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Broucard family Dakota Indians Biography De Smet (S.D.) Social life and customs Families Social conditions South Dakota Biography Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota United States Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957 Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957 Homes and haunts South Dakota De SmetMurdoch, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MURLow, Ann Marie
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1984
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Summary: "From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRORBY, TAYLOR BROJensen, Toni
Summary: "A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence--for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns:As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JENSEN, TONI JENNorris, Kathleen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.3 NORKlosterman, Chuck
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 KLOClarren, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.004 SPECurtis, Edward E.
Summary: "This book rejects the stereotype of the Midwest as bleached-out Christian country. It unearths a surprising and intimate history of the first two generations of Syrian Muslims in the Midwest who, in spite of discrimination, created a life that was Arab, American, and Muslim all at the same time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 CURHasselstrom, Linda M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 HasseBrokaw, Tom
Summary: "Tom Brokaw is known as one of the hardest-working, most successful people in broadcast journalism. His success is attributed to his work ethic, his instinct for identifying the significance of the news in the lives of ordinary people, and his reputation for always showing up for others. In this heartfelt family story, Tom shows the values and lessons he absorbed from his ancestors, parents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BROCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BROKAW BROHines, Stephen W.
Summary: Biography of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with articles, interviews and recollections of friends and neighbors, focusing on her later life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson Publishers 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HINWhite, April
Summary: "From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 WHIDoll, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 970.3 DOLFlood, Reneé S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOST BIRD FLOO'Brien, Dan
Summary: Describes a rancher's efforts to make a success of his ranch, the Broken Heart, at the foot of South Dakota's Black Hills and restore the grasslands of the region by bringing back the buffalo to the Great Plains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.292 OBRAndersen, M. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 ANDLame Deer, Archie Fire
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bear & Co. 1992