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Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Lakota Portraits weaves together vignettes of Lakotas, including both prominent and ordinary individuals, to tell the story of the Lakota people. It covers the sweep of Lakota history from earliest years, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining the question of who the Lakota people are, Joseph Agonito explores the days of nomadic freedom on the Great Plains, Lakota culture and religion, internal struggles, the coming of European...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
"In 1883, 12-year old Canowicakte boarded a train on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Raised as a traditional Lakota, he found Carlisle Indian School. Renamed Chauncey Yellow Robe, he flourished at Carlisle and went on to work at Indian boarding schools. He was adamant that Indians should maintain their identity and was a critic of their demeaning portrayal"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk Speaks is the most widely-read Native American testimony of the last century and a key work in our understanding of American Indian traditions. In Black Elk, Lakota Visionary, Harry Oldmeadow draws on recently discovered sources and in-depth research to provide a major re-assessment of Black Elk's life and work. The author explores
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Series
Spirit Road Mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"Lakota FBI Agent Manny Tanno is back in action with his faithful tribal officer sidekick Willie when a man is found drowned in a Pine Ridge Reservation Lake. The apparently accidental drowning turns out to be murder, and the investigation takes them on the road to the man's home reservation in Wyoming. Out of their element and unwelcome, no one on the Wind River Reservation is going out of their way to help Manny and Willie. In fact, some are purposely...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Bob Gilland begins a journey from Indian boarding school and his family's cattle ranch on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and finds himself at the center of a rousing story of the old American West --
- bushwhacking rustlers for the Montana stockmen's association,
- hiding out with the Hole-in-the Wall gang,
- ridng in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with his friend Brave Bear,
- driving cattle from Fort Yates to Thunder Hawk ...
- and being arrested...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Land Grab is the story of Alfred Swallow and his Lower Brule Lakota family as they fend off attempts to take their land. In 1929 Alfred is eleven years old and has many responsibilities not expected of a young boy. He and his Lakota family are being forced to leave behind their tribal values and traditions and assimilate into mainstream of American culture and society. His grandfather has instilled in his grandson many Lakota traditions which...
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