Shannon, Timothy J. (Timothy John)

Summary: Occupying territory between Canada and New York, the Six Nations of the Iroquois League held a strategic position near French, Dutch, and English interests. Although they were formidable adversaries, the Iroquois learned they could strengthen themselves more effectively by forging alliances than by waging war. Skillfully remaining neutral during North America's Anglo-French wars, they...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.0497 SHA

Cobb, 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 NAT

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NAT

Buttigieg, Pete

Summary: Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move back to his hometown, previously tagged by Newsweek as a "dying city,"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUT

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTTIGIEG, PETE BUT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BUTTIGIEG BUT

Taylor, Alan

Summary: The changing relationship of Joseph Brant, a young Mohawk, and Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman is set against the role of the Native American peoples in North America during the American Revolution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 TAY

Lelyveld, Joseph.

Summary: In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA LEL

Keeler, Jacqueline.

Summary: "Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Océti Sakówin camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Torrey House Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1197 KEE

Burling, Alexis

Summary: Discusses how in 1969, a group of daring Native American activists launched a 19-month takeover of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, seeking to highlight the poor living conditions that persisted in Native American communities throughout the country.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970 BUR

Summary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STO

Bird, F. A.

Summary: "This book introduces young readers to the Iroquois people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Iroquois are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0497 BIR

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0497 BIR

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIR

Crytzer, Brady.

Summary: Through the life of Guyasuta, one of the period's most influential figures, the book traces how American Indians were affected by the wars leading to American Independence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CRY

Weeks, George.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians 1992

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1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 970.3 WEE

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.3 WEE
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 970.3 WEE

Sanders, Rob

Summary: "A picture book biography of Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and 2020 presidential election hopeful."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Henry Holt Books for Young Readers] 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUT

Simpson, Glenn R.

Summary: Fusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Simpson and Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal, decided to use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms-- and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015 they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. The deeper Fusion dug, the clearer it became that the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 SIM

Kleinknecht, William

Summary: "In the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system. But the drift toward authoritarianism in red states has far deeper roots. We now have a country where tens of millions of people live under regimes that have spent years starving education and health care, empowering polluters, engaging in voter suppression, and neglecting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 KLE

Olson, Lynne

Summary: "When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 OLS

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 OLS

Soundar, Chitra

Summary: "Born in a small town in India, growing up to study law, he became a powerful voice for change and is now known all over the world as a symbol of perseverance and peace."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Gandhi

Jacobs, Margaret D.

Summary: "A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people, After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 323.11 JAC

Wilcox, Charlotte.

Summary: Examines the culture, history, and society of the Iroquois.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 WIL

Mercieca, Jennifer R.

Summary: "Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions--"a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power" or "a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times" (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A&M University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 MER

Summary: The legendary woodsman known as the Pathfinder, his adoptive Indian father, Chingachgook, and a beautiful Colonial woman, Mabel Dunham, are swept up in a desperate race to rescue a British fort besieged by hostile French forces, and a deadly, unknown traitor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pathfinder

Kuhn, Betsy.

Summary: This book follows Mohandas Gandhi's development of his nonviolent protest theories from his days as a young lawyer in South Africa to his later leadership in India. In a defining civil rights gesture Gandhi defied Great Britain's salt monopoly in India when he led a march to a beach and picked up a handful of salt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 954.035 KUH

Hoxie, Frederick E.

Summary: Describes the Native American political activists who for two hundred years sought redress and change from the American government, and their place in shaping the modern political landscape for other activist movements.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1197 HOX

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA