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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history by the most creative and simultaneously destructive cultural force in the modern era: the idea of individual, exclusive ownership of land. Spreading from both shores of the north Atlantic, it laid waste...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes-and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. When a dark, destructive force encroaches...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Charles O'Brien, an Irish-Anglo itinerant healer and occasional journalist born in 1860 and his claims of dealings with famous people such as Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Charles Stewart Parnell and founders and leaders of the Sinn Fein and the IRA.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Suquamish Indian chief describes his people's respect and love for the earth, and concern for its destruction.
Nearly 150 years ago, Chief Seattle, a respected and peaceful leader of one of the Northwest Indian Nations, delivered a message to the government in Washington who wanted to buy his people's land. He believed that all life on earth, and the earth itself, is sacred.
8) Blood memory
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the "Journal," one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
11) The secret river
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
14) The reservations
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
'He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn't hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddy's voice. But you'd have fondness for an auld eejit of a crossbred pup that should have been drowned at birth.' While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the arrival of the Europeans, their conflict with the Indians, the westward expansion, the American's lust for land, and their 'generous' offer to put Native Ameicans on reservations.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The series revolves around the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest ranch in the US, which is under constant attack by those it borders: land developers, an Indian reservation, and America's first National Park. This is a world where land grabbers make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest oil and lumber corporations. It is the best and worst of America seen through the eyes of a family...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the most explosive season yet, John Dutton and his family must protect their land from new and old enemies, led by Wall Street maverick Roarke. Threatened by betrayals, bad blood, and lucrative business deals, the Duttons form unexpected alliances and confront dangerous measures to safeguard their legacy.
In the most explosive season of Yellowstone yet, John Dutton and his family must protect their land from new and old enemies, led by Wall Street...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A Yellowstone origin story introduces a new generation of the Dutton family as they explore the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home. The series is executive produced by Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, and stars Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford. This release features all eight episodes of season one plus over...
20) American outrage
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Documents the Dann sisters' heroic fight for their land rights and their human rights after the government sued them for trespassing and their dispute went to the Supreme Court, and then eventually the United Nations. Includes short film, photo gallery, and film notes.
Documents the Dann sisters' heroic fight for their land rights and their human rights after the government sued them for trespassing. Their dispute went to the Supreme Court, and then...
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