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325 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are...
24) Dreamkeeper
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1 videodisc (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An elderly Lakota storyteller asks his grandson to drive him from his home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to a powwow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Along the way, he regales the troubled teenager with Native American folklore drawn from many different tribes.
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269 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger towards the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions...
26) American mystic
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This film follows three young Americans who have chosen to sacrifice comforts in order to embrace the fringes of alternative religion: Kublai, an African-American living near Rochester, New York, who is training to be a Spiritualist healer; Chuck, a Lakota living on the Pine Ridge reservation who is training to be a sundancer; and Morpheus, a Pagan priestess living in the hills of Northern California.
28) Black Elk speaks
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xxxviii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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English
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"Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk's searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota...
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x, 371 pages : map ; 25 cm
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English
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"In December 1866, tensions were rising in Wyoming, between the Native American tribes who had lived on the land for generations and the settlers who would destroy their home. Crazy Horse and his fellow Lakota hunters had been watching for months as Colonel Carrington and his army set up camp on one of the most crucial swaths of hunting ground in hundreds of miles, and began to build forts. More disconcertingly, the settlers had brought women and...
31) Sitting Bull
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47 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Introduces the life of Lakota Sioux warrior and holy man Sitting Bull, who led his people to victory at Little Bighorn and brought them to safety in Canada before surrendering so that they would not starve.
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A leader among the Lakota during the 1860s, Chief Red Cloud deeply opposed white expansion into Native American territory. He rejected treaties from the United States government and instead united the warriors of the Lakota and nearby tribes, becoming the only Native American to win a war against the U.S. Army. Despite his military successes, Red Cloud recognized that continued conflict would only bring destruction to his people. He made the controversial...
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165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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English
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Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
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The Standing Rock Reservation is home to 8,250 Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people of the Oceti Sakowin Nation. It is located in south-central North Dakota and in north-central South Dakota. The reservation is the sixth largest in the United States, with a land area of 3,571 square miles. It comprises all of Sioux County, North Dakota, Corson County, South Dakota, and small tracts of northern Dewey and Ziebach Counties in South Dakota. The tribe has...
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow (Jessica Chastain) as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer (Sam Rockwell) intent on war with Native Americans. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes bring smarts and chemistry to this worthy Western.*" - Tomris Laffly, ***Time...
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2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
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xiv, 239 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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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...
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335 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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"Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family's origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, ultimately settling on a 160-acre homestead in South Dakota. Over the next few decades, despite tough years on a merciless prairie and multiple setbacks, the Sinykins became an American...
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