Tousey, SheilaOverview
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Sheila Tousey
Skinwalkers
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4 editions published between 2002 and 2004 in English and held by 796 libraries worldwide The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker"--Is at work.
Dreamkeeper
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5 editions published between 2003 and 2007 in English and held by 544 libraries worldwide A Lakota storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy, embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery. The grandson agrees to take his grandfather from Pine Ridge Reservation in S.D. to a powwow in Santa Fe in order to escape from some trouble with the local gang. Interwoven with the journey of the grandfather and grandson are retellings of Native American legends.
Coyote waits
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5 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 507 libraries worldwide In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.
Christmas in the clouds
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 294 libraries worldwide Ray has just returned from college to run a Native American ski lodge. The lodge is a laid back place where the employees' children play in the lobby and the handyman has a habit of hitting on the guests. The lodge is not exactly four-star travel guide material. But when Ray learns that a travel guide representative is coming to make an inspection, he decides to make the lodge a professional place of business. Ray has to contend with his somewhat eccentric staff, which includes an emotional vegetarian chef who takes a certain pleasure in informing his diners of the names he has given the animals they are about to eat. Despite Ray's exhaustive preparations, something goes wrong. A case of mistaken identity has the real travel guide representative must deal with a hefty dose of hotel mismanagement.
Coming to light Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
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4 editions published between 2000 and 2007 in English and held by 258 libraries worldwide The dramatic story of Edward S. Curtis' life, his work, including his monumental photographic output, and his changing views of the people he set out to document. This video includes Native Americans in the discussion of Curtis' images.
The song of Hiawatha
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4 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in English and held by 152 libraries worldwide As Hiawatha rises from his nation's youngest war chief to the People's mightiest leader, his reputation spreads across the wilderness, but the winds of change are stirring through the forest.
Medicine River
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5 editions published between 1992 and 1996 in English and held by 117 libraries worldwide An international photo-journalist's life is turned upside down when he returns home after an absence of 20 years for his mother's funeral.
Thunderheart
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2 editions published between 1992 and 2005 in English and held by 91 libraries worldwide A young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage. Gradually, he comes to believe that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man, but finds that he and those around him are thrown into danger because of his suspicions.
Wildflowers
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2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 56 libraries worldwide Seventeen-year-old Cally was born into the idyll of commune life. Since she was five, however, Cally has been living on a houseboat with her father, who is sweet but out of touch, barely able to get by, trying just to hold onto Cally. Then Cally meets the older and exotic Sabine, a runaway who has been running for far too long. Cally is intoxicated with her vivacity, her intensity, and in Sabine, Cally sees something of herself. Cally finds sabine and pursues her. Eventually She's allowed into Sabine's life and becomes immersed in the drama she finds thre. Clues to Sabine's mysterious past begin to surface. Cally eventually discovers that Sabine may possibly be her own long lost mother.
Slaughter of the innocents
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2 editions published between 1994 and 2004 in English and held by 24 libraries worldwide "Special Agent Stephen Broderick is forced to work his most terrifying case when his only son falls into the lair of a deranged serial killer. When Broderick is called to head up a statewide investigation of the mysterious murders of two young children, he receives help form the most unlikely source -- his young son Jesse. Jesse's amazing computer talents help the two to connect the murders with a a series of brutal killings that have occurred in the vicinity. But when a proud father's encouragement leads Jesse into the deadliest trap. Broderick's pursuit of the slayer becomes an explosive and deadly battle"--Container.
James Fenimore Cooper's The Pathfinder
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide The Pathfinder: The legendary woodsman known as the Pathfinder, his adoptive Indian father, Chingachgook, and a beautiful Colonial woman, Mabel Dunham, are swept up in a desperate race to rescue a British fort besieged by hostile French forces, and a deadly, unknown traitor.
Johnny Tootall
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 12 libraries worldwide Johnny Tootall, a young Native American man discharged from the Bosnian War, returns to his home on Vancouver Island to resolve his personal and spiritual crises.
Tony Hillerman's Skinwalkers
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1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker"--Is at work.
Sam Shepard directs his new play "The late Henry Moss
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
Into the West. Episode 3, Dreams & schemes
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Tells the intertwining story of the Wheeler family of Virginia and the Lakota people. Beginning in 1848, gold fever spreads across the land bringing thousands of prospectors to California to seek their fortune, devastating sacred Lakota lands in their wake. Greed overtakes Jethro Wheeler and he nearly risks his life to strike it rich. Meanwhile, Loved by the Buffalo, now in exile, continues to seek the prophet who will save the Lakota people and their land. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 divides the Union, and the Civil War begins in 1861.
PBS presents for your Emmy consideration
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1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
Huellas criminales = Slaughter of the innocents
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2 editions published between 1994 and 1998 in Spanish and held by 1 library worldwide
Interview with Sheila Tousey
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2 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1 library worldwide In December of 2007, as part of its Native Theater Festival, the Public Theater brought Native theater professionals from around the U.S. and Canada to New York City for a series of readings and discussions. The five-day festival included play readings, post-performance discussions, concerts, roundtables, and the performance of Darrell Dennis' 'Tales of and Urban Indian.' This video documents an interview with Sheila Tousey, conducted by Diane Glancy as a part of a supplementary Native Theater Festival interview series.
Medicine river going home can never be the same
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1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
In the summer house
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1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 1 library worldwide more
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Biographical films Biography Chee, Jim (Fictitious character) Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952 Detective and mystery films Detective and mystery television programs Documentary films Drama Feature films Feature films Fiction Film adaptations Film adaptations Films for the hearing impaired Grandfathers Great Plains Hiawatha,--15th cent Homicide investigation Indian business enterprises Indian reservations Indians of North America Indians of North America--Government relations Leaphorn, Joe, Lt. (Fictitious character) Legends Navajo Indians New Age music North America Photograph collections Photographers Photographic historians Picture-writing Police Portraits Sioux Nation Ski resorts Southwest, New Teenage boys Television adaptations Television mini-series Television music--Excerpts Teton Indians Tourism United States United States.--Federal Bureau of Investigation United States--Southwestern States Video recordings Video recordings for the hearing impaired Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Visual anthropology West (U.S.)
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