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Series
Publisher
Dog Soldier Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Charles Wolfe Collins is a veteran of the Civil War, an Irish immigrant, a reluctant Pinkerton operative and an independent agent frequently performing confidential investigations for powerful politicians in Washington D.C. In early 1879, he is summoned to the nation's capital by the Secretary of the Interior and requested to gather intelligence regarding the escape of the Northern Cheyenne from Indian Territory and subsequent military actions intended...
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Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A look at the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families and the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Even before the Revolutionary War, American colonists feared and fought "merciless Indian savages," and through the following centuries, American law and policy have been molded by the relentless tradition of Indian-hating. From proportional representation and restrictions on the right to bear arms, to the break-up of tribal property rights and the destruction of Indian culture and family, the attacks on tribal governance and people continue and remain...
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"This collection interweaves the voices of students' descendants, poets, and activists with cutting edge research by Native and non-Native scholars to reveal the complex history and enduring legacies of the school that spearheaded the federal campaign for Indian assimilation."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Description
Describes the government's mistreatment of Native American tribes in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1800s, including broken treaties and forced removal, and discusses the Delaware, Cheyenne, Sioux, Nez Perce, and Cherokee.
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Series
Publisher
John F. Blair
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
During the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in the East. The best known of these forced emigrations was the Cherokee Removal of 1838. Christened Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu -- literally "the Trail Where They Cried" -- by the Cherokees, it is remembered today as the Trail of Tears. In Voices from the Trial of Tears, editor Vicki Rozema re-creates this tragic...