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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xxxix, 316 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The wild horse is so ingrained in the American imagination that even those who have never seen one know what it stands for: fierce independence, unbridled freedom, the bedrock ideals of the nation. From car ads to high school mascots, the wild horse -- popularly known as the mustang -- is the enduring icon of America. But in modern times it has become entangled in controversy and bureaucracy, and now its future is in question. In Wild Horse Country,...
Series
Native America volume s. 2
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This Native-directed series reveals the beauty and power of today's Indigenous communities. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century. Each hour explores a core tenet of Native American heritage: the power of Indigenous design, how language and artistry fuel the soul, the diverse ways Native women lead, and the resilience of the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life story of the Native American woman, Sacajawea, who was taken as a slave when she was a girl, then later sold as a wife to a French fur trader, and who eventually guided Lewis and Clark as they explored the western United States.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 p., [8] pages of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him twenty times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. Self-trained survivalists, the outlaws eluded the most sophisticated law enforcement technology on the planet and a pursuit force that represented...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities -- such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital -- were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of political, cultural, and ecological change.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers — from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race...
88) The Inuit
Author
Publisher
Rourke Publications
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, culture, and environment of the Eskimos and the many changes brought about by their contact with the "white people's" society.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1975, armed FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Gunfire erupted and a Native American and two FBI agents fell dead. After the largest manhunt in FBI history, three men were apprehended but only one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. This documentary film is his story.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
330 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life -- past and present -- illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.
92) 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...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
℗♭2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's 'First Frontier' beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts...
Author
Language
English
Description
On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results...
96) The Zuni enigma
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xxx, 318 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Did a group of thirteenth-century Japanese merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe? For many years, anthropologists have understood the Zuni in the American Southwest to occupy a special place in Native American culture and ethnography. Their language, religion, and blood type are startlingly different from all other tribes. Most puzzling, the Zuni appear to have much in common with the people of Japan. In a book with groundbreaking...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
28 p. col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short, illustrated biographies of sixteen influential Native Americans, from Tisquantum, who helped the Pilgrims survive the winter of 1622, to Sherman Alexie, a contemporary poet, novelist, and screenwriter.
Author
Publisher
Shearwater Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xxviii, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Forgotten Founders, Udall draws on extensive research and his vast knowledge of and experience in the American West to make a compelling case that the key players in western settlement were the sturdy families who travelled great distances across forbidding terrain to establish communities there. He offers an illuminating and wide-ranging overview of western history and those who have written about it, challenging conventional wisdom on subjects...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Cafe Leila -- the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations -- hasn't changed. A neighborhood cafe in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the backdrop of Iran's rich, yet tragic, history.
Author
Series
Publisher
AAC Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xiv, 334 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new look at the history of mountaineering in North America combined with route descriptions for more than 40 historic climbing routes. Ways to the Sky charts the evolution of alpine climbing in the United States, Canada and Mexico from unrecorded ascents by native people centuries ago to the cutting-edge climbs of today. Rejecting a purely chronological timeline, this meticulously researched book shows the evolution of climbing style from early...
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