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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
‘Mayan Renaissance’ is a feature length film which documents the glory of the ancient Mayan civilization, the Spanish conquest in 1519, five hundred years of oppression, and the courageous fight of the Maya to reclaim their voice and determine their own future, in Guatemala and throughout Central America. This elegant, beautiful, and thought provoking film shares their vision for the future, their call for a long-foretold renaissance of Mayan...
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Follows the attempts of some of the great Native American chiefs to preserve their lands from the encroaching white settlers and the U.S. government, discussing the Lakota, Cherokee, Apache, and Comanche tribes.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A study of politics and power on contemporary Indian reservations, dispelling the stereotype of the victimized Native American and arguing that the political sovereignty of some tribes has had damaging effects on surrounding communities.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis's home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen--to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties--the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure...
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Native Americans in the twentieth century as some join mainstream America through education, artistic achievement, and military service, and others struggle for Indian empowerment and renewal of Native American life and culture.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk 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?...
12) Lurugu
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Made at the request of the people of Mornington Island, this film was the first of five made by Curtis Levy for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (now AIATSIS). Lurugu is the name of an initiation ceremony that had almost died out on Mornington Island (in the Gulf of Carpentaria in north Queensland) after mission contact during World War One. This film records the community's efforts to revive the ceremony after a lapse of 14 years. Before...
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the white man. By the mid-1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr. tells the story of these tribes' fight for survival, one that continues today.
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
American Indian Stories (1921) is remarkable for being perhaps the first literary work by a Native-American woman created without the mediation of a non-Native interpreter, or collaborator. Zitkala-Sa vividly articulates her disillusionment with the harshness of American-Indian boarding schools and the corruption of government institutions ostensibly established to help Native peoples. At the same time, Zitkala-Sa's collection of autobiographical...
16) The reservations
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
History of how Native Americans were divested of their lands by white settlers and their ongoing resistance to being forced into the white man's mold of civilization.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gordon Smith, head of the Collum Collum Aboriginal Co-operative which operates a cattle station in northern New South Wales, and Sunny Bancroft, the station manager, are negotiating with the Aboriginal Development Corporation in Canberra for a loan. Finance is needed to stock the property with breeding cattle so that the station can become financially independent. The film details the frustrations of negotiating with a distant bureaucracy while,...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Presents a detailed biography of Crazy Horse, the Oglala Sioux leader who resisted the U.S. government's invasion of native territory; and chronicles his life and achievements along with the tragic circumstances that led to his death.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In 1976 the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian luminary, was found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota-or so the FBI said. After a suspicious autopsy and a rushed burial, friends had Aquash exhumed and found a.32-caliber bullet in her skull.
Using this scandal as a point of departure, The Unquiet Grave opens a tunnel into the dark side of the FBI and its subversion of American Indian activists. But the book also discovers things the Indians...
Author
Publisher
Otago University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Indigenous Identity and Resistance brings together the work of Indigenous Studies scholars working in Canada, New Zealand and the Pacific in research conversations that transcend the imperial boundaries of the colonial nations in which they are located. Their lucid, accessible, and thought-provoking essays provide a critical understanding of the ways in which Indigenous peoples are rearticulating their histories, knowledges, and the Indigenous self....
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