Summary: Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan, wonders what adventures await just around the riverbend. She is joined by her playful pals, raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit. A chance meeting with Captain Smith leads to a friendship that will change history, as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POCHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she is more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLBruchac, Joseph
Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRUHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLVandever, Daniel W.
Summary: "Fall in Line, Holden! follows Holden, a young Navajo boy, through his day at boarding school. Although Holden is required to conform to a rigid schedule and strict standards of behavior, his internal life is led with imagination and wonder. Whether he is in art class, the computer lab, or walking the hall to lunch, Holden's vivid imagination transforms his commonplace surroundings into a world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE VANCampbell, 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 CAMSummary: In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2012
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALTingle, Tim
Summary: Ten-year-old ghost Isaac is following his Choctaw people as they relocate to Indian Territory, but when he discovers that he can time travel, he heads back to 1824 to Washington DC where Choctaw Chief Pushmataha was betrayed by Andrew Jackson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TINJohnston, Basil.
Summary: Contains twenty-two humorous stories about a community of Ojibway Indians living on a fictional Indian reservation in Canada.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHRoanhorse, Rebecca
Summary: "The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded? As sea captain Xiala is swept...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction RoanhorseMomaday, N. Scott
Summary: Based on an Indian myth about a boy who turns into a bear, this mystic novel concerns a young artist who confronts his unusual destiny with the aid of the beautiful medicine woman who loves him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1990
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Place a hold to request this item.Steel, Danielle.
Summary: This centuries-spanning novel interweaves the lives of two women: a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is a story of courage in the face of the unknown.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESchoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Summary: A collection of Indian fairy tales that have been passed on to their children from generation to generation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1916
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 SCHWhitethorne, Baje.
Summary: Explaining a solar eclipse, a Navajo tells his grandson that when the sun dies the children of Mother Earth are called from the four directions to repaint the universe in all the colors of the rainbow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHIGoodluck, Laurel
Summary: Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOOCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOORogers, Kim
Summary: "Ever since the day Mom and Dad brought Bob home from the car dealership, Bob has been a part of Katie's family. Bob has taken them all over, from powwows to vacations to time spent with faraway family. Bob has been there in sad and scary times and for some of the family's most treasured memories. But after many miles, it's time for the family to say goodbye to Bob ..."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROGDjanikian, 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 DJABoulley, Angeline
Summary: "Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC BOUFoster, Bob
Summary: John Smith, an English soldier, and Pocahontas, the daughter of an Algonquin chief, fall in love when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Atwater, Barbara J.
Summary: "Chulyen, a trickster raven, loses his nose in an embarrassing incident, but vows to get it back. With the help of magic powers, Chulyen devises a caper to retrieve his missing nose, and learns an important lesson along the way."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 ATWGear, W. Michael.
Summary: Captured as slaves when their village is attacked, Odion and his little sister are pursued by their tribe's war chief and other rescuers who are unaware that an evil witch-woman is responsible for the abductions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEAAlexie, Sherman
Summary: As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views-- until he himself becomes the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALEGreendeer, Danielle
Summary: Wampanoag children listen as their grandmother tells them the story about how Weeâchumun (the wise Corn) asked local Native Americans to show the Pilgrims how to grow food to yield a good harvest--Keepunumuk--in 1621.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRESummary: These stories and poems by both new and veteran Native American writers burst with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021