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Custer, George A. (George Armstrong) 1839-1876 Great Plains Great Plains History 19th century Fiction Indians of North America Indians of North America Great Plains Indians of North America Great Plains Fiction Indians of North America Great Plains Folklore Indians of North America Great Plains Pictorial works Ojibwa Indians Fiction Siksika Indians FolklorePowell, Marie
Summary: "The Plains region stretches across the Midwest from Canada to Texas. Traditional Stories of the Plains Nations features stories from several of the region's Native Nations, including the Lakota, Cree, and Siksika. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Native PowellFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Examines the importance of the buffalo in the lore and day-to-day life of the Indian tribes of the Great Plains and describes hunting methods and the uses found for each part of the animal that could not be eaten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1988
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Summary: An overview of the Native American tribes of the Great Plains, including the Crow, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Comanche, Arapaho, Sioux, Mandan and Pawnee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 YASErdoes, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bear & Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 ERDWied, Maximilian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 978.02 WIECurtis, Edward S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.2 CURGoodrich, Th.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 GOONeihardt, John G
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NEISummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURDuncan, Dayton
Summary: "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Erdrich 2012Nelson, S. D.
Summary: "In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. Atthe height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time. In this action-packed double biography, S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NELCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NELJones, Jennifer Berry.
Summary: A Dakota woman learns a hard lesson about greed and selfishness when she takes the winter supply of earth beans from Heetunka, the Bean Mouse, and leaves nothing in return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roberts Rinehart Publishers in conjunction with the Council for Indian Education 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 JONStiles, T. J.
Summary: A new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. Historian T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person--capable yet insecure, intelligent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUSTER, GEORGE STIErdrich, Louise
Summary: Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDWest, Elliott
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 West,Stout, Mary
Summary: Discusses the history, survival, religion, culture, social development, and modern world of the Blackfeet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 STOGoble, Paul.
Summary: After caring for an old abandoned horse, a poor young Pawnee boy is rewarded by the horse's mystic powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native GobleDwyer, Helen.
Summary: A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Dakota Indians, also known as the Sioux.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 DWYWarren, Louis S.
Summary: In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 WAROsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Osborne 2012Marshall, Joseph
Summary: Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader andwarrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARStorm, Hyemeyohsts
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 897.3 STOGoble, Paul.
Summary: Tells of how tipis were first granted to the Blackfoot people and then, in a dramatic rendering of an old myth, tells of why the painted designs on tipis have come to possess their meaning and power. Gives step-by-step instructions on how to pitch a tipi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001