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Weil, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SIT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SIT

McGovern, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1992

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MCG

Dwyer, Helen.

Summary: A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Dakota Indians, also known as the Sioux.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 DWY

Berg, Scott W.

Summary: Placing a seminal moment in American history in the larger context of the Civil War, this account revisits the little-known Dakota War of 1862, an uprising on the Minnesota frontier which resulted in the forced relocation of the Dakota and the hanging ofthirty-eight Dakota warriors.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012

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Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUR

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Yasuda, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 YAS

Summary: "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....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Terra 2018

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770 FRA

Mortimer, Gavin.

Summary: "Yellow Leaf is a Sioux Indian girl who was born in 1864. This is the story of her childhood and how she was raised on the Great Plains, near the Black Hills of Dakota, where the Sioux lived. Read about the customs of the Sioux, how each child was named, how boys learned to use a bow, and how girls learned to cook, sew, and decorate their garmets with beads."--p. [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barrons Educational Series, Inc. 2008

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set Pop-Up Mortimer 2008

Lame Deer, Archie Fire

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bear & Co. 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.3 LAM

Robinson, Charles M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 ROB

Goble, Paul.

Summary: A retelling of the Cheyenne and Sioux myth about the Great Race, a contest called by the Creator to settle the question whether man or buffalo should have supremacy and thus become the guardians of Creation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1985

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GOB

Doll, Don

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1994

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 970.3 DOL

Osinski, Alice.

Summary: A brief history of the Sioux, or Dakota, Indians of the Great Plains describing their tribal organization, customs, religion, and their encounter with the white settlers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1984

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 978 OSI

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Galafilm 2006

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHI

Spinner, Stephanie

Summary: Profiles the life and accomplishments of Sitting Bull, tribal chief and holy man of the Lakota Sioux tribe during a period of fierce conflict with the United States government.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 921 SIT

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET SITTING

Jones, Jennifer Berry.

Summary: A Dakota woman learns a hard lesson about greed and selfishness when she takes the winter supply of earth beans from Heetunka, the Bean Mouse, and leaves nothing in return.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roberts Rinehart Publishers in conjunction with the Council for Indian Education 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 JON

Rinaldi, Ann.

Summary: In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999

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Bird, 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.

Format: text

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 BIR

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0497 BIR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIR

Summary: Explore one of the most powerful and defining chapters in American history. This powerful epic adventure unfolds as told through the struggles, triumphs, and heartaches of two families as they journey in search of the American dream. The Wheelers venture west from Virginia in 1825, while the Lakota tribe grapples with the arrival of white settlers; the story continues over the next 65 years,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INT

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Into

Kelly, Fanny

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Konecky & Konecky 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 KEL

Wakefield, Sarah F.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 WAK

Summary: In this powerful Western, Sheriff Wilkins shows what happens when a good man is pushed too far. Britt MacMasters, a U.S. Marshal, returns from a mission to find his father wounded and his son, Chad, kidnapped by the outlaw Jed Blake. Hot on their trail, Britt forms a posse with a gun-slinging deputy and a stoic Pawnee tracker. But both Jed and Britt tread dangerously close to the Red Desert's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CAT

Young Bear, Severt

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 YOU

Gardner, Mark Lee

Summary: "A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars." --From book jacket

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History US Gardner

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