Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
by Chuck Klosterman
from Scribner
Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil. The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock -- his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet -- but he still found a way to bang his nappy little head. Before the journey was over, he would slow-dance to Poison, sleep innocently beneath satanic pentagrams, lust for Lita Ford, and get ridiculously intellectual about Guns N' Roses. C'mon and feel his noize.
The Horizontal World: Growing Up In the Middle of Nowhere: A Memoir
by Debra Marquart
from Counterpoint
Debra Marquart grew up on a family farm in rural North Dakota--on land her family had worked for generations. From the earliest age she knew she wanted out; surely life had more to offer than this unyielding daily grind, she thought. But she was never able to abandon it completely.
Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains
Rainbow Tribe: Ordinary People Journeying on the Red Road
by Ed Mcgaa
from HarperOne
The practical sequel to Mother Earth Spirituality that applies Native American teachings and ritual to comtemporary living.
Dust Bowl Diary
by Ann Marie Low
from University of Nebraska Press
The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (Studies in North American Indian History)
by Jeffrey Ostler
from Cambridge University Press
Through the interpretive lens of colonial theory, Jeffrey Ostler presents an original analysis of the tumultuous relationship between the Plains Sioux and the United States in the 1800s. He provides novel insights on well-known aspects of the Sioux story, such as the Oregon Trail, the deaths of "Crazy Horse" and "Sitting Bull", and the Ghost Dance, and offers an in-depth look at many lesser-known facets of Sioux history and culture. Paying close attention to Sioux perspectives of their history, the book demonstrates how the Sioux creatively responded to the challenges of U.S. expansion and domination, revealing simultaneously how U.S. power increasingly limited the autonomy of their communities as the century came to a close. Ostler's innovative analysis of the Plains Sioux culminates in a compelling reinterpretation of the events that led to the Wounded Knee massacre of December 29, 1890. History Department Head at the University of Oregon, Associate Professor Jeffrey Ostler has held honors such as the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and has published articles in Western Historical Quarterly, Great Plains Quarterly, and Pacific Historical Review.
The book provides an overview of the relations between the Plains Sioux Indians and the United States from 1804 (the Lewis and Clark expedition) to 1890 (the Wounded Knee massacre). The main purpose of the book is to show how various Sioux communities and leaders responded to the growing power of the United States. The book differs from other books on the Sioux in that it uses the concept of colonialism to shed new light on the history of the Plains Sioux in the 1800s.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
by Meriwether Lewis
from LeClue
In 1804 two men were sent on a mission by President Jefferson. The president had just completed the Louisiana Purchase which included the unexplored American west. Jefferson wrote. “An intelligent officer, with ten or twelve chosen men ... might explore the whole line, even to the Western Ocean ... The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal stream of it as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado. The two men chosen for this mission were Lewis and Clark.
Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
by Gary Clayton Anderson
from Minnesota Historical Society Press
This collection of thirty-six narratives presents the Dakota Indians' experiences during a conflict previously known chiefly from the viewpoints of non-Indians.
Remember This!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives (Contemporary Indigenous Issues)
by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson
from University of Nebraska Press
The Black Hills Yesterday and Today
from Golden Valley Press
Take a journey across time in the fabled Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. Author/photographer Paul Horsted logged thousands of miles to seek out and rephotograph the original sites of more than 160 images made here between 1874 and 1935. In this book you will find rare and fascinating photographs of early expeditions, the gold rush, growing towns, tourist meccas and the unique beauty of the Black Hills. The historic images are matched with carefully composed views from today to create a near-mystical connection between past and present. The book includes "then and now" photos of towns such as Custer, Deadwood, Rapid City, Spearfish, Sundance and more. Places such as Mt. Rushmore, Devil's Tower, Custer State Park, Harney Peak and other landmarks are also shown. Seldom-published images of military expeditions and early explorers are also included in this remarkable oversized book.
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