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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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the life of Black Elk of the Oglala Lakota Sioux from his birth around 1860, his participation at the Battle of Little Bighorn at the age of thirteen, his experiences with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and his life on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 254
Publisher
University of Oklahoma
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xviii, 510 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
5) The earth is all that lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the great Sioux nation
Author
Language
English
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Description
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
Language
English
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Russell Means was the most controversial American Indian leader of our time, and in Where White Men Fear to Tread, he recounts pivotal moments of his life. Means did everything possible to dramatize and justify the American Indian aim of self-determination - from storming Mount Rushmore and seizing Plymouth Rock to running for President in 1988. Perhaps most notoriously, in 1973, Means led a 71-day takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
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Series
Language
English
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Turn the Stars Upside Down is the compelling and little-known story of Crazy Horse's surrender in 1877 only months after his last fight with the U.S. Army at Battle Butte, his futile attempts to find peace for his warrior heart among the reservation Indians, and his eventual undoing at the hands of his own Oglala people.
For all his life, this warrior has been a defender of the weak and helpless. But surrounded now on a tiny red island in a sea of...
11) Young Lakota
Publisher
Cine Qua Non
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this award-winning documentary, Cecilia Fire Thunder- the first female President of the Oglala Sioux tribe, defies a proposed South Dakota law criminalizing all abortion by threatening to build a women's clinic on the sovereign territory of the reservation. Her threats ignite a political firestorm that sets off a chain reaction in the lives of three young Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation, forcing each of them to make choices that define who...
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
"In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. At the height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time. In this action-packed double biography, S. D. Nelson draws fascinating parallels between Crazy Horse...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (39 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Russell Means reflects on his early years, leaving his home on the 'Rez' during WWII so that his father could work on the military ships in California. He speaks candidly about racism, the ignorance of mainstream society, and Hollywood's portrayal of American Indians, which all led to his push to break out of the stereotypical bondage that he fought so hard against.
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