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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This exciting and compelling one hour documentary invites viewers into the lives of contemporary Native American role models living in the U.S. Midwest. It dispels the myth that American Indians have disappeared from the American horizon, and reveals how they continue to persist, heal from the past, confront the challenges of today, keep their culture alive, and make great contributions to society. Their experiences will deeply touch both Natives...
6) Zia
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana, whose story was told in "The Island of the Blue Dolphins."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another...
8) Nightwing
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park, comes a reissue of Nightwing, the million-copy bestseller that Stephen King called "one of the best horror novels in the last twenty years."
As darkness gathers, the sky is filled with frantic motion and maddening murmurs. In an effort to end the world, an unhappy, aging Native American shaman invokes the Hopi god of death. Those around him...
As darkness gathers, the sky is filled with frantic motion and maddening murmurs. In an effort to end the world, an unhappy, aging Native American shaman invokes the Hopi god of death. Those around him...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come...
11) Stallion Gate
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the atomic bomb; General Groves, the director of the Manhattan project; Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British scientist; and Sergeant Joe Pena, a Pueblo Indian, figure in this imagined account of the creation of the first atomic bomb
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Sibert Medal for Nonfiction
Children's Special Topics: Books About Indigenous People in the U.S.
Children's Special Topics: Books About Indigenous People in the U.S.
Description
Using illustrations that show the diversity in Native America and spare poetic text that emphasizes fry bread in terms of provenance, this volume tells the story of a post-colonial food that is a shared tradition for Native American families all across the North American continent. Includes a recipe and an extensive author note that delves into the social ways, foodways, and politics of America's 573 recognized tribes.
Author
Language
English
Description
"On Memorial Day, 1958, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the...
Author
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Contains essays that provide historical and contemporary data on over two hundred Native American groups in Canada and the United States, listed alphabetically within ten culture groups; and includes illustrations, maps, a bibliography, glossary, and an index.
15) Dream wolf
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When two Plains Indian children become lost, they are cared for and guided safely home by a friendly wolf.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three voices. One story. The past, present and futures of 15 year old Rayona, her brash and bold mother Christine and secretive, mysterious grandmother Ida are braided together in one of the most unforgettable stories you will ever hear. A haunting and powerful performance by award-winning narrator Barbara Rosenblat, selected by AudioFile Magazine as one of the Golden Voices of the 20th Century.
Editor's Choice, Booklist - Best Fiction
...Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tales of wonder I and II showcases Native American stories for children, as told in the Native American tradition by acclaimed storyteller and linguist Gregg Howard. Tales of wonder has been used in a curriculum unit developed by the Stanford University Program on International and Cross-cultural Education.
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Provides detailed studies of tribes from all over the United States and Canada, including small tribes and some that no longer exist. Gives detailed yet accessible information on history, religion, art, government, economy, daily life and current social and political issues.
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