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Author
Publisher
Calumet Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1906, an emigrant family from Norway arrives in North Dakota with dreams of owning land and “moving up in the world.” Tragedy plus a crime against them by a powerful man threatens to destroy the family. An unlikely hero steps up. Jenny Haugen, seventeen, leads her siblings on a generational march toward agency, justice, and power.
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"One hundred years ago, American patriots picked up rifles and fought against British tyranny. That was Boston. There the enemy was King George III and his British troops. Now, In Last Chance, Texas, in the Big Bend River country, it's Abraham Hacker, a ruthless cattle baron who will slaughter anyone who tries to lay claim to the fertile land and everything on it. For Last Chance, freedom is under siege one violent act at a time. Until wounded Texas...
5) Joe Kidd
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Former bounty hunter turned hired gunslinger, Joe Kidd, finds himself in the middle of a range war in rough and rugged New Mexico. He is hired to quell the rebellion by a wealthy land baron with interests in a disputed territory that Mexican revolutionaries claim they've been cheated out of. But Kidd's and his employers interests are soon at odds when he falls for a beautiful Hispanic rebel.
10) Wish you well
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, but a courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family.
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community." --
13) Blood memory
Author
Series
Catherine McLeod volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Targeted for assassination after doing a story on an attempt by the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes to file a claim on their ancestral lands, Denver reporter Catherine McLeod uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The United States was the first country to be founded with private property as an organizing principle. The westward growth of the U.S. - the business of territory making -- was essentially the expansion of a system of property. This required supplanting any other relationships to the landscape, not on an individual level, but as an organizing principle. The U.S. enterprise was so successful that today it can be difficult for Americans to think of...
17) Four souls
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
18) Sarah Thornhill
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Sarah is the youngest child of William Thornhill, an uneducated ex-convict from London who has built his fortune on the blood of Aboriginal people. With a fine stone house and plenty of money, Thornhill has re-invented himself. As he tells his daughter, he "never looks back," and Sarah grows up learning not to ask about the past. Instead her eyes are on handsome Jack Langland, whom she's loved since she was a child. Their romance seems destined, but...
19) Amazona
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. Only nineteen years old, she comes to mourn her lost child, carrying a box in her arms. And she comes with another mission. Andrea has hidden a camera upon herself. If she can capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family, it will mark the first step toward reclaiming their land."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What does an environmentalist do when she realizes she will inherit mineral rights and royalties on fracked oil wells in North Dakota? How does she decide between financial security and living as a committed conservationist who wants to leave her grandchildren a healthy world? After her father's death, Lisa Westberg Peters investigates the stories behind the leases her mother now holds. She learns how her grandfather's land purchases near Williston...
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