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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Large print ed..
Physical Desc
667 pages (large print) : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kah-nung-da-tla-geh -- the great Cherokee chieftain known as the Ridge -- had one foot in each of two worlds. The first was that of his ancestors; the second was a new world of forced change, war, and death that arrived with the white man. His visionary leadership led the Cherokee into the future as one nation. But the white tide continued, the Ridge's judgment was flung aside in favor of war, and his contribution to the Cherokee Nation was forgotten,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
There isn't and never has been one America, Colin Woodard argues, but rather several Americas: Yankeedom, New Netherland, the Midlands, Tidewater, Greater Appalachia, the Deep South, New France, El Norte, the Left Coast, the Far West, and First Nation. The original North American colonies were settled by people from distinct regions of the British Islands, and from France, the Netherlands, and Spain, each with unique religious, political, and ethnographic...
Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvii, 254 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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 named Cow Tom - a Black former slave - a treaty with the U.S. government recognized Creek citizenship for its Black members. Yet this equality was shredded in the 1970s when Creek leaders revoked the citizenship of Black Creeks, even those who could trace...
Author
Series
Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science volume 125th ser., 2
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xx, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region's socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. Drawing from a wealth of primary documentation, the author centers his study on ethnic boundaries, particularly how those boundaries were constructed, perceived, and crossed....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
[Revised edition].
Physical Desc
xvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of relations between blacks and American Indians, and the existence of black Indians, from the earliest foreign landings through pioneer days.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. They served as soldiers, scholars, artists, artisans, and missionaries within early transatlantic empires and later nation-states. These Indian and mestizo men and women wove together cultures, shaping the new traditions and institutions of the colonial Americas....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Philadelphia, 1906. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma Mitchell's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry-- then called Asku-- was the most promising student at Stover School in Wisconsin, the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations, the school robbed them of language, customs, even their names. Asku has become, cold...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1909, when young Paiute Indian Willie Boy returns to his California reservation to be with Lola, whose father disapproves of him, a killing in self defense takes place, triggering a massive man hunt for Willie.
14) Rush of shadows
Author
Publisher
Washington Writers Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 40
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1978.
Physical Desc
xii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Popularly known as "Black Seminoles, " descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this label denies them their rightful identity. To correct misconceptions of the historical relationship between Africans and Seminole Indians, he traces the emergence of the group's society from its eighteenth-century Florida origins to the present...
Publisher
Nolichucky Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (27 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A television documentary on East Tennessee PBS that explores the pivotal yet complicated relationship between British garrison soldiers at Fort Loudoun, Fort Prince George, and the Overhill Cherokee Nation during the middle of the French and Indian War (1754-1763).
19) The orenda
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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...
20) Montana
Author
Series
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Language
English
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...
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