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Andrew Jackson & his Indian wars Andrew Jackson & his Indian wars Robert Vincent Remini "The expulsion of Native Americans from the eastern half of the continent to the Indian Territory beyond the Mississippi River remains one of the most notorious events in U.S. history, and the man mo… OL14865053W
American Indian removal and the trail to Wounded Knee American Indian removal and the trail to Wounded Knee Kevin Hillstrom "Analyzes the development of Indian removal policies and the tragedy at Wounded Knee, the 1890 massacre of American Indians by U.S. Cavalry troops. Examines the wider context of Indian-white relation… OL15058278W
My heart is on the ground My heart is on the ground Ann Rinaldi,Ann Warren Turner In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people. OL15270126W
Displacement by development Displacement by development G. Peter Penz "For decades, policy-makers in government, development banks and foundations, NGOs, researchers and students have struggled with the problem of how to protect people who are displaced from their home… OL15457170W
New neighborhoods: preliminary analyses of potential sites New neighborhoods: preliminary analyses of potential sites Boston Redevelopment Authority ...a compendium of studies of twelve sites throughout the city having potential for residential development; includes data on specific parcels in various neighborhoods: acreage, size of existing buil… OL15925984W
The first dance The first dance Richard S. Wheeler "The First Dance" takes beloved mountain man Barnaby Skye's family to its third generation in North America. "Miles" City, Montana. 1885. Barnaby Skye's mixed-blood son, Dirk, has just married a beau… OL16116804W
Oral history, community and displacement Oral history, community and displacement Sean Field,S. Field "This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community cas… OL16464988W
Lepszy dzien nie przyszedl juz Lepszy dzien nie przyszedl juz Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm „DRAMATY RODZIN KRESOWYCH Historie trzech kresowych rodzin skladaja się na najnowsza ksiazke Aleksandry Ziolkowskiej-Boehm. Tytulowa opowiesc przedstawia dramatyczne dzieje zmarlej 15 grudnia zeszl… OL16620771W
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz,Laural Merlington,Debbie Reese,Jean Mendoza Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once … OL17640485W
Memories and reflections of the dispossessed Memories and reflections of the dispossessed László Szarka,Imre Molnár,Tom Bass A collection of memoirs documenting those peoples who were persecuted after WW II and whose civil rights were abused during the events of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian population exhange between 1947 an… OL17883879W
Soft Rain Soft Rain Cornelia Cornelissen In Soft Rain, a 9-year-old Cherokee girl finds herself in the same situation as Sweet Leaf as soldiers arrive one day to take her and her mother to walk the Trail of Tears, leaving the rest of her fa… OL1840281W
The coyote bead The coyote bead Gerald Hausman In 1864, a Navajo shaman and his grandson seek powerful, mythical beads that can save their people from great evils, including The Long Walk forced on them by United States soldiers, and the trickste… OL19036355W
Korematsu v. United States Korematsu v. United States Susan Dudley Gold "Describes the historical context of the Korematsu versus United States Supreme Court Case, detailing the claims made by both sides and the outcome, and including excerpts from the Supreme Court just… OL1919135W
How I became a ghost How I became a ghost Tim Tingle A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he l… OL19709580W
The trail of tears The trail of tears Tracy Barrett Tells the story of the Cherokee Indians, from the Ice Age through the 20th Century. OL1988906W
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears Michael Green,Theda Perdue Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century… OL2702837W
So far from home So far from home Krystyna Slowikowska Farley A first hand account of a Polish family's experience during the deconstruction of Poland by Hitler and Stalin as seen through the eyes of a feisty 14 year old girl, Krystyna Stachowicz. Krystyna is a… OL28591193W
Relocating Eden Relocating Eden Alan R. Marcus In the early 1950s, a number of Inuit men, women, and children were loaded on ships and sent to live in the cold and barren lands of the Canadian High Arctic. Spurred by government agents' promises o… OL3742813W
The legal ideology of removal The legal ideology of removal Tim Alan Garrison "This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous period, argues Tim Alan… OL6214939W
If the legends fade If the legends fade Hendrix, Tom. Tom Hendrix tells his family legend of his Yuchi Grandmother's efforts to remain in the Southheast during the deportation of the Indigenous Americans along the Trail of Tears. This story echos in the… OL7834611W
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