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Lulu Publishing Services
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Alfred Riggs was a twenty-five year old son of a missionary who found himself helplessly intertwined in the real life actions, events, and people of a harrowing conflict in the history of Minnesota. Alfred grew up among the Dakota Indians of Minnesota and he developed a profound respect for their people and established a near kinship tie to their leader, Little Crow. When war broke out, Alfred was torn between the safety of his family and friends,...
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English
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Evan Jacobson is an immigrant Norwegian stage coach driver in west central Minnesota. The stops along his stage route introduce the families who live on the trail between Fort Snelling and Fort Abercrombie, just south of Fargo, and reveal their ultimate fate in the 1862 Sioux Uprising and the siege of Fort Abercrombie. Jacobson struggles with learning English, falling in love and fulfilling his dreams, while living with events of the war in the South...
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Publisher
[History Through Fiction]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A creative re-imagining of the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862, Reclaiming Mni Sota is an eye-opening portrayal of one of America's most tragic, regrettable events. Told through dual narratives from each side of the conflict, Reclaiming Mni Sota confronts American's history of settler-colonialism while illuminating the personal stories and heartrending choices that men and women, white and Native, were forced to make.--Publisher.
104) An Indian winter
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
Relates the experiences of a German prince, his servant, and a young Swiss artist as they traveled through the Missouri River Valley in 1833 learning about the territory and its inhabitants and recording their impressions in words and pictures.
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Mysteries in our national parks volume 13
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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While their mother investigates a series of bear attacks in and near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Jack and Ashley learn about country music and Cherokee people from two new friends, one of whom is keeping a secret.
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Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
"The deep sandstone canyons, desert mesas, and ancient cliff dwellings of Bears Ears area hold pottery and projectile points, baskets and petroglyphs - and countless stories. For more than twelve thousand years, the wondrous landscape of southeastern Utah has defined the histories, cultures, and lives of everyone who calls it home. In Behind the Bears Ears, R. E. Burrillo takes readers on a personal journey of discovery through the narratives and...
109) Wandering stars
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English
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"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where...
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Uncle Nino: Uncle Nino (an old world Italian) arrives unexpectedly from Italy and brings a family close again.
The First of May: when an unwanted boy and a forgotten old lady run away to join the circus, they feel like they have finally come home.
Safe Harbor: the true story of Doug and Robbie Smith who founded the Safe Harbor Home for Boys in Jacksonville, Florida.
Windrunner: Jim Thorpe's ghost helps a young man who is descriminated against.
113) Birdie
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English
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1873 Minnesota. Evan and Inga Jacobson struggle to raise their family in the midst of bank failures, grasshoppers and the lingering effects of the 1862 Uprising. When harsh economic realities force them to relocate to Otter Tail County, they must begin again in a hostile environment. Their foster daughter, Ragna Larson, has grown up haunted by her missing sister, Birdie. Both girls were kidnapped by the Sioux during the Uprising; only one returned....
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Publisher
Lulu Publishing Services
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"In Minnesota's fading frontier the once vibrant Dakota Indians were compelled and coerced to cede their bountiful homeland to those opportunists that would usher in a new era. In 1851, the Dakota Indians signed the Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota, selling their lands west of the Mississippi River. Frank Blackwell Mayer, a young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota to witness the negotiations between the Dakota Indians and the United...
115) Shadow prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"A slumlord butchered in Minneapolis...A rising political star executed in Manhattan...A judge slashed to death in Oklahoma City... Each victim has a history of bad behavior, but the only thing the killings have in common is the murder weapon--a Native American ceremonial knife--and a trail of blood that leads to an embodiment of evil known only as Shadow Love. Recruited to be the lethal hand of a terrorist campaign, Shadow Love has his own bloody...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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 the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
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Abercrombie trail volume 2
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English
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1862 was a tumultuous year in Minnesota history. The Civil War drained the youngest state in the Union of soldiers and resources. War expenses delayed treaty payments, and the Sioux were starving. The result was the Sioux Uprising of 1862. The largest Indian war in U.S. history, it was bracketed by the bloody battles of Shiloh and Antietam. Although the government declared the uprising over in the fall, Pomme de Terre tells the story of settlers in...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of thier identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
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