Bunnell, Paul J. (Paul Joseph)
Summary: The author has collected information about marriages between French Canadians and native Americans from various websites and compiled sources including the Jesuit Relations and Tanguay's Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 2004
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.371 BunnellMorin, Gail.
Contents: v. 1. 56 families -- v. 2. Jean Nicolet and a Nipissing Woman -- v. 3. Martin Prevost and Marie Olivier Sylvestre Manitouabeouich -- v. 4. Pierre Couc dit Lafleur and Marie Mitequamigoukoue an Algonquin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2012
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4 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3714 VOL. 1 FirstCall number: R GEN 929.3714 VOL. 2 First
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Campbell, Nicola I
Summary: Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, [2005] 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAMContents: Les fraises et les framboises/Le festin de campagne/Ah! Di mon moinr voulait danser (Jean Carignan and friends) (3:59) -- Lord MacDonald's reel (Jean Carignan) (2:26) -- The land of the muskeg (and the shining birch tree) (Wade Hemsworth) (2:37) -- Cree greeting song (William Peaychew) (1:59) -- Le reel de L'harmonica (Reel de rimouski) (Aldor Morin) (2:31) -- The northern trappers' rendezvous...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2006
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN CLASimpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Summary: "A knife-sharp new collection about getting lost from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SIMCraft, Aimée
Summary: "The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis's home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen--to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.7108 CRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J342.71082 CRABailey, Katharine
Summary: Radisson and des Groseilliers were French explorers and fur traders. Their discoveries led to the creation of the Hudson Bay Company, Canada's oldest corporation and one of the oldest merchant companies in the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971.01 BAIDjanikian, Ariel
Summary: The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. By luck and circumstance Alice becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DJAJohnston, Basil.
Summary: Contains twenty-two humorous stories about a community of Ojibway Indians living on a fictional Indian reservation in Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INDJacobs, Wilbur R.
Contents: Indian-white contact: background. The white man's frontier in American history: the impact upon the land and the Indian -- Unsavory sidelights on Colonial trade -- Wampum and the protocol of treaty-making -- White gift-giving: French skills in managing the Indians -- Indian-white contact: frontier conflicts. -- British Indian-white relations: Edmond Atkin's scheme for imperial control -- A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1197 JACBruchac, Joseph
Summary: As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRULoyie, Oskiniko Larry
Summary: Tells the story of Larry Loyie, a Cree Indian in Canada who was sent to a government school and later became a writer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LOYIE LOYSummary: In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron Indians. His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, and his life and the outcome of the mission imperiled, as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Communications Corp. 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLAJohnston, Basil
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Royal Ontario Museum 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 JOHWagamese, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAGJohnston, Basil.
Summary: The Ojibway Indians were first encountered by the French early in the seventeenth century along the northern shores of Lakes Huron and Superior. By the time Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized them in The Song of Hiawatha, they had dispersed over large areas of Canada and the United States, becoming known as the Chippewas in the latter. A rare and fascinating glimpse of Ojibway culture...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHBrill, Ethel C. (Ethel Claire)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethlehem Books 1996
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JTF BrillFlett, Julie
Summary: Clarence, a young Cree Indian, and his grandmother pick blueberries together as they sing, look out for the animals, and enjoy sampling the fruit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ingram Pub Services 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLESummary: In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDBlackstock, Cindy
Summary: Spirit Bear is off on another adventure! Follow him as he learns about traditional knowledge and Residential Schools from his Uncle Huckleberry and his friend, Lak'insxw, before heading to Algonquin territory, where children teach him about Shannen's Dream. Spirit Bear and his new friends won't stop until Shannen's Dream of "safe and comfy schools" comes true for every First Nations student.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLASummary: Profiles two great leaders, warriors, and diplomats of the First Nations of North America, offering an alternative, previously overlooked, history of Canada and the USA. Blends documentary with historical re-enactments and interviews with their descendants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Galafilm 2006
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC CHINesteroff, Kliph
Summary: Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy's most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having been denied representation in the entertainment industry, Native Americans have influenced and advanced the art form. Profiles important events and humorists from the 1880s to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021