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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux presents the Red Road and the Holy Dance (also called the Medicine Dance), two of the most important traditions of the Dakota people, as told by Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, two Dakota men from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Born in Minnesota in 1845, the daughter of a prominent mixed-ancestry Dakota family, Angelique Renville (1845-1876) learned traditional Dakota ways of life from her relatives while navigating the complex multi-cultural world of the declining fur trade. At age six, along with her younger sister Agnes, she was formally adopted by Protestant missionaries Stephen and Mary Riggs, who did their utmost to erase her Dakota identity and educate her as a 'proper'...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
C.R.S.T. Telephone Authority began its formal organizational history in 1958 when the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe purchased a privately owned telephone company. This is a short history of the company and the reservation during the first 50 years of the company.
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)...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sandra's Hands is the personal memoir of events in the life of school teacher, Paul Berg, between the years of 1966 and 1976. The Story begins with Berg's service in the Vietnam War and follows his life as he returns to America, becomes a teacher, and encounters another war on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In 1973 tensions on the reservation exploded and culminated in the 72 day siege of Wounded Knee. A young Lakota woman named...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary true story of how JW Dear, a young Virginian who fought with Mosby's Rangers in the Civil War, went West and befriended Red Cloud, the most powerful Indian chief on the Great Northern Plains. Set during the opening of the West, the Great Sioux War of 1876, and the forcing of the Sioux onto reservations, Red Cloud and the Indian Trader is a uniquely personal insight into how betrayal, corruption, and backroom deals propelled the...
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