land tenure

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land tenure

Nicaragua

what difference could a revolution make? : food and farming in the New Nicaragua
1986

All our relations

native struggles for land and life
1999
Discusses how Native American cultures have been affected by the loss of biodiversity throughout history.

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.

Bloodroot

2000
Wesley, an aging African-American man who has served as caretaker of a vanished family's estate in Charlottesville, Virginia for many years, is pushed over the brink of violence when he refuses to vacate the land to make way for a proposed turpentine plant.

In a barren land

American Indian dispossession and survival
1998
Examines the loss of lands and culture suffered by Native Americans over the centuries, from 1607 to the end of the twentieth-century putting contemporary issues into historical context.

Black Hills white justice

the Sioux Nation versus the United States, 1775 to the present
1999
History of the Sioux nation's one hundred year effort to secure restitution for the seizure of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Self-determination

the other path for Native Americans
2006

Wish you well

2001
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.

A good year to die

the story of the great Sioux War
1995
Discusses the Great Sioux War of 1876 with an emphasis on how it affected the Native Americans involved, specifically the Ogala, the Lakota, the Dakota, and the Cheyenne.

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