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This compelling, centuries spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women, a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
Brigitte Nicholson becomes hooked after she discovers a mystery in their family's past: how did a Dakota Sioux princess end up buried in Brittany as a...
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Dillon Black has a dream, the Mystic Warriors Horse Camp, a place where wayward youth can connect with the Lakota ways. He has the land, the horses and the history. All he needs is the money. His ex-wife, Monica, a mover and shaker with her own television show, thinks he could use some common sense but deep down, she feels that Dillon's project might be able to mend their shattered family. She knows that Dillon and their teenaged children will need...
6) Massacre in Minnesota: the Dakota War of 1862, the most violent ethnic conflict in American history
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2019].
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English
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"A detailed analysis of the origins, events, and aftermath of the Minnesota-Dakota War of 1862"--
"Ultimately, what emerges most clearly from Anderson's account is the outsize suffering of innocents on both sides of the Dakota War-and, identified unequivocally for the first time, the role of white duplicity in bringing about this unprecedented and needless calamity. "--
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared...