Borealis Books
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Grass of the Earth: The Story of a Norwegian Immigrant Family in Dakota
$19.95 Add to cartAn engaging, richly detailed biography of a family of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in eastern North Dakota in the late 1800s. Educator and world traveler Aagot Raaen wrote this reminiscence late i… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Raaen, Aagot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0873512952
- Language: English
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I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland
$24.95 Add to cartA founding member of Babes in Toyland takes readers on the roller coaster ride of the rock-and-roll lifestyle and her own journey of self-discovery.
- Author: Leon, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1681343002
- Language: English
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We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement
$39.95 Read moreThe American Indian Movement, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, burst into that turbulent time with passion, anger, and radical acts of resistance. Spurred by the Civil Rights movement, Native people be… [more below]
- Author: Bancroft, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 15 2013
- ISBN10: 087351887X
- Language: English
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The Settlers: The Emigrant Novels: Book III
$27.95 Read moreConsidered one of Sweden’s greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigr… [more below]
- Series: Emigrant Novels #03
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513215
- Language: English
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Dred and Harriet Scott: A Family’s Struggle for Freedom
$14.95 Add to cartA biography for young readers, ages 9 and up, that humanizes the people behind the famous Dred Scott decision, the first legal test of slavery in the United States.
- Author: Swain, Gwenyth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: February 09 2004
- ISBN10: 0873514831
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Hole in the Day
$22.95 Add to cartExplores the murder of the controversial Ojibwe chief who led his people through the first difficult years of dispossession by white invaders-and created a new kind of leadership for the Ojibwe.
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- Author: Treuer, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0873518438
- Language: English
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Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper
$22.95 Add to cartThe inside story of the shocking Piper kidnapping: from the abduction and recovery, through the grueling investigation and trials, and into the Pipers’ haunted final years.
- Author: Swanson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519930
- Language: English
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Chippewa Customs
$22.95 Add to cartChippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) I… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Densmore, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: October 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0873511425
- Language: English
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Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past
$22.95 Read moreA child of a typical 1950s suburb unearths her mother’s hidden heritage, launching a rich and magical exploration of her own identity and her family’s powerful Native American past.
- Author: Wilson, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0873517652
- Language: English
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A Dictionary of the Ojibway Language
$34.95 Add to cartThe language of the Ojibway people was recorded by Frederic Baraga (1797-1868), a missionary priest from Slovenia, who was sent in 1835 by the Catholic church to serve among the Ojibway living in the … [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Baraga, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: November 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0873512812
- Language: English
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Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans
$18.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking anthology that chronicles the emerging literary voice of a contemporary American immigrant community.
- Author: Moua, Mai Neng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514378
- Language: English
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The Last Letter Home: The Emigrant Novels: Book IV
$27.95 Read moreConsidered one of Sweden’s greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigr… [more below]
- Series: Emigrant Novels #04
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 873513223
- Language: English
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Unto a Good Land: The Emigrant Novels: Book II
$27.95 Add to cartConsidered one of Sweden’s greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigr… [more below]
- Series: Emigrant Novels #02
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513207
- Language: English
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Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods
$18.95 Add to cartIn the wilderness, one false step can make the difference between a delightful respite and a brush with death. On a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998, Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old canoeist, was leadin… [more below]
- Author: Griffith, Cary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0873515897
- Language: English
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Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories
$18.95 Add to cartIn this paperback original, new stories by award-winning writer Will Weaver complement selected favorites from his original collection Gravestone Made of Wheat chronicling sweeping changes in Midweste… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0873515560
- Language: English
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Land of the Burnt Thigh: A Lively Story of Women Homesteaders on the South Dakota Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartThis tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life.
“Interesting in its spirit and atmosphere, and it is told simply and well. . . Thi… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Kohl, Edith Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: October 15 1986
- ISBN10: 0873511999
- Language: English
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The Emigrants: The Emigrant Novels: Book I
$27.95 Add to cartConsidered one of Sweden’s greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigr… [more below]
- Series: Emigrant Novels #01
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513193
- Language: English
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Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative
$17.95 Add to cartWith the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of en
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Broker, Ignatia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 135
- Publish Date: March 15, 1983
- ISBN10: 0873511670
- Language: English
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Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
$17.95 Read moreBuffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers … [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Wilson, Gilbert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: October 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0873512197
- Language: English
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Damn Good Food: 157 Recipes from Hell’s Kitchen
$27.95 Add to cartA collection of 157 recipes from Mitch Omer, chef-owner of the wildly popular Hell’s Kitchen, named one of the Best Breakfasts across America by Esquire magazine.
- Author: Omer, Mitch
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 1, 2009
- ISBN10: 0873517245
- Language: English
