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  • The Bingo Queens of Oneida

    How Two Moms Started Tribal Gaming in Wisconsin

    by Mike Hoeft ...
    Before Indian casinos sprouted up around the country, a few enterprising tribes got their start in gambling by opening bingo parlors. A group of women on the Oneida Indian Reservation just outside Green Bay, Wisconsin, introduced bingo in 1976 simply to pay a few bills. Bingo not only paid the light bill at the struggling civic center but was soon financing vital health and housing services for ... Read more

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  • The Education of Augie Merasty

    A Residential School Memoir

    by Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty, David Carpenter ...
    Series series The Regina Collection
    The Education of Augie Merasty offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school.Now a retired fisherman and trapper, Joseph A. (Augie) Merasty was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government-funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of "aggressive assimiliation."As ... Read more

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  • Native Roots

    How the Indians Enriched America

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    “Gracefully written . . . thoroughly researched . . . America is a banquet prepared by the Indians—who were forgotten when it was time to give thanks at the table.”—St. Paul Pioneer-Express“Well written, imagery-ridden . . . A tale of what was, what became, and what is today regarding the Indian relation to the European civilization that ‘grafted’ itself onto this ‘ancient stem’”—Minneapolis Star ... Read more

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  • American Colonies

    The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)

    by Alan Taylor, Eric Foner ...
    Series series The Penguin History of the United States
    A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American RevolutionsIn the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, ... Read more

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  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

    by Anton Treuer ...
    "I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, 'Your people have a beautiful culture.' . . . I made many lifelong friends at college, and they supported but also challenged me with questions like, ... Read more

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  • 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

    by Gord Hill ...
    The history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually beneficial process, in which ”civilization” was brought to the Natives, who in return shared their land and cultures. A more critical history might present it as a genocide in which Indigenous peoples were helpless victims, overwhelmed and awed by European military power. In reality, neither of these ... Read more

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  • Custer’s Last Stand: Portraits in Time

    by Charles A. Mills ...
    Since his death along the bluffs overlooking the Little Bighorn River, in Montana, on June 25, 1876, over five hundred books have been written about the life and career of George Armstrong Custer. The earliest works portrayed Custer as a romantic, knightly figure, a paragon of virtue and chivalry. Custer was the valorous paladin killed in the cause of Christian civilization and American Manifest ... Read more

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  • Totally Crazy Gambling Stories

    by SportsTradingLife.com ...
    "Totally Crazy but Totally TRUE Gambling Scams, Cons & Hustles"Discover the stories behind some of the most insane and audacious Gambling scams from across the world, and the Internet too. Not many people have ever beaten the Casino or the Bookmakers either, and those that did will normally have had a bit of help along the way. You will find out just how some of these scammers were beating the ... Read more

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  • Slots

    Praying to the God of Chance

    by David V. Forrest ...
    A renowned psychiatrist explores the world of slot machine gambling and the almost religious devotion that has turned it into a billion-dollar industry.This astonishing book reveals that there's a lot more to playing slot machines—one of America's fastest growing forms of entertainment—than good fun, deep relaxation and the dream of a multi-million-dollar jackpot. Slots tells how the machines work ... Read more

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  • Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho

    Southern Arapaho

    by Margaret Coel ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons—both white and Indian—who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting, and closely documented account of his life and the life of his tribe during the fateful years of the mid ... Read more

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  • Powerful Profits: Winning Strategies For Casino Games

    by Victor H Royer ...
    Series series Powerful Profits
    You know the basics—now learn the pros' secrets!It is possible to win big at casinos. But to win consistently and walk out richer every time, you need more than luck and basic game smarts—you need the kind of insider knowledge that only a pro like gambling authority and casino consultant Victor H. Royer can provide.In this updated edition of Powerful Profits: Winning Strategies for Casino Games, ... Read more

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  • First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law

    Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives

    Edited by Catherine Bell, Val Napoleon ...
    Series series Law and Society
    First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law explores First Nations perspectives on cultural heritage and issues of reform within and beyond Western law. Written in collaboration with First Nation partners, it contains seven case studies featuring indigenous concepts, legal orders, and encounters with legislation and negotiations; a national review essay; three chapters reflecting on major themes; and ... Read more

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