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4) Lost birds
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 9
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 9
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 9
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 9
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways. Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth...
5) Music within
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Deafened by a bomb blast in Vietnam, Richard returns home and discovers his life's calling: helping others with disabilities, including his fellow veterans. Along with his best friend Art, a wheelchair-bound rebel with a wicked wit, Richard fights for the rights of those whose voices can't always be heard. Based on the incredible true-life story of Richard Pimentel.
7) Army of One
Pub. Date
2016
Description
The film is inspired by the true story of Gary Faulkner, a handyman from Colorado who receives a vision from God telling him to go to Pakistan to do what no one else can do: capture Osama bin Laden. So without any questions or skills, he follows his mission.
8) Time of fear
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
In World War II, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps across the US. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast Arkansas, one of the poorest and most racially segregated places in America. It explores the reactions of the native Arkansans who watched in bewilderment as their tiny towns were overwhelmed by this huge influx of outsiders. Through interviews with the internees...
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
"The film powerfully highlights efforts to redress more than a century's worth of legal and political moves undermining Indian land ownership and sovereignty, going back to the 1887 General Allotment Act; the national fight to recover lost lands is being led by the Twin Cities-based Indian Tenure Land Foundation."--Publisher's webpage.
11) Dawnland
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"For decades, child welfare authorities have been forcibly removing Native American children from their homes to 'save' them from being Indian. [As of 1974, at least 1 in 4 Native American children nationwide had been separated from their families]. In Maine, the first official 'truth and reconciliation commission' in the United States begins an unprecedented investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body deals with difficult...
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