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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"A project of the South Dakota Symphony and Conductor Delta David Gier, and composer Brent Michael Davids, the Lakota Music Project brings together the traditional sounds of Native people and combines it with the symphonic style of a chamber orchestra. The result was a series of performances in May, 2009 at Flandreau, Sioux Falls, Mission, Pine Ridge and Rapid City." --Case.
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
For six-hundred years we have lived under the misonception that Columbus discovered America. What he did was stumble on a land already occupied by many people and many nations. In the center of that land were a people who call themselves "Oyate: "the People". This is their story in their words. Original music composed and performed by Lakota artist, Kevin Locke."
Series
Language
English
Description
Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice, one that will forever change his destiny and that or a proud and defiant nation.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Explore one of the most powerful and defining chapters in American history. This powerful epic adventure unfolds as told through the struggles, triumphs, and heartaches of two families as they journey in search of the American dream. The Wheelers venture west from Virginia in 1825, while the Lakota tribe grapples with the arrival of white settlers; the story continues over the next 65 years, climaxing with the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Wounded Heart focuses on the Lakota Sioux at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota where they live, isolated and alienated, from American society. Interviews with tribe members, government officials, health care providers, the publisher of the tribal newspaper, and an anthropologist result in a distressing picture of the health issues, economic strains, and adverse social conditions that dominate the lives of the Lakota Sioux. Russell Means, perhaps...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the great plains of South Dakota. Just before he awoke, he arrived at a riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38 of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the time, Jim knew nothing of the largest mass execution in United States history, ordered by Abraham Lincoln on December 26, 1862. "When you have dreams, you know when they come...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Bull Durham: The baseball season gets off to a rocky start when the Durham Bulls' new catcher "Crash" Davis punches out the cocky young pitcher, "Nuke" LaLoosh, he's just been hired to train. Matters get even more complicated when sexy Annie Savoy informs both men that each season she chooses one player to share her bed-- and Nuke and Crash are this year's "draft picks!"
Dances with wolves: Dances with wolves: Story of a Civil War hero (Costner)...
Series
Pub. Date
[1992], c1991
Language
English
Description
In December of 1990, 300 Lakota Sioux horseback riders rode 250 miles, in two weeks, through bitter sub-zero winter weather, to commemorate the lives lost at the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. This program relates the story of how the Lakota Nation mourned the loss of their loved ones for 100 years. They also mourned the loss of some of their people's sacred knowledge which died with the elders that day. Then, inspired by dreams and visions of unity...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice, one that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This HBO original centers on Charles Eastman Beach, a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor; Sitting Bull, the Lakota chief who refuses to submit to the U.S. government's Indian policy; and Senator Henry Dawes, one of the men responsible for the policy. This title has been repackaged.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An English aristocrat is taken prisoner by a tribe of American Sioux Indians and given to the chief's aging mother as a servant. Gradually, he embraces the tribe's way of life and falls in love with the chief's sister. The constant threat of ambush by a rival tribe and rigors of survival now fill the days of this man called "Horse." He is eventually given a chance to prove his worthiness and be accepted into the tribe. But in order to be accepted...
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Lord John Morgan (Harris), disillusioned with the "civilized" aristocracy of England, returns to the American West in search of the vigorous life he once led among the proud Yellow Hand tribe. But what he finds instead is destruction: a brutal and bloody war inflicted on his adopted blood brothers by an unscrupulous trapper and his followers.
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