Parmenter, Jon.
Summary: Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archaeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the geographic expression of Iroquois social, political, and economic priorities. By reconstructing the late precolonial Iroquois settlement landscape and the paths of human mobility that constructed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010
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Summary: A landmark history: the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century. Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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Summary: Provides twenty-two step-by-step projects to help readers learn about the explorers that discovered America and their voyages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W Norton & Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.601 FAREnglar, Mary.
Summary: Provides the history of French Colonies in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.018 ENGBoles, Frank
Summary: "The Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them in the twentieth century....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.54 BOLMiller, Al
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.2243 MILKalman, Bobbie.
Summary: How did the plains nations benefit from the buffalo? How did they use other animals to make warm clothing for winter? This illustrated dictionary introduces the way of life of the early Native peoples who lived on the Great Plains. Themes include: homes, food, clothing, transportation, and hunting techniques.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.04 KALStonehouse, Frederick
Summary: Although the Great Lakes never had swashbuckling pirates like those that swept the Caribbean Seas, leaving a crimson wake behind, there were low-lifes willing to rob, pillage and slit a throat when the opportunity presented itself. Learn about "moon cussing," "mickeys" and other sordid happenings on and around the Great Lakes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI 364.152 STOCleland, 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 CLESummary: As the last great Aztec ruler, Montezuma II inherited a sprawling yet fragile empire. This program studies his governance, its abrupt end at the hands of the conquistadors, and its historical meanings. Paralleling a major exhibition at the British Museum, the film features artifacts, architecture, and images that speak to Montezuma's humanity, his self-proclaimed divinity, and the cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Sixteen skeletons-what is left of a 9th-century Mayan royal family-are discovered in the ancient city of Cancuen. Can their remains tell us anything about the collapse of the Mayan Empire? Did disease, starvation, or drought bring about that calamity? A crack team of experts from Guatemala's Forensic Anthropology Foundation uses its experience with wartime atrocities to investigate. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Taylor, Alan
Summary: Historian Alan Taylor examines a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America's three largest countries--the United States, Mexico, and Canada--all transformed themselves into nations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TAYGilman, Carolyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 381 GILStonehouse, Frederick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Superior Port Cities 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen Lane 1992
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Summary: "Messages in a bottle were a last ditch effort calling for rescue, or desperate goodbyes to loved ones. Penned by Christopher Columbus and passengers on Titanic, history has recorded thousands of bottles, but which ones are hoaxes? Historian Ric Mixter investigates and adds new information to famous and unknown messages on the ocean and Great Lakes." -- page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Airworthy Productions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9777 MIXStonehouse, Frederick.
Summary: From Books Back Cover: Great Lakes Crime: murder, mayhem, booze & broads. -- It may not have been the "Spanish Main" but pirates did sail the Great Lakes as did all manner of thieves and murderers. The great Sweetwater Seas had their fair share of criminal activity. Captains sunk their ships to collect the insurance and honest light keepers were "done in" for their meager savings! Throughout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 364 STOStonehouse, Frederick.
Contents: War objectives : North and South -- Political environment -- Navigation -- An industrial war -- Confederate Canadian team and mission -- Plots and more plots -- End game -- Courtenay Torpedo -- The shadow war : Union and Confederate secret operators -- The Lady Elgin, a precursor of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 STOReese, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 REESummary: Presented by sculptor Antony Gormley, this program was created to complement the 2002-3 exhibition of Aztec culture at London's Royal Academy. Many of the incredible works loaned to the exhibit are shown, along with sculptures and artifacts filmed in Mexico City and at important Aztec sites. Leading scholars and curators explore how the nomadic Aztecs drew inspiration from earlier cultures. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.02 CALGibson, Karen Bush.
Summary: Examines the history and culture of Native Americans, with activities ranging from deciphering Navajo codes from World War II to making jerky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zephyr 2010