In 1874, the vast plains of Texas are home to buffalo, the Comanche, and the Kiowa tribes. When the white men come to hunt the great beasts and drive the Indians out, the tribes gather and head to their towns armed for war.
Indigenous peoples--North America
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Author:Lucas, WalterSummary: - Author:Lucas, WalterSummary:
After the epic battle of Adobe Walls, Lt. Frank Baldwin and former buffalo hunter Billy Dixon lead a band of Indian and white scouts into Texas to assist the U.S. 5th Infantry combat unruly natives. But as they are drawn into a series...
- Author:McCarthy, CormacSummary:
His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars,...
- Author:Coel, MargaretSummary:
Investigative reporter Catherine McLeod has been covering the local Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes' case to reclaim 27 million acres of land, but after barely surviving an assassination attempt, she decides to lie low for a while. Yet...
- Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:
For over 200 years, Pelican Narrows Indian Reserve in northern Saskatchewan has endured a torturous relationship with the encroaching European culture, from the Hudson{u2019}s Bay Company factors and Oblate missionaries of earlier times...
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Author:Palmater, Pamela D., Montour, Bill, Six Nations of the Grand River, Paul, Candice, St. Mary’s First Nation, Paul, Lawrence, Millbrook First Nation, Day, Isadore, Serpent River First NationSummary:The current Status criteria of the Indian Act contains descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants, which author Pamela Palmater argues will lead to the...
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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:Filled with the life, color, and spirit of pioneer days, this is the story of the bravery and heroism of Betty, beautiful young sister of Colonel Isaac Zane.
- Author:SkaaySummary:
Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay was born in the Haida village of Qquuna about 1827 and lived most of his adult life in the village of Ttanuu. He survived the epidemics that annihilated more than nine-tenths of the Haida population, and...
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Author:Hobbs, WillSummary:While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission. Sequel to "Bearstone...
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Author:Touchie, Rodger D.Summary:The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while...
- Author:Halfe, LouiseSummary:
In this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe - Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide. Employing Indigenous spirituality, black comedy, and the...
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Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon, only to find himself in a war the pioneers will undoubtedly lose.
- Author:Ahenakew, AliceSummary:
Born in 1912, Mrs. Alice Ahenakew grew up in a traditional Cree community in north-central Saskatchewan. As a young woman, she married Andrew Ahenakew, a member of the prominent Saskatchewan family, who later became a well-known...
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Author:Cuthand, DougSummary:Cree journalist and filmmaker Doug Cuthand articulates the past, present, and future of Saskatchewan's Aboriginal people.
In his trademark direct prose style, Cree journalist and filmmaker Doug Cuthand articulates the past,...
- Author:Cuthand, DougSummary:
Cree journalist and filmmaker Doug Cuthand articulates the past, present, and future of Saskatchewan's Aboriginal people.
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
Sheriff Longmire is searching the Cheyenne Reservation for a site to host his daughter's wedding when he sees a woman fall to her death. Teaming up with beautiful tribal chief Lolo Long, Walt sets out to investigate the suspicious death...
- Author:Gilio-Whitaker, DinaSummary:
The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community's rich history of activismThrough the unique lens of "...
- Author:Coren, AlanSummary:
When the Sioux rode out on the warpath, where was Major Oliver Spoongurgle? An hilarious western thriller for children.
- Author:Manning, JasonSummary:
Lt. Joshua Barlow, just out of West Point, is sent into the West by his influential father, who hopes he will be safer there. However, a different conflict is being waged on the plains. Kiannatah and his band of Apache warriors are...
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Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her...
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