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Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Colorado's America Indian leaders contributing to the historic, social, economic and cultural fabric of the state and nation include the Chairmen of Colorado's two federally recognized tribes, a U.S. State Senator, a Colorado State Senator, one of the most influential lawyers in the country, bankers, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, educators, writers, veterans, community and civil rights advocates, and artists"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Walter Littlemoon, a Lakota author and public speaker, attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota 60 years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950 was to 'kill the Indian and save the man.' The children were not allowed to speak their language or express their culture or Native identity in any way. This is the story of how Littlemoon confronted his past so that he could renew himself and his community"--Container.
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