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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"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!"--
2) My good man
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious assault lands the brother of his mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian, a twenty-something Indigenous reporter, must pick up the threads of a life he's abandoned, returning to the Tuscarora reservation to discover the truth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Anansi
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world’s indigenous cultures. In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true Lost Civilization, the people...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
302 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the colonised, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument...
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When twenty-five-year-old, aspiring fashion designer Mitzi Bearclaw learns that her mother is ill, she returns home to her isolated reservation in southwestern Canada to help care for her, reconnecting with her roots in the process.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
160 pages
Language
English
Description
"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 LK...
7) Fieldwork
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his girlfriend takes a job as a schoolteacher in northern Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, working as little as possible for one of Thailandś English-language newspapers. One evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story. A charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead -- a suicide -- in the Thai prison where she was serving a fifty-year sentence for murder. Motivated first by simple...
Publisher
[Videomax]
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
An indigenous language is in peril as its last two speakers, Evaristo and Isauro, had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martin, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge to bring the old friends back together and convince them to once again talk to each other, all so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it. However, hidden in the past, in the heart of the jungle, lies a secret...
Author
Series
Emily Tempest investigations volume 1
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emily Tempest, a feisty part-aboriginal woman, left home to get an education and has since traveled abroad. She returns to visit the Moonlight Downs "mob," still uncertain if she belongs in the aboriginal world or that of the whitefellers. Within hours of her arrival, an old friend is murdered and mutilated. The police suspect a rogue aborigine, but Emily starts asking questions.
Publisher
Bear & Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xxiv, 359 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to todayś global crisis: Original Instructions are ancient ways of living from the heart of humanity within the heart of nature ; Explores the convergence of indigenous and contemporary science and the re-indigenization of the worldś peoples ; Includes authoritative indigenous voices, including John Mohawk and Winona LaDuke. For millennia the worldś indigenous peoples have acted as guardians...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unflinching reimagining of Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing for young adults. Written specifically for young adults, reluctant readers, and literacy learners, Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individual's brain, body, and behavior. It explores how learned patterns of behavior -- the ways people adapt to trauma to survive -- are passed down...
13) The frog mother
Author
Series
Publisher
HighWater Press
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illulstrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Description
To the Gitxsan of Northwestern British Columbia, Nox Ga'naaw is a storyteller, speaking truths of the universe. When Nox Ga'naaw, the frog mother, releases her eggs among the aquatic plants of a pond, the tiny tadpoles are left to fend for themselves. As they hatch, grow legs, and transform into their adult selves, they must avoid the mouths of hungry predators.
14) On the trapline
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A boy and Moshom, his grandpa, take a trip together to visit a place of great meaning to Moshom. A trapline is where people hunt and live off the land, and it was where Moshom grew up. As they embark on their northern journey, the child repeatedly asks his grandfather, Is this your trapline? Along the way, the boy finds himself imagining what life was like two generations ago -- a life that appears to be both different from and similar to his life...
Author
Publisher
HighWater Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away"--
Publisher
Warner Bro
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (5 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explore the wild natural extremes of the South American continent in a spectacular series from the BBC. Traveling from the Antarctic regions to the equator, you'll witness the impressive networking of rivers, mountains, rainforests, and deserts -- along with amazing night-vision views of rare animal species -- that provide the region with its romantic diversity.
Author
Series
Earthdivers volume 1
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, they send one of their own--a reluctant linguist named Tad--on...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness -- the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural -- to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows...
Author
Publisher
TED Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
117 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this exciting adventure mixed with amazing scientific study, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon — where rivers boil and legends come to life. When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious legend: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it. Twelve years later, Ruzo — now a geoscientist — hears his aunt mention that...
20) Harvest house
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired...
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