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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Description
A Native American woman describes how she loved her child before it was born and, throughout her pregnancy, gathered a bundle of gifts to welcome the newborn.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Checkmark Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
3rd ed.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 360 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
An alphabetical encyclopedia covering the history, culture, and present status of more than 150 Indian tribes of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"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
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.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[24] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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Description
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.
10) The Aztec news
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 35 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using a newspaper as the medium discover the history of the Aztecs with all the highlights.
12) 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.
16) 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.
17) Amazon basin
Author
Series
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2007, c1993
Edition
1st Lee & Low Books Inc. ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes, in text and photographs, the vanishing culture of the Yanomamo, a primitive group that lives in the Amazon Territory of Venezuela.
Publisher
Fulcrum Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
231 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
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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