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I don't know much about this topic and thought it was a great resource. The text is easy to read and there is a lot of information, with a wonderful selection of photographs from the New Deal Era. It's also important to understand how the events during that time period affected indigenous people.
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

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On my last look at this series of quick historical books for school libraries, for Book Five – https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7305123798 – I only found issues that are repeated here, namely captions and box-outs getting in the way of the main narrative flow, and the narrative just having been chopped into sections for six pamphlet-sized products when one full story should have sufficed. Randomly I'm seeing Book Three here, which covers the New Deal up to the early 1950s, so shows the generosity of the Alaskan Natives and other Native Americans in serving in two major wars, and some bodies set up here and there and laws passed now and then that went to redress the capture of Native lands. As it feels a dry segment of something greater, and as that bigger picture is so important to see, I can't rate this portion highly. It's importance is what matters more than a marking anyway, but an individual grade for these pages in isolation can't exceed 3/5.

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This is a nicely formatted book that will fill a need in my library. It is accessible for younger readers but serves as a nice jumping off point for older ones. It also emphasizes learning new vocab words.

Thank you for the ARC. I will look at purchasing the series for my library.

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