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2022) Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877
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English
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For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. As one of the most expansive and powerful Indigenous groups on the continent, they dominated the northern imperial borderlands of North America. The Blackfoot maintained their control even as their homeland became the site of intense competition between white fur traders, frequent...
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English
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American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement, in reality...
2027) Warrior spirit
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the first Native American UFC champion Nicco Montano and extreme weight cutting in the UFC.
2029) Colorado cultural resource survey manual: guidelines for identification, history and archeology
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Publisher
Colorado Historical Society, Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 online resource (85 p.) : ill.
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English
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The author's great-uncle John Bear King was a Sioux Indian in the First Cavalry in the Second World War. Her book follows seven Sioux who put aside a long history of prejudice against their people and joined the fight against Japan, using their native language as a secret code for the Americans. The Sioux and other tribal code-talking groups have historically taken a backseat to the Navajo Code Talkers, until a presidential act of recognition was...
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015?]
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320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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English
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The lives, legends, and epic events that made the American West a world-renowned symbol of true grit are showcased in this gorgeous volume featuring the Gold Rush, the Indian Wars, cowboys, outlaws, and more. From the first wagon trains to the building of the railroads, the story of the American West is epic in scope, full of amazing stories of grit, tragedy, and triumph. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps, this is the definitive history...
2033) Susan La Flesche Picotte
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
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137 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
A portrait of the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree explains how her mixed heritage and witness to racism inspired her pioneering education and life-risking achievements battling epidemics on behalf of Native American populations.
2035) Spain in the Southwest: a narrative history of colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2002
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xvii, 462 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
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English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even...
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Series
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 76 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
Language
English
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In the early 1600s, imagines an encounter between a Pueblo woman and Sister Maria de Jesus de Agreda, New Mexicos famous Lady in Blue, during the nun's mystical spiritual journeys.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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.
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Français
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Franklin Roosevelt en moins d'une heure !
Aussi célèbre que George Washington et Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt a présidé les États-Unis durant une dizaine d'années. Arrivé au faîte du pouvoir alors que les effets de la Grande Dépression se font de plus en plus sentir, il met au point toute une série de mesures afin de faire sortir son pays de la crise. C'est ainsi qu'il imagine avec son...
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