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1) Wisconsin Indians

Author

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich

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English

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Wisconsin Indian tribes include: Chippewa (Ojibwa), Winnebago, Oneida, Menominee, Stockbridge, Potawatomi, Munsee, Sauk and Fox.

2) We are still here!: Native American truths everyone should know

Author

Sorell, Traci

Series

Live Oak Media eReadalong

Language

English

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"A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: we are still here"--

3) The night watchman: a novel

Author

Erdrich, Louise

Language

English

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Book, Book - Large Print, CD Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk 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?...

4) Encounters at the heart of the world: a history of the Mandan people

Author

Fenn, Elizabeth A

Language

English

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"A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really?...

5) Killing Crazy Horse: the merciless Indian wars in America

Author

O'Reilly, Bill

Series

Killing
Thorndike Press large print core

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

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Book, Book - Large Print, CD Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...

6) Unworthy republic: the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory

Author

Saunt, Claudio

Language

English

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"A masterful and unsettling history of the forced migration of 80,000 Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s. On May 28, 1830, Congress authorized the expulsion of indigenous peoples from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Over the next decade, Native Americans saw their homelands and possessions stolen through fraud, intimidation, and murder. Thousands lost their lives. In this powerful, gripping book, Claudio...

7) More than cowboys: travels through the history of the American west

Author

Slessor, Tim

Language

English

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So many books about the American West leave out the more intriguing details:

When, in 1803, the young USA doubled its size with the purchase from France of an unexplored vastness called La Louisiane, it was a British bank which lent the Americans most of the $15 million that they didn't have. So the financial papers for the biggest real-estate deal in history are, to this day, held in a London vault. Not many people know that...

If his ranching

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8) The great father: the United States government and the American Indians

Author

Prucha, Francis Paul

Pub. Date

[1995]

Physical Desc

xxxii, 1,302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

9) Native American communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960: a study of tradition and change

Author

Bieder, Robert E

Series

A North Coast Book

Language

English

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Book, eBook

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"The first comprehensive history of Native American tribes in Wisconsin, this thorough and eminently readable account follows Wisconsin's Indian communities - Ojibwa, Potawatomie, Menominee, Winnebago, Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Ottawa - from the 1600s through 1960. Written for students and general readers, it covers in detail the ways that native communities have striven to shape and maintain their traditions in the face of enormous external...

10) Australian aborigines

Author

Nile, Richard

Series

Threatened cultures

Pub. Date

[1993]

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 28 cm.

Language

English

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Describes the ancient culture of the Australian Aborigines and discusses the continuing struggle of these native people to preserve their way of life and regain the rights to their traditional lands.

11) The great circle: a history of the First Nations

Author

Philip, Neil

Pub. Date

2006.

Physical Desc

xii, 153 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Language

English

12) 38 nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the beginning of the frontier's end

Author

Berg, Scott W

Language

English

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"38 Nooses" details the events surrounding the 1862 uprising of the Dakota Indians led by Little Crow within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people, and the subsequent United States-Indian wars.

13) The silver man: the life and times of Indian Agent John Kinzie

Author

Shrake, Peter

Language

English

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In The Silver Man: The Life and Times of John Kinzie, readers witness the dramatic changes that swept the Wisconsin frontier in the early and mid-1800s, through the life of Indian agent John Harris Kinzie. From the War of 1812 and the monopoly of the American Fur Company, to the Black Hawk War and the forced removal of thousands of Ho-Chunk people from their native lands—John Kinzie's experience gives us a front-row seat to a pivotal

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14) Ojibwe waasa inaabidaa : We look in all directions: Ojibwemowin: Ojibwe oral tradition

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

1 videodisc (approximately 60 mins. each) : sound, color & black & white ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

15) Chippewa treaty rights: the reserved rights of Wisconsin's Chippewa Indians in historical perspective

Author

Satz, Ronald N

Series

Transactions volume 79, no. 1

Pub. Date

[1991]

Physical Desc

xix, 251 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Language

English

16) Rain forest Amerindians

Author

Lewington, Anna

Series

Threatened cultures

Pub. Date

[1993]

Language

English

Description

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Discusses the Amerindians and their continuing struggle to preserve their way of life and maintain their cultural identity in the modern world.

17) Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a great American land grab

Author

Inskeep, Steve

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

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Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson--war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South--whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears. The other is...

18) A man called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad

Author

Turner, Glennette Tilley

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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John Horse was a famed chief, warrior, tactician, and diplomat who played a dominant role in Black Seminole affairs for half a century. A political and military leader of mixed Seminole and African heritage, Horse defended his people from the U.S. government, other tribes, and slave hunters by serving as a counselor of fellow Seminole leaders, an agent of the U.S. government, and a captain in the Mexican army.

19) A terrible glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn : the last great battle of the American West

Author

Donovan, Jim

Pub. Date

2008.

Physical Desc

xiii, 528 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Language

English

20) The heart of everything that is: the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend

Author

Drury, Bob

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

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The untold story of the great Ogala Sioux chief Red Cloud, the most powerful Indian commander of the Plains who witnessed the opening of the West and forced the American government to sue for peace in a conflict named for him.

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1) Wisconsin Indians

2) We are still here!: Native American truths everyone should know

3) The night watchman: a novel

4) Encounters at the heart of the world: a history of the Mandan people

5) Killing Crazy Horse: the merciless Indian wars in America

6) Unworthy republic: the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory

7) More than cowboys: travels through the history of the American west

8) The great father: the United States government and the American Indians

9) Native American communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960: a study of tradition and change

10) Australian aborigines

11) The great circle: a history of the First Nations

12) 38 nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the beginning of the frontier's end

13) The silver man: the life and times of Indian Agent John Kinzie

14) Ojibwe waasa inaabidaa : We look in all directions: Ojibwemowin: Ojibwe oral tradition

15) Chippewa treaty rights: the reserved rights of Wisconsin's Chippewa Indians in historical perspective

16) Rain forest Amerindians

17) Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a great American land grab

18) A man called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad

19) A terrible glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn : the last great battle of the American West

20) The heart of everything that is: the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend

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