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[2019]., Beacon Press Call No: NL 970.0 GIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to effective organizing and allyship"--
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[2011], 7th Generation Call No: 333.72 092 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Profiles eleven Native Americans, including Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Ben Powless, and Klee Benally, who work to protect the environment and the rights of Native people in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; the tar sands in Alberta, Canada; Black Mesa in Arizona; nuclear-free zones; and other sites across North America.
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c2000., University of Arizona Press Call No: NL REALISTIC F LUC Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: First book awards
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c2011., Juvenile, Carolrhoda Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Explores the life of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Sa, meaning Red Bird. Discusses how she discovered her love for music after leaving her native Sioux home and attending a boarding school in Indiana. Follows Zitkala-Sa as she uses her musical and writing talents to become an activist for Native American rights.
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c1997., Juvenile, Facts on File Call No: 299 .7 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American Indian livesSummary Note: Profiles American Indian activists and social reformers from various tribes, regions, and times.
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c2011., Adolescent, Second Story Press Call No: 971.004 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A kids' power book.Summary Note: Read about a Cree Indian community in Northern Ontario whose school was closed because of soil contamination. Discover the hardships the Cree children faced as they attended classes in makeshift classrooms and relive their successful efforts, spearheaded by Shannen Koostachin, to have a new school built in their community and to establish equality for all children
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2013., Penguin Books Call No: NL 323.1 HOX Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Penguin history of American lifeSummary Note: Historian Frederick E. Hoxie documents the more than two hundred years of Native American political activism in the U.S. and its efforts, in courtrooms and campaigns, to bridge the distance between indigenous cultures and the American republic through legal and political debate.--From publisher description.