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"A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown-scarred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis-and never looked back. Now, she lives in Rhode Island as an...
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There there volume 2
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English
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"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where...
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Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
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Describes the different Indian tribes that have made Ohio home from prehistoric times to the modern day, giving an overview of each culture and describing the influence of Europeans upon these tribes.
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Publisher
Superior
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Portraits include: Buisson family. Red Tomahawk. Lieutenant Bull Head. Spotted Tail. Chief Gall. Goes Ahead one of Custer's Scouts. An Indian dandy, Young Crow making his toilet for the dance. Crow King. Curly, a survivor of the Custer Command in the Little Big Horn Fight, with his wife and child. Two Moons, Northern Cheyenne Chief. Rain in the Face. Sitting Bull. Standing Rock Indian Police. John Grass. Winter Camp Crow. Invocation Oglala Sioux....
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Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A photographic celebration of contemporary Native American life and an examination of important issues the community faces today by the creator of Project 562, Matika Wilbur"--
"In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set out on a Kickstarter-funded pursuit to visit, engage, and photograph people from what were then the 562 federally recognized Native American Tribal Nations. Over the next decade, she traveled six hundred...
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Smithsonian Institution Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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In American Indian Lacrosse, Thomas Vennum, Jr., presents for the first time the Native American history of a game with worldwide popularity and more than 300,000 non-Indian players in the United States and Canada alone. Featuring rare archival illustrations, American Indian Lacrosse presents the richest available account of the rules, equipment, techniques, regional differences, and legendary underpinnings of the game among tribes of the Northeast,...
11) The Comanche
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Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Presents a brief introduction to the Comanche Indians including information on their society, homes, food, clothing, crafts, and life today.
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Psychology Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This volume explores the first four waves of a longitudinal diagnostic study of Indigenous adolescents and their families. The first study of its kind, it calls attention to culturally specific risk factors that affect Indigenous (American Indian and Canadian First Nations) adolescent development and describe the historical and social contexts in which Indigenous adolescents come of age. It provides unique information on ethical research and development...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should be practiced. Ultimately, revulsion at the work of nineteenth-century...
19) Rock your mocs
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Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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!