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Author
Publisher
Fulcrum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 168 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Poverty, physical abuse, suicide, and addiction have all reached epidemic proportions on South Dakota's Indian reservations. Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota children and young adults are disproportionately affected by these trends. Historical trauma, chronically underfunded federal programs, and broken promises on the part of the US government have resulted in gaping health, educational, and economic disparities compared to the general population. Award-winning...
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Language
English
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"In December 1866, tensions were rising in Wyoming, between the Native American tribes who had lived on the land for generations and the settlers who would destroy their home. Crazy Horse and his fellow Lakota hunters had been watching for months as Colonel Carrington and his army set up camp on one of the most crucial swaths of hunting ground in hundreds of miles, and began to build forts. More disconcertingly, the settlers had brought women and...
5) Winter count
Author
Publisher
[Dentan-Berkeland Printing Co.]
Pub. Date
[1967]
Physical Desc
iv, 230 p. illus. (on lining papers) 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xviii, 599 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Describes the life of the Native American holy man who fought at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his cousin Crazy Horse, traveled to Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and became a traditionalist in the Ghost Dance movement-- Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John G. Neihardt from a series of interviews with...
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English
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Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow (Jessica Chastain) as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer (Sam Rockwell) intent on war with Native Americans. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes bring smarts and chemistry to this worthy Western.*" - Tomris Laffly, ***Time...
8) The earth is all that lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the great Sioux nation
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Language
English
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A dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull paints both a triumphant and tragic portrait of these two fascinating and heroic leaders struggling to maintain the freedom of their people.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government officials, culminating in the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee of 250 Lakota men, women, and children, historical accounts have most often described the Ghost Dance from the perspective of the white Americans who opposed it. In A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country, historian Rani-Henrik Andersson instead gives...
Author
Series
Bulletin volume 61
Publisher
Govt. print. off
Pub. Date
1918
Physical Desc
xxviii, 561 p. illus. (incl. music) 82 pl. on 66 ¿. (incl. front.) 24 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Snowflake Video Productions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Lakota Sioux and many other indigenous Nations are forced to live on the Reservation, a designated prisoner of war camp. The film is a saga of displacement, neglect, deprivation, abolishment of traditional beliefs, language, mores and culture. Yet, despite the many challenges, the Lakota will not give up.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Clara spends her summer visiting her grandma and cousin on Standing Rock reservation, where Clara and her family set up the ancestral tipi and grow closer together as they tell stories, sing songs, and learn about their Lakota roots.
13) Spotted Tail
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Book
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
This biography of Spotted Tail traces the life of the famous Lakota leader who expertly guided his people through a pivotal and tumultuous time in their nation's history as they fought and then negotiated with the U.S. government. Spotted Tail is remembered for his unique leadership style and deep love for his people. Includes information on some Lakota customs and a short history of the Lakota people.
14) Grandma's tipi
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (21 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clara spends her summer visiting her grandma and cousin on Standing Rock reservation, where Clara and her family set up the ancestral tipi and grow closer together as they tell stories, sing songs, and learn about their Lakota roots.
Publisher
Reel Contact
Pub. Date
♭2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The great-grandsons of Crazy Horse set the record straight as to who is in Crazy Horse's family and each family member's story. They also tell of his spirituality and his Lakota culture as passed down through the family's oral history.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
335 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family's origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book is the story of the Lakota and how they were forced onto a reservation, told from the point of view of Red Cloud, warrior and chief of the Lakota. It is a heavily illustrated account, with both text and illustrations by S. D. Nelson.--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For American Indians, tribal politics are paramount. They determine the standards for tribal enrollment, guide negotiations with outside governments, and help set collective economic and cultural goals. But how, asks Raymond I. Orr, has history shaped the American Indian political experience? By exploring how different tribes politics and internal conflicts have evolved over time, Reservation Politics offers rare insight into the role of historical...
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Language
English
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"The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means's Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was innocent, he took the fall for the actual killer, a man placed...
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