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2) My brother
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"This book focuses on the history of the migrating settlers' interactions with Native American peoples in Colorado, particularly the ways that both groups affected the history and culture of each other"--Back cover frame.
Author
Publisher
[self-published]
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An Early American habitation site is discovered in the foothills southwest of Denver. Excavation at the cavern is supervised by Lisa Trayer, an archaeologist with the Colorado Museum of Natural History. In an effort to secure funding for the project, Lisa agrees to a partnership with the Chapleton Institute, a religious fundamentalist organization that seeks to merge science and religion. ANCESTORS OF GODS describes the science-religion conflict that...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
People of the Red Earth fills the need for a general introduction to Colorado's American Indian heritage, both ancient and recent. This book combines up-to-date scientific research findings with information from historical and ethnographic literature, enhanced by personal knowledge.Travelers will appreciate each chapter's suggested places to visit and the appendix interpreting Colorado's many place names of Indian origin.
13) Tracks through time: prehistory and history of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site southeastern Colorado
Author
Publisher
National Park Service, Midwest Archaeological Center
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
14) Wild lands
Author
Series
The New Frontier volume Book 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
War is coming to the Wild Lands ...
One month after the defeat of a rogue group of terrorists, the United States struggles to maintain control over the New Frontier. The untamed sector of America simmers as opportunists, criminals, and marauders wait to fill the void
left behind. An extremist faction of the Navajo Nation called the Rattlesnakes have waited years for this moment. Their leader launches their first, brutal attack on a water treatment...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The 1920s and 1930s brought many exciting and true adventures to the three Hazelwood brothers, Chester, Loren, and Melvin, on their family's ranch outside Pagosa Springs, Colorado. They had many of the adventures of those earlier pioneers of the 1880s and 1890s. There were Native Americans and mountain men, terrible snow storms and severe accidents, outlaws and crooked horse traders, and narrow escapes with locomotives. Trapping brought in much of...
18) 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
Publisher
Vanishing Horizons
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Explores the trade routes followed by Native Americans, trappers, and traders between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, looks at the types of goods traded, and includes illustrations, photographs, and maps.