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Summary: Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Weso, T. F. Pecore (Thomas F. Pecore)

Summary: "Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022

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Smoker, M. L. (Mandy L.)

Summary: "If Aiyana hears one more traditional Lakota story, she'll scream! More interested in her social media presence than her Native American heritage, Aiyana is shocked when she suddenly finds herself in a magical world-with no cell coverage! Pursued by the trickster Raven, Aiyana struggles to get back home, but is helped by friends and allies she meets along the way. Her dangerous journey through...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Curiosity Books, an imprint of Curiosity Ink Media, LLC 2022

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Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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Contents: Part I, Pembina Chippewa drum songs. Soldier's honor song ; New grass dance song ; Rock dance song ; Go homing song ; Love song/Round dance ; Buffalo song ; Many eagles set sun dance song -- Part II, French songs, from elders to children. Le matelot de Montréal = The sailor from Montreal ; Chanson à boire = Drinking song ; Le garçon le moins heureux = The most unhappy fellow ; Napoléon...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1992

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN PLA

Clarren, Rebecca

Summary: "An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement at the center of the conversation about America's political future."--the Whiting Foundation. Growing up, Rebecca...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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Weiden, David Heska Wanbli

Summary: Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Murdoch, Sierra Crane

Summary: "When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MUR

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Summary: According to author Roland Marmon, "the Turtle Mountain Chippewa are the most prominent of the Plains Chippewa tribes in America with a membership of nearly eighty thousand people. The Turtle Mountain Chippewa were also affiliated with the ethnically European and Indian mixed Métis people, who constitute the largest Indigenous group in Canada, and were caught between national identities and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 Turtle

Summary: A portrait of modern day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SON

Spence, Gerry

Summary: "The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means's Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.004 SPE

Summary: "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....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Terra 2018

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770 FRA

Summary: Explore one of the most powerful and defining chapters in American history. This powerful epic adventure unfolds as told through the struggles, triumphs, and heartaches of two families as they journey in search of the American dream. The Wheelers venture west from Virginia in 1825, while the Lakota tribe grapples with the arrival of white settlers; the story continues over the next 65 years,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INT

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