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Incas Incas First contact with Europeans Indians of North America Indians of North America Cultural assimilation Indians of North America First contact with Europeans Indians of North America History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Indians of North America Wars Massachusetts History New Plymouth, 1620-1691 Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Thanksgiving DayCobb, Daniel M.
Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NATCopies Available at Fife Lake
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Summary: Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 SILMcDonnell, Michael A.
Summary: "A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view, centered on the Odawa tribe of Northern Michigan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 MCDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native McDonnellSilver, Peter.
Contents: Introduction -- An unsettled country -- Fearing Indians -- Wounds crying for vengeance -- The seven years' war and the white people -- Attacking Indians -- A spirit of enterprise -- The Quakers unmasked -- Barbarism and the American Revolution -- The postwar that wasn't -- Conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 SILPrice, David A. (David Andrew)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.5425 PRIReese, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 REESummary: Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan, wonders what adventures await just around the riverbend. She is joined by her playful pals, raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit. A chance meeting with Captain Smith leads to a friendship that will change history, as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 RICHudson, Joyce Rockwood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.016 HUDSOSummary: In 1607, the Virginia Company sends a ship from England to America to stake a claim on the New World and bring back the gold that is rumored to be abundant there. Ambitious Governor Ratcliffe is head of the expedition, but well-known explorer and adventurer John Smith is the natural leader. Well-armed, the men anticipate easily fighting off any one they encounter, but John Smith's first meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Co. 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY POCCalloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.02 CALMarcovitz, Hal.
Summary: A biography of the conquistador whose quest for the Seven Cities of Gold led to the exploration of the American Southwest in 1540.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CORONADO MARCheney, Glenn Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New London Librarium 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 325 CheneMack, Jonathan D.
Summary: "The fascinating story of Stephen Hopkins, perhaps the most important person on board the Mayflower when it sailed from England in 1620. The only member of the expedition who had been across the Atlantic before, as a survivor of the colony at Jamestown, Hopkins played a vital role in bridging the divide of suspicion between the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors. Without him, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOPKINS, STEPHEN MACGrace, Catherine O'Neill
Summary: A recreation of the first Thanksgiving reveals the actual events during the three days that the Wampanoag people and the colonists came together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist GraceSummary: History reports that the mighty Inca were swiftly wiped out by a small band of Conquistadors, but new evidence is being unearthed that may help rewrite history. Uncovered remains of those who died in battle along with recently discovered documents suggest that even after forming military alliances with thousands of Indian mercenaries, it took the Spanish many years to defeat the Inca Empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007