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• Red Bird Danced [Large Print]

  Quigley, Dawn

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  The story of urban Native kids who find strength in connection with those who came before and in the hope that lets them take flight.

• The Ribbon Skirt

  Mukwa, Cameron,

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  Ten-year-old Anang wants to make a ribbon skirt, a piece of clothing typically worn by women in the Anishinaabe tradition, for an upcoming powwow. Anang is two-spirit and nonbinary and doesn't know what others will think of them wearing a ribbon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stealing Little Moon

  the Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools

  Jones, Dan SaSuWeh, 1951-

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  Little Moon was one of thousands of Indigenous children forced to attend these schools across America and give up everything they'd ever known: family, friends, toys, clothing, food, customs, even their language. She would be the first of four…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Flicker

  Edgmon, H. E.,

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  With their parents dead and supplies running low after a solar flare scorched the Earth, stepsisters Millie and Rose leave home with their infant half brother and dog Corncob in search of Millie's grandma, a Seminole elder.

• Colonization and the Wampanoag Story

  Coombs, Linda,

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  The true story of the Indigenous Nations of the American Northeast, including the Wampanoag nation and others, and their history up to present day.

• Indigenous Ingenuity

  a Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge

  Havrelock, Deidre,

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  A middle grade survey nonfiction work celebrating North American Indigenous knowledge and Native contributions to contemporary STEM.

• Healer of the Water Monster

  Young, Brian (Brian Lee),

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  A novel inspired by Navajo culture follows the experiences of a boy whose summer at his grandmother's reservation home is shaped by his uncle's addictions and an encounter with a sacred being from the Navajo creation story.

• Sky Wolf's Call

  the Gift of Indigenous Knowledge

  Yellowhorn, Eldon, 1956-

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  From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters

  Chilling American Indian Stories

  Jones, Dan SaSuWeh, 1951-

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  Thirty-two short stories chosen from the tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America, featuring witches, walking dolls, hungry skeletons, skinwakers, and other supernatural beings.

• The Barren Grounds

  Robertson, David, 1977-

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  Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mary and the Trail of Tears

  a Cherokee Removal Survival Story

  Rogers, Andrea L.,

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  It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Case of the Missing Auntie

  Hutchinson, Michael, 1971-

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  Four inseparable cousins, known as the Mighty Muskrats, work together to find Chickadee's great aunt, who was taken from her parents by the government and adopted by strangers many years ago.

• The Grizzly Mother

  Huson, Brett D.,

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  An engaging look at how the animals, people, and seasons within an ecosystem are intertwined. To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the grizzly is an integral part of the natural landscape. Together, they share the land and forests…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian No More

  McManis, Charlene Willing, 1953-2018,

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  When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.

• I Can Make This Promise

  Day, Christine, 1993-

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  When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity.

• Turtle Island

  the Story of North America's First People

  Yellowhorn, Eldon, 1956-

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  Traces the history of the indigenous populations of the Americas from the Ice Age to the arrival of the Europeans, drawing on archaeology and scientific research to share insights into the culture of Native Americans.

• The Porcupine Year

  Erdrich, Louise

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  In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.

• The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales

  Bruchac, James

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  Engaging, inspirational, and above all entertaining, these legends come from Native American peoples across the U.S. Richly illustrated with original art, they capture a wide range of belief systems and wisdom from the Cherokee, Cheyenne, Hopi,…Read moreRead more of this annotation