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xiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"This book describes the history of the Genizaro peoples in North America and their suffering under systems of slavery. It explores the legal and tribal classifications of the Genizaro people and their descendants in the current day. This book makes a comprehensive attempt to outline the legal remedies which might now be made available to Genizaro communities and to Genizaro individuals"--
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322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"In I Will, Sheron Wyant-Leonard weaves the personal recollections of four members of the American Indian Movement--Leonard Peltier, Dennis Banks, Dorothy Ninham, and her husband Herb Powless--into a unique narrative to expose their trials and tribulations over the course of two decades." -- inside front jacket flap.
"A unique portrayal of four members of the American Indian Movement--with ... photos and ... full-color images created by Leonard Peltier....
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427 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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In 1879, Omaha librarian Lise Dupree hides her part-Sioux heritage as she agrees to help research legal questions for a band of Ponca Indians. A quest for justice becomes a search for identity as she encounters ambitious district attorney Zach Spencer in a battle that will transform them both. In the process, they confront Lise's past, Zach's political aspirations, the dangerous prejudice of an unstable Indian agent, the subtle differences between...
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1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Follows the terrifying and horrific abuses instilled upon the indigenous people of North America, and details the genocidal practices of the US government and its continuing affects on present day Indian country"--Container.
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Overview: Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues...
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In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan "Mni Wiconi" -- Water is Life -- was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for...
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ix, 533 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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In the first part of this sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to...
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xiv, 447 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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English
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"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case...
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xiii, 258 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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English
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"Nation to Nation explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold on to traditional homelands and ways of life. The book reveals how the ideas of honor, fair dealings, good faith, rule of law, and peaceful relations between nations have been tested and challenged in historical...
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