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21) Mascot
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
22) Flight: A Novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fearless novel about a lost boy in search of his identity-who happens to be a time-traveling mass murderer Flight, the third novel by National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie, is both shattering and full of laughter. The story of Zits, an orphaned Indian boy, resonates profoundly in a country scarred by violence. Alexie works his trademark magic to turn Zits's experiences into a fable about identity, race, and American history. In a gutsy, challenging...
Author
Publisher
Audio Bookshelf,LLC
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
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
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world." --
26) Forever cousins
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends."--Provided...
28) Josie dances
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
As she prepares for her first powwow, an Ojibwa girl practices her dance steps, gets help from her family, and is inspired by the soaring flight of Migizi, the eagle. Includes glossary.
29) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Awakened gently by Sun, Sailor sets off to explore new lands where he meets Fisher, and although they speak and dress differently, they find they have much in common. Includes author's note about the first encounter between a European explorer and a Native North American.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
40 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
32) Wandering stars
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
64 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
For the past two years, since attending a Choctaw Nation powwow with his family, thirteen-year-old Tobias has secretly been teaching himself how to hoop dance, but once his secret gets out, he must decide if he wants to share his dancing at the spring talent show.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger towards the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions and infighting, the cousins go in separate directions: Rick chooses the path of peace; You Choose,...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
xxx, 384 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three western stories about men who appear to be lacking the intelligence and skills to survive on the frontier but are able to achieve success where others had failed"--
38) White horse
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After seven years on the semi-pro wrestling circuit, Ricky Twohatchet, a.k.a. Richard Powell, needs one last match before he gets called up to the big leagues. Unlike some wrestlers who only play the stereotype, Ricky believes he comes by his persona honestly--he's half white and half Native American--even if he's never met his father. But the night of the match in Omaha, Nebraska, something askew in their intricate choreography sets him on a course...
40) Tracks: a novel
Author
Series
North Dakota volume 03
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people erode ceaselessly, men and women are pushed to the brink of their endurance--yet their pride and humor prohibit surrender. The reader will experience shock and pleasure in encountering a group of characters...
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