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Publisher
Published for University of Vermont by University Press of New England
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
xx, 326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a thoroughly enjoyable and readable book Haviland and Power effectively shatter the myth that Indians never lived in Vermont.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1969
Physical Desc
[52] p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young Indian boy carves an Indian figure in a small canoe and sends him off on a long, adventurous journey through the Great Lakes to the sea.[How Paddle-to-the-Sea came to be -- Paddle starts on his journey -- Paddle meets a sawmill -- The largest lake in the world -- Life in a northern marsh -- Adrift again -- The shipwreck -- Down Lake Michigan -- Paddle returns to the north -- Forest fire -- Paddle reaches Lake Erie -- Paddle takes a great fall...
Author
Publisher
Mrs. Thomas E. Daniels
Pub. Date
1963]
Edition
[1st ed.
Physical Desc
63 p. illus. 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The main purpose of this book is to make Vermonters and other interested people aware of the prehistoric and historic Indian cultures that flourished in this area, some of which date back to several centuries B.C....this book should teach the reader to recognize, and correctly identify, what he is seeing when he walks along the stream banks and valleys of Vermont" -- From pages 10 & 11.
Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back only to find that he is close to death and in need of help. Sequel to "The Indian in the Cupboard.".
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 18
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
Author
Series
Vermont. University volume Monograph 3
Publisher
C. E. Tuttle Co
Pub. Date
[1971]
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 107 p. illus. 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
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Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages.
Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great...
11) The last trail
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Zane seeks revenge against the man who abducted his sweetheart and controls a gang of marauding outlaws and Indians.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Language
English
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Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...
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English
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The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
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The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk...
18) Indian chiefs
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
151 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Summary: Biographies of six western Indian chiefs who led their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be made about fighting or cooperating with the white pioneers encroaching on their hunting grounds.
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Language
English
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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
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