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3741) Finding my dance
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In her debut picture book, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true story of her path to dance and how it helped her take pride in her Native American heritage"--Provided by publisher.
3744) From the roots up
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Series
Surviving the City volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]-
Description
Miikwan (Anishinaabe) and Dez (Inninew) are best friends. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up Indigenous in the city. They're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. When Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces. Will Dez's...
Series
Moonshot volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of indigenous storytelling, from dozens of creators.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Short Story Anthologies
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Short Story Anthologies
CSL - Shorter book club reads
Description
The author, an Indian himself, profiles the lives of many Native Americans and how people treat them just because of their race. Even in today's society the uneasy relations between Indians and white's is still fueled by mistrust, stereo-types and casual violence.
3748) Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)
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Pub. Date
1992.
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Description
His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering--and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
In the middle of the horrors of the American Civil War, young soldier Virgil Morris discovers that he can't leave his Pawnee origins behind him. Visited by ghosts and visions, he learns that the war is not the worst evil he and his new friend, nurse Frances Shaw, face. Together - and apart - Frances and Virgil combat madness and hell itself."--Amazon.
3750) Bring back the deer
Author
Pub. Date
c1988
Description
A young brave's hunting ritual, in which he pursues a deer through the winter forest, brings him to an understanding of his identity and inner strength.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation...
Author
Series
Moonshot volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection brings together dozens of creators from North America to contribute comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of indigenous storytelling. From traditional stories to exciting new visions of the future, this collection presents some of the finest comic book and graphic novel work on the continent."--
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Pub. Date
2003.
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Description
Describes the government's mistreatment of Native American tribes in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1800s, including broken treaties and forced removal, and discusses the Delaware, Cheyenne, Sioux, Nez Perce, and Cherokee.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
A musical, magical, resilient volume from one of our most celebrated and essential Native American voices.In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
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Description
Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the "Journal," one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about...