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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. The fur trade influenced every aspect of life, from how Europeans related to the Indians, how and where settlements were built, to how our nation formed. Drawing on primary sources, including the diaries of Ojibwa, American, and French traders of the period, Birchbark Brigade gives...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Account of the battle in which General Custer lost his life with emphasis on the background of the tragedy and analysis of Custer's motives and political ambitions. A portion of this book has appeared in American Heritage under the title, "The Grisly Epilogue."
83) Ute
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the history, social structure, customs, and present life of the Ute Indians.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The People Shall Continue was originally published in 1977. It is a story of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically in the US, as they endeavor to live on lands they have known to be their traditional homelands from time immemorial. Even though the prairies, mountains, valleys, deserts, river bottomlands, forests, coastal regions, swamps and other wetlands across the nation are not as vast as they used to be, all of the land is still considered...
87) The woman's way
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Depicts the Native American women's central role in handing down the ancient legends and teaching their culture's traditional healing practices and religious customs.
Series
Illustrated history of humankind volume 4
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Traces human development in the "New World" and Pacific islands from prehistoric times through the 1850s.
Author
Publisher
City Lights
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In this provocative collection of essays, Ward Churchill examines the definition of genocide -- in legal as well as cultural terms
He begins by framing the matter of holocaust denial, examining both "revisionist" denial of the Jewish Holocaust, and the opposing claim of its exclusive "uniqueness." Then, using the true scope of what happened in Europe under Nazism as a reference point, Churchill provides a stunning array of evidence in support of...