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1) The night watchman: a novel

Author

Erdrich, Louise

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

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WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WASHINGTON POST, AMAZON, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF 2020

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession

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2) The American Indian Rights Movement

Author

Braun, Eric

Series

Movements that matter

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"This fresh perspective on the American Indian rights movement that young readers have been hearing about in the news includes engaging historic coverage that will hook the reader from start to finish."--Provided by publisher.

3) Native American testimony: a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-1992

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

c1991

Edition

Expanded ed.

Language

English

4) Where white men fear to tread: the autobiography of Russell Means

Author

Means, Russell

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

1996, c1995

Edition

1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.

Language

English

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Russell Means was the most controversial American Indian leader of our time, and in Where White Men Fear to Tread, he recounts pivotal moments of his life. Means did everything possible to dramatize and justify the American Indian aim of self-determination - from storming Mount Rushmore and seizing Plymouth Rock to running for President in 1988. Perhaps most notoriously, in 1973, Means led a 71-day takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Featuring...

5) Killing Crazy Horse: the merciless Indian wars in America

Author

O'Reilly, Bill

Series

Bill O'Reilly's Killing

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Sound Disc

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The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers.
The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win

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6) A history of Native America

Author

Blackhawk, Ned

Series

Modern scholar

Publisher

Recorded Books

Pub. Date

p2010

Language

English

Description

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In these illuminating lectures from Professor Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), a history of Native America is provided from the time shortly before the expeditions of Christopher Columbus to the present. Focusing on the Columbian Exchange, Indians and the American Constitution, American Indian Removal, the Civil War, and the modern age, Professor Blackhawk concludes his revealing course by addressing the issues that continue to affect Native Americans...

7) Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy movement, and the American story of sacred lands

Author

Keeler, Jacqueline

Publisher

Torrey House Press

Pub. Date

2021

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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"Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Ocťi Sakw̤in camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota and the armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur...

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1) The night watchman: a novel

2) The American Indian Rights Movement

3) Native American testimony: a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-1992

4) Where white men fear to tread: the autobiography of Russell Means

5) Killing Crazy Horse: the merciless Indian wars in America

6) A history of Native America

7) Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy movement, and the American story of sacred lands

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