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Audiobooks. bibliography biography Fiction. Genealogy. History. index Juvenile works. Novels. Picture books.Cleland, Charles E.
Summary: For many thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, Michigan's native peoples, the Anishnabeg, thrived in the forests and along the shores of the Great Lakes. Theirs were cultures in delicate social balance and in economic harmony with the natural order. Rites of Conquest details the struggles of Michigan Indians - the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, and their neighbors - to maintain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 1992
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 CLE1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.1 CLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 CLELeBeau, Patrick Russell
Summary: Rethinking Michigan Indian History is a teaching tool that honors the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi and the twelve federally recognized tribes of Michigan by recognizing their role and place in Michigan history--exploring what most people know (or do not know) about them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 LEBSummary: "These are the stories, poems and images that echo the lives of contemporary American Indians living in Michigan. The contributors' narratives and art address themes of the land, the lakes, family, the search for center, ideas of time and the past, communalism and our Native communities on and off reservation homelands, along with story-telling, Indian education, the Michigan urban Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Michigan University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 VOICEBoulley, 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 Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC BOUMcGraw, Jennifer S.
Contents: Calendar of events -- Introduction -- The village -- The missions -- Lawless and and French values -- Women and men -- The forts -- Food and starvation -- Life and Michilimackinac -- Traders -- War and migration -- English attack Michilimackinac -- Travel -- Slaves and captives -- Brandy and vices -- Lawless Mackinac -- After.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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Summary: A groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who goes undercover to root out the crime and corruption threatening her community.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOUCogan, Priscilla
Summary: Crack at Dusk: Crook of Dawn, the third novel in The Winona Trilogy, continues to explore the deep divide between the modern psychological view of life and the traditional Lakota (Sioux) spiritual perspective, following the same characters: Dr. Meggie O'Connor, the psychologist and Hawk, the Lakota medicine teacher. In Crack at Dusk: Crook of Dawn, the two lovers marry but soon find their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2000
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC COG1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COG
Boulley, Angeline
Summary: Una premiada y aclamada novela sobre el racismo que pronto llegará a Netflix.Uno de los mejores libros juveniles de todos los tiempos según el New York Times. Como miembro extraoficial de su tribu nativa americana, chica birracial y producto de un escándalo, Daunis Fontaine nunca encajó del todo. Sueña con dejar su pasado atrás, empezar de cero y estudiar medicina, pero una tragedia la fuerza a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH BOUKent, Timothy J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.401 KEN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.401 KEN
Barton, Barbara J.
Summary: This is the first book of its kind to bring forward the rich tradition of wild rice in Michigan and its importance to the Anishinaabek people who live there. Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan focuses on the history, culture, biology, economics, and spirituality surrounding this sacred plant. The story travels through time from the days before European colonization and winds its way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633.1 BARStrauss, Jenifer.
Contents: Michigan, The Northland (original poem) (2:15) -- Mando on the porch (original instrumental) by Jack Wiswell -- The story lamp (original story) (10:04) -- How bear lost his tail (adapted traditional) (8:29) -- How Paul Bunyan made the stars and the moon (original) (8:22) -- The talkative turtle (adapted traditional) (8:48) -- The legend of Kichi-iti-kipi (original) (22:16) -- Michigan, my...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Story Be Told Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV STRPetoskey, Warren.
Summary: This memoir of Native American teacher, writer and artist Warren Petoskey spans centuries and lights up shadowy corners of American history with important memories of Indian culture and survival. Warren's family connects with many key episodes in Indian history, including the tragedy of boarding schools that imprisoned thousands of Indian children as well as the traumatic effects of alcohol...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Read The Spirit Books 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PETOSKEY, WARREN PETSummary: We are excited to bring you Diba Jimooyung. Found here are many of the stories of Anishinabe men and women from older times & before the coming of Europeans & along with stories and accounts that happened after European and American contact. It is our story of our experience here on Turtle Island (North American), our homeland. The writing of Diba Jimooyung has been no small undertaking, nor is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, Ziibiwing Cultural Society 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.446 DIBSummary: In 1994, President Clinton signed a bill which reaffirmed the government to government relationship between the United States and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa. This chronicles the tribe's struggle from the 1836 treaty of Detroit to the 1994 signing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOUKalkaska Genealogical Society
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kalkaska Genealogical Society 2000
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 016.0713 KALCall number: R GEN 016.0713 Michigan Kalkaska 1879-1900 v. 1
Summary: Building the Mighty Mac: The story of the building of the Mackinac Bridge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mighty Mac Films 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 977 BUICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BUIBarnes, Burton Verne
Contents: Key 1 Plants with Needlelike, Scalelike, or Awl-Shaped Leaves -- Key 2 Broadleaf Evergreen Flowering Plants -- Key 3 Broadleaf Deciduous Plants with Opposite or Whorled Leaves -- Key 4 Broadleaf Deciduous Plants with Alternate, Compound Leaves -- Key 5 Broadleaf Deciduous Plants with Alternate, Simple Leaves -- Key 6 Plants with Stems-Twigs Armed: Thorns, Spines, Prickles -- Key 7 Woody Vines:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2016
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Summary: Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC POLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLMartin, Helen M. (Helen Mandeville)
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Printed by the William Feather Co.] 1939
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 551.31 MARWalker, Sally M.
Summary: "More than 20,000 American Indians served in the Civil War, yet their stories have often been left out of the history books. In [this book, the author] explores the extraordinary lives of Michigan's Anishinaabe sharpshooters. These brave soldiers served with honor and heroism in the line of duty, despite enduring broken treaties, loss of tribal lands, and racism. Filled with fascinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State Board of Education, State Library 1980
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 011.35 MichiganKim, Hanna
Summary: The first day of school in Michigan is a nightmare for Korean-American fourth-grader Ben Lee, who grew up in Los Angeles surrounded by Korean stores and restaurants, but his new schoolmates laugh at the Korean delicacies he eats -- until his unexpectedly magic lunch box teaches them all a lesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIMKalkaska Genealogical Society
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 016.0713 KALCall number: R GEN 016.0713 Michigan Kalkaska 1901-1929 v. 2
Kalkaska Genealogical Society
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kalkaska Genealogical Society 2008