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bibliography Biographies. biography Census. Folklore. Genealogy. History. periodical Treaties. videorecordingSummary: In 1994, President Clinton signed a bill which reaffirmed the government to government relationship between the United States and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa. This chronicles the tribe's struggle from the 1836 treaty of Detroit to the 1994 signing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2009
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Native McClurkenMcClurken, James M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Museum 1991
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Native McClurkenLantz, Raymond C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1993
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3774 LANDoherty, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1990
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Karamanski, Theodore J.
Summary: Overview: For much of U.S. history, the story of native people has been written by historians and anthropologists relying on the often biased accounts of European-American observers. Though we have become well acquainted with war chiefs like Pontiac and Crazy Horse, it has been at the expense of better knowing civic-minded intellectuals like Andrew J. Blackbird, who sought in 1887 to give a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2012
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Native KaramanskiTimeless Media
Summary: The world of Joseph Brant :Joseph Brant was bron in 1742 in what is now New York State's Mohwak Valley. His traditional Mohawk name was Thayendanegea, meaning "two sticks bound together in strength." This name would symbolic of Brant's twin ambitions : to be a power broker between Indian and English societies, and to satisfy his thirst for power, recognition and eminence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timeles Media Group 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHIWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: Recounts the life of Petosegay, an Ottawa Indian chief, who gave his name to the small town in northern Michigan--Petoskey--where a unique stone can be found along its shores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WARWeeks, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians 1992
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Fletcher, Matthew L. M.
Contents: Introduction -- The story of the 1836 Treaty of Washington -- The story of the 1855 Treaty of Detroit -- The story of the dispossession of the Grand Traverse Band land base -- The story of the federal recognition of the Grand Traverse Band -- The story of the Grand Traverse Band's treaty rights fight -- The story of the development of modern tribal law and justice systems -- The story of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2012
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1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 977.4 FLESummary: "Sometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded, after first being kept in their original copper wire format by the American Philosophical Society and later being converted onto cassettes and held by Dr. James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1992
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Wright, J. C. (John Couchois)
Summary: In The Crooked Tree we find a collection of authentic Indian legends. John Wright listened to his grandmother weave these legends of her people and as a result, we find that he has combined this nameless trait of the Indian storyteller with a sense of realism that makes one believe that the story actually happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 1996
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Native WrightWeliver, Phyllis
Summary: "Phyllis Weliver was in the vanguard of those who first became ill from the novel coronavirus. Ten months later, she had recovered enough to return to work. Moving from the city to a woodland cottage above a glacier lake in order to regain health, Weliver reflects on the process of integrating mind/body health with the natural world. As she recovers from long-haul COVID, the author draws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Medical WeliverWeller, Theresa Lynn
Summary: "This book tells a story of the Native and Metis inhabitants of Mackinac Island based on the people (mostly women) enumerated in the Agatha Biddle Band of 1870. Theresa Weller provides a genealogy of the Band members and their families. Adding to their stories, she has provided images, stories, and newspaper accounts to provide a larger picture of people in a time and place-Mackinac Island in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2021
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37749 WELMcDonnell, Michael A.
Summary: "A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view, centered on the Odawa tribe of Northern Michigan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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Summary: "On October 15, 1900, the people living peacefully in Indian Point, Cheboygan County, Michigan, were suddenly and violently thrown from their homes by white settlers. Their village, held in trust for them by a government treaty, was burned to the ground. Efforts to right this wrong, still on-going, are chronicled by author Richard A. Wiles in this book."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 970.004 WILSummary: A publication of news, events and community services by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians 2016
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Ewing, Wallace K.
Contents: Foreword -- Author's notes -- Place and time -- Furs, bibles, and time -- Leaders of the bands -- Deserted villages -- Potawatomis v. The United States -- The Circle continues -- Directory of Native Americans in Footprints -- Directory of Non-Native Americans in Footprints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377464 EwingClifton, James A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Indian Press, Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council 1986
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Native CliftonWitgen, Michael J.
Summary: "Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods,which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 WITBland, Celia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PONTIAC BLABlackbird, Andrew J.
Summary: This reproduction of the 1887 Ypsilanti Edition of Chief Blackbird's book delivers a rich history of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan along with a section detailing the grammar and parts of speech. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit The Odawa Institute, a grassroots organization dedicated to the preservation of the Odawa Culture and retention of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Ypsilantian Job Printing House 1887
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