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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?" to "What's it like for natives who don't look native?" to "Why are Indians so often imagined rather than understood?", and beyond, Everything...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated-if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today-and the fight to preserve language and traditions"--
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Provides interviews with forty-five young indigenous children between the ages of nine and eighteen, who speak of their fears, challenges, and struggles to maintain their cultural heritage.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike.
Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945,...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics,...
Author
Publisher
Word Out Books
Pub. Date
©2019.
Language
English
Description
"Life on the Rez didn't offer a lot of hope to Aidan Wells, a young Sioux man. Dealing drugs seemed like a reasonable option. But all reason goes out of Aidan's life when four of his friends die from a heroin overdose caused by Aidan's uncut stash. Full of guilt, and bitter at the years he will now spend in prison, Aidan feels irredeemable. But not to his cellblock neighbor, Dave, a born-again Christian. Dave's friendship begins to pierce the fog...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After a journey across the Atlantic, the Mayflower's passengers were saved from destruction with the help of the natives of the Plymouth region. For fifty years, peace was maintained as Pilgrims and Natives worked together. But that trust was broken with the next generation of leaders, and conflict erupted that nearly wiped out English and natives alike.
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