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Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Examines the 1975 incident where armed FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, resulting in the deaths of a Native American and two FBI agents. Explores the controversy and potential abuse of justice surrounding the case of Leonard Peltier, who was the sole person in the incident convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
2) On the rez
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The author visits the Pine Ridge Reservation and shares his observations of the heroism, humor, and tough spirit that keeps these people afloat in the midst of crushing poverty.
3) Skins
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Rudy Yellow Lodge is both a resident and a police officer of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Dealing with the fallout and emotional burdens of reservation life in one of the poorest counties in the U.S., as alcoholism and poverty continually threaten the community, his family, and his own state of mind, Rudy finds himself taking the law into his own hands, with potentially tragic consequences.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
It is 1876, and Lt. Thaddeus Coyle is stationed with the U.S. Army at Fort Hartsuff, Nebraska. Driven to oppose his commanding officer on a question of honor, Coyle winds up court-martialed and abandoned by his wife and family. For a time he works the mining camps in the Black Hills, becoming a partner to Tom Merritt, known as Swift Hawk on the reservation. Reconciling with his family, Coyle takes a position with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and is...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A healer with a conscience and a mission, Valentine McGillycuddy has lived among the Lakota Sioux -- mending their wounds, delivering their children -- and had once called the great warrior chief Crazy Horse "friend." Now, with his frail, beautiful wife by his side, the doctor is heading to Pine Ridge, the newly renamed reservation in the Dakota Territories, to act as the government's Indian agent. But the Black Hills are a powder keg with a short,...
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