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261) The Winona LaDuke chronicles: stories from the front lines in the battle for environmental justice
Author
Publisher
Spotted Horse Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 299 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Winona LaDuke's Chronicles is a collection of stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo Nation. Stories range from visits with Desmond Tutu, front line Indigenous leaders, to restored Indigenous farming, and the ability of this society to move from a Tipi to a Tesla. This book tells of the need and the ability to make an elegant transition to a post fossil fuels economy. Chronicles is a book...
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
81 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Part of the nonfiction Orca Origins series for middle readers. Illustrated with photographs, Powwow is a guide to the dance, music and culture of this Indigenous celebration."--
Author
Publisher
Knopf/Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 315 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the 1704 kidnapping of Eunice Williams, the seven-year-old daughter of a New England minister who eventually converted to Catholicism and took a Mohawk husband, discussing the cultural and historical context of the incident.
265) Harvest house
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...
267) Fancy pants
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
72, [10], 4 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Filled with lots of glitter, raised pinkies, and humorous misunderstandings, this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series--written by Dawn Quigley and illustrated by Tara Audibert--is filled with the joy of a young Ojibwe girl discovering her very own special shine from the inside out. First grader Jo Jo Makoons knows how to do a lot of things, like how to play jump rope, how to hide her peas in her milk, and how to be helpful in her classroom. But...
268) The marrow thieves
Author
Series
Publisher
Cormorant Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Amplify Indigenous Voices
Native American Heritage Month
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Native American Heritage Month
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Formats
Description
"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population--and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow--and dreams--means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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.
270) Catch the fair one
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 63 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The romance of a vanishing race includes three historic motion pictures of American Indians and their life-style in the early 1900s. Featuring tribal chiefs who participated in the Last great Indian council and several who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Originally produced on 35mm film, this priceless footage, recently discovered within the lost treasures of the National Archives is re-mastered to include an original music score and...
272) Crow Mary: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season...
273) Sacagawea
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Shoshone girl, Sacagawea, from age eleven when she was kidnapped by the Hitdatsa to the end of her journey with Lewis and Clark, plus speculation about her later life.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume unpaged : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--
276) I am not a number
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
278) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
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...
Author
Publisher
North Country Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
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Description
In the winter of 1609, with his people starving, the Innu Indian called Silent One must overcome his reluctance to speak and trust Samuel de Champlain and his Frenchmen in order to save his brother and regain his own spirit.
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