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• Includes index.
• Traces the social history behind America’s celebration of Independence Day and explains the background of such national symbols as the flag, the bald eagle, the Liberty Bell, and Uncle Sam.

Subjects:

• Fourth of July celebrations — Juvenile literature.
• American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 — Juvenile literature.
• Fourth of July.

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• Closed-captioned.
• Videodisc release of a videocassette produced in 1997.
• Distributed by Video Out Distribution, Vancouver, BC. –Container.
• Produced by Full Regalia Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with Bravo!, The Shaw Children’s Programming Initiative, the Cable Production Fund, BC Cultural Services, Vision TV, CFRN-TV, CIBC.
• Three urban Native teens are whisked away to an imaginary land by a magical raven. Here, the young people meet a totem pole whose characters (a raven, a frog and a bear) come to life, becoming their teachers, guides and friends – demonstrating their significance to Northwest Native cultures and allowing the teens to understand the strength of their own traditions. –Container.
• AUGSBURG COLLEGE LINDELL LIBRARY’S copy of this DVD is available only to Augsburg students, faculty, and staff, and to participating members of the Cooperating Libraries in Consortium shared catalog. It may not be lent out to a wider audience.

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• Coast Salish Indians — British Columbia.
• Coast Salish Indians — Folklore.
• Indian art — British Columbia.
• Indian mythology — British Columbia.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Totem poles — British Columbia.
• Hunt, J. Bradley.

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• Includes commentary by Nancy Reagan.
• Through letters and reflections, the characters, personalities, and private lives of a president and his first lady are revealed. Nancy Reagan comments on the letters and writes with love and insight about her husband and the many phases of their life together.

Subjects:

• Reagan, Ronald — Correspondence.
• Reagan, Nancy, 1921-2016 — Correspondence.
• Presidents — United States — Correspondence.
• Presidents spouses — United States — Correspondence.;Married people — United States — Correspondence.;Reagan, Ronald — Correspondence.;Reagan, Nancy, 1923- — Correspondence.;Presidents — United States — Correspondence.;Presidents spouses — United States — Correspondence.
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• Reagan, Nancy, 1921- fast (OCoLC)fst00044456
• Reagan, Ronald. fast (OCoLC)fst00036392
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• Records and correspondence. fast (OCoLC)fst01423917

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-425) and index.
• I: Foundations — Models for understanding Amish society — The birth of Amish society — To America — II: Stability and fulfillment — The Amish charter — The community — Agriculture and subsistence — The Amish family — Child nurture and training — The life ceremonies — Ritual integration of the community — The symbolism of community and custom — III: Patterns of change — Government and the Amish — Change and fragmentation — Deviation and vulnerability — Health and healing — Backstage Amish life — Response to change — IV: Survival — The discourse with survival.
• Presents the history and culture of Amish communities in the United States.

Subjects:

• Amish — United States — Social life and customs.
• Amish — Social life and customs.
• Amish — Social life and customs. fast (OCoLC)fst00807695
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• USA. (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd
• Mennonites
• United States

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-276) and index.
• Light is bursting upon the world! — Negroes are the favorites of the government — Kansas has an ample supply of darkies — A day more dreadful than any that we have yet experienced — Some finely tuned spring-release trap — The life of no colored man is safe — Sowing the seed of hatred and prejudice — Peace at home is the most essential thing.

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• African Americans — Violence against — Kansas — History.
• Racism — Kansas — History.
• African Americans — Kansas — History.
• Kansas — Race relations — History.

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Part of the series The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era;Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.
• This provocative collection boldly rewrites the way we understand the United States in the post-Civil War era. The editors argue for thinking beyond the traditional framework of Reconstruction and considering, instead, regionally interconnected struggles over the capacity of the federal government (which they term a Stockade State) and over the boundaries of coercion in the aftermath of slavery — Provided by publisher.
• Introduction : echoes of war : rethinking post-Civil War governance and politics / Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur — Reconstruction and the history of governance / Laura F. Edwards — Emancipating peons, excluding coolies : reconstructing coercion in the American West / Stacey L. Smith — Not quite constitutionalized : the meanings of civilization and the limits of Native American citizenship / Stephen Kantrowitz — The burnt district : making sense of ruins in the postwar South / K. Stephen Prince — The long life of proslavery religion / Luke E. Harlow — The wounds that cried out : reckoning with African Americans’ testimonies of trauma and suffering from night riding / Kidada E. Williams — Ely S. Parker and the paradox of Reconstruction politics in Indian Country / C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa — Washington novels and the machinery of government / Amanda Claybaugh — Indian territory and the treaties of 1866 : a long history of emancipation / Barbara Krauthamer — What if I am a woman : black women’s campaigns for sexual justice and citizenship / Crystal N. Feimster — Slave emancipation and the revolutionizing of human rights / Amy Dru Stanley — From the second American revolution to the First International and back again : Marxism, the Popular Front, and the American Civil War / Andrew Zimmerman — Afterword : what sort of world did the Civil War make? / Steven Hahn.

Subjects:

• United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Influence.
• Ethnic groups — Civil rights.
• Minorities — Civil rights.
• Human rights.
• National characteristics, American.
• Social values — United States — History.
• American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• 1861 – 1865 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Geniusz makes Anishinaabe botanical information available to native and non-native healers and educators and emphasizes the Anishinaabe culture that developed the knowledge and practice. Teaching the way she was taught — through stories — Geniusz brings the plants to life with narratives that explain their uses, meaning, and history — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references ( pages 357-361) and index.
• Traditional Anishinaabe teaching about plants — Indinawemaaganag : all of my relatives — Conifers — Three food plants — Four traditional plants in the Anishinaabeg culture — Medicinal plants.

Subjects:

• Ojibwa Indians — Ethnobotany.
• Ojibwa Indians — Ethnobotany — History — Sources.
• Ojibwa Indians — Folklore.
• Ethnobotany — North America.
• Plants, Useful — North America.
• Medicinal plants — North America.

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• Ancestral Mounds deconstructs earthen mounds and myths in examining their importance in contemporary Native communities. Two centuries of academic scholarship regarding mounds have examined who, what, where, when, and how, but no serious investigations have addressed the basic question, why? Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological studies, Jay Miller explores the wide-ranging themes and variations of mounds, from those built thousands of years ago to contemporary mounds, focusing on Native southeastern and Oklahoma towns. Native peoples continue to build and refurbish mounds each summer as part of their New Year’s celebrations to honor and give thanks for ripening maize and other crops and to offer public atonement. The mound is the heart of the Native community, which is sustained by song, dance, labor, and prayer. The basic purpose of mounds across North America is the same: to serve as a locus where community effort can be engaged in creating a monument of vitality and a safe haven in the volatile world — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-181) and index.
• Archaeological Time Frame — Kinship Codes — Graphic Codes — Mounding Up — Breaking Ground — SEeing Mounds — Modern Mounding — Mounds in Full.

Subjects:

• Mounds — Oklahoma.
• Indians of North America — Oklahoma — Antiquities.
• Ethnology — Oklahoma.
• Indians of North America — Funeral customs and rites — Oklahoma.
• Indians of North America — Oklahoma — Religion.
• Indians of North America — Oklahoma — Social life and customs.
• Community life — Oklahoma.
• Monuments — Social aspects — Oklahoma.
• Oklahoma — Antiquities.
• Oklahoma — Social life and customs.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction : confessions of a presidential assassin / Brian Balogh — The unsettled state of presidential history / Stephen Skowronek — Personal dynamics and presidential transitions : the case of Roosevelt and Truman / Frank Costigliola — Narrator in chief : presidents and the politics of economic crisis from FDR to Barack Obama / Alice O’Connor — The Reagan devolution : movement conservatives and the right’s days of rage, 1988-1994 / Robert O. Self — There will be oil : presidents, wildcat religion, and the culture wars of pipeline politics / Darren Dochuk — Ike’s world : ideology and power in Eisenhower’s national strategy / William Hitchcock — Black appointees, political legitimacy, and the American presidency / Nathan Connolly — Presidents and the media / Susan J. Douglas — The making of the celebrity president / Kathryn Cramer Brownell — Stand by me : coalitions and presidential power from a cross-national perspective / Cathie Jo Martin — Taking the long view : presidents in a system stacked against them / Daniel Galvin — American presidential authority and economic expertise since World War II / Michael A. Bernstein — The changing presidential politics of disaster from Coolidge to Nixon / Gareth Davies — Conclusion : the perils and prospects of presidential history / Bruce J. Schulman.

Subjects:

• Presidents — United States — History — 20th century.
• Executive power — United States — History — 20th century.
• United States — Politics and government — 20th century.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-271) and index.
• Preface: In search of treasure — Introduction: Sacrificial land — Empty except for Indians : early impressions of Navajo rangeland — Prospecting for magic ore in America’s new frontier — Cowboys and Indians in Navajo country — Hot spots: justice, power, and gender in the radioactive present — Monsters and mountains: competing geographies of uranium — The big hurt: boom and bust on contested ground — Conclusion. Zombie mines.
• Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S. nuclear weapons and energy programs. By 1942, mines on the reservation were the main source of uranium for the top-secret Manhattan Project. Today, the Navajo Nation is home to more than a thousand abandoned uranium sites. Radiation-related diseases are endemic, claiming the health and lives of former miners and nonminers alike. Traci Brynne Voyles argues that the presence of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) land constitutes a clear case of environmental racism. Looking at discursive constructions of landscapes, she explores how environmental racism develops over time. For Voyles, the wasteland, where toxic materials are excavated, exploited, and dumped, is both a racial and a spatial signifier that renders an environment and the bodies that inhabit it pollutable. Because environmental inequality is inherent in the way industrialism operates, the wasteland is the other through which modern industrialism is established. In examining the history of wastelanding in Navajo country, Voyles provides an environmental justice history of uranium mining, revealing how just as civilization has been defined on and through savagery, environmental privilege is produced by portraying other landscapes as marginal, worthless, and pollutable –The publisher.

Subjects:

• Navajo Indians — Government relations — History — 20th century.
• Navajo Indians — Health and hygiene — History — 20th century.
• Uranium mines and mining — Political aspects — Southwest, New — History — 20th century.
• Uranium mines and mining — Social aspects — Southwest, New — History — 20th century.
• Radiation — Health aspects — Southwest, New — History — 20th century.
• Navajo Indian Reservation — History — 20th century.
• Southwest, New. fast (OCoLC)fst01244556
• United States — Navajo Indian Reservation. fast (OCoLC)fst01241521
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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