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Smithsonian 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLO

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

Summary: Novelty records were the court jesters of rock'n'roll, brightening up the Hot 100 and putting a smile on everybody's face.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

National Museum of American Art (U.S.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1996

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 FOR

Pennsylvania 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....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PRO

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

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

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

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

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

Summary: 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 IND

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IND

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IND

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF In

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

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

Bierhorst, John.

Summary: Over forty cultures are represented by sixty-four selected myths and tales.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1992

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Brown, Dee

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Documents and personal narratives record the experiences of Native Americans during the nineteenth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt & Co. 2007

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 970.5 Brown 1971

Art Ensemble of Chicago

Contents: Disc one. Jackson in your house. Jackson in your house ; Get in line ; Waltz ; Ericka ; Song for Charles -- Message to our folks. Old time religion ; Dexterity ; Rock out ; Brain for the Seine.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Charly Acquisitions Ltd. 2013

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ Art

Yomtov, Nelson

Summary: "Plymouth Rock has long stood as a symbol of the Pilgrims' journey to and settlement in America. But how much of the story surrounding it is true? What did the Pilgrims' arrival mean to the Wampanoag people who were already living there? What were the long-lasting effects of the interactions between the two groups? How did a seaside rock come to be associated with the Pilgrims' landing, and was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 YOM

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1989

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 970.1 WOR

Summary: 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...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Art 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.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Island Records 1984

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

Contents: 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...

Format: text

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 Great

Harris, Duchess

Summary: In the early 1800s, white Americans sought out more lands. The 1830 Indian Removal Act allowed the US government to trade lands with Native Americans. But officials often forcibly removed Native peoples from their homelands. This book describes this period of forced removal and its lasting effects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J975.004 HAR

Swanton, John Reed

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 1979

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Fowler, Loretta

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.4 FOW

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