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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Explores the concept of land ownership and how it has shaped history, examining how people fight over, steward, and occasionally share land, and what humanity's proprietary relationship with land means for the future.
2) Blood memory
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the "Journal," one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One hundred years ago, American patriots picked up rifles and fought against British tyranny. That was Boston. There the enemy was King George III and his British troops. Now, In Last Chance, Texas, in the Big Bend River country, it's Abraham Hacker, a ruthless cattle baron who will slaughter anyone who tries to lay claim to the fertile land and everything on it. For Last Chance, freedom is under siege one violent act at a time. Until wounded Texas...
Author
Series
Silver Hills trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Angel Rogers is alone in the world. With both her mother and father gone, the fiery young woman is left to run Rogers Ranch on her own. Not an easy taks for anyone in 1894, especially in the midst of a drought that has nearby ranchers desperate for the water on her land. So it is that rancher Jeremy Johnson comes to call upon Angel, hoping to strike a bargain that will allow his cattle to graze on the fertile Rogers land and drink from its sparkling...
5) Ranchero
Author
Series
Stanton saga volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Spencer Stanton's word was law. He had killed many to win his vast cattle spread, and would do anything fair or foul to keep it. Every ranchhand, every neighboring landowner, every roaming Indian tribe knew better than to cross this man's power, this man's pride. But some hadn't gotten the message: a trio of vicious gunmen who murdered and raped as naturally as they drew breath, a giant bull-like cattle baron who lusted after Stanton's prime beef,...
6) Yanqui
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the high country of New Mexico, the land made the men, and Spencer Stanton wanted a hunk of it for his empire. But there were those who were bent on giving him a rough ride. Some were bunched up against him--the Yanqui-hating Mexicans to the south and the blood-hungry Utes to the north. Some were strung out alone--land-grabbing drifters with steel in their hearts and in their holsters, men like Hagen, a wagon boss turned-killer who still carried...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Djunawunya, Arnhem Land, east of the town of Maningrida, July 1978. Frank Gurrmanamana is responsible for preparing the final mortuary ceremonies for his brother who had died six years before. The brother had been buried in Maningrida, but now his remains are being brought back to his home country. Central to the ceremonies is Harry Diama, the senior blood-relative of the deceased man, but Harry lives in Maningrida and is pre-occupied with a pending...
9) Gut shot
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
Dan Quaid had a chance to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon at $2.00 an acre. And he wanted to get his boy out to the country where a man could breathe without knocking down his neighbour.So the Quaids pulled stakes and moved. Dan didn't know that the company selling him the land was at war with the squatters already on it, and that the squatters were led by a vicious, violent man who thought nothing of murder when it came to keeping people...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Exploring the relationship between Aboriginal people and their land, Walya Ngamardiki was inspired by Silas Roberts' submission to the 1976 Australian Government inquiry on uranium mining. Silas, whose tribal name is Ngourladi, is an elder of the Allawa clan and was the first chairman of the Northern Land Council, established to assist Aboriginal people make land claims based on traditional ownership. The film, which moves from Arnhem Land in the...
11) High prairie
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"When the snow melted, tempers tightened in the Big Horn Basin. Men muttered of trouble coming - between small ranchers and big combines - between nesters and cattlemen. Big trouble, killing trouble. Over in Johnson County, they said, the war had already started. Hired gunmen, a small army of professional killers, were raiding and burning, slaughtering anyone who stood against them. Dave Ashmead was an honest, hard-working, small rancher who wanted...
12) The secret river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE
A BBC2 BIG JUBILEE BETWEEN THE COVERS READ London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales...
13) Yorky Billy
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At Ngurgdu (Spring Peak) in the Northern Territory, an area soon to be irrevocably disturbed by uranium mining, 80-year-old William Alderson (known as “Yorky Billy”) reflects on his life in the outback. His father was an Englishman from Yorkshire (hence Yorky’s nickname) who spent 45 years in Australia and “tried everything” – working as a prospector, a railway worker, drover and buffalo hunter. After only 3 years of school, his only son,...
14) Ningla ANa
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A rare additon to the study of Australian History. Made in 1972, this documentary records the events surrounding the establishment of the Aboriginal tent embassy on the lawns of Parliament House. It incorporates interviews with black activists, the work of the National Black Theatre, Aboriginal Legal Service and Aboriginal Medical Service, plus footage from the demonstrations and arrests at the embassy. This is the only film to focus on the tent...
16) Wagon Wheel Gap
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Tony Darrow lost his job at Wagon Wheel Ranch when owner Mark McCarron learned of his past. The cowboy had done time for horse stealing. With Tony out of the way, it looked like Blaise Amory, the country's most respected citizen, was a sure bet to win the love of redheaded Margie, Mark McCarron's daughter. Then Tony played a dangerous hunch. He suspected that Amory was the leader of a vicious outlaw gang stealing land from the U.S. Government. But...
17) Ambush range
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Say you're me -- Jim Bannister. You scrape a cattle herd together and move it onto free grass. But the land-hungry Crescent spread tells you to get out. You tell them you're staying, come hell or high water. Then they gun-whip you, rustle your cows and frame you for a drygulch killing you never committed. I don't know about you -- but me, I'm going after Crescent with guns smoking. Ambush Range tells the violent-paced story of Jim Bannister, who...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Made for the United Nations, this documentary chronicles the logging damage that has taken place in the forests of Finnish Lapland over the past 50 years. Home to the indigenous Saami peoples, these Northern old growth forests are essential to Saami reindeer herding, a traditional way of life that the Saami hope to continue into future generations. Population growth in Finland has created economic pressure - prompting migration to the Saami lands...
20) Takeover
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of the major works produced by the AIAS Film Unit, this documentary observes the profound effect on an Aboriginal community of political and bureaucratic decisions made far away. Although specific to time and place, the film is timeless and universal in its observations of a conflict between an Indigenous minority and a powerful government. The film presents an insiders view of events that followed an announcement made without warning on 13 March...
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