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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
5) Native American stories for kids: 12 traditional stories from Indigenous tribes across North America
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 84 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America, exploring lore about how the mountain Denali formed, why the...
6) There there
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a wealthy landowner is found floating in the Alabaster River on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero, struggles to solve this murder that has the town of Jewel, Minnesota, up in arms, while putting to rest the demons from his own past.
9) Invincible
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English
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When her photographic memory makes her the target of a criminal who will do anything to make her forget, Carlie Blair entrusts her life--and her heart--to a Lakota Sioux named Carson, a man she once despised.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most"--
11) Poison flower
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novel volume 7
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Protecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Dear America series. In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
14) Book of the Hopi
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1963]
Physical Desc
xvii, 347 p. illus. (part col.) ports., diagrs. 26 cm.
Language
English
16) Sioux trail
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
ix, 213 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
17) Skinwalkers
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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English
Description
National Book Award Finalist?Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas,...
19) Crazy Horse
Author
Publisher
Viking/Lipper Book
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
148 p.; 20 cm.
Language
English
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