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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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During Guatemala's recent civil war, the CIA-advised army wiped out hundreds of Mayan villages. This is the story of one woman, Maria's struggle to save her village, and her sister Brenda's efforts to live normally after being raped and tortured by CIA-advised intelligence officers in El Salvador. It is a story of courage, bravery, and unrelenting faith that there is a future.
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Shawnee and Mayhem continue to wreak havoc on the Killzme Corporation-the largest animal trafficking ring in the country-by killing one poacher at a time. The stakes grow increasingly higher when the nefarious group retaliates by putting a bounty on their heads. Meanwhile, the traffickers set their sights on capturing Orca for profit and pleasure. With a ticking clock and no place left to hide, Shawnee and Mayhem alternate between undercover surveillance...
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Cash Blackbear novels volume 1
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
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259 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a young Ojibwe woman as she struggles to come to terms with the callous murder of a Native American stranger, bringing to life the gritty, dark reality of a flawed foster care system and the oppression of indigenous people. Renee "Cash" Blackbear, a 19-year-old, tough-as-nails, resilient Ojibwe woman, has lived all her life in Fargo, sister city to Minnesota's...
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Ánte's life has been steeped in Sami tradition. It is indisputable to him that he, an only child, will keep working with the reindeer. But there is something else too, something tugging at him. His feelings for his best friend Erik have changed, grown into something bigger. What would people say if they knew? And how does Erik feel? And Erik's voice just the push of a button away. Ánte couldn't answer, could he? But how could he ignore it? Fire...
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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.
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Annick Press
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[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Introduces readers to the concept of Etuaptmumk--or Two-Eyed Seeing in the Mi'kmaq language--as we follow a group of young children connecting to nature as their teacher. A poetic, joyful celebration of the Lands and Waters as spring unfolds: we watch for Robin's return, listen for Frog's croaking, and wonder at Maple Tree's gift of sap. Grounded in Etuaptmumk, also known as Two-Eyed Seeing, the gift of multiple perspectives, and the Mi'kmaw concept...
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Inhalt:
Romane:
Die Ansiedler an den Quellen des Susquehanna
Die Steppe oder die Prärie
Der rote Freibeuter
Satanstoe, oder die Familie Littlepage
Die Wassernixe oder der Streicher durch die Meere
Der letzte Mohikaner
Der Bravo
Der Pfadfinder
Die Grenzbewohner oder Die Beweinte von Wish-Ton-Wish
Der Wildtöter
Die Monikins
Ravensnest oder die Rothhäute
Der Spion-Eine Geschichte des neutralen Bodens
Die Steppe oder Die Prärie
Der Kettenträger oder...
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Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada's “reconciliation project” has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it.
Widely known as a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights, McIvor reports from the front lines of legal and political...
11) 77° North
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An extraordinary debut novel - thematically significant, profoundly timely, magical in intent and execution.... A MUST READ. The Author himself best defines the intent of this novel. • First is to advocate Inuit culture, specifically the role of shaman. 77° North recognizes this ancient tradition and hopes, within the confines of this mythical adventure, we bring new perspective to the forefront for the stewards of...
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¿Cuáles son los niveles de participación de los pueblos indígenas en las figuras de conservación administradas por el Estado peruano? ¿Cuál es el impacto de la agenda de conservación sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas?
"Hacia un régimen de conservación y la defensa de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas" tiene como objetivo explorar los niveles de participación indígena en el marco regulatorio del Sistema Nacional de Áreas...
13) I, Jandamarra
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Jandamarra is an aboriginal warrior of the spiritual Kimberley area of Australia, home to the tribe known as the Bunuba people. Jandamarra is a legendary hero of the 1890s known to his people as a Jalgangurru, a magic man, due to his extraordinary skills and abilities.
He is a cheeky, likeable boy, and a quick learner. At around 12 years of age, Jandamarra, named Pigeon by the whitefellas, begins working on a sheep station, where he learns to shoot,...
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In the late 1800s, post-Civil War, two young Cheyenne sisters are wrenched from a loving family, kidnapped and incarcerated at Rose Academy, a harsh, Indian boarding school established to assimilate native young people, teach them English, and eradicate their knowledge of traditional ways, considered inferior to the ways of the Washita (whites).Forbidden to speak their native language, the sisters are whipped and punished, however, the school harsh...
15) Chinongwa
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‘ Chinongwa Murehwa was nine, but her age was not vital. Just her virginity.' In the village where Chinongwa lives, her family, displaced from their lands, are very poor. One desperate solution to hunger is to trade young daughters into marriage. At first, to their shame, her father' s and aunt' s attempts to marry off their youngest child fail. No one is interested in this small, thin girl. Eventually, a childless woman,...
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In this novel, first published in 1891, young, idealistic Genevieve Weir arrives in Indian Territory on a mission to bring "civilization" to the Muscogee people. There she meets Wynema, a young Muscogee girl who shares the traditions and beliefs of her tribe. Together, these young women come of age during a time in American history marred by racism, sexism, and brutality toward Native Americans.
A story about love's power to overcome differences,...
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A consummate warrior and brilliant strategist, Pino is a young Native American woman who must fight against fierce invaders to save her tribe - and spirit - from annihilation in precolonial southern New England.
The strange tale of sisterhood begins on the stormy spring morning her tribe faces imminent attack by a contingent of the mighty Pagassett Nation, infamous for destroying small tribes in its quest for land and power. Pino knows this is the...
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Following the immense success of his debut collection of horror stories, Midnight Storm, Moonless Sky, Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop once again scares the wits out of readers while uncovering overlooked social anxieties and racism affecting Indigenous Peoples across North America. Whistle at Night and They Will Come: Indigenous Horror Stories Volume 2 delivers stories ranging from supernatural mythology and the paranormal to post-apocalyptic scenarios,...
19) Coyote Stories
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"We who lived the days of tribal life before our destruction began remember with gratefulness our storytellers and the delight and joy and richness which they imparted to our lives. We never tired of their tales, though told countless times. They will, forsooth, never grow old, for they have within them the essence of things that cannot grow old. These legends are of America, as are its mountains, rivers, and forests, and as are its people. They belong!"
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A chilling horror novel about a young Indigenous woman haunted by the oppressive legacies of colonization.
Dawn hasn't spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent to prison for a violent crime seven years ago. Now living in a shiny new Toronto condo, Dawn is haunted by uncanny occurrences, including cryptic messages from her dead mother, that have followed her most of her life. When the life Dawn thought she wanted implodes, she is forced to...
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