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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
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Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition ;
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Indigenous women have always worked tirelessly to protect our water--keeping it pure and clean for the generations to come. Yet there was a time when their voices and teachings were nearly drowned out, leaving entire communities and environments in danger and without clean water.
But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece Autumn.
Speak for the water. Sing for the water. Dance for the water.
With moving lyricism and arresting illustrations,...
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Pemmican Wars volume 1
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HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage and Main Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Echo Desjardins, a 13 year old girl, is adjusting to a new home and school and struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's class turns extraordinary, and Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. As Echo slips back and forth in time, she visits a Metis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the...
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Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Aski, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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First American edition.
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viii, 160 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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"For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator--from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan--and much to the ire of the Patusan natives--the Korean conglomerate...
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North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Second edition.
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229 pages : 20 cm.
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English
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Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, bit also the negative connotation--a person...
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Charlesbridge
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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39 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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"A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: we are still here"--
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Magic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
60 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Indigenous people and people of color are disproportionately affected by climate change, yet often aren't heard in global conversations. In this book, British Bangladeshi environmentalist and campaigner for equal rights Dr. Mya-Rose Craig speaks to campaigners from around the world about what needs to be done. From wildlife conservation to clean water, air pollution to plastic waste, climate justice to climate strikes, the time has come to listen...
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Walt Longmire mystery volume 17
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English
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"When Lolo Long's niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya "Longshot" Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native Woman in Indian Country. Lolo hopes that having Longmire...
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Greenwood Books, an imprint of House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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A child imagines all their relations who made a single mnoomin seed possible. Mayfly, Pike, Muskrat, Eagle and Moose--all had a part to play in bringing the seed into being. And when the seed sprouts? Underwater leaves will shelter young fish, shoots will protect ducklings, stalks will feed larvae, in turn providing food for bats... until finally mnoomin is ready to harvest again.
13) Origin
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Razorbill
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home--and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark...
14) We still belong
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow"--
15) Cherokee America
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
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vii, 385 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center"--
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HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage and Main Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
10th Anniversary Edition.
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Inspired by true events, this story of strength, family, and culture shares the awe-inspiring resilience of Elder Betty Ross.
Abandoned as a young child, Betsy is adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, everything changes. Betsy is taken away to a residential school. There she is forced to endure abuse and indignity, but Betsy recalls the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls--words that give her the resilience, strength, and...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A love letter to Indigenous communities everywhere, this picture book gorgeously illustrated by Julie Flett celebrates seasons, nature, and community. Based on Academy Award-winning Cree icon Buffy Sainte-Marie's song of the same name, Still This Love Goes On is a stunning celebration of Indigenous experience. Breathtaking illustrations from celebrated Cree-Métis artist Julie Flett combine with Sainte-Marie's vivid lyrics to craft a remarkable piece...
18) Wandering stars
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 315 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is...
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Avon
Pub. Date
1991
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English
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The hunter is free to kill again -- and hour by hour, he draws closer . . .
The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture–murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd -- a teacher on the reservation -- put Carlisle behind bars, and now she can't ignore the dark, mystical signs that say a predator has returned to prowl the Arizona desert. Because no matter where...
20) Cree
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English
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This title introduces readers to the Cree people and covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans and American settlers, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today.