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Holly Wild 4 Native trailblazers Sound healing series The sound healing series Who was?Summary: "Illustrated with 70 color images of visually powerful historical and contemporary works, this book--which accompanies an exhibition of the same title opening in August 2013 at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York--reveals how Anishinaabe (also known in the United States as Ojibwe or Chippewa) artists have expressed the deeply rooted spiritual and social dimensions of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 BeforeCapaldi, Gina.
Summary: Zitkala-Š̌̌̌a finds that she can sing through her music, but also by writing stories and giving speeches and being an activist for Native American rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native CapaldiWalks-as-bear, David
Summary: In this read we are privileged to again see Tribal Cop Ely Stone in action as he is summoned by Amos, the true Spiritual leader of their tribe through the Spirit world they share. As the horror continues these men, with several others, from Detectives, to FBI agents, begin to join forces to fight an evil that few know how to defeat… This story is laced with Native American mysticism, weaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blade Edge Press 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WALSorell, 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 SORCody, Robert Tree.
Contents: Earth mother (5:04) -- Kokopelli wandering song (4:01) -- In camps of times past (5:50) -- Whispering journeys (4:26) -- Zuni dawn (3:45) -- Sky city (2:55) -- Moonlight dance (4:05) -- Lakota lullaby (5:51) -- Love song (4:08) -- Buffalo's journey (3:35) -- Stomp dance (2:12).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Canyon Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN CODNichols, Roger L.
Summary: "During the century following George Washington's presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols's response to the question, "Whydid so much fighting take place?" Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols explains what started each conflict and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NICMailhot, Terese Marie
Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAICutright, Patricia J.
Summary: "Twelve biographies of Indigenous women who, as modern-day warriors, have infused their communities with strength and leadership. The women overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation Native Voices 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 CUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 973 CUTBuckley, James
Summary: "While most athletes excel in just one sport, Jim Thorpe was different. Born in Oklahoma in 1887, he played both professional football and baseball, and ran track and field. Jim was not only a sports icon but also a trailblazer. Raised as part of the Sac and Fox tribal nation, he was the first Native American person to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States. And although his personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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Summary: "If Aiyana hears one more traditional Lakota story, she'll scream! More interested in her social media presence than her Native American heritage, Aiyana is shocked when she suddenly finds herself in a magical world-with no cell coverage! Pursued by the trickster Raven, Aiyana struggles to get back home, but is helped by friends and allies she meets along the way. Her dangerous journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curiosity Books, an imprint of Curiosity Ink Media, LLC 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Beamer, Keola.
Contents: Waipiʻo Pākaʻalana (5:00) -- Aia I molokaʻi Kuʻu ʻiwa (3:25) -- Ka Honua = "The earth" (4:57) -- Ke haʻa ala puna (4:41) -- E manono (4:30) -- Ka manō = "The shark" (5:34) -- Iā ʻoe e ka lā = "For you, o glittering sun" (5:22) -- Nani hāʻupu (4:45) -- Ke ao nani = "The beautiful world" (3:53) -- Lāpule = "Sunday" (6:41) -- The good road (2:36).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Canyon Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC BEANakai, R. Carlos
Contents: Fourth world, rainbow world -- Whippoorwill -- Comes the dawn -- Sonoran nights -- Shaman's call -- Eye of the eagle -- Garden of dreams -- Into the twilight -- Under the beautiful sky -- Little dog -- Meditations on Dinetah.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Canyon Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD WM NakaiBruchac, James
Summary: This book "plays" on the widespread American Indian belief that you can learn while you play and play while you learn. Annotation. Recognizing the widespread American Indian belief that you can learn while you play and play while you learn, "Native American Games and Stories" provides young readers with stories and games that educate and entertain them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Resources 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.089 BRUGreenlaw, Suzanne
Summary: "In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GREGilio-Whitaker, Dina
Summary: "Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 GILSummary: Overview: Offering insight into the arts of Great Lakes Native nations, this collection of stories, songs, poetry, speeches, autobiographies, and fiction, spans the centuries from deep past to the present. Elders, war chiefs, religious leaders, and contemporary artists share stories of the creation, stars, animals, heroes, and monsters, along with narratives of hunting, fishing, food-gathering,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398 BREFlorence, Melanie
Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLOSummary: "In this sweeping exploration of Indigenous culture, Our Way-A Parallel History brings together Native scholars and leaders to examine the incredible diversity of Native cultures in the US. Representing more than ten Indigenous nations, the contributors seek to dispel the myth, stereotype, and absence of information about American Indian, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian people in the master...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 OURGansworth, Eric
Summary: "The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GANDorgan, Byron L
Summary: "Through the story of Tamara, an abused Native American girl, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan tells the story of the many children living on Indian reservations. On a winter morning in 1990, Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune. On the front page, a small girl gazed into the distance, shedding a tear. The headline: "Foster home children beaten--and nobody's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 DOREllis, Joseph J.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America's revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 ELLTaylor, Lori
Summary: Destination: HOME! As Holly and her Team, T and Sie, are headed back home from their summer vacation, they discover that secrets, legends, and a mysterious story teller are following them across Michigan's eastern U. P.. But when the Team suddenly finds that 5th grade means life as miserable middle schoolers, Holly must embark on a quest for the good luck charm of legend. Holly is one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bear Track Press 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series TaylorOrtiz, Simon J.
Summary: "The People Shall Continue was originally published in 1977. It is a story of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically in the U.S., as they endeavor to live on lands they have known to be their traditional homelands from time immemorial. Even though the prairies, mountains, valleys, deserts, river bottomlands, forests, coastal regions, swamps and other wetlands across the nation are not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 ORTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 ORTLeZotte, Ann Clare
Summary: Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021