Long Soldier, Layli
Summary: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award. WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LONWeso, T. F. Pecore (Thomas F. Pecore)
Summary: "Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Jackson, Joe
Summary: "Describes the life of the Native American holy man who fought at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his cousin Crazy Horse, traveled to Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and became a traditionalist in the Ghost Dance movement."--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK ELK JACNeihardt, John G
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NEIFelver, Christopher
Summary: Christopher Felver's Tending the Fire celebrates the poets and writers who represent the wide range of Native American voices in literature today. In these commanding portraits, Felver's distinctive visual signature and unobtrusive presence capture each artist's strength, integrity, and character. Accompanying each portrait is a handwritten poem or prose piece that helps reveal the origin of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 920 FELHarjo, Joy
Summary: "Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her 'poet-warrior' road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 HARJO, JOY HARMarshall, Joseph
Summary: A Lakota historian and storyteller offers a portrait of Crazy Horse, the era in which he lived, and his legacy, drawing on his own culture's oral tradition and firsthand research to capture diverse aspects of Crazy Horse's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAZY HORSE MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 978.004 CRAHarjo, Joy
Summary: In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9 HARNelson, S. D.
Summary: "In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. Atthe height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time. In this action-packed double biography, S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NELHarjo, Joy
Summary: Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, grounded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARJO, JOY HARBray, Kingsley M.
Summary: Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend. This book corrects older, idealized accounts, and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies, to show the real Crazy Horse: not the brash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Drury, Bob.
Summary: The untold story of the great Ogala Sioux chief Red Cloud, the most powerful Indian commander of the Plains who witnessed the opening of the West and forced the American government to sue for peace in a conflict named for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RED CLOUD DRUFreedman, Russell.
Summary: A biography of the Oglala leader who relentlessly resisted the white man's attempt to take over Indian lands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1996
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CRAZYHORS FREBunnell, David
Summary: "Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUNNELL, DAVID HUGH BUNNelson, S. D
Summary: "This book is the story of the Lakota and how they were forced onto a reservation, told from the point of view of Red Cloud, warrior and chief of the Lakota. It is a heavily illustrated account, with both text and illustrations by S. D. Nelson."--Providedby publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 NELBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 LIVBlack Elk
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK ELK NEIMatthiessen, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 MATGansworth, 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 GANSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Means, Russell
Summary: A riveting account of the life of perhaps the most compelling American Indian of this century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 MEAFrazier, Ian.
Summary: Presents a portrait of modern-day American Indians, focusing on the Oglala Sioux of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlands of the American West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001