guardian's New Band of the Week.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OH

Summary: 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 HIS

Lambert, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 LAM

Maguire, Gregory.

Summary: Set in an Oz where a morose Wizard battles suicidal thoughts, the story of the green-skinned Elphaba, otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West, profiles her as an animal rights activist striving to avenge her dear sister's death

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 1996

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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAG

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAG

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAG

McDonnell, Michael A.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view, centered on the Odawa tribe of Northern Michigan"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native McDonnell

Oz, Amos.

Contents: Kibbutz-"An Exemplary Nonfailure": Kibbutz at the Present Time (from Under This Blazing Light) -- Where the Jackals Howl (from Where the Jackals Howl) -- Way of the Wind (from Where the Jackals Howl) -- Extended Family (from Elsewhere, Perhaps) -- Secret Adaptability (from A Perfect Peace) -- Jerusalem-An Alien City: Alien City (from Under This Blazing Light) -- It's Cold in This Jerusalem of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.4 OZ

Daughters of the American Revolution

Summary: Highlights some of the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution who made an impact during the suffrage era. Book published to accompany an exhibit by the same name.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ORD

Skogen, Jennifer

Summary: "After an unthinkable tragedy on Halloween, Jackson must decide if he should stay in Grey Hills, or pack up everything and leave with Sam and the others. ... When Jackson starts sleepwalking and hearing voices, he isn't sure if he is going crazy, or if he has inherited an unspeakable power. Meanwhile, Claire is determined to find out exactly what happened on Halloween, which brings Jackson...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SKO

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