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61) Native love jams
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As the village of Rainy Bay works out the kinks in their first Indigenous Food Days, Winnow works out the kinks in her love life. Hired to forage and cook for the festival, Winnow arrives in the rural Minnesota community to find her host Niigaanii, is as annoyingly attractive as he is unwelcoming. Can Winnow and Niigaanii pull thorns from the past and harvest the love they find in a berry patch?
62) Makoons
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Birchbark house volume 5
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Youth - Native American Heritage Month 2022
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Youth - Native American Heritage Month 2022
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Named for the Ojibwe word for little bear, Makoons and his twin, Chickadee, have traveled with their family to the Great Plains of 1860s Dakota Territory. There they must learn to become buffalo hunters and once again help their people make a home in a new land. But Makoons has had a vision that foretells great challenges -- challenges that his family may not be able to overcome. (Based on the author's own family history.)
63) Indian horse
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Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better opportunities, but no matter how far Saul goes, the ghosts...
64) Carnival lights
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"In August 1969, two teenage Ojibwe cousins, Sher and Kris, leave their reservation for the lights of Minneapolis. The girls arrive with only $12 and their grandfather's World War II pack. But their ancestral connections to the land and trees, to family and culture, to love and loss shape their journey the most. They cross paths with a gay Jewish boy, and men on the prowl for runaways. Making their way to the Minnesota State Fair, the Indian girls...
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Native American Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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Teen - Native American Heritage Month 2022
Native American Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Native American Heritage Month (teens)
Teen - Native American Heritage Month 2022
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"Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative...
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Sydney's journey volume 1
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Sydney was a bully at her old school, but when she moves to a new school, the roles are reversed, and she becomes the person who is bullied.
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Adult - Native American Heritage Month 2022
AMPL Native American Heritage Month
Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month (WPL-ADULT)
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Overview: Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues...
69) The Water Walker
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"This is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother (Nokomis) Josephine Mandamin and her great love for Nibi (Water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi for future generations, and for all life on the planet. She, along with other women, men, and youth, have walked around all of the Great Lakes from the four salt waters - or oceans - all the way to Lake Superior. The water walks are full of challenges, and by her example...
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"Vain Beaver is inordinately proud of his silky tail, to the point where he alienates his fellow woodland creatures with his boasting. When it is flattened in an accident (of his own making), he learns to value its new shape and seeks to make amends with his friends. Based on an Ojibwe legend"--Provided by publisher.
71) Chickadee
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Birchbark house volume 4
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In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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"In small-town Minnesota in the 1970s, it's the tail-end of the age of peace and love, but 19-year-old Cash Blackbear isn't feeling it. Bored by freshman English 101 and even less interested in the increasingly popular American Indian Movement, all she wants is to play pool, learn judo, chain-smoke, and be left alone. But then one of Cash's classmates vanishes without a trace, and Cash can't stop dreaming about terrified girls begging for help. Plus,...
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"In this carefully curated selection of everyday reflections, Richard Wagamese finds lessons in both the mundane and sublime as he muses on the universe, drawing inspiration from working in the bush--sawing and cutting and stacking wood for winter as well as the smudge ceremony to bring him closer to the Creator. Embers is perhaps Richard Wagamese's most personal volume to date. Honest, evocative and articulate, he explores the various manifestations...
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Sheriff Matt Callahan mystery volume 3
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"As Sheriff Callahan's island community prepares for the onslaught of winter in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a mysterious young girl is found hiding in the island's wilderness. Teaming with the Ojibwe tribal police to discover the girl's identity, Callahan and his two young deputies enter a dangerous season where myth and reality merge and where a haunting malevolence threatens both their island and Indian country. Together with an Ojibwe detective,...
75) One Native life
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One Native Life is a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled from childhood abuse to adult alcoholism in reclaiming his identity. It's about what he has learned as a human being, a man, and an Ojibway in his 52 years on Earth. Whether he's writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, making bannock, or attending a sacred bundle ceremony, these are stories told in a healing spirit. Through them, Wagamese shows readers...
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Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers is a collection of poetry by award-winning Ojibwe author Lois Beardslee. Much of the book centers around Native people of the Great Lakes but has a universal relevance to modern indigenous people worldwide. Beardslee tackles contemporary topics like climate change and socioeconomic equality with a grace and readability that empowers readers and celebrates the strengths of today's indigenous peoples....
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"An unforgettable drama of anger, magic, and healing in the lives of two Native American families." "The first book in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, which also includes 'The Beet Queen, ' 'Tracks, ' and 'The Bingo Palace, ' 'Love Medicine' tells the story of two families -- the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Now resequenced by the author with the addition of never-before-published chapters, this is a publishing event equivalent to the presentation...
80) Ojibwe
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A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Ojibwe Indians.