Ashabranner, Brent K.

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Morning star, black sun

the Northern Cheyenne Indians and America's energy crisis
1982
Discusses relations between the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana and the United States government, as well as the tribe's recent fight to save its lands from strip-mining coal companies.

A new frontier

the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe
1994
Tells the story of volunteer men and women who are working in the ex-communist countries of Eastern Europe. Among them are a former seminarian who is making life a little better for many of Bucharest's tragic street children and an English teacher who in his after-school time has introduced baseball to Bulgarian students.

Dark harvest

migrant farmworkers in America
1985
Examines the world of the migrants today looking at the courage that enables them to truimph over a cruel system, and at ways to curb migrant injustices.

Dark harvest

migrant farmworkers in America
1993
Examines the lives of seasonal migrant farm laborers in America.

Crazy about German shepherds

1990
A girl describes her experiences opening her own kennel in the Blue Ridge Mountains to raise German shepherds.

A strange and distant shore

Indians of the Great Plains in exile
1996
Tells the story of seventy-two chiefs and warriors from various Indian tribes who were imprisoned at an old Spanish fort in St. Augustine, Florida in 1875 after their tribes were conquered in the Red River War and forced onto reservations in what is now Oklahoma.

Children of the Maya

a Guatemalan Indian odyssey
1986
Examines the plight of Mayans who have fled the violent political situation in Guatemala and settled in a community in southern Florida.

Always to remember

the story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1988
Discusses the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the controversies that have surrounded it, and some human interest stories connected with it.

A grateful nation

the story of Arlington National Cemetery
1990
Traces the history of our national burial ground and shrine to American heroes.

Remembering Korea

the Korean War Veterans Memorial
2001
Describes and presents color photos of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., chronicling the creation of the monument and the events of the war itself.

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