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1881) Blood sisters
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371 pages ; 24 cm
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"A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown -- scarred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis -- and never looked back. Now, she lives in Rhode Island...
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xiii, 127 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 18 cm
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A welcome companion to anyone suffering a great loss--20 inspiring craft projects to help work through grief, from the author of Reinvention. Grief and pain are universal experiences that touch everyone at one time or another. When we grieve, most of us reach for the steady hand of loved ones. But even if we're blessed with an understanding community, a deep sense of isolation comes with tragedy. No one else stands in our shoes. Rarely is there another...
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ix, 462 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic cleansing as an analytical tool to challenge the alluring idea that Anglo-American colonialism in the New World constituted genocide. Beginning with the era of European conquest, Anderson employs definitions of ethnic cleansing developed by the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to reassess key moments in the Anglo-American dispossession of American Indians. Euro-Americans'...
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x, 209 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Drawing on evidence of spatial patterning and geochemical analyses of stone tools across archaeological landscapes, the book examines the distinctive mobile modalities of different human communities, documenting evolving logics of mobility -- residential, logistical, pastoral, and settler colonial. In particular, it focuses on the diversity of ways that Indigenous peoples have used and moved across the Plateau landscape from deep time into the present....
1886) Little Bird
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2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
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xvii, 613 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
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English
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"Chronicles the epic clash between General Oliver Otis Howard, who took on a mission in the Pacific Northwest to force Native Americans onto reservations, and the Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph, who refused to leave his ancestral land"--
"Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves...
1888) Walking in two worlds
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285 pages ; 22 cm
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"An indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds both real and virtual in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Bugz is caught between two worlds. In the real world, she's a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and reserve life. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massive multiplayer video game universe. Feng is a teen boy who has...
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xiii, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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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.
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144 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 x 31 cm
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English
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"Among Edward Sheriff Curtis's huge body of photographs are numerous images of American Indian dwellings and other structures. Taken together they reveal an early modernist instinct that goes largely unnoticed in his more familiar portraits. A collection unlike any other, Sites & Structures: the Architectural Photographs of Edward S. Curtis is an invaluable typology of the vast Curtis work, and helps secure his place in the pantheon of great American...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
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English
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Many people think of the USA as one country and one land, but it is actually a land made up of many nations. Learn from the descendants of two different indigenous nations -- discover the location and history of each, along with the culture, government and lifestyles that exist today, famous citizens, and oral traditions.
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231 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 29 x 32 cm
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"Enigmatic rock art featuring a myriad of symbols and designs can be found throughout remote and arid landscapes of the Greater Southwest, from the Four Corners region of the American West to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. This vast gallery of ancient art offers intriguing questions. Who created these images on stone and what were their motivations? What do they mean? Are they to be taken literally or might they stand for something else?...
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124 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 20 cm.
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English
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Presents the life of the famed Apache warrior, from his youth and the tragic massacre of his family to his vengeful actions against the unfaithful American government in retaliation for their cruelty to his people.
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351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 37 cm
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English
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Spoken Through Clay' includes nearly three hundred pottery vessels covering a wide range of contemporary artists and a few important historic pieces. This book includes portraits and voices of renowned Native artists?the majority of whom are Pueblo?speaking about their artistry and technique, families, culture, and traditions. Dynamic color photography captures the depth and dimension of the pieces, while the artists provide an illuminating perspective...
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xiv, 239 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Catalogs a lifetime of bird sightings to explore the part-Lakota author's search for identity and his reckoning with colonialism's violence against Indigenous humans, animals, and land."--
"Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill...
1899) The American buffalo
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2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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America's national mammal sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations before being driven to the brink of extinction, eventually prompting an unlikely collection of people to rescue it from disappearing forever.
1900) Fevered star
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Between earth and sky volume 02
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388 pages : color maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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"The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected ally in the former Priest of Knives. For the Clan Matriarchs of Tova, tense alliances form as far-flung enemies gather and the war in the heavens is reflected...
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