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22) Giving thanks
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A boy's father celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world through his daily words of thanks and assures his son, who finds it a little embarrassing to thank trees and such, that it becomes a habit and makes one feel good.
23) The deerslayer
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Language
English
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Follows the adventures of the brave and bold frontiersman, Natty Bumpo.
24) Berry song
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.
25) Eagle song
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English
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After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage.
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Language
English
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Description
For thousands of years, quartz fragments have traveled down the Delaware River (once called the Wehittck by the Lenape Indians), washing ashore near a place settled by the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobson Mey, where they are gathered as treasures and known as Cape May Diamonds.
27) On mother's lap
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Language
English
Description
A small Eskimo boy discovers that Mother's lap is a very special place with room for everyone.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Becca loves spending time with Grandma. Every time Becca says,"Let me try," Grandma shows her how to make something beautiful. Whether they are beading moccasins, dancing like the most beautiful butterflies, or practicing basketball together, Becca knows that, more than anything, she wants to be just like Grandma"--
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 19
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English
Description
The black stallion helps save an Indian tribe during a time of disaster, thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy.
31) Hunting by stars
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Series
Language
English
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French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
33) Indian shoes
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Houghton Mifflin stereotype edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1849, Zeb's parents ship him off to St. Louis to become an apprentice tanner, but the naive twelve-year-old rebels, casts his lot with a cheating riverboat gambler, while a slave and an Indian medicine man try to get Zeb back on the right path.
36) Ghost canoe
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Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, finds himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking for Spanish treasure.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Pete the Cat participates in a school play about the first Thanksgiving. He makes new friends and learns a lot about what it was like to be a Pilgrim and live off the land, as well as to be thankful for everything. Lift the flaps to see what other adventures and facts came about during the play.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Language
English
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Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...
40) Hearts unbroken
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English
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When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
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