Lindstrom, Carole
Summary: After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LINGoodluck, Laurel
Summary: In this happy, vibrant tribute to Rock Your Mocs Day, observed yearly on November 15, author Laurel Goodluck (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian) and artist Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw) celebrate the joy and power of wearing moccasins—and the Native pride that comes with them. A perfect book for Native American Heritage Month, and all year round!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOORobertson, Robbie
Summary: Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation. Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Cassidy Rain Berghoff didn't know that the very night she decided to get a life would be the night that Galen would lose his. It's been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia's Indian Camp in their mostly white Midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SMISockabasin, Allen J.
Summary: "Little Zoo Sap and his family are moving from their summer home on the coast to the deep woods for the winter, traveling on a big bobsled pulled by big horses through the snow. When Zoo Sap falls off of the sled unnoticed, the forest animals hear his cries. First to come are the beaver, who put their tails together to cradle him. Then all the other animals circle round--everyone from the tiny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOCRichards, Dusty
Summary: "Spring, 1850. After a brutally long winter in the Rockies, Mack Harrigan and his growing family have learned to manage the harsh realities of frontier life. Their new friends, the Shoshone, have taught them the skills they need to survive in this rugged land, from tracking and hunting to fishing and foraging. But when their camp is attacked by an enemy tribe, the skills the Harrigans need most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: Journeying to 1840s California, young Bill Marshall witnesses the tragic experiences of the California Indians and their treatment by Americans after Spain gives control of the territory to Mexico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURRundell, B. N.
Summary: "It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The Wild West was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples: Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, and more. Elijah McCain, fresh from the Union...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RUNAkulukjuk, Roselynn
Summary: On their way to the shoreline, quarreling siblings Putuguq and Kublu are warned by their grandfather to watch out for the qalupalik, a mythical creature that pulls unsuspecting children into the icy water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKUBlair, E. A. (Edward A.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scrivenery Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAArgula, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasure Boat Studio 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ARGCanty, Kevin.
Summary: The doomed romance in Montana between two people of different class and race. He is a half-Indian who saves the life of a white senator in a car accident, and she is the senator's granddaughter. By the author of Into the Great Wide Open.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Founded in 1866, the Frontier Overland Company was no ordinary stagecoach operation. Two kindred souls with the same fighting spirit, Tucker Cobb and former Texas Ranger Butch Keeling agreed to launch a business together: a brand-new stagecoach line through the wilds of Wyoming . . . They called it the Frontier Overland Company. And a legend was born. Cobb and Keeling knew it wouldn't be easy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHSummary: "These are the stories, poems and images that echo the lives of contemporary American Indians living in Michigan. The contributors' narratives and art address themes of the land, the lakes, family, the search for center, ideas of time and the past, communalism and our Native communities on and off reservation homelands, along with story-telling, Indian education, the Michigan urban Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Michigan University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 VOICETrembath, Carol
Summary: This children's fiction story is a tribute to the Native American women and men who have walked endless miles to draw attention to the condition of water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Enviro IssuesDoss, James D.
Summary: Ute policeman Charlie Moon is called out by the game warden to investigate the disappearance of a local rancher's valuable buffalo. Soon Moon, shaman Daisy Perika, and Anglo lawman Scott Paris are seeking a killer who now hunts humans as well as animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOSBoulley, Angeline
Summary: Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC BOUBoulley, Angeline
Summary: With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC BOUDean, Kimberly.
Summary: A nervous Pete the Cat acts the part of a pilgrim in his class's Thanksgiving play, The first Thanksgiving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperfestival 2013
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E PeteCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday DeanRogers, Kim
Summary: Young Becca is honored when her grandmother asks her for help with a new skill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION MCCPearsall, Shelley.
Summary: When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PEAStevens, Janet.
Summary: Coyote receives his comeuppance when he tries to take something that does not belong to him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1993