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"Joe Sacco travels [to the Mackenzie River Valle] to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to 'remove the Indian from the child'; the destructive process that drove the Denefrom the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture "-- Provided by publisher.

Discusses the journey through the American West and the clashes between Native Americans and settlers.

"It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom--it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie--'Patrice'--Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother . . . But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera"--OCLC.

Presents a history of the Mandan people, Native Americans who lived on the upper Missouri River for centuries in their teeming, busy towns and who Lewis and Clark wintered with, from 1804 to 1805.

Presents the true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat First Nation, a Cree community in Northern Ontario, who have been fighting for a new school since 1979 when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building.

"Reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans"--Provided by publisher.

A history of the United States for young people told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, revealing how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the U.S. empire.

Through a lense of primary sources, examines how First Nations and Native Peoples have been displaced in the United States and Canada through treaties, empty promises, and military force.

"The Maya Empire became a thriving civilization between the third century and the seventh century CE, but by 900 CE war, drought, and disease wiped out most of its cities and the Mayan people were greatly reduced. Unfortunately, the greatest threat to their existence was yet to come, when the Guatemalan genocide would decimate those who remained in the1970s and '80s. The facts of the Mayans' story will be intertwined with profiles of individuals and in-depth looks at related topics. Readers will learn how to help those faced with genocide and understand a history that could otherwise repeat itself."--Provided by publisher.

This significant book recounts the past and modern-day battles for Native American civil rights using the eyewitness reports of people on the front lines.