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1) There there
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
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Language
English
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Description
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation...
The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation...
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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 Indian Industrial School, 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 he is...
6) White horse
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
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...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers.
The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It’s 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh’s alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the...
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Language
English
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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
Author
Publisher
Ziegler Printing
Pub. Date
1927
Language
English
Description
A story of the part played by the American Indian in the history of Pennsylvania, based primarily on the Pennsylvania Archives and colonial records and built around the outstanding Chiefs. Reprinted in 1994 by Wennawoods Publishing, Lewisburg, PA.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
As children help a Native American grandmother make fry bread, delves into the history, social ways, foodways, and politics of America's 573 recognized Indian tribes.
13) Crazy Horse
Author
Publisher
Viking/Lipper Book
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
148 p.; 20 cm.
Language
English
Formats
14) Tepees
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
15) Indian no more
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
[c1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
121p illus
Language
English
Description
While staying on a Navajo reservation, the Aldens uncover some artifacts that may be evidence of an ancient village, artifacts that soon turn up missing
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
