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Yale University Press
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English
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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, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results...
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Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
Twenty fifth anniversary edition, first Vintage International edition
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Blood Meridian" is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps...
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Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 21 cm
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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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In 1911, a farm family is killed in Pluto, North Dakota, and three Ojibwe are lynched for the murders even though there is no evidence of their guilt; and years later, the events of the crime reverberate among the descendants of those involved.
Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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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 Industrial School for Indians, 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...
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Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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In this happy, vibrant tribute to Rock Your Mocs Day, observed yearly on November 15, author Laurel Goodluck (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian) and artist Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw) celebrate the joy and power of wearing moccasins--and the Native pride that comes with them. A perfect book for Native American Heritage Month, and all year round!
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
40 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
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After his family moves to the city, young Ojiig misses the life he knew back home and the night sky full of stars until his parents help him find ways to make the city feel more like home.
11) A letter for Bob
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Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
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"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 ..."--
12) Remember
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Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations : 28 cm
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English
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"Picture book adaptation of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem, Remember"--
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Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
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315 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
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English
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Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
14) Forever cousins
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Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.
15) Mascot
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Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Six eighth graders in Washington, DC, navigate through the conflict and division sparked by a school assignment focused on their town's Native American mascot.
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
vii, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation lead her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, in this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino...and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every...
17) Two tribes
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Publisher
Heartdrum, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life. Soon, Mia makes a plan...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a ̌Mtis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season...
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Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
xxx, 384 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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The Last of the Mohicans is the second and most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales. Set in 1757 during the fierce French and Indian wars, Cooper's classic novel of adventure follows an adroit scout and his companion as they weave through the lush and spectacular wilderness of upstate New York, fighting to save the beautiful daughters of a fort commander from a treacherous Huron renegade. With its death-defying chases and...
20) Harvest house
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"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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