Child, Brenda J.
Summary: "When Uncle and Windy Girl attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers and listens to the singers. She eats tasty food and joins family and friends around the campfire. Later, Windy falls asleep under the stars. Uncle's stories inspire visions in her head: a bowwow powwow, where all the dancers are dogs. In these magical scenes, Windy sees veterans in a Grand Entry, and a visiting drum group,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHISorell, Traci
Summary: Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORStark, Andrew
Summary: Shy, eight-year-old Liam is anxious about attending a local powwow with his best friend, Zach, but he soon discovers that the venue is full of exciting things to eat and do--from delicious Indian tacos to lively drum circles and dancing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR PURPLE STASmith, Perry
Summary: Powwow gatherings include dancing, family visits, celebrations and ceremonies .It has become a way of life for two young boys who are learning their culture through this ancient gathering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strong Nations Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SMILajimodiere, Denise K.
Summary: As she prepares for her first powwow, an Ojibwa girl practices her dance steps, gets help from her family, and is inspired by the soaring flight of Migizi, the eagle. Includes glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAJSummary: 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
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD ANCHavrelock, Deidre
Summary: A young Indigenous girl's family helps calm her nervous butterflies before her first Jingle Dress Dance and reminds her why she dances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Lamouche, Sandra
Summary: "Nikosis grew up going to powwows with his family, happily immersed in music, dance and the sounds of the drum. But when he starts going to daycare, he doesn't feel like he belongs. Nikosis cries every time his mother leaves him in the unfamiliar environment until, one day, she and the teachers use drums to help Nikosis find connection and comfort. Inspired by her son's experience--and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAMPheasant-Neganigwane, Karen
Summary: "Part of the nonfiction Orca Origins series for middle readers. Illustrated with photographs, Powwow is a guide to the dance, music and culture of this Indigenous celebration."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394 PHEOrange, Tommy
Summary: "Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ORAOrange, Tommy
Summary: Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Orange 2018DeShaw, Nicholas
Summary: "A young boy goes to dance in his first pow wow, and his curious cat follows him to see what all the excitement is about"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Marra, Ben.
Summary: Presents a collection of photographs depicting the regalia worn by Native Americans at Powwows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394 MAROrange, Tommy
Summary: "Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A volume of interconnected stories and poems set at a Native American Dance for Mother Earth Powwow celebration in Ann Arbor, Michigan, includes contributions by such new and veteran writers as Joseph Bruchac, Dawn Quigley, and Traci Sorell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ANCMather, Christine.
Summary: Celebrates the traditions of the American Indians in 400 photographs of pottery, jewelry, blankets, baskets, masks, totem poles, dances and powwows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Potter 1990