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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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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 323.11 JAC

Bruchac, Joseph

Summary: "On November 20, 1969, a group of 89 Native Americans-most of them young activists in their twenties, led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others-crossed San Francisco Bay under the cover of darkness. They called themselves the "Indians of All Tribes." Their objective was to occupy the abandoned prison on Alcatraz Island ("The Rock"), a mile and a half across the treacherous waters. Under...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023

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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.

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

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Pevar, Stephen L.

Summary: "Federal Indian Law encompasses nearly 400 Indian treaties, hundreds of federal statutes, and thousands of court decisions. When the first edition of The Rights of Indians and Tribes was published in 1983, it firmly established itself as the only book explaining Federal Indian Law in a clear and easy-to-understand way for students and practitioners of Indian law, tribal advocates, government...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 PEV

Pevar, Stephen L.

Contents: 1. A history of federal Indian policy -- 2. Definitions: Indian, Indian tribe, Indian country, and Indian title -- 3. The trust responsibility -- 4. Indian treaties -- 5. Federal power over Indian affairs -- 6. Tribal self-government -- 7. State power over Indian affairs -- 8. Criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country -- 9. Civil jurisdiction in Indian country -- 10. Taxation -- 11. Indian...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Illinois University Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.08 PEV

Sharfstein, 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 SHA

Summary: In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, Indigenous People are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them to embark upon the process of decolonization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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