Joseph Bruchac
1) Two roads
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
320 pageds ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"It's 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his pop have been riding the rails for a year after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a "knight of the road" with Pop, even if they're broke. But then Pop has to go to Washington, D.C.--and Cal can't go with him. So Pop tells Cal something he never knew before: He's a Creek Indian, which means Cal is, too. And Pop has decided to send Cal to Challagi Indian School, a government...
2) Pocahontas
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
173, [1] p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia.
3) Found
Author
Series
Publisher
Book Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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A teenage survival expert finds all his skills tested as he's pursued through the Canadian wilderness by men determined to silence him. On his way to teach at Camp Seven Generations, a Native outdoor school, Nick witnesses a murder and then is thrown off a train. Remembering and using the teachings of his Abenaki Elders will prove to be the difference between life and death for him. Although his pursuers have modern technology to help them, Nick...
Author
Publisher
Audio Bookshelf,LLC
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Chronicles the life and experiences of Sacajawea, the young Shoshone woman who acted as guide on the famous Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, told in the voices of Sacajawea and William Clark in alternating chapters, with selections from Clark's original diaries.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Young prince Rashko, aided by wise old Georgi, must channel the power of his ancestor, Pavol the great, and harness a magical dragon to face the evil Baron Temny after the foolish King and Queen go missing.
8) Rez dogs
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
231 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
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After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Voyager Books ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Squanto recounts how in 1614 he was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the colonists.
14) Peacemaker
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
156 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy"--
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
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"Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist."--
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...
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
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 3
Language
English
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"Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company"--