land tenure

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land tenure

Wish you well

2000
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.

The scratch of a pen

1763 and the transformation of North America
2006
Traces the history of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Seven Years' War, and explores how the Treaty set in motion an unexpected series of consequences that changed the history of North America.

Black Hills white justice

the Sioux nation versus the United States : 1775 to the present
1991
History of the Sioux nation's one hundred year effort to secure restitution for the seizure of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

House of stone

the true story of a family divided in war-torn Zimbabwe
2007
Recounts Nigel Hough's experiences as one of the few remaining white farmers in the war-torn country of Zimbabwe, describing how his life differed from that of his family's much-loved nanny, Aqui.

Four souls

2004
Fleur Pillager, an Ojibwe Native-American upset with the lumber company that stripped her reservation of trees, walks to the twin cities for revenge and lives with Polly Elizabeth Gheen, a vulnerable upper-class women who is transformed with Fleur's guidance.

The Indian Removal Act

forced relocation
2007
Profiles the "Trail of Tears," the forced removal of five Southeastern Native American tribes to land west of the Mississippi River during the winter of 1838 and 1839.

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