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One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government. Their journey West is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.
3) The Cheyenne
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Pub. Date
[1989]
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Examines the history, culture and changing fortunes of the Cheyenne Indians.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work...
5) The Cheyenne
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents the history, customs, and present-day status of the Cheyenne Indians.
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"Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman who travels west in 1875 and marries the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One thousand white women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
This resource guide is intended only as an opening for the exploration of Native Americans in Colorado and their points of contact with Europeans whose presence altered indigenous lifestyles. Though many peoples lived and traveled in what is now Colorado, only the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute peoples have been featured in this resource guide for purposes of brevity. The lack of inclusion in this resource guide in no way diminishes the contributions of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A poignant look at the pain inflicted upon one child by a dominant culture's heavy-handed attempt to "help." Near the turn of the century, a Cheyenne boy, Young Bull, is forced to attend the off-reservation Indian school so that he can learn to become a part of the white world.
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
A fictionalized account of the massacre by the U.S. Army of a Cheyenne village after it had raised the white flag. The event occurred in 1864 in Colorado. The commander, Colonel John Chivington, was never brought to justice, while Captain Silas Soule, who with his company refused to participate, was killed as a traitor. Five hundred people died. By the author of The Dark Fire.
11) Cheyenne autumn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 20
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Recounts the 1,500 mile trek of a band of Northern Cheyenne from an Oklahoma reservation in 1878 to their home on the Yellowstone.
12) Hell and back
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"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Ryan thinks he is imagining the boy standing before him. When he reaches out to touch the young Cheyenne, laying the palm of his hand on the boy's chest, he feels the strong thump of a heartbeat. With this mystical encounter, twelve-year-old Ryan Tyler is sent on an impossible quest to return a rare artifact, part of a plains courting flute, to the wilderness of the Cheyenne boy's youth. Ryan experiences Cheyenne rituals and faces trials that make...
14) Quillworker
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Pub. Date
1990
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A Cheyenne legend explaining the origins of the stars. Also describes the history, culture, and fate of the Cheyenne Indians.
18) Dry bones
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When Jen, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found, surfaces in Sheriff Walt Longmires jurisdiction, it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum--until Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on whose property the remains were discovered, turns up dead. A number of groups step forward to claim her, including Dannys family, the tribe, and the federal government. As Wyomings Acting Deputy Attorney and the FBI descend...