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Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding. In this latest narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of the leader of the Sioux nation, detailing his resistance against the United States government, particularly at the Battles of Killdeer Mountain and Little Bighorn, and highlighting his legacy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berekley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Manny Tanno is taking some much needed R and R at the site of the Battle of Little Big Horn. But when a death on the reservation cuts his vacation short, he learns that the secrets of the past have a way of stirring up trouble in the present. As a scout for the legendary General Custer, Crow tribe member Levi Star Dancer kept a journal chronicling his exploits from the Battle of the Greasy Grass onward. Now, the missing journal has been...
Author
Publisher
Ice Cube Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The Spirit Lake massacre in March of 1857 was a dark moment in Iowa History, incited by indigenous resistance to their loss of homeland, culture, and people. A number of white settlers in northwest Iowa's lakes region were killed. Four female survivors were taken by Inkpaduta and his band of Dakota Sioux. Tracked by militias and military, they took their captives north into Minnesota, then west into what is now South Dakota. Come May 1857, two of...
Author
Series
Spirit Road mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Native American FBI special agent Manny Tano investigates the murder of local land developer Jason Red Cloud, who was discovered with a war club in his skull on the site of his new resort on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
30) The Earth is all that lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." —Wall Street Journal
A magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn
True West magazine's "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year"
Winner of the
...Author
Publisher
Terra
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"More than a hundred years ago (1899), photographer Frank Bennett Fiske (1883-1952) began photographing members of the Standing Rock Sioux in his studio at Fort Yates, North Dakota. He was 16 years old when he took over the stuido from S.T. Fransler. The men and women Fiske photographed were his friends and neighbors, Native Americans who had lived on the reservation for more than 20 years. Fiske lived there nearly all his life. Made with a large...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...
Author
Publisher
South Dakota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In an authentic portrayal of a Sioux childhood and Christmas traditions, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve shares a touching holiday story from her youth. Filled with themes of generosity and unexpected joy, the episode takes place on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fleeing North Dakota and the now defunct Wild West Show, Cassie Lockwood and her companions have finally found the hidden valley in South Dakota where her father had dreamed of putting down roots. But to her dismay, she discovers a ranch already built on her land. Cassie's arrival surprises Mavis Engstrom and forces her to reveal secrets she's kept hidden for years. Her son Ransom is suspicious of Cassie and questions the validity of her claim...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source/Editorial Buenas Letras
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Sioux chief who worked to maintain the rights of Native American people and who led the defeat of General Custer at the Little Big Horn in 1876.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Manny Tanno thought he had left his tribe and the Pine Ridge Reservation behind him years ago. But now with a cold case unearthed in the hot plains sun, he knows that the past never really goes away. In Badlands National Park, there is a desolate area the Lakota refer to as the Stronghold. General Custer called it hell on earth. During World War II, the Army Air Corps used it as a bombing range. At the end of the war, many unexploded ordnances...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the unlikely friendship between Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull, tracing the events of their brief but important collaboration during Cody's 1880s Wild West Show, the impact of Little Big Horn, and Sitting Bull's assassination in 1890.
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