Spanish Peaks Library District

An account, written in the nineteenth century, of the unjust and cruel treatment received by Native Americans at the hands of the U.S. government.

This Colorado Environmental Performance Partnership Agreement (CEPPA) is an agreement that identifies and explains the key environmental priorities and goals in the State of Colorado, and the working relationship between the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It allows Colorado to identify key state priorities, allocate federal resources to the highest state priorities,...

The Colorado Performance Partnership Agreement (CEPPA) is an agreed-to plan between the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Region 8 of the Environmental Protection Agency to address environmental issues and problems in Colorado. Thus, it reflects commitments made by both agencies to environmental management.

This Colorado Environmental Performance Partnership Agreement (CEPPA) is an agreement that identifies and explains the key environmental priorities and goals in the State of Colorado, and the working relationship between the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It allows Colorado to identify key state priorities, allocate federal resources to the highest state priorities,...

"This nation's history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America," an epoch that supposedly laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hämäläinen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless "victims" of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled North America well into the 19th century. From the Iroquois...

There is an "official" process a presidential disaster declaration usually follows, but the official procedure is sometimes short-circuited by governors and presidents in the interest of political responsiveness. This study investigated factors that propel a disaster event to approval by the president in the absence of meeting full administrative requirements.

Recounts the 1,500 mile trek of a band of Northern Cheyenne from an Oklahoma reservation in 1878 to their home on the Yellowstone.

The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...