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 This an Ojibew language resource designed to give anyone a basic knowledge of that language. it Includes an Ojibwe-English dictionary and an English-Ojibwe dictionary, plus rules of pronunciation and grammar.(Ojibwe language) 

 An Ethnography of the people known as “Chippewa”, including detailed descriptions of tribal customs,history,“legends”,traditions, art, music, economy and leisure activities.The scope is somewhat limited by the cultural perspective of the writer,although she is a sympathetic observer.)Ojibwe History and Culture) 

An important book in the History of the abuses suffered by Indigenous children and their families at the hands of the United States gonernment and their machinery of colonization.Mr.Giago, a noted Lakota publisher and author,recounts his days as a child student at the Holy Rosary Mission boarding school outside of Pine Ridge, South Dakota.Provides important background information for those seeking to understand the reluctance of many Indian families to participate in the educational process offered by the colonists.Many see the roots of modern-day dysfunction in the brutality of these schoo

A Cheyenne elder/historian recounts the oral history of his people from Creation though colonization. Contains many interesting accounts of events on the plains during the 1800s.(Cheyenne History and Culture) 

A look at Indian boarding schools through the actual correspondence by students, parents and administrators of two such schools: Flandreau in South Dakota and Haskell in Kansas. These letters chronicle the huge impact that these schools had on individuals, families and communities by examining the effects of separation from their families, diseases, the difficulty of the work they were forced to perform and the way these students resisted the various aspects of their enforced encarceration. 

 An Engish-Dakota dictionary originally published in 1902.Contains section on Dakota grammar and a foreward by Carolynn I. Cavender Schommer.(for the reprint edition) 

 A comprehensive study of contemporary Native American nations and their historical relationships with the United States government. Covers a vast amount of material including culture and spirituality as well the complex legal issues arising from so many years of unfettered opportunism on the part of the US and its citizens.(History/Federal Indian Law) 

Explores the diplomatic maneuvers of the Confederacy to secure alliances with the “Five Civilized Tribes” at the onset of the Civil War and the effects this had on the Indigenous peoples of Southeastern North America.(History)