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Etiquette Fiction Indians of North America Indians of North America Civil rights Indians of North America Fiction Indians of North America Government relations Indians of North America Land tenure Indians of North America Social life and customs Indians of North America Wars Indians of North America West (U.S.) History 19th century United StatesInskeep, 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 INSSummary: Chronicles the final decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WAYGrissom, Kathleen
Summary: In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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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 WARRazor, Peter
Summary: "A story about an Anishinaabe boy who must attend a boarding school for Indigenous children in 1890s Wisconsin. He befriends the headmaster's nephew and teaches him about his culture and Ojibwemowin language"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Makwa Enewed 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAZNelson, Megan Kate
Summary: "A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West during the Civil War, revealing a little-known, vastly important episode in American history. In The Three-Cornered War Megan Kate Nelson reveals the fascinating history of the Civil War in the American West. Exploring the connections among the Civil War, the Indian wars, and western expansion,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 NELCrawford, Kim
Contents: Witness to Murder : Saginaw, 1802 -- The Saginaw Trail -- Trouble in Detroit -- War Clouds -- War in the Michigan Territory -- The Arrest of Jacob Smith -- I Pray You Inform Me ... : The Character of Jacob Smith -- Abduction to Saginaw -- The Return of the Boyer Children -- Jacob Smith versus Louis Campau, 1815 -- Peace -- Conclude a Treaty for the Country upon the Saginac Bay -- The Treaty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.403 SMITH, JACOB CRAIrving, Washington
Summary: From the Publisher: America's first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 IRVHyde, Anne Farrar
Summary: "A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HYDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HYDSharfstein, Daniel J.
Summary: "Chronicles the epic clash between General Oliver Otis Howard, who took on a mission in the Pacific Northwest to force Native Americans onto reservations, and the Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph, who refused to leave his ancestral land"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 SHAMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: A history of the bloody massacres that marked--and marred--the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today. Here are the true stories of the massacres at Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, Indians killing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Documents the life and achievements of the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute leader, examining how her aptitude for languages and diplomacy enabled her to advocate on behalf of her tribe.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD Fiction Ray 2013Sides, Hampton
Summary: Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly and the "Long Walk" migration.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 978 SIDSlaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul)
Summary: Exploring Lewis and Clark probes beneath the traditional narrative of the journey, looking beyond the perspectives of the explorers themselves to those of the woman and the men who accompanied them, as well as of the Indians who met them along the way. It reexamines the journals and what they suggest about Lewis's and Clark's misinterpretations of the worlds they passed through and the people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LEWGoodrich, 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 GOOSummary: This program examines the friction caused by westward expansion of white settlers from the colonial period through the 19th century and the near obliteration of America's indigenous population and their culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Tingle, Tim.
Summary: In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TINSummary: 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
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRACobb, 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
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATRobertson, Robbie
Summary: Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation. Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLBangs, Jeremy Dupertuis
Summary: Transcriptions of more than four hundred Native American land conveyances from Plymouth Colony court records are now accessible to researchers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002