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Sugar island volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off of what belongs to her Anishinaabe...
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"The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, as a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. ... Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish...
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Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with...
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English
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"Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family's totem pole: protective...
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Publisher
Joy Street Books
Pub. Date
[1971]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
44 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Edward and Nathan, two Navajo stepbrothers, work with a young water monster named Dew to confront their past and save the world from a monstrous, enormous Enemy that is stealing water from all of the Navajo Nation.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue between the miraculous and the mundane, the spiritual...
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Publisher
Salina Bookshelf
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
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English
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Explaining a solar eclipse, a Navajo tells his grandson that when the sun dies the children of Mother Earth are called from the four directions to repaint the universe in all the colors of the rainbow.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
ix, 390 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the age of sixty-seven, Percy Bullchild (1915–1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertaking—to “write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends,” as he puts it—as both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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2 videodiscs (4 hr., 23 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma; explores issues of racial identity between the mixed-descent peoples of both Native American and African American heritage; examines the crossover of ancient native remedies to present-day medical practices; documents the 1869, U.S. government-enacted policy of educating Native American children in the ways of western society.
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Taos Pueblo four seasons volume 2
Publisher
Seventh Generation Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
22 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"We are the Red Willow People of Taos Pueblo. This illustrations-only book tells the story of our Red Willow People of Taos Pueblo in present-day northern New Mexico. Taos Pueblo is known to be one of the longest continuously inhabited communities, designated both as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a National Historic Landmark. We speak Tiwa language, a dialect of Tanoan, which is unwritten and taught through oral tradition, having been passed down...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 235 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year 1540 was a crucial turning point in American history. The Great Indian Wars were incited by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado when his expedition to the Great Plains launched the inevitable 350-year struggle between the white man and the American Indians. From that point forward, the series of battles between the military and civilian forces of the United States and the native American Indians began when blood was shed and ultimately tens of...
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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405 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
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"A photographic celebration of contemporary Native American life and an examination of important issues the community faces today by the creator of Project 562, Matika Wilbur"--
"In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set out on a Kickstarter-funded pursuit to visit, engage, and photograph people from what were then the 562 federally recognized Native American Tribal Nations. Over the next decade, she traveled six hundred...
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English
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"Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should be practiced. Ultimately, revulsion at the work of nineteenth-century...
15) Wandering stars
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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...
16) Dreamkeeper
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Lakota storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy, embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery. The grandson agrees to take his grandfather from Pine Ridge Reservation in S.D. to a powwow in Santa Fe in order to escape from some trouble with the local gang. Interwoven with the journey of the grandfather and grandson are retellings of Native American legends.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
18) Gallop toward the sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's struggle for the destiny of a nation
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The conquest of indigenous land in the American East through corrupt treaties and genocidal violence laid the groundwork for the conquest of the American West. Acclaimed author Peter Stark exposes the fundamental conflicts at play through the little-known but consequential struggle between two extraordinary leaders. William Henry Harrison was born to a prominent Virginia family, son of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He journeyed...
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Physical Desc
33 pages , color illustrations.
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English
Description
Welcome to the sixth book in the Wilderness Adventures series. Join Sadie, a greater sage grouse, as she takes her three chicks throughout the Colorado Plateau and tells them stories about the ancient ruins and the monumental rock formations. Sadie wants to protect her chicks from the desert predators and teach them how to search for water. On their journey Sadie will reveal secrets to her chicks passed down by the Ancestral Puebloans. The chicks...
20) Warrior women
Publisher
Good Docs
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hour, 4 minutes)
Language
English
Description
In the 1970s, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought for Native liberation as a community of extended families. WARRIOR WOMEN is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists' children--including her daughter Marcy--into the "We Will Remember" Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and Marcy...
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