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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?...
2) There there
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"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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After years spent on ranches around Los Angeles, Clay Tahoma is delighted to be Virgin River's new veterinary assistant. The secluded community's wild beauty tugs at his Navajo roots, and he's been welcomed with open arms by everyone in town—everyone except Lilly Yazhi.
Lilly has encountered her share of strong, silent, traditional men within her own aboriginal community, and she's not interested in coming back for more. In her eyes, Clay's earthy,...
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Publisher
Saga Press
Language
English
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"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends"--
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Physical Desc
400 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of North America from the perspective of its native peoples draws on the traditions, reminiscences, and legends of diverse Native American tribes to explore the history of these peoples and their way of life over the last five centuries.
12) White horse
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to...
16) Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Indians, Vol. 1: tribes, nations and people of the eastern woodlands
Publisher
Somerset Publishers
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
370 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
Omri's birthday present from his best friend, Patrick, isn't what he really wanted. He received other gifts that are much more exciting--a skateboard, a mysterious cupboard from his brother, and, from his mother, a very old key that fits the cupboard's lock. By the end of the day Omri has almost forgotten the three-inch-high Indian Patrick gave him.
But just before going to bed, Omri decides to put the Indian in the cupboard. He shuts the door, locks...