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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
276, 18 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Amplify Indigenous Voices
Celebrating Indigenous Authors
Native American Heritage Month
Read where you are: New England titles for Adults
Celebrating Indigenous Authors
Native American Heritage Month
Read where you are: New England titles for Adults
Description
When Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native-American artifacts. One in particular stops her in her tracks. It's an ornately decorated drum. Even without touching it, she hears its sound. The drum's passage backward and forward through time is traced, as well as how it changes the lives of all those who come into contact with...
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...
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Series
Language
English
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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
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
Language
English
Description
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...
10) 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.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Amplify Indigenous Voices
Book Chat: March 1, 2023: Pig & Horse Welfare Day
Celebrating Indigenous Authors
Native American Heritage Month
Book Chat: March 1, 2023: Pig & Horse Welfare Day
Celebrating Indigenous Authors
Native American Heritage Month
Description
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...
13) 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.
17) 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.
19) 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.
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