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"A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. 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...
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2022.
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"Alice's Trading Post is the story of an untamable, unforgettable woman with a wry wit who lives 103 adventurous years. She survives all the west could throw at a woman, fights to be herself, live free, and find love. Treat her with respect, you walk away safe. If not, there will be consequences. Alice never met her young Army of the West officer father stationed in Oregon Territory, 1860s. She's raised like a boy by her Canadian trapper stepfather...
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"In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier--a clash of cultures between the Native tribes who have lived on the land for centuries and a young, ambitious nation. Colonel Henry Carrington arrives in Wyoming's Powder River Valley to lead the US Army in defending the opening of a new road for gold miners and settlers. Carrington intends to build a fort in the middle of critical hunting grounds,...
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This documentary offers a deep, candid, and historical look at the Christian experience of America's largest and best-known tribes: the Dakota and Lakota. Its exploration into Native American history also takes a hard and detailed look at President Ulysses S. Grant's Peace Policy of 1873, which was, in effect, a convert to Episcopalianism or starve edict put forth by the American government in direct violation of its Constitution. The devastation...
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[2019]
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ix, 530 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history. This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hamalainen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's...
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[2016]
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254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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In Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior's Life & Legacy, the Edward Clown family, descendants of the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways, the Clown family's oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Crazy Horse. The family clarifies the inaccuracies and shares their story about the past, including what it means to them to be Lakota,...
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[2020]
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238 pages ; 22 cm
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"A dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee in the aftermath of the American civil war from the Booker Prize shortlisted author Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in West Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive father John Cole and his brother-in-arms Thomas McNulty, this odd little family scrapes a living on Lige Magan's farm with the help two...
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[2017]
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319 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Land of Wolves finds Joseph Foster with Molly as they settle into a new-found life in the hills of Tennessee. But Abraham Lincoln's former bodyguard, the man who saved the President's life, cannot escape the Consortium as they come roaring back, killing his mother, abducting his daughter all to coerce his Congressional testimony on their behalf. Instead, Joseph and Molly strike the Consortium in their own safe haven of New York City. In a Bonnie...
9) Cheyenne gun
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2021.
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413 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"From the Little Bighorn to Boston, Fox Running learned the hard way the world was his enemy. As a boy, he lost his Northern Cheyenne home to a blood feud. The army scattered his people, who rejected him when he tried to return. On the wild frontier, he lost his way and found it on a day of tragedy. Sent to an Indian school in the East, he refused to renounce who and what he was. After a daring escape to the Plains, those who hate him learn how fast...
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. Set in the often starkly beautiful Badlands of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. With an older brother in jail and living with their single mother on Pine Ridge Reservation, Johnny and his sister Jashuan's lives develop new challenges when their absentee cowboy father suddenly dies. The loss prompts Johnny to strike out for Los Angeles, but would mean leaving behind his beloved sister. Most of the key players are young Lakota Native...
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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...
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[2014]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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Curiosity leads a young warrior to track a new animal. It leads him far from home, but at last he finds a herd of the strange new creatures. They are horses that shimmer with colour and run swift as the wind. The Lakota capture and tame them, and the people grow rich and powerful. They become filled with pride. With their newfound strangth they rule over the plains. Then the Great Spirit, who gave the gift of the horse, takes it away. Donald F. Montileaux...
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2017.
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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...
15) American mystic
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©2011
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
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2023.
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ix, 239 pages : 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...
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2016.
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"Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John G. Neihardt from a series of interviews with Black Elk and other elders at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Black Elk Speaks is one of the most widely read and admired works of American Indian literature. Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical...
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A reference and ode to Chief Seattle's Treaty of 1854, is a collection of five Indigenous Documentary Shorts from across the world. As each short highlights different Indigenous stories of fly fishing conservationists in the Pacific Northwest to a young Lakota woman creating a girls' boxing team, they each embody the ingenuity and tenacity of Indigenous People across the world.
19) Spotted Tail
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[2019]
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48 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 x 30 cm.
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This biography of Spotted Tail traces the life of the famous Lakota leader who expertly guided his people through a pivotal and tumultuous time in their nation's history as they fought and then negotiated with the U.S. government. Spotted Tail is remembered for his unique leadership style and deep love for his people. Includes information on some Lakota customs and a short history of the Lakota people.
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[2018]
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22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
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8-year-old Aslan arrived in North Dakota to help stop a pipeline. A few months later he returned -- and saw the whole world watching. Read about his inspiring experiences in the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock. Learn about what exactly happened there, and why.
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