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Birchbark house volume 1
Language
English
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Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...
3) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee try to locate the body of a passenger aboard an airliner that crashed fifty years previous and the attache filled with diamonds that he was carrying in order to prove the innocence of a young man, but they are not the only ones in search of the gems.
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Language
English
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"Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called upon once again to solve a crime. This time it's Joe's last case, a case that remains unsolved and contines to haunt him."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Pub. Date
[1971, c1970]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
xvii, 487 p. illus., music, ports. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition, Brown has contributed an incisive...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2003
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (5.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The investigations of Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee and his love interest border patrol officer Bernadette Manuelito converge when the murder of an ex-CIA agent on reservation property turns out to be tied to an exotic game ranch near the Mexican border, and the embezzlement of tribal funds.
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Language
English
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The "fascinating" #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal).
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses...
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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From the bestselling author of "Tracks" comes a dramatic sequel--a story of suspect miracles, tests of faith, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy. Over the years, Father Damian has seen the reservation through its most severe crises, yet he is more than a heroic priest. He has lived with and served the Ojibwa people as a man of the cloth, and also as a woman. However, where does fact end and reality begin? NPR sponsorships. Deals with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012.
Physical Desc
xii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the site of his daughter's upcoming wedding burns down, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire and his friend, Henry Standing Bear, witness the falling death of a young Crow woman and are recruited into an investigation that incites the wrath of the bride-to-be.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[24] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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A Native American thanksgiving address, offered to Mother Earth in gratitude for her bounty and for the variety of her creatures, including human beings, is presented by a contemporary Mohawk chief who has delivered the address around the world.
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
463 p. ; maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Bonner travels across Canadian wilderness and waterways with her two small children to rescue her husband Nathaniel from the crown officials who have imprisoned him as an American spy.
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Language
English
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Sides chronicles the history of the nineteenth-century Southwest, focusing on the destruction of the Navajo nation from the 1820s to the 1860s, and looking at the role of trapper, soldier, and scout Kit Carson in the removal and deaths of the Native Americans.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 3
Language
English
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In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
613 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1802, Elizabeth and Hannah Bonner take in an escaped slave searching for their friend Curiosity Freeman, and find themselves drawn into the secret life Curiosity and her family have been living for more than ten years.
15) Runner
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
441 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane Whitefield comes out of retirement to help a young woman who is trying to escape an abusive relationship with her real estate mogul boyfriend who will do anything to get her and their unborn child back.
Publisher
Fulcrum Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
231 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"All cultures have tales of the trickster, a craft creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precius possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to raccoon or raven. In the original graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, Trickster brings together Native American...
17) Zia
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
18) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The author describes his work with Caballo Blanco, an outsider who befriended the Tarahumara Indians, in which the two men organized a running event between the tribesmen, who are considered to have superhuman running abilities, and Americans, including a ultramarathoner, a surfer, and others; and includes facts about techniques and the history of running.
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxiv, 360 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fully updated and revised edition of FOF's 1999 Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Revised Edition with 60 new entries, covers more than 200 American Indian tribes of North America. Includes 259 color illustrations (12 new to this edition), 11 color maps, cross-references, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.
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