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IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...
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Britannica Educational Publishing
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English
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With the advent of European colonization, the North American landscape and the indigenous cultures that inhabited it changed irrevocably. While a large part of Native Americans' past has been marked by struggles for equality and sovereignty, a survey of the early history of various tribes reveals prosperous societies that managed to live peaceably with each other and a parade of various interlopers. This volume examines the trajectory of Native American...
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Chicago Review Press
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English
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A chronicle of American indigenous life, this guide captures the history of the complex societies that lived in North America when European explorers first appeared on the continent. Not only a history of tribal nations, this exploration also includes profiles of famous Native Americans and their many contributionsfrom early leaders to superstar athletes, dancers, astronauts, authors, and actors. Readers will learn about Indian culture through...
Publisher
Chartwell
Pub. Date
[1999]
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272 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 33 cm.
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English
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Traces the movement of North America's native peoples from prehistoric times to the present day.-- from cover.
Featuring more than 100 newly created and period maps in full color, this indispensable reference traces the movement of North America's native peoples from prehistoric times to the present day. An illuminating text by specialized contributors explains the events that precipitated change, and a wealth of illustrations provides insight into...
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Institute of Noetic Sciences
Pub. Date
℗♭1993
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xviii, 839 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Paula Underwood is an author, lecturer, trainer and consultant in education, cross-culture understanding, and organizational methodologies based on lifelong training and experiences in a Native American philosophy. She has inherited the responsibility for this oral history -- which comes to her from her grandfather's grandmother, who committed it to memory in the early 1800s and meticulously handed it down through five generations of Ms. Underwood's...
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"From renowned comedy journalist and historian Kliph Nesteroff comes the underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy"--
Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy's most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having been denied representation in the entertainment industry, Native Americans have influenced and advanced the art form. Profiles important events and humorists from the 1880s to the present.
t was one...
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In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria’s Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor,...
8) Ohio
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Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ohio is full of fascinating history, beautiful landforms, and fun celebrations. In this fact-filled title, readers will discover all of this and more through engaging text and vibrant photographs. Special features highlight the state's history, Native American tribes, wildlife, sports teams, and favorite foods. The book concludes with a two-page feature that puts all of Ohio's important stats in one place. Get ready for a trip to the Buckeye State!
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"The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, as a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. ... Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: We are still here!"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity and impartiality are the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the orderly and efficient flow of justice. But what happens when a judge bends the law or takes a bribe? It’s rare, but it happens. Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct....
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Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told...
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Brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas were talented Native American rock musicians that took the 1960s Sunset Strip by storm. They influenced The Doors and jammed with Jimmy Hendrix before he was "Jimi," and the idea of a band made up of all Native Americans soon followed. Determined to control their creative vision and maintain their cultural identity, they eventually signed a deal with Epic Records in 1969. But as the American Indian Movement gained momentum...
14) Red prophet
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 2
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English
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Alvin Maker is awakening to many mysteries: his own strange powers, the magic of the American frontier, and the special virtues of its chosen people, the Native Americans. Alvin has discovered his own unique talent for making things whole again. Now he summons all his powers to prevent the tragic war between Native Americans and the white settlers of North America.
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English
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In this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: “Columbus Discovered America” -- Thanksgiving Proves the Indians Welcomed Pilgrims” -- “Indians Were Savage and Warlike” --...
17) Native American almanac: more than 50,000 years of the cultures and histories of indigenous peoples
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Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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From ancient rock drawings to today's urban living, the Native American Almanac: More than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples traces the rich heritage of indigenous people. It is a fascinating mix of biography, pre-contact and post-contact history, current events, Tribal Nations' histories, enlightening insights on environmental and land issues, arts, treaties, languages, education, movements, and more. Ten regional chapters,...
18) Yellow house
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English
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The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the "Big Easy" of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized...
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Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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2 videodiscs (4 hr., 23 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma; explores issues of racial identity between the mixed-descent peoples of both Native American and African American heritage; examines the crossover of ancient native remedies to present-day medical practices; documents the 1869, U.S. government-enacted policy of educating Native American children in the ways of western society.
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