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62) 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
Series
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
40th anniversary special edition ; revised edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The People Shall Continue was originally published in 1977. It is a story of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically in the US, as they endeavor to live on lands they have known to be their traditional homelands from time immemorial. Even though the prairies, mountains, valleys, deserts, river bottomlands, forests, coastal regions, swamps and other wetlands across the nation are not as vast as they used to be, all of the land is still considered...
66) The prairie
Author
Series
Leatherstocking tales volume 5
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Taking place just a few years after the Louisiana Purchase, The Prairie follows Ishmael and Esther Bush as they travel west from the Mississippi River with their fourteen children, Ellen Wade, a doctor, and Esther's brother. While searching for a place to camp, the group meets Natty Bumppo, a legendary man now in his late eighties. Referred to as "the trapper" Natty helps the family settle somewhere safe. Later, as he roams through the forest, he...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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Description
Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: we are still here"--
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Series
Language
English
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Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous...
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.
73) The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800: war, migration, and the survival of an Indian people
Author
Series
The Civilization of the American Indian volume 197
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1994, c1990
Edition
1st pbk. printing.
Physical Desc
xxv, 346 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the history, social structure, customs, beliefs, ceremonies, and day-to-day life of the Wampanoag Indians who had been living in the southern New England area for thousands of years before the arrival of English settlers in 1620.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 106
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1984], c1970
Physical Desc
xvii, 386 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A passionate book of poetry from New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.In this important collection, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and has added nineteen new poems to compose Original Fire.
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