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Black Bondage in the North
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780815628934 Media Type: Paperback(New Edition) Publisher: Syracuse University Press Publication Date: 11-01-2001 Pages: 2...
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American Indians in Early New Orleans: From Calumet to Raquette
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /From a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played by Choctaw ...
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Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915
HardcoverOriginal price $43.50 - Original price $43.50Original price $43.50$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Surprisingly, there existed a small population of southern blacks who experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. This b...
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Witness: A Hunkpapha Historian's Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /During the 1920s and 1930s, Josephine Waggoner (1871-1943), a Lakota woman who had been educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Vi...
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Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This c...
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We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance.” —National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson “We Refus...
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Gathering the Potawatomi Nation: Revitalization and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands ac...
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Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /For almost fifty years, coal dominated the Navajo economy. But in 2019 one of the Navajo Nation's largest coal plants closed. This comprehensive n...
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My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /When Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye-opening experience. The corresp...
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Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes. Examini...
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Virginia Landmarks of Black History: Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places
HardcoverOriginal price $49.50 - Original price $49.50Original price $49.50$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /The 64 sites described in this book are a testament to the contribution that African-Americans have made to Virginia history over the last four cen...
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The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910-1966
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /" . . . the definitive history not only of the Chicago National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) but of the city's black m...
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Life Among The Apaches
HardcoverOriginal price $45.95 - Original price $45.95Original price $45.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, margina...
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The Hottest Water in Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An illuminating cultural journey through black and white America.Gayle Pemberton shares the accumulated revelations of a lifetime of observation in...
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Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /2022 Southwest Books of the YearThe Navajo tribe, the Diné, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest. But ...
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Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York 1890-1930
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /For social history, no book has surpassed Mr. Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an a...
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Silver Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN GIVE OUR CHILDREN IS AN EDUCATION." --Mae Bertha Carter In 1965, the Carters, an African American sharecropping f...
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The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The Plot to Change America exposes the myths that help identity politics perpetuate itself. This book reveals what has really happened, explains ...
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Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
HardcoverOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick MirrorIn place-nam...
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Handbook of the Indians of California
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95Original price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The Indians of California, in their ethnographic present, offered the widest cultural range to be found in any area of the United States. In the ...
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The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A unique exploration of the Hidatsa people, material culture, spirituality, and adaptations, through the stories of respected elders from more th...
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Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /To be stewards of the earth, not owners: this was the way of the Lenape. Considering themselves sacred land keepers, they walked gently; they pre...
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Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about the era in which...
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Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reconstruction came to a close. Although, along with Eur...
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