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1) Invincible
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"The popular Palmer has penned another winning novel, a perfect blend of romance and suspense." -Booklist on Lawman
He's sworn to keep her safe
As her heart and her life are in danger
Mercenary by name and by nature, Carson keeps to himself. He never keeps women around long enough for anything emotional to develop. But working on a complex murder investigation provides Carson with another kind of distraction-his friend's sweet and innocent secretary,...
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This book tells the story of a remarkable Oglala Sioux medicine man and a great visionary. In addition to being possessed of spiritual gifts. Black Elk was a warrior, and was a witness to some of the most crucial moments in the unfolding saga of the nineteenthe century American West. -- book jacket.
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"A dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee in the aftermath of the American civil war from the Booker Prize shortlisted author Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in West Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive father John Cole and his brother-in-arms Thomas McNulty, this odd little family scrapes a living on Lige Magan's farm with the help two...
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Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are...
8) Lakota winds
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1998
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From New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor comes Lakota Winds, the first book in a magnificent Native American saga of a tribe, a family, and the struggle for survival that joins two hearts-and threatens to consume a nation.
When his wife and young son are slaughtered by Crow warriors, Wind Dancer is let embittered and lonely. Intent only on duty to his people, he never imagines that it will force him to take another woman into his life.
Chumani...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2016.
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"Describes the life of the Native American holy man who fought at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his cousin Crazy Horse, traveled to Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and became a traditionalist in the Ghost Dance movement"--
10) The Sioux
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Rourke Publications
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c1989
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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the history, traditional lifestyle, and current situation of the Sioux, or Dakota, Indians, with an emphasis on the Teton Sioux group.
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Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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2017.
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"From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger towards the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions...
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Gibbs Smith
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[2016]
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In Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior's Life & Legacy, the Edward Clown family, descendants of the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways, the Clown family's oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Crazy Horse. The family clarifies the inaccuracies and shares their story about the past, including what it means to them to be Lakota,...
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Henry Holt and Company
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2021.
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"In December 1866, tensions were rising in Wyoming, between the Native American tribes who had lived on the land for generations and the settlers who would destroy their home. Crazy Horse and his fellow Lakota hunters had been watching for months as Colonel Carrington and his army set up camp on one of the most crucial swaths of hunting ground in hundreds of miles, and began to build forts. More disconcertingly, the settlers had brought women and...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"This book is the story of the Lakota and how they were forced onto a reservation, told from the point of view of Red Cloud, warrior and chief of the Lakota. It is a heavily illustrated account, with both text and illustrations by S.D. Nelson."--Provided by publisher.
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
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2023.
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Clara spends her summer visiting her grandma and cousin on Standing Rock reservation, where Clara and her family set up the ancestral tipi and grow closer together as they tell stories, sing songs, and learn about their Lakota roots.
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
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[2023]
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"Catalogs a lifetime of bird sightings to explore the part-Lakota author's search for identity and his reckoning with colonialism's violence against Indigenous humans, animals, and land."--
"Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill...
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EagleSpeaker Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
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8-year-old Aslan arrived in North Dakota to help stop a pipeline. A few months later he returned -- and saw the whole world watching. Read about his inspiring experiences in the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock. Learn about what exactly happened there, and why.
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Viking
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[2023]
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"An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement at the center of the conversation about America's political future."--the Whiting Foundation. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious...
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2013
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Kansas, 1868, a young women is traveling west after allowing her brother arrange a marriage for her has her wagon train attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. Allowed to continue on her travels to Fort Hays she meets and marries the ordinary man her brother has chosen for her, but after only one night with her new husband, she is taken by Tokalah to become his wife.
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