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82) Race to the sun
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.
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Series
Language
English
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Evan Jacobson is an immigrant Norwegian stage coach driver in west central Minnesota. The stops along his stage route introduce the families who live on the trail between Fort Snelling and Fort Abercrombie, just south of Fargo, and reveal their ultimate fate in the 1862 Sioux Uprising and the siege of Fort Abercrombie. Jacobson struggles with learning English, falling in love and fulfilling his dreams, while living with events of the war in the South...
Author
Publisher
Lulu Publishing Services
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Alfred Riggs was a twenty-five year old son of a missionary who found himself helplessly intertwined in the real life actions, events, and people of a harrowing conflict in the history of Minnesota. Alfred grew up among the Dakota Indians of Minnesota and he developed a profound respect for their people and established a near kinship tie to their leader, Little Crow. When war broke out, Alfred was torn between the safety of his family and friends,...
Author
Publisher
[History Through Fiction]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A creative re-imagining of the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862, Reclaiming Mni Sota is an eye-opening portrayal of one of America's most tragic, regrettable events. Told through dual narratives from each side of the conflict, Reclaiming Mni Sota confronts American's history of settler-colonialism while illuminating the personal stories and heartrending choices that men and women, white and Native, were forced to make.--Publisher.
89) Birdie
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English
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1873 Minnesota. Evan and Inga Jacobson struggle to raise their family in the midst of bank failures, grasshoppers and the lingering effects of the 1862 Uprising. When harsh economic realities force them to relocate to Otter Tail County, they must begin again in a hostile environment. Their foster daughter, Ragna Larson, has grown up haunted by her missing sister, Birdie. Both girls were kidnapped by the Sioux during the Uprising; only one returned....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles....
Author
Publisher
Lulu Publishing Services
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In Minnesota's fading frontier the once vibrant Dakota Indians were compelled and coerced to cede their bountiful homeland to those opportunists that would usher in a new era. In 1851, the Dakota Indians signed the Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota, selling their lands west of the Mississippi River. Frank Blackwell Mayer, a young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota to witness the negotiations between the Dakota Indians and the United...
Author
Publisher
Olive Collins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish Catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year after their arrival, Goldie blames herself for her sister's...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. The fur trade influenced every aspect of life, from how Europeans related to the Indians, how and where settlements were built, to how our nation formed. Drawing on primary sources, including the diaries of Ojibwa, American, and French traders of the period, Birchbark Brigade gives...
96) Blooming prairie
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English
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Widow Serena Gustafson returns to Pomme de Terre where her husband was killed during the Sioux Uprising. Her dreams of financial independence dissolve when land values plummet after a scourge of Rocky Mountain locusts. Evan Jacobson, homesteading in nearby Otter Tail County, takes a job driving mules of the Wadsworth Trail. Increasing Indian tensions in Dakota Territory threaten to spill over into Minnesota, renewing old fears and bitter memories...
Author
Series
Abercrombie trail volume 2
Language
English
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Description
1862 was a tumultuous year in Minnesota history. The Civil War drained the youngest state in the Union of soldiers and resources. War expenses delayed treaty payments, and the Sioux were starving. The result was the Sioux Uprising of 1862. The largest Indian war in U.S. history, it was bracketed by the bloody battles of Shiloh and Antietam. Although the government declared the uprising over in the fall, Pomme de Terre tells the story of settlers in...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An environmental history of the Nashua River, from its discovery by Indians through the polluting years of the Industrial Revolution to the ambitious clean-up that revitalized it.
99) Fevered star
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Series
Between earth and sky volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded? As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected...
Author
Series
Minnesota prehistoric archaeology volume no. 14
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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