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Author
Series
Home to blessing volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Astrid Bjorklund tries to stop the horrific epidemic that is ravaging the Red Bud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, but when the man she loves cannot accept her calling to become a doctor, she faces a difficult choice.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Description
Because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence--the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era...
Author
Publisher
North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
175 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Anang wants to make a ribbon skirt, a piece of clothing typically worn by girls in the Anishinaabe tradition, for an upcoming powwow. Anang is two-spirit and nonbinary and doesn't know what others will think of them wearing a ribbon skirt, but they're determined to follow their heart's desire. Anang sets off to gather the materials needed to make the skirt and turns to those around them -- their family, their human and turtle friends,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Levine Querido, an imprint of Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mavasta Honyouti was a boy he would go with his grandfather to their cornfield, watching him nurture every plant. During breaks, his grandfather would take out a piece of paako root and use his pocketknife to whittle away. He made beautiful carvings that Mavasta would later learn to do himself.
But Mavasta would often wonder: what was his kwa’a like when he was a boy? And one day, he heard the story.
Mavasta’s grandfather, like many Native...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Language
English
Description
Presents a fictionalized account of the life of Mary Rowlandson, a Puritan woman living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who was captured by Native Americans in 1675 and who developed empathy for her captors before she was released eight months later.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
As children help a Native American grandmother make fry bread, delves into the history, social ways, foodways, and politics of America's 573 recognized Indian tribes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwood Books, an imprint of House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido, an imprint of Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition ;
Physical Desc
313 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local bully in his neighborhood, Matt Schroeder, who terrorizes Ezra and his friend Nora George.
Ezra gets into a terrible fight with Matt at school defending...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Beaver challenges Turtle to a swimming race for ownership of the pond, Turtle outsmarts Beaver, and Beaver learns to share.
14) Autumn
Author
Series
Publisher
Cameron Kids, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully illustrated poem by Muscogee poet Alexander Posey, a little girl celebrates the changing seasons as the summer sun sets and autumn arrives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption."--Jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books, an imprint of Newmark Learning LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Written and illustrated by Native Americans from various tribal nations, these comics detail the deep emotions of leaving one’s homeland to fight in a war far away, the comfort and benefit in finding those who speak your native language, and the pride in knowing you served your country while honoring your people. A high percentage of Native Americans serve in the U.S. military and bring special talents that have aided their fighting units during...
18) A Letter for Bob
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ever since the day Mom and Dad brought Bob home from the car dealership, Bob has been a part of Katie's family.
Bob has taken them all over, from powwows to vacations to time spent with faraway family. Bob has been there in sad and scary times and for some of the family's most treasured memories.
But after many miles, it's time for the family to say goodbye to Bob...
Author
Series
Pemmican Wars volume 1
Publisher
HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage and Main Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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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