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Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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At a crossroads in his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother to return to the reservation. There, he falls in love for the very first time--with the beautiful Shawnee Ray, who's already considering a marriage proposal from Lipsha's wealthy entrepreneurial boss, Lyman Lamartine. But when all efforts to win Shwawnee's affections go hopelessly awry, Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmother for a magical solution to his romantic dilemma--on...
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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
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Series
Magic tree house volume 18
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains, where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
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English
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Hoping to return home after an unwise affair that ended with a bounty on his head, adventurer Ethan Gage teams up with grizzled Norwegian Magnus Bloodhammer on a quest to find a legendary artifact that some believe possesses the power to control the weather.
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Series
Indian Lake trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted serial killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho.
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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Pub. Date
c1983.
Language
English
Description
Sam Morrison, reports for the "Saint Louis Herald," is in Dakota country looking for stories. He decides to join a group of passengers on a steamboat going up the Missouri River for the dedication of a new fort named in honor of one Charles Rawley. On the way he talks to a number of different people about Rawley, including a mysterious stranger who might even be Rawley himself, though Sam has been given at least two eyewitness accounts of Rawley's...
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,...
Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 10
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Licking his wounds after the Rosebud debacle, Crook again retreats south to his supply base, from which he dispatches patrols north to learn what he can of the largest hostile village ever gathered on the Plains. From the Sibley Scout in July, to the Battle of Slim Buttes, and on through the rain-sodden horsemeat march, you relive the tragic aftermath of the Little Bighorn.
17) Bad moon rising
Author
Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Trey Latimer lived just a stone's throw away from Frances "Frankie" Tracker, his old buddy's kid sister. Trey had returned to the Dakotas to rebuild his life after a shattered career and a broken marriageand just possibly to see if there were any sparks left between him and Frankie. But as the bad moon rose one hot August night, someone tried to murder Frankie's brother. And it could very well have been someone from Trey's family. Could he...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 18
Language
Español
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Annie y Jack viajan 200 años atrás en la casa del árbol, junto a Teddy, el perro encantado, a las Grandes Llanuras. Allí se encuentran con un niño de la tribu Lakota, que les enseña a cazar búfalos. Pero, de pronto ... ¡algo sale mal! Y una gigante manada de búfalos se prepara para una estampida. ¿Podrán deternerlos?
Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 9
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
After his disastrous stalemate on Powder River, Crook retreats south for the winter. In spring his is the first column to set off for Indian Country. From his supply base at Goose Creek, Crook plunges after the hostiles reportedly on Rosebud Creek. Caught napping three months to the day after the fight on Powder River, Crook wages his personal duel with Crazy Horse in a dramatic day-long battle just eight days before Crazy Horse will crush Custer....
20) Mystic visions
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In Mystic Dreamers, best-selling author Rosanne Bittner began a compelling saga with the meeting of Buffalo Dreamer, a holy woman, and Rising Eagle, a warrior whose powers were unmatched, for he had been blessed by the Feathered One. Now, in a new story sure to enthrall both new readers and devoted fans, Bittner follows Buffalo Dreamer, Rising Eagle, and their children through the great Indian wars and the settling of the West, where, in addition...
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