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Free Radical - Ernest Chambers, Black Power, And The Politics Of Race

by Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson

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 Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationally recognized black activist. Ernest Chambers eventually became one of the most powerful legislators the state has ever known. Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson illuminates his embattled career as a fiercely independent defender of the downtrodden.
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Food, Control, And Resistance - Rations And Indigenous Peoples In The United States And South Australia

by Walter R. Echo-Hawk

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 Uses four case studies to examine food rationing policies, practices, and results in the United States and South Australia. Tamara Levi explores how differences in environment, indigenous and colonial populations, and overall indigenous policies impacted the rationales for and implementation of food rationing as a tool for forced acculturation.
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Food, Control, And Resistance - Rations And Indigenous Peoples In The United States And South Australia

by Walter R. Echo-Hawk

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 Uses four case studies to examine food rationing policies, practices, and results in the United States and South Australia. Tamara Levi explores how differences in environment, indigenous and colonial populations, and overall indigenous policies impacted the rationales for and implementation of food rationing as a tool for forced acculturation.
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Carrying The Black Bag - A Neurologist'S Bedside Tales

by Tom Hutton

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 During his thirty-plus years of practicing in West Texas and Minnesota, physician and neurologist Tom Hutton discovered that a doctor's best teachers are often his patients. Part memoir and part homage to those patients who faced major illness with grace, grit, and dignity, Carrying the Black Bag invites readers to experience what it is like to be a doctor's hands, eyes, and heart.
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The Death Of Raymond Yellow Thunder - And Other True Stories From The Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns

by Stew Magnuson

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 Examining Raymond Yellow Thunders death at the hands of four white men in 1972, this title looks deep into the past that gave rise to the tragedy. It recounts the largely forgotten struggles of American Indian Movement activist Bob Yellow Bird and tells the story of Whiteclay, Nebraska, and the controversial border hamlet.
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Aurora Crossing - A Novel Of The Nez Perces

by Karl H. Schlesier

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 In the 1870s young Nez Perce John Seton struggles to determine whether Coyotes message is a gift or a trick. His quest to find a place in the clash of cultures is a magical saga, a search for meaning in the fabled Tricksters message. This title presents the events to which Seton is an eyewitness such as the Nez Perce march of 1877.
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A Place To Be Someone - Growing Up With Charles Gordone

by Shirley Gordon Jackson

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 Before playwright Charles Gordone (19251995) became a Texan, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for "No Place to Be Somebody", in 1970. This title covers the years prior to this geographical and psychological journey, the childhood and youth that deeply informed Gordones pilgrimage.
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Conrad'S Trojan Horses - Imperialism, Hybridity, And The Postcolonial Aesthetic

by Andrea White

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 With references to his work appearing everywhere from the New Yorker to The Simpsons, Joseph Conrad remains one of the twentieth century's most widely discussed literary figures. This title analyzes both conrad's early and major works, including "The Nigger of the Narcissus", "Heart of Darkness", "Lord Jim", and "Nostromo".
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Children Of The Dust - An Okie Family Story

by Betty Grant Henshaw e Sandra Scofield

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 Betty Grant Henshaw was born into a large family of tenant farmers in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era. For years her father, Bill, worked himself to exhaustion, trying to earn enough to provide for his wife and nine children and to buy his own small farm, but he was never able to get ahead.
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The Line From Here To There - A Storyteller'S Scottish West Texas

by Rosanna Taylor Herndon

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 Collects eighteen stories that cover several generations of Scottish West Texans.
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East Of The Storm - Outrunning The Holocaust In Russia

by Mary Maddock

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 On September 27, 1939, after the Nazi invasion, Poland ceased to exist as a nation. Ten-year-old Hanna Davidson's father, Simon, and older brother, Kazik, had been drafted to defend Warsaw. Hanna and her mother, Sofia, found themselves subjected to Hitlers efforts to dehumanize Poland's Jewish population. This title tells their story.
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Rights In The Balance - Free Press, Fair Trial, And Nebraska Press Association V. Stuart

by Mark R. Scherer

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 On a horrific night in October 1975, Erwin Simants brutally murdered six members of the Henry Kellie family in tiny Sutherland, Nebraska. This title tells the story of the complex legal battles set in motion that tragic night on the western Nebraska plains.
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Ruling Pine Ridge - Oglala Lakota Politics From The Ira To Wounded Knee

by Akim D. Reinhardt

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 Suitable for those who care about the indigenous past as well as its connection to the problems of the present and the challenges of the 21st century, this title includes tribal council records, oral histories, and reservation newspapers. It explores the political history of South Dakotas Oglala Lakota reservation during the mid-twentieth century.
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Old Las Vegas - Hispanic Memories From The New Mexico Meadowlands

by Nasario Garcia

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 Filled with anecdotes, folklore, and oral history that help define one of New Mexicos most fascinating pockets of enchantment. This work presents stories on life in the countryside, education, folk healing, witchcraft, superstitions, religion, politics, folk sayings, and riddles.
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Patrolling Chaos - The U.S. Border Patrol In Deep South Texas

by Robert Lee Maril

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 As the residents of McAllen, Texas, sleep soundly, a small number of agents of the US Border Patrol wait on the banks of the Rio Grande. This book describes the daily risks they face and the insights they hold as a result of their experience with the hard realities of immigration policy, the war on drugs, and the threat of terrorist infiltration.
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Jane Gilmore Rushing - A West Texas Writer And Her Work

by Lou Halsell Rodenberger

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 Jane Gilmore Rushing grew up in Pyron, a Texas town no longer in existence, and from childhood she knew that she would be a writer. In seven novels produced between 1963 and 1984, she built her stories around cotton farms and early ranches. This title explores Rushings life and discusses her novels and memoir.
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From Syria To Seminole - Memoir Of A High Plains Merchant

by Ed Aryain

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 Mohammed (Ed) Aryain saw Syrians who had been to America returning home with gold watches and money to purchase land, and he vowed to do the same. Ed began a 120-mile walk to Beirut to board a steamship. This book tells of his emotional first view of the Statue of the Liberty and of his traumatic passage through Ellis Island.
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Harvey Girl

by Sheila Wood Foard

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 During the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s, Harvey Houses were a familiar sight to train travelers in the American West. There were one hundred Harvey Houses and about a hundred thousand Harvey Girls over the years. This book includes a section on the real Harvey Girls history.
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Summer Of Champions - A Novel

by Dewey Johnson

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 An avid baseball player, Joe Don aspires to championship both on and off the field. But when his favorite teacher is arrested and his mother loses her job for resisting sexual harassment, Joe Dons life capsizes. Complex and multilayered, tragic and humorous, this story captures the flavor of Southwestern culture in the 1950s.
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Spooky Texas Tales

by Doc Moore e Gina Miller

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 A beady-eyed varmint crawls through the floor of a lonely old man's cabin. A boy spends the night in a haunted house. A girl foolishly taunts a giant owl-woman. A young mans prom date has a spooky secret. This title features ten creepy tales. Suitable for young readers, it also includes eerie illustrations.
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America'S 100th Meridian - A Plains Journey

by John R. Wunder e William Kittredge

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 Resulting from an arduous series of six journeys along the two-thousand-mile line that divides East from West, this title includes photographs that provide the intimate yet dispassionate observations of a person who chose to explore the meanings inherent in the great empty middle between our coasts.
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American Outback - The Oklahoma Panhandle In The Twentieth Century

by Richard Lowitt

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 To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in equal measure. Only with the creation of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890 was the area finally claimed by a government entity. This title presents the history of the Oklahoma Panhandle.
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Railwayman'S Son - A Plains Family Memoir

by H.Roger Grant

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 Hugh Hawkins was seven years old when his fathers job with the Rock Island Railroad forced his family to relocate to far western Kansas. This memoir paints a portrait of a middle-class family's traditions and values in the heartland of the 1930s and 1940s.
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How Texts Teach What Readers Learn

by Margaret Meek

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