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Indian country

1990
Explores ten instances where white man's encroachments upon the sacred grounds of Indian tribes show the tragic effects of a confrontation that is bound to harm both sides.

Struggle for the land : Native North American resistance to genocide, ecocide, and colonization

2002
Presents a collection of essays about the U.S. government's exploitation of the land and Native American peoples since the arrival of Columbus, covering the Lakota's efforts for the Black Hills, a perspective on the Navajo-Hopi land dispute, and other stories about the struggle against ecocide and "internal colonialism.".

How can one sell the air?

Chief Seattle's vision
2005
A short history of the Suquamish people from the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and their leader Chief Seattle including an explanation of the speech he gave in 1854 expressing a commitment to live in peace.

Korematsu v. United States

Japanese-American internment
2006
Describes the historical context of the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case involving Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu and the United States that allowed the removal and imprisonment of Korematsu and other Japanese-Americans because of military necessity.

Blood memory

2008
Denver newspaper investigative reporter Catherine McLeod, taking the assignment to cover a claim made by the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes to millions of acres of land, becomes the target of a killer and uncovers secrets and conspiracies.

The Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

a primary source examination of the treaty that established a Sioux Reservation in the Black Hills of Dakota
2006
Presents an overview of the treaty that established the Sioux reservation on the Black Hills of Dakota, using primary source documents to describe the nature of relations between American pioneers and Native Americans.

The Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794

a primary source examination of the treaty between the United States and the tribes of Indians called the Six Nations
2006
Presents a concise study of the 1794 treaty between the United States and the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy whereby the U.S. gained control of the entire Ohio River Valley.

The debt

what America owes to Blacks
2000
Political leader Randall Robinson argues that America owes an enormous debt to Africans and African-Americans for the incalculable damage blacks have suffered and continue to suffer as a result of nearly 250 years of slavery and segregation.

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