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Families Fiction Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc Fathers and daughters Juvenile fiction Indians of North America Indians of North America Fiction Indians of North America Juvenile fiction Massacre de Sand Creek, Col., 1864 Romans, nouvelles, etc Ojibwa Indians Ojibwa Indians Fiction Ojibwa Indians Juvenile fictionHolm, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRUCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRUEdgmon, H. E.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Gem Echols hides their mental health challenges and mysterious dreams in the small town of Gracie, Georgia, but when a newcomer reveals a shocking claim of being reincarnated gods together, Gem's life takes a perilous turn as they embark on a deadly adventure, where their past and present collide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EDGOrange, 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 ORATison, Ari
Summary: When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TISSmith-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 SMIJohnson, Anna Rose
Summary: When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction JohnsonRazor, 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 RAZGansworth, Eric
Summary: When a mysterious assault lands the brother of his mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian, a twenty-something Indigenous reporter, must pick up the threads of a life he's abandoned, returning to the Tuscarora reservation to discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GANJohnson, 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 Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JOHWingate, Lisa
Summary: "Oklahoma 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the rugged Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ShelterwoodCobell, K. A.
Summary: "When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered. Because the four members of the Giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "Beth cherished her childhood summers on a pristine northern Canadian lake, where she reveled in the sweet smell of dew on early morning hikes, the loons' evening trills across the lake's many bays, every brush stroke of her brother's paintings celebrating their cherished place, and their grandfather's laughter as he welcomed neighbors to their annual Welsh harvest celebration. Theirs was an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 0000
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Summary: "Beth cherished her childhood summers on a pristine northern Canadian lake, where she reveled in the sweet smell of dew on early morning hikes, the loons' evening trills across the lake's many bays, every brush stroke of her brother's paintings celebrating their cherished place, and their grandfather's laughter as he welcomed neighbors to their annual Welsh harvest celebration. Theirs was an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEHillerman, Anne
Summary: Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing seems to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "Cork O'Connor, the retired sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota, is in a race against time to save the people he loves from ruthless mercenaries in this riveting new novel from New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KRUBird, James
Summary: After being caught stealing one too many times, Benjamin Waterfalls is sent to a "boot camp" at the Ojibwe reservation where he searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around and embrace this second chance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIROrange, Tommy
Summary: "Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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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. As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected ally in the former Priest of Knives. For the Clan Matriarchs of Tova, tense alliances form as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2022
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Summary: "Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT ORACharaipotra, Sona
Summary: At Foxham Prep, a posh private school for Washington, D.C.'s elite, a rumor gains momentum as it collects followers on social media, pulling three girls into its path--Bryn, who wants to erase all memories of the mistake she made last summer; cheer captain Cora, who desperately wants to believe in her boyfriend's faithfulness; and shy Georgie, newly hot after a summer at fat camp and ready to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHADimaline, Cherie
Summary: Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIMDuncan, Violet
Summary: When twelve-year-old Summer visits her family on a reservation in Alberta, Canada, she begins experiencing vivid dreams of running away from a residential school like the one her grandfather attended as a child and learns about unmarked children's graves, prompting her to seek answers about her community's painful past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024