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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
254 pages.
Description
"A landmark work of Black and Native American history that reconfigures our understanding of identity, race, and belonging and the inspiring ways marginalized people have pushed to redefine their world In this paradigm-shattering work of American history,Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full members. Thanks to the leadership of a chief...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction, an unscrupulous white banker in Minnesota is blackmailed by his boss into sabotaging the creation of a competing, Native American-owned bank. As the banker befriends the people he's trying to frame, he struggles to escape from his past and do the right thing"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
484 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
"Black Shell, an exiled Chickasaw trader, is fascinated by the pale, bearded newcomers who call themselves Kristianos, and not even the wise counsel of Pearl Hand, the extraordinary and beautiful woman who has consented to be his mate, can dissuade him. It will unfortunately take a first-hand lesson in the Kristianos' unfathomable brutality for Black Shell to fully comprehend the dangers that these invaders pose to his people's way of life. While...
5) Montana
Author
Series
Lola Wicks mysteries volume 1
Formats
Description
"Foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is pissed. Downsized from her Kabul posting, her editor reassigns her to a stateside suburban beat formerly the province of interns. Arriving in Montana for some R&R at a friend's cabin, her friend is nowhere in sight. Anger turns to terror when Lola discovers her friend shot dead. She can't get out of Montana fast enough, but finds that she can't as she's held as a potential witness, thwarting her plan to return...
6) Two rivers
Publisher
Greenleaf Street Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary about a group of whites and Native Americans in the Northwest that began meeting together to discover why relationships between these two groups were unknown outside of courtrooms. Looks at the radical differences between the two cultures and how Indian schools have affected Native families.
9) Fire the sky
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
431 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
After being fought to a standstill by the courageous Apalachee Nation, Spanish invader Hernando de Soto has changed his tactics. He will employ promises of peace to accomplish what cannot be achieved by violence alone. Lured by a young man's tale of gold and aided by an arrogant princess's treachery, he makes his way through the beautiful southeastern landscape. One by one, the ancient Nations fall victim to his lies as rulers and commoners alike...
10) End of the spear
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nate Saint is a pilot and Christian missionary who, with his family, lives and works in the jungles of the Amazon River Basin in South America. Nate is fascinated by tales he's heard of the Waodani, a violent and aggressive tribe living nearby, and with a group of fellow Christians takes it upon himself to teach them the importance of compassion and forgiveness. However, the leader of the Waodanis, Mincayani, does not trust the white visitors, and...
11) The orenda
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years is truly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and ultimately all too human in its tragic grandeur. Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his...
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the siege of Fort William Henry during the French and Indian War, Hawkeye, a colonial frontier scout, becomes a reluctant hero when he is assigned to escort the fort commander's two daughters through hostile Indian territory. Many dangers lurk in the wilderness, particularly a bloodthirsty Huron warrior named Magua who is on their tail and ready to attack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xxii, 375 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Supported with copious maps, illustrations, endnotes, and a detailed chronology of Boone's life, Frontiersman provides a fresh and accurate rendering of a man most people know only as a folk hero--and of the nation that has mythologized him for over two centuries.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xix, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade into Indian Country from the Great Lakes to the Columbia...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 371 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
The author describes eleven rival regional "nations" in the United States (Yankeedom, New Netherland, the Midlands, Tidewater, Greater Appalachia, the Deep South, New France, El Norte, the Left Coast, the Far West, and First Nation), and how these deep roots continue to influence our politics today.
Publisher
[Distributed by] PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (394 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their strategies were militaristic, but more often they were diplomatic,...
Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"9 March 1876. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
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