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  • Lakota.jpeg Organizing the Lakota by SageParsley
    This book examines the impact of the Indian Reorganization Act on two Lakota reservations in South Dakota – the so-called “Indian New Deal,” which was the brainchild of Indian Commissioner John Collier – and it reveals that, in keeping with previous policies, the United States government offered only...     		Ranking:
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  • CLOCK.jpg A Forest of Time by SageParsley
    Historians can be just as myopic and exclusionary as everybody else, and not just in the subjects they choose to study. The rules of good history demand linear thinking, not to mention a coherent view of the universe that can be conveyed with written language. But because scholars tend to ignore non...     		Ranking:
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  • nash.jpg Roderick Nash by droogie
    Nash draws a line between conceptual wilderness and the real thing and by doing so he makes a strong argument for realigning socio-cultural ideas to better reflect the interchange between humans and the natural world. In his prologue, Nash plays with the etymology of the word “wilderness,” not as an...     		Ranking:
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  • indiansurv.jpg Indian Survival by droogie
    Of all the books and articles I have read during my history studies, nothing hit me on such a gut level, with such a visceral reaction, as the accounts of California Indians and the atrocities they faced at the hands of (mostly) Anglo-American interlopers. Somehow, the fact that such genocidal activity...     		Ranking:
  • buffalo.jpg Oral History 101 by KCan
    What do you envision when you hear the words “oral history?” Most folks define oral history as stories, which are spoken, telling about certain events that happened in the past. But the definition might not be quite as simple as all that. Are family memories oral history? What about a story told at the...     		Ranking:
  • bestminds.jpg Summer for the Gods by KCan
    Rural Tennessee in 1925 staged the “Monkey Trial,” then the latest incarnation of the “trial of the century.” That particular legal sensation – the misdemeanor prosecution of a part-time biology teacher in alleged violation of an antievolution law – generated sensational headlines at the time. Ever since...     		Ranking:
  • JohnWesleyPowell.jpg The Great West by KCan
    Wallace Stegner fills the pages of this classic with bigger-than-life personalities. Of course, Major John Wesley Powell – the one-armed, swashbuckling Civil War veteran – towers center stage in this masterful book, but he is surrounded by other epic figures: explorer Ferdinand V. Hayden, geographer...     		Ranking:
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