Summary: According to author Roland Marmon, "the Turtle Mountain Chippewa are the most prominent of the Plains Chippewa tribes in America with a membership of nearly eighty thousand people. The Turtle Mountain Chippewa were also affiliated with the ethnically European and Indian mixed Métis people, who constitute the largest Indigenous group in Canada, and were caught between national identities and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 TurtleGrundset, Eric.
Contents: Developing a South Carolina and Tennessee research strategy -- Major research centers in North Carolina and Tennessee and elsewhere with pertinent Revolutionary War collections -- Geographical factors affecting research in North Carolina and Tennessee -- Pre-revolutionary events in the Province of North Carolina -- General histories of the American Revolution in North Carolina and Tennessee --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3756 GRUClarren, Rebecca
Summary: "An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement at the center of the conversation about America's political future."--the Whiting Foundation. Growing up, Rebecca...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "More than a hundred years ago (1899), photographer Frank Bennett Fiske (1883-1952) began photographing members of the Standing Rock Sioux in his studio at Fort Yates, North Dakota. He was 16 years old when he took over the stuido from S.T. Fransler. The men and women Fiske photographed were his friends and neighbors, Native Americans who had lived on the reservation for more than 20 years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra 2018
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770 FRAGilmore, Janis Walker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2011
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3757 GILMurdoch, Sierra Crane
Summary: "When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MURHolcomb, Brent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holcomb 1979
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1072 HOLSpence, Gerry
Summary: "The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means's Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.004 SPESchweitzer, George Keene
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Schweitzer 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3757 SchweSummary: "Welcome to Leith chronicles the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb. As his behavior becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor. With access to both longtime residents of Leith and white supremacists, the film examines a small community in the plains struggling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WELWeso, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J398.2 WESSummary: An intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial 'overnighters' program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVEVogel, Sarah
Summary: In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343.73 VOGHelm, Matthew
Summary: A guide to conducting genealogical research is updated to cover the latest online tools including social networks and mobile apps to explain how to trace ancestral histories, locate family members and get information from government records.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 HELBrown, Gabe
Summary: "Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm. Brown, in an effort to simply survive, began experimenting with new practices he'd learned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This course of 15 half-hour lectures presents different procedures for locating sources of ancestors' records in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2014
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929 DISCall number: DVD 929 DIS
Crowe, Elizabeth Powell.
Summary: "In this edition, the author assumes you know most Internet technologies and programs, and that you want to know how to use them to do your genealogy. The potential for finding clues, data, and other researchers looking for your same family names has increased exponentially in the last decade. Since 2000, push technology, streaming video, blogs, podcasts, social networking, and indexed document...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill Education 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929 CROLeary, Helen F. M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Carolina Genealogical Society 1980
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 LearyClifford, Karen.
Contents: Principles of success for the family historian -- Organizing family information -- Becoming acquainted with your genealogy program -- Why document? -- Printing your records -- Your family history notebook -- Developing a sense of our ancestors' environment -- Resolving conflict -- State vital records offices, public libraries, courthouses and local repositories -- Resources of the Family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 CLI1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 CLI
Brorby, Taylor
Summary: "From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRORBY, TAYLOR BROLocke, Kevin
Summary: "In this enlightening legend shared by Lakota Elder Kevin Locke, Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka (The Great Spirit) created the entire world in seven days; leaving the most precious creation for last. In order to protect this precious creation, Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka needed to hide it where it would always be safe and turned to our animal relatives for help. Together, they found the perfect place. Do you know where they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Medicine Wheel Publishing 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LOCHasselstrom, Linda M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 HasseIwahara, Yuji
Summary: The search for Genesis continues as Loser and Kyouma delve into the past, where the truth behind the events at Adrastea is revealed!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018