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  • Horseback Schoolmarm

    Montana, 1953–1954

    by Margot Liberty ...
    In 1953, Margot Pringle, newly graduated from Cornell University, took a job as a teacher in a one-room school in rural eastern Montana, sixty miles southeast of Miles City. “Miss Margot,” as her students called her, would teach at the school for one year. This book is the memoir she wrote then, published here for the first time, under her married name. Filled with humor and affection for her ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • A Cheyenne Voice

    The Complete John Stands in Timber Interviews

    by John Stands In Timber, Margot Liberty, Michael N. Donahue ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and significant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne people—much of it previously unavailable.A Cheyenne Voice contains the complete transcribed interviews conducted by anthropologist ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Plains Earthlodges

    Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives

    by Kenneth L. Kvamme, Jennifer R. Bales, Margot P. Liberty, Steven C. Lensink, Michael Scullin, Donald J. Blakeslee ...
    A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains.Early explorers initially believed the earthlodge homes of Plains village peoples were made entirely of earth. Actually, however, earthlodges are timber-frame structures, with the frame covered by successive layers of willows, grass, and earth, and with a tunnel-like entryway and a smoke hole in the center of the roof. ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • They Called Me Number One

    by Bev Sellars ...
    BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school.These ... Read more

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  • A National Crime

    The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

    by John S. Milloy ...
    Series Book 11 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
    “I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948)For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children ... Read more

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  • Stalemate

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  • The Journey of Crazy Horse

    A Lakota History

    by Joseph M. Marshall III ...
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    Lakota War Chief

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  • Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

    Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

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  • Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement

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