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Written in the 1850's by Henry Hastings Sibley, recorded first hand from Iron Face, a half-breed Sioux warrior and scout. Frazer, also was a half-breed born and raised in a Sioux village. Includes information on the Black Hawk War and the Minnesota Massacre. Vestal says, We are lucky, I think, to have this story in any form. Its chief service is a tool to help us understand a kind of life now gone forever. Stanley Vestal states that this volume presents...
1182) The Captive Witch
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Dale Van Every's soaring adventure saga of the untamed Kentucky wilderness, a savage woman and the young frontiersman who set out to conquer them both…They weathered the brutal winter of '79 in an isolated cave deep in the Kentucky wilderness: Adam Frane, backwoodsman, rifleman, soldier; and Nita, the proud, passionate woman who had rejected her civilized past for the life of a Cherokee squaw. They shred that cruel season knowing that, when the...
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EIGHTY-ONE MEN under the command of Lt.-Col. W. J. Fetterman were ambushed by the Sioux in northern Wyoming on December 21, 1866. Not one survived to tell their story. Old army records prove that Fetterman, a Civil War hero, was acting in defiance of explicit orders, given by his commanding officer, Col. Henry Carrington. Yet Carrington, the senior officer of the regiment, was held responsible for the disaster. In all our history there have been only...
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As a dedicated Native American advocate since the age of 20, author Major Israel McCreight saw the sad plight of the Indians in the period following the Custer Fight and the Battle of Wounded Kane. This book, first published in 1947, is the account of the versions of U.S. history according to the old Sioux Chief, FLYING HAWK. Flying Hawk, who was a nephew of Sitting Bull and fought with Crazy Horse at Little Big Horn, dictated his narrative to McCreight,...
1186) A Cowman's Wife
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A Cowman's Wife is the true account of the author's experience as co-owner of Old Camp Rucker Ranch, a 22,000 acre spread north of Douglas, Arizona that she purchased with her husband in 1919. It chronicles a woman's view of cattle ranching in Northern Arizona, with all the hardships of the 1920's and 1930's, Native Americans, Mexicans, wolves, and horse thieves. She also tells of the pleasures of ranch life: spectacular sunsets, mountain scenery,...
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This edition of Orchard's 1917 book on porcupine quill decoration is fully illustrated and features a color center section with examples of the art form. The plates and diagrams show every facet of quillwork from plaiting through wrapping. The step-by-step instructions are easy to follow for the craftsperson and the pictures and text make this a treasure for anyone interested in the craftwork of Native Americans. Porcupine quill decoration is a craft...
1188) Yesterday's Trails
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True and authentic stories of Indians and Pioneers, including "Kid" Wade, "Doc" Middleton, Frank Hart, and many others, having their locale in western South Dakota and Nebraska, that picturesque area of "wide open spaces," pine-clad canyons and hills, and badlands that had such a colorful and romantic past by WILL H. SPINDLER who spent 30 years in the United States Indian Service as an Indian day school teacher on the vast Pine Ridge Indian reservation...
1190) Navajo Creation Myth: The Story of the Emergence - the Diné Bahane' Legend of the Navajo Native Amer
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The Navajo creation myth, called the Diné Bahaneʼ, is one of the greatest stories of the Native American peoples, filled with evocative images of nature and wondrous storytelling.
Hasteen M. Klah was a Navajo medicine man who grew up among the culture, whereby ceremonial events and sandpainting were a direct expression of the people's beliefs. Over the course of his life he sought to write down the various myths of his people, plus the ritual events...
1192) Apache
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"Introduces young readers to the Apache people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Apache are keeping their culture alive today"--OCLC.
1193) Fancy pants
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Jo Jo volume 2
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"Filled with lots of glitter, raised pinkies, and humorous misunderstandings, this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series--written by Dawn Quigley and illustrated by Tara Audibert--is filled with the joy of a young Ojibwe girl discovering her very own special shine from the inside out. First grader Jo Jo Makoons knows how to do a lot of things, like how to play jump rope, how to hide her peas in her milk, and how to be helpful in her classroom. But...
1194) The game of silence
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Birchbark house volume 2
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Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
1195) The porcupine year
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Birchbark house volume 3
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In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
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The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons-people who had emancipated themselves...
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We Want Equal Rights! Is the story of remarkable women who laid the foundation for the modern women's movement and the American Indian nation that proved equality as possible. In 1850, these brave women challenged a culture that believed they were inferior to men. How did they envision such a world? They looked to their neighbors the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and saw how women were held in high regard, with even greater rights than men. At that time...
1199) Queen Lili'uokalani
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The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. The series celebrates diversity, covering women and men from a range of backgrounds and professions including immigrants and individuals with disabilities. This book examines the life of Queen Lili'uokalani, Hawaii's first queen regnant and last sovereign monarch, in a simple, age-appropriate way that helps young readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes table...
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The Bear Is My Father is a celebration of the life, teachings, and legacy of Marcellus Bear Heart Williams. It follows the critically-acclaimed book, The Wind Is My Mother, which has been translated into 14 languages today. Globally renowned, Bear Heart was one of the last traditionally trained medicine persons of the Muscogee Creek Nation. Weaving together the knowledge of many traditions, Bear Heart was an ordained American Baptist Minister, Road...