Weso, T. F. Pecore (Thomas F. Pecore)
Summary: "Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J398.2 WESLocke, Kevin
Summary: "In this enlightening legend shared by Lakota Elder Kevin Locke, Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka (The Great Spirit) created the entire world in seven days; leaving the most precious creation for last. In order to protect this precious creation, Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka needed to hide it where it would always be safe and turned to our animal relatives for help. Together, they found the perfect place. Do you know where they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Medicine Wheel Publishing 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LOCHämäläinen, Pekka
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.004 HAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native HamalainenNelson, S. D.
Summary: Red Cloud (1822-1909) was a great warrior and chief of the Lakota. Told from his perspective, this book describes the events that brought him to prominence as a leader of his people and how he came to surrender them to the wasichus (White Man), ending their way of life on the Great Plains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 978 NELJackson, Joe
Summary: "Describes the life of the Native American holy man who fought at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his cousin Crazy Horse, traveled to Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and became a traditionalist in the Ghost Dance movement."--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK ELK JACNelson, S. D
Summary: "This book is the story of the Lakota and how they were forced onto a reservation, told from the point of view of Red Cloud, warrior and chief of the Lakota. It is a heavily illustrated account, with both text and illustrations by S. D. Nelson."--Providedby publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 NELGannon, Thomas C.
Summary: "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 Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon's traumatic time in an Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Clarren, Rebecca
Summary: "An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement at the center of the conversation about America's political future."--the Whiting Foundation. Growing up, Rebecca...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.3 CLASpence, Gerry
Summary: "The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means's Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.004 SPESherman, Sean
Summary: Locally sourced, seasonal, "clean" ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef. In his first cookbook, Sherman shares his approach to creating boldly-seasoned foods that are vibrant, healthful, at once elegant and easy. Sherman dispels outdated notions of Native American fare -- no fry bread or Indian tacos here --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Warren, Louis S.
Summary: In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 WAREstes, Nick
Summary: "In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan “Mni Wiconi”—Water Is Life—was about more than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: According to author Roland Marmon, "the Turtle Mountain Chippewa are the most prominent of the Plains Chippewa tribes in America with a membership of nearly eighty thousand people. The Turtle Mountain Chippewa were also affiliated with the ethnically European and Indian mixed Métis people, who constitute the largest Indigenous group in Canada, and were caught between national identities and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 TurtleKeeler, Jacqueline.
Summary: "Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Océti Sakówin camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Torrey House Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1197 KEEYasuda, Anita.
Summary: In this Sioux legend, a coyote gives a blanket away, but when he decides to take it back, he learns the consequences of his action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 YASMurdoch, Sierra Crane
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MURLajimodiere, Denise K.
Summary: Education professor Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking of their experiences. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Dakota State University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.829 LAJSummary: In the years following the American Civil War, a hard-fought Sioux resistance to western expansion, led by warrior and healer Sitting Bull, seemed to have accomplished the impossible: a treaty in which the United States gave the Sioux control of their territory for all time. Howere, the potential to harvest the riches fo the western plains, especially gold, soon proved more important to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Galafilm 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHIBird, F. A.
Summary: "This title introduces readers to the Sioux people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0497 BIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0497 BIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRSummary: "More than a hundred years ago (1899), photographer Frank Bennett Fiske (1883-1952) began photographing members of the Standing Rock Sioux in his studio at Fort Yates, North Dakota. He was 16 years old when he took over the stuido from S.T. Fransler. The men and women Fiske photographed were his friends and neighbors, Native Americans who had lived on the reservation for more than 20 years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra 2018
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770 FRAMcGovern, Ann.
Summary: Describes the daily life of the Sioux Indians, their clothing, food, games, and customs before and after the coming of the white man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1992
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MCGWeil, Ann.
Summary: An account of the life of Sitting Bull, including his nomadic childhood, how he became the chief of the entire Sioux Nation, and his role at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SITDwyer, Helen.
Summary: A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Dakota Indians, also known as the Sioux.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 DWYCleland, Charles E.
Summary: For many thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, Michigan's native peoples, the Anishnabeg, thrived in the forests and along the shores of the Great Lakes. Theirs were cultures in delicate social balance and in economic harmony with the natural order. Rites of Conquest details the struggles of Michigan Indians - the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, and their neighbors - to maintain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 CLE1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.1 CLE