Erdrich, Louise.
Summary: Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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Summary: In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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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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Summary: Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new 'emancipation' bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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Summary: It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Erdrich 2020Johnson, Anna Rose
Summary: "Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse- keepers -- and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JOHRazor, Peter
Summary: "A story about an Anishinaabe boy who must attend a boarding school for Indigenous children in 1890s Wisconsin. He befriends the headmaster's nephew and teaches him about his culture and Ojibwemowin language"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Makwa Enewed 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAZDownes, Robert
Summary: "Together, Wolf and Willow battle their brutal captors in an odyssey up the Mississippi River, with their fate to be decided at the ancient Indian city of Cahokia near present-day St. Louis. Ranging from the coast of Morocco to the shores of Lake Superior, The Wolf and the Willow weaves a tale of Native America at first contact with Spanish explorers, a time when a thriving Indian civilization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wandering Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DownesSkenandore, Amanda
Summary: "On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SKEErdrich, Louise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2001
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLErdrich, Louise.
Summary: The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDFuller, Iola.
Summary: The story of an Indian girl destined to grow up with the incompatible traditions of her own people and of the white traders on Mackinac Island. One of the most popular books ever written about the conflict of alien peoples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FULTraver, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TraverHolm, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLSmith-Llera, Danielle
Summary: In 1493, eleven-year-old Cocuyo endeavors to find her place within the Taíno community on the island of Quisqueya, but when Europeans arrive bringing the threat of invasion, disease, and enslavement, she is determined to help preserve the culture she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIJiles, Paulette
Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JILOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ORASteel, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEMcCarthy, Cormac
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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 MCCVollmann, William T.
Summary: Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VOL PT 2 OF 2Vollmann, William T.
Summary: Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VOL PT 1 OF 2Brooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brooks 2011Earling, Debra Magpie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BlueHen Books 2002