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African Americans Relations with Indians Cherokee Indians Government relations Cherokee Indians Relocation East Jersey State Prison. Lifers' Group. Indians of North America Ethnobotany Indians of North America Medicine Indians of North America Mixed descent North America State Prison, Rahway, N.J. United StatesSummary: Seventeen teenage lawbreakers spend a day inside Rahway State Prison (later East Jersey State Prison) with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. A selected group of convicts ("The Lifers") give the youth an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, in hopes of "scaring them straight". Twenty years later, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro catches up with both the kids and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SCASummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009