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1) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
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Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 27
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Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. This edition includes illustrations, essays, and excerpts from firsthand accounts and memoirs, that add depth and reflection to this momentous work.
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Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
Pub. Date
2007.
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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 their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
Pub. Date
1970.
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Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
10) Wind River
Pub. Date
[2017]
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An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
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The year 1540 was a crucial turning point in American history. The Great Indian Wars were incited by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado when his expedition to the Great Plains launched the inevitable 350-year struggle between the white man and the American Indians. From that point forward, the series of battles between the military and civilian forces of the United States and the native American Indians began when blood was shed and ultimately tens of...
15) Powwow highway
Pub. Date
c2004
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With nothing in common but their Native American heritage, two men begin a cross-country adventure filled with comedy and drama.
16) Smoke Signals
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Pub. Date
c2011
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Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
17) Little Bird
Pub. Date
[2023]
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In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
The spectacular but unforgiving terrain of 1927 Vermont sets the stage for this collision between high-stakes progress and a frontier way of life. Lengendary Yankee log-driver Noel lord defies power company boss, Clayton Farnsworth who orders Lord and his feisty American Indian mate off their soon-to-be flooded land. Farnsworth never met a man he couldn't buy ... but then, he'd never met Noel lord.
19) Montana Story
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Set against the stunning mountains of Big Sky Country, two estranged siblings return to the sprawling ranch they once called home to confront their familys traumatic past. From the acclaimed Writer/ Directors Scott McGhee and David Siegel (WHAT MAISIE KNEW, THE DEEP END) comes a neo-Western with and emotional tremor hiding beneath it.
20) Shadow nation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The journey of a group of renowned rock musicians, led by George Lynch, on a journey of discovery through music, exposing the injustices done to Native Americans.
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