Benoit, Peter
Summary: The story of the forced re-location of five southeastern U.S. Indian nations in the 19th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BENInskeep, Steve
Summary: Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson--war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South--whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 INSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.5 INSThorne, Tanis C.
Summary: When the Cushing Oil Field was discovered in Oklahoma in 1911, Jackson Barnett, an illiterate Creek Indian, began receiving large royalties. When he was declared incompetent, and later eloped and moved to Los Angeles, it led to years of court cases and congressional investigations into mismanagement by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 BARLennon, Rachel Mills.
Summary: In the Southeast, many families have stories of an Indian ancestor from one of the Five Civilized Trobes: the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminoles. Lennon, "outliens a method of research that can carry you from the colonial period to the great tribal rolls of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, using records kept by American, English, French amd Spanish authorities."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Company 2002
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 LENCobb, Daniel M.
Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATSummary: "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 FRASummary: While on a field trip to a fire station with Mrs. Gray's class, Curious George goes off on his own and is soon at the scene of a fire, where he finds a way to be helpful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Rey,Contents: Leonore overture : no. 3 / Beethoven (14:35) -- Trio for piano, violin & cello in A minor, op. 50. I., Pezzo elegiaco / Tchaikovsky (18:20) -- Sonata for cello & piano in G minor, op. 19. III., Andante / Rachmaninoff (6:46) -- Dichterliebe : op. 48 / Schumann (30:00) -- Concerto for 2 violins & [string] orchestra in D minor, BWV 1043 / J.S. Sebastian Bach (16:00) -- Pater noster / Tchaikovsky...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CONLari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker -- that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets is a fistful of trouble. When he defends a saloon girl from the unwanted advances of some local toughs, he earns the wrath of the town's powerful namesake, Oscar Harcourt. Harcourt rules this place with an iron fist -- and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: WES FIC JOHSepahban, Lois.
Summary: Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEPFlanagan, John (John Anthony)
Summary: When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm at sea, they’re blown far off course and wash up on the shores of a land so far west that Hal can’t recognize it from any of his maps. Eerily, the locals are nowhere in sight, yet the Herons have a creeping feeling they are being watched. Suddenly the silence is broken when a massive, marauding bear appears, advancing on two...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FLAChandler, Matt
Summary: "The true story of Lt. Robert Grimes running for his life as he evades being captured by Nazi soldiers. Robert Grimes escapes danger with help from the Comet Line, a resistance group that rescued Allied soldiers during WWII"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 CHALobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso
Summary: A forefront Buddhist leader describes his witness to the torture and arrest of his family and teachers by Chinese authorities, his suffering at the sides of fellow monks under occupier "reeducation" practices, and his eventual escape to Tibet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 LOBMcCraw, David Edward
Summary: "David E. McGraw recounts his experiences as the top newsroom lawyer for The New York Times during the most turbulent era for journalism in generations. In October 2016, Donald Trump's lawyers demanded that The New York Times retract an article about two women who accused the then presidential candidate of touching them inappropriately. David E. McCraw sent a scathing letter of refusal that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 MCCSummary: During a school field trip to a fire station, Curious George goes off on his own and is soon at the scene of a fire, where he finds a way to be helpful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Tibet, a once-sovereign nation for thousands of years, much of the country remains under harsh Communist Chinese rule and "patriotic re-education." The surviving Tibetan folk music shapes an endangered people's identity. Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musicologist who fled for India at the age of two, returned home to capture the music of his people. He was arrested and sentenced to eighteen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIBOh, Axie
Summary: Deadly storms have ravaged Mina's homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God's bride, in the hopes that one day the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHPoe, Mayumi Shimose
Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POESummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Convissor, Chris
Summary: Nineteen-year-old Tessa is suddenly tasked with spreading her great aunt’s ashes all over the US and Canada so the rest of her relatives can receive their inheritance. After her initial dismay, she finds the road trip full of mystery and surprises. Old family secrets, girlfriend problems, and beautiful sunsets accompany her as she honors her aunt’s wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bink Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONSummary: Many anthropologists believe that Australia's indigenous traditions make up the oldest surviving culture in the world. At the heart of this culture is a robust oral tradition and a belief system based upon reverence for the land, and for the spiritual dimension known as the Dreamtime. Composed of several different groups, each with a distinct set of customs and traditions, the Australian...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program explores the traditional medical practices of the Bono people of central Ghana and how their healers are cooperating with Western doctors, using herbs and spiritualism to improve health-care delivery in rural areas. Traditionally, Bono tribal priests undergo a painful spiritual possession, during which deities reveal to them the causes of illnesses, which plants to use to treat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005