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Publisher
Wellfleet Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
167 pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The spiritual practices of Native Americans are as diverse and bountiful as the Nations themselves, renowned for their inextricable ties to nature and geographical location. Today, many Indigenous customs are still conflated and misunderstood, even throuogh their influence is seen and felt in every corner of the country,"-- page [4] of cover.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Founded in 1866, the Frontier Overland Company was no ordinary stagecoach operation. Two kindred souls with the same fighting spirit, Tucker Cobb and former Texas Ranger Butch Keeling agreed to launch a business together: a brand-new stagecoach line through the wilds of Wyoming . . . They called it the Frontier Overland Company. And a legend was born. Cobb and Keeling knew it wouldn't be easy. The nation was still healing from the War Between the...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
ix, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Religion and Culture in Native America presents an introduction to a diverse array of Indigenous religious and cultural practices in North America, focusing on those issues in which tribal communities themselves are currently invested. These topics include climate change, water rights, the protection of sacred places, the reclaiming of Indigenous foods, health and wellness, social justice, and the safety of Indigenous women and girls. Locating such...
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Language
English
Description
Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Colony they founded. Written between 1620 and 1647, the journal describes the story of the Pilgrims from 1608, when they settled in the Netherlands through the 1620 Mayflower voyage, until the year 1647.
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Language
English
Description
Assault on a Culture by Charles E. Adams Jr. unravels the Anishinaabe culture and the forces and processes of environmental and anthropogenic origin that have caused the culture to evolve since the Indians first arrived on the continent approximately 12,000 years before the present (BP). This book examines a specific Indian culture that tells a story that is not well-known by members of the dominant society and even by many Anishinaabeg and it is...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1988.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A poor boy becomes a powerful leader when Mother Earth turns his mud pony into a real one, but after the pony turns back to mud, he must find his own strength.
Author
Language
English
Description
Alabama endured warfare, slave trading, squatting, and speculating on its path to becoming Americas 22nd state, and Daniel S. Dupre brings its captivating frontier history to life in Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South. Dupres vivid narrative begins when Hernando de Soto first led hundreds of armed Europeans into the region during the fall of 1540. Although this early invasion was defeated, Spain, France, and England would each vie for...
9) Taking Hawaii: How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff
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Language
English
Description
On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of rebel Honolulu businessmen-American, British, German, and Australian. In between them stood hundreds of heavily armed United States sailors and marines. Just after 2:00 p.m., the...
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Language
English
Description
A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America,' he's told. In his introduction to this new edition of his classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea, historian James Hunter reflects...
11) A good man
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Series
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English
Description
"The final installment in his nationally best-selling trilogy, Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man returns to the nineteenth-century Canadian and American West to explore the waning days of one of the world's last great frontiers. Wesley Case, a former soldier and the son of a Canadian lumber baron, sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy...
Author
Language
English
Description
A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads.
Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish...
13) The Sioux
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the Sioux. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
14) The Navajo
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Engaging images accompany information about the Navajo. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--
15) The Hopi
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Engaging images accompany information about the Hopi people. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
Author
Series
Battling Harrigans of the frontier volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Spring, 1850. After a brutally long winter in the Rockies, Mack Harrigan and his growing family have learned to manage the harsh realities of frontier life. Their new friends, the Shoshone, have taught them the skills they need to survive in this rugged land, from tracking and hunting to fishing and foraging. But when their camp is attacked by an enemy tribe, the skills the Harrigans need most are those of a Shoshone warrior. Sometimes there is a...
17) The Shawnee
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the Shawnee. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
Author
Language
English
Description
In this 4-in-1 omnibus edition, explore four Native American cultures, examining their lives, lore, and legends. Learn how they worshiped, lived in harmony with nature, and constructed unique social orders. Before Europeans invaded their homeland, these richly varied cultures thrived with a level of harmony with the land and dignity of spirit unmatched by modern Western civilization.
Contained herein are The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees; Blackfoot...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires--and a stark exploration of our dawning era of climate catastrophes"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a art of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a decades-old feud between a wealthy plantation owner named Watson and a mixed-blood Chickasaw family explodes in violence, Elijah Two-Buck finds himself homeless and on the run. Locating his brother, the infamous Kid Jace, and his gang of cattle rustlers, Lige reluctantly joins the band of thieves. But when a Watson-led raid on the Two-Buck family farm results in the loss of innocent lives and the law refuses to intervene, the brothers realize...
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