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1) Ramona
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English
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Ramona (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her activism for the rights of Native Americans, Ramona is a story of racial discrimination, survival, and history set in California in the aftermath of the Mexican American War. Immensely popular upon publication, Ramona earned favorable comparisons to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and remains an influential sentimental novel to this day. Orphaned after the death of her foster...
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Great West and Indian volume 32
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xvi, 236 pages : illustrations, map (on lining papers) portraits ; 22 cm.
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English
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30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"The People Shall Continue was originally published in 1977. It is a story of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically in the U.S., as they endeavor to live on lands they have known to be their traditional homelands from time immemorial. Even though the prairies, mountains, valleys, deserts, river bottomlands, forests, coastal regions, swamps and other wetlands across the nation are not as vast as they used to be, all of the land is still...
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128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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English
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Anthology of art and writings from some of the most groundbreaking Native artists working in North America today. Emerging and established Native artists, including acclaimed author Joseph Boyden, renowned visual artist Bunky Echo Hawk, and stand-up comedian Ryan McMahon, contribute thoughtful and heartfelt pieces on their experiences growing up Indigenous, expressing them through such mediums as art, food, the written word, sport, dance, and fashion....
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64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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"The Native American story is as diverse and unique as each individual and as powerful as a common community connected by adversity, wisdom, spirituality, and destiny. Indigenous people are working to connect to their roots, counter stereotypes, and highlight the important contributions made by the nation's original inhabitants"--
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm.
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English
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Accompanied by contemporary and historical photographs, an account of the U.S. Military's forcible removal of the Navajo to a tiny reservation in east-central New Mexico, hundreds of miles from their traditional homeland, traces the routes of their journey and describes the devastation suffered by the people both along the way and in the camp.
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xvi, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plates (some color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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"A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492"--
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