Sorell, Traci

Summary: The descendant of Cherokee ancestors who had been forced to walk the Trail of Tears, Wilma Mankiller experienced her own forced removal from the land she grew up on as a child. As she got older and learned more about the injustices her people had faced, she dedicated her life to instilling pride in Native heritage and reclaiming Native rights. She went on to become the first woman Principal...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAN

Sorell, Traci

Summary: "Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROS

Chuculate, Eddie D.

Summary: "Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice. "Granny was full-blooded Creek, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs insisted she was thirteen-sixteenths. She showed her card to me. I'd sit at the kitchen table and stare at her when she was eating, wondering how you could be...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CHU