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Author
Publisher
New World Library
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Unforgettable Journey into the Native American Experience
Against an unflinching backdrop of 1990s reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white and one Indian, locked in their own understandings yet struggling to find a common voice. In this award-winning book, acclaimed author Kent Nerburn draws us deep into the world of a Native American elder named Dan, who leads...
2) Black Hills
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him -- and his voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-filled life. Seamlessly weaving together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West, Dan Simmons depicts a tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans. Haunted by...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xix, 347 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood....
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An English aristocrat is taken prisoner by a tribe of American Sioux Indians and given to the chief's aging mother as a servant. Gradually, he embraces the tribe's way of life and falls in love with the chief's sister. The constant threat of ambush by a rival tribe and rigors of survival now fill the days of this man called "Horse." He is eventually given a chance to prove his worthiness and be accepted into the tribe. But in order to be accepted...
5) The Sioux
Author
Publisher
Thomson Learning
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uncovers the everyday lives and customs of the Sioux, from early history to the present.
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of a Lakota youth whose father gives him a horse in preparation for his making the transition from boyhood into manhood and becoming a Lakota Warrior.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Government officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hunting grounds, sought to exchange title to their homeland for annuities of cash and food, schools and teachers, and farms and agricultural knowledge. By 1862 the Sioux realized that their extensive kinship network and religion were in jeopardy and that...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands, from the Spartans' defeat at Thermopylae to Davy Crockett at the Alamo. In his tightly structured narrative, Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly sketches the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, whose charisma and political...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
106 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
No one knew the boy they called "Jumping Badger" would grow to become a great leader. Born on the banks of the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull, as he was later called, was tribal chief and holy man of the Lakota Sioux tribe in a time of fierce conflict with the United States. As the government seized Native American lands, Sitting Bull relied on his military cunning and strong spirituality to drive forces out of his territory and ensure a future homeland...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original volume 18
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of the leader of the Sioux nation, detailing his resistance against the United States government, particularly at the Battles of Killdeer Mountain and Little Bighorn, and highlighting his legacy.
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xvi, 391 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding. In this latest narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex,...
Author
Series
Spirit Road mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The body of local Native American land developer Jason Red Cloud is found on the site for his new resort on the Pine Ridge Reservation. A war club is lodged in his skull-appearing as if someone may have performed a ritual at the crime scene. FBI Special Agent Manny Tanno arrives in Pine Ridge to find that not everything has changed since he left. His former rival, now in charge of the Tribal Police, is just as bitter as ever, and has no intention...
17) The lost wife
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
171 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...
Author
Series
Abercrombie Trail volume 1
Publisher
Gale Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
509 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Evan Jacobson is an immigrant Norwegian stage coach driver in west central Minnesota. Along his stage route, we meet the families who live on the trail between Fort Snelling and Fort Abercrombie, just south of Fargo. Through them, we learn the previously untold story of the northern fringe of the 1862 Sioux Uprising and the siege of Fort Abercrombie. Jacobson struggles with learning English, falling in love, and fulfilling his dreams, while living...
Author
Series
Abercrombie Trail volume 2
Publisher
Gale Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
505 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
1862 was a tumultuous year in Minnesota history. The Civil War drained the youngest state in the Union of soldiers and resources. War expenses delayed treaty payments, and the Sioux were starving. The result was the Sioux Uprising of 1862. The largest Indian war in U.S. history, it was bracketed by the bloody battles of Shiloh and Antietam. Although the government declared the uprising over in the fall, Pomme de Terre tells the story of settlers living...
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