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2) Kod Dakotów
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Polish
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In 1801 newly elected president Thomas Jefferson, taking office in the burgeoning capital of Washington, D.C., convinces Ethan Gage and Norwegian Magnus Bloodhammer to go on a scouting expedition--one that precedes that of Lewis and Clark--to investigate reports of woolly mammoths and blue-eyed Indians. The pair have their own motive, however, which they neglect to share with the president: a search for the mythical hammer of the Norse god Thor.
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Polish
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Anty-mitologia Dzikiego Zachodu O książce Oparta na autentycznych wydarzeniach z połowy XIX wieku historia czternasto- letniego chłopca, który pewnego dnia ucieka z domu od owdowiałego ojca pijaka i wyrusza na Południe. Wkracza na drogę, która przypomina podróż Dantego w głąb Piekła. To czasy bezlitosnej masakry Indian, ciemne karty w historii Ameryki, naznaczone przemocą i bezprawiem.
Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern...
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Polish
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A book inspired by the author's family history, and specifically by Korczak Ziolkowski, the sculptor of the Crazy Horse monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The book is about the current status and outlook of the American Indians, such as Indian history, culture, traditions, subjugation, suffering, failed government policy, education, and emergence. The author's interviews with Indians, the representatives from different tribes add insight...
8) Dalva
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Polish
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Dalva a Plains Indian returns to her home on the plains of Nebraska, accompanied by her boyfriend, Michael, a historian. Through her great grandfather's journals, which span the years of the civil war to Wounded Knee in 1890, she searches for the son given up for adoption when she was a teenager, while delving into the secrets in the journal.
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Polish
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At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians,...
11) Zagubiony ptak
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Polish
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Film star Sharon David travels to the Wind River country convinced that she was adopted at birth from the reservation.