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Buy the chief a Cadillac : a novel / by Steber, Rick,1946-(CARDINAL)719282;
Subjects: Fiction.; Indians of North America; Klamath Indians; Indian termination policy; Indians of North America;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Waccamaw legacy : contemporary Indians fight for survival / by Lerch, Patricia Jane Barker,1947-(CARDINAL)303589;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-163) and index.The eastern Siouans : "We was always Indians" -- Society along the borderlands -- "From the time of the Indians until 1920" -- Tribal names as survival strategies : Croatan and Cherokee -- The wide awake Indians -- "I was an Indian, I was outstanding" -- The Waccamaw Bill and the era of termination -- The powwow paradox -- Waccamaw Siouan Indians.Patricia Lerch was hired by the Waccamaw in 1981 to perform the research needed to file for recognition under the Bureau of Indian Affairs Federal Acknowledgement Program of 1978. In 1970, the Waccamaw began to organize powwows to represent publicly their Indian heritage and survival and to spread awareness of their fight for cultural preservation and independence. Lerch found herself understanding that the powwows, in addition to affirming identity, revealed important truths about the history of the Waccamaw and the ways they communicate and coexist. Waccamaw Legacy outlines Lerch's experience as she plays a vital role in the Waccamaw Siouan's continuing fight for recognition and acceptance in contemporary society and culture.
Subjects: Waccamaw Indians; Waccamaw Indians; Waccamaw Indians; Federally recognized Indian tribes; Indian termination policy;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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The night watchman : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,author.(CARDINAL)348906;
Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new "emancipation" bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom: Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a "termination" that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans "for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run"? Since graduating from high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that pays barely enough to support her mother and younger brother. Patrice's alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children, and to bully Patrice for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn't been in touch in months and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence and endangers her life. Thomas and Patrice live in a reservation community. We also come to know young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother, Juggie Blue, and Patrice's best friend, Valentine, as well as Hay Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice. In The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions, of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. --
Subjects: Novels.; Fiction.; Indians of North America; Ojibwa Indians; Indians of North America; Indian termination policy; Dysfunctional families; Missing persons;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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The night watchman [large print] : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,autho.(CARDINAL)348906;
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? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera.
Subjects: Large print books.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Ojibwa Indians; Missing persons; Dysfunctional families; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indian termination policy;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 20
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The night watchman [sound recording] / by Erdrich, Louise,author,narrator.(CARDINAL)348906; Harper Audio (Firm).(CARDINAL)539013;
Read by the author.Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new 'emancipation' bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a 'termination' that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans 'for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run'?
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Ojibwa Indians; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indian termination policy; Dysfunctional families; Missing persons;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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Custer died for your sins : an Indian manifesto / by Deloria, Vine.(CARDINAL)129984;
Indians today, the real and the unreal -- Laws and treaties -- Disastrous policy of termination -- Anthropologists and other friends -- Missionaries and the religious vacuum -- Government agencies -- Indian humor -- Red and the black -- Problem of Indian leadership -- Indians and modern society -- Redefinition of Indian affairs.The author speaks for his people in this witty confutation of almost everything the white man "knows" about Native Americans.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians, Treatment of;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Indians in agriculture : an historical sketch / by Kipp, Henry W.(CARDINAL)829078; United States.Bureau of Indian Affairs.(CARDINAL)143423; American Indian Agricultural Council.Task Force.(CARDINAL)829077;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-99).Indian agriculture and British colonial policy, 1583-1783 -- Native Americans and the new republic, 1783-1815 -- Tribal emigrations to the old Louisiana territory, 1820-1850 -- Indian treaty-making reaches the prairies and Rocky Mountains, 1850-1870 -- Indian agriculture and cultural patterns change, 1870-1925 -- Reforms bring benefits to Indian land resources tenure and development, 1925-1960 -- From termination to self-determination, 1960-1987.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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"They made us many promises" : the American Indian experience, 1524 to the present / by Weeks, Philip,editor.(CARDINAL)509845;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Black gowns and Massachusetts men: Indian-white relations in New France and New England to 1701 -- Mutual distrust and mutual dependency: Indian-white relations in the era of the Anglo-French wars for empire, 1689-1763 -- Facing off: Indian-Spanish rivalry in the greater southwest, 1528-1821 -- The trail of tears: removal of the southern Indians in the Jeffersonian-Jacksonian era -- Blue, gray, and red: Indian affairs during the American Civil War -- Ambiguity and misunderstanding: the struggle between the U.S. Army and the Indians for the Great Plains -- The bitter years: western Indian reservation life -- Reformers' images of the American Indians: the late nineteenth century -- From bullets to boarding schools: the educational assault on American Indians -- The divided heart: the Indian new deal -- Dislocated: the federal policy of termination and relocation, 1945-1960 -- Finally acknowledging native peoples: American Indian policies since the Nixon administration -- Bury my heart in smog: urban Indians -- Native sovereignty: then and now in California and the Northwest -- Traditions and transformations: American Indian women in historical perspective -- Our dead are never forgotten: American Indian struggles for burial rights and protections.This compelling anthology showcases the work of sixteen specialists. Those chapters retained from the original volume have been carefully revised to make them more accessible to the average undergraduate, while six entirely new and original essays consider important topics: American Indian women; Indian-Spanish relations in the Greater Southwest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Indian affairs during the Civil War; the ongoing issue of Native Sovereignty; U.S. Indian policy since the Nixon Administration; and the emotional fight over Repatriation. "They Made Us Many Promises" is certain to challenge readers' assumptions about the past and current roles of Indians in American society. -- From product description.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians, Treatment of;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history / by Blackhawk, Ned,author.(CARDINAL)656893;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Toward a new American history -- Part I. Indians and empires. American genesis : Indians and the Spanish borderlands -- The Native Northeast and the rise of British North America -- The unpredictability of violence : Iroquoia and New France to 1701 -- The Native inland sea : the struggle for the heart of the continent, 1701-55 -- Settler uprising : the Indigenous origins of the American Revolution -- Colonialism's constitution : the origins of federal Indian policy -- Pt. II. Struggles for sovereignty. The deluge of settler colonialism : democracy and dispossession in the early republic -- Foreign policy formations : California, the Pacific, and the borderlands origins of the Monroe Doctrine -- Collapse and total war : the Indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War -- Taking children and treaty lands : laws and federal power during the reservation era -- Indigenous twilight at the dawn of the century : Native activists and the myth of Indian disappearance -- From termination to self-determination : Native American sovereignty in the Cold War era."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, as 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 interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that: European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire; the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk's retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Indigenous peoples;
Available copies: 47 / Total copies: 52
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American Indians in American history, 1870-2001 : a companion reader / by Evans, Sterling,1959-(CARDINAL)652122;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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