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2023.
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"A young, Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchling-and quickly finds herself at odds with the "approved" way of doing things-in the first book of a brilliant new fantasy series. The remote island of Masquapaughas not seen a dragon in many generations-until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons...
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"La luz del sol en la cara. El aroma de bannock caliente horneándose. Agarranr la mano de alguien querido. ¿Qué llena tu corazón de alegría? Este hermoso libro en cartoné, con ilustraciones de la artista de renombre Julie Flett, sirve como recordatorio tanto para pequeños como adultos a pensar en y apreciar los momentos de la vida que nos llenan de alegría. La ponente internacional y premiada autora Monique Gray Smith escribió Mi corazón...
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"When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story...
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Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
202 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"On a journey to uncover her family's story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land--creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamworld she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls. They stand as a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the Plains bison to near extinction-- a key tactic to starve and contain the Indigenous People onto reservations. On this path,...
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Misewa saga volume 1
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Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
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247 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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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 and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek...
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Press Gang Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
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xii, 142 pages ; 22 cm
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"I Am Woman represents my personal struggle with womanhood, culture, traditional spiritual beliefs and political sovereignty, written during a time when that struggle was not over. My original intention was to empower Native women to take to heart their own personal struggle for Native feminist being. The changes made in this second edition of the text do not alter my original intention. It remains my attempt to present a Native woman's sociological...
10) If I go missing
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James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
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64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 25 cm
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"A powerfully illustrated graphic novel for teens about the subject of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Combining graphic fiction and non-fiction, this young adult graphic novel serves as a window into one of the unique dangers of being an Indigenous teen in Canada today. The text of the book is derived from excerpts of a letter written to the Winnipeg Chief of Police by fourteen-year-old Brianna Jonnie -- a letter that went viral and in which,...
11) The great bear
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Misewa saga volume 2
Publisher
Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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229 pages.
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"Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important decision about her birth mother. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most, and make the journey to Misewa to visit their animal friends. This time they travel back in time and meet a young fisher that might just...
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Misewa saga volume 4
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Tundra
Pub. Date
[2023]
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243 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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Led to a new village where the animal beings who live there are going missing, Morgan, Emily and Eli vow to help after discovering who’s responsible, until the details of a traditional legend change everything.
13) We sang you home
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"A celebration of the bond between parent and child...[the] gentle rhythmic text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world."--publisher's website
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
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384 pages
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After disaster strikes during one of her shows, Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries with the help of an eclectic cast of characters.
16) We still belong
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Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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249 pages ; 22 cm.
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Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong-until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
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470 pages ; 20 cm
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"The international award-winning, bestselling phenomenon, now available in English for the first time. Tomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night in Kautokeino, a small village in northern Norway, home to the indigenous Sami people. But in the last hours of darkness, a precious artifact is stolen: an ancient Sami drum. The most important piece in the museum's collection,...
18) Amazona
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Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2022.
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95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. She comes to mourn her child-and to capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family.
19) Rock your mocs
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Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaginated) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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"In this happy, vibrant tribute to Rock Your Mocs Day, observed yearly on November 15, author Laurel Goodluck (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian) and artist Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw) celebrate the joy and power of wearing moccasins--and the Native pride that comes with them. A perfect book for Native American Heritage Month, and all year round!" --publisher's website.
20) Eagle drums
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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245 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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In preparation for winter, a skilled young hunter embarks on a perilous journey up the mountain to gather obsidian, where he encounters the fearsome eagle god Savik and is presented with a life-altering choice.
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