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Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown-scarred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis-and never looked back. Now, she lives in Rhode Island as an...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where...
Author
Publisher
History Through Fiction Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Resisting Removal is a historically detailed account of the 1850 removal efforts that resulted in the relatively unknown Sandy Lake Tragedy. Relying on real correspondence from the time period, the novel, through fictional scene and dialogue, exposes the corruption and negligence of the Indian System. It also brings to life important and sometimes controversial historical figures like Benjamin Armstrong, Chief Buffalo, and Leonard Wheeler. The story...
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"With Sadie's assistance, the town library is gearing up for an annual Thanksgiving exhibit on the area's rich Native American history. After years of being asked, an old Silver Peak family has finally agreed to display a family heirloom: an unusual stringed instrument of native origin. Spike Harris has been practicing on it so he can play it at the exhibit's closing, but the irreplaceable instrument goes missing, then is found -- apparently vandalized...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1863, after the end of the US-Dakota War, a group of white men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society, pledging to expel the Ho-Chunk people from the nearby Blue Earth reservation with the goal of claiming for themselves some of the richest farmland in the world." -- Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Lulu Publishing Services
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In Minnesota's fading frontier the once vibrant Dakota Indians were compelled and coerced to cede their bountiful homeland to those opportunists that would usher in a new era. In 1851, the Dakota Indians signed the Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota, selling their lands west of the Mississippi River. Frank Blackwell Mayer, a young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota to witness the negotiations between the Dakota Indians and the United...
Author
Publisher
[History Through Fiction]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A creative re-imagining of the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862, Reclaiming Mni Sota is an eye-opening portrayal of one of America's most tragic, regrettable events. Told through dual narratives from each side of the conflict, Reclaiming Mni Sota confronts American's history of settler-colonialism while illuminating the personal stories and heartrending choices that men and women, white and Native, were forced to make.--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even...
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