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  • What Was the Trail of Tears?

    Illustrated by Dede Putra ...
    Series series What Was?
    Learn about one of the worst tragedies in American history: the Indian Removal Act of 1830.From 1838 to 1839, thousands of people from the Cherokee Nation and other Indigenous tribes were forced off their homelands because the white settlers believed this land belonged to them. The journey, which became known as the Trail of Tears, took up to six months and saw the Cherokee traveling across rivers ... Read more

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  • Native American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sean Teuton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    North American indigenous literature began over thirty thousand years ago when indigenous people began telling stories of emergence and creation, journey and quest, and heroism and trickery. By setting indigenous literature in historical moments, Sean Teuton skillfully traces its evolution from the ancient role of bringing rain and healing the body, to its later purpose in resisting European ... Read more

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    What Was the Trail of Tears?

    Narrated by Emily Norman ...
    Series series What Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 9 min

    Learn about one of the worst tragedies in American history: the Indian Removal Act of 1830.From 1838 to 1839, thousands of people from the Cherokee Nation and other Indigenous tribes were forced off their homelands because the white settlers believed this land belonged to them. The journey, which became known as the Trail of Tears, took up to six months and saw the Cherokee traveling across rivers ... Read more

    $11.00 CAD

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  • Red Land, Red Power

    Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel

    Series series New Americanists
    In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of “Red Power,” an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture. He shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more ... Read more

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