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This novel is based on the extraordinary life of the author's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington. With lightness and gravity, and with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master, this story follows captivating characters. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first...
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English
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"In the 1900s, Mardy and Olaus Murie set out on an Arctic adventure, studying the land and animals. They learned from Indigenous communities the interconnectedness of life and understood that humans were threatening nature. So they fought to protect the Arctic-lobbying for what became the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" -- Provided by publisher.
3) The Haida
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Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
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Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and customs of the Haida people.
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