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Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to Odie O'Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent's wrath. Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among the hundreds of Native American children at the school. After...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Red fury: A lost 10-year-old Indian boy thrust into the bigotry of a white community early in the 20th century finds friendship with a neglectful rancher, a school teacher, and a wild stallion -- Captain Johnno : A frustrated deaf boy sets sail for a deserted island -- Lost in the barrens: an orphaned teen and a young tribal hunter get lost in the wilderness -- Rugged gold: Rugged Gold follows a widow's courageous journey in the Alaskan wilderness...