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Nurture a Thankful Heart through Reading! 📚 Books take us on incredible journeys, connecting us with diverse lives and experiences. 🧭By immersing ourselves in the stories of others, we learn to celebrate their unique journeys. 🙌In doing so, we can discover a greater sense of gratitude for the blessings in our own lives. ❤️ As empathy grows, gratitude flourishes. 🦃 This Thanksgiving let the magic of reading be your gateway to a heart brimming with thankfulness.
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Online Newspapers Read AJC and The Telegraph from the comfort of your home. AJC: 1985-present Telegraph: 1994- present
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We Are Water Protectorsby Carole LindstromWhen a black snake threatens to destroy the earth, one young water protector takes a stand to defend the planet's water, in a tale inspired by the many indigenous-led conservation movements across North America.
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Storyby Noble MaillardA celebration of the long-cherished Seminole Nation tradition of sharing fry bread during family meals combines evocative verses with vibrant artwork by the award-winning illustrator of La Princesa and The Pea.
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We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Knowby Traci SorellOne dozen kids discuss the historical and contemporary laws, policies, movements and victories that have shaped Native American culture of the past and present, from forced assimilation and tribe nation delegitimization to language revival efforts and the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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Iveliz Explains It All
by Andrea Beatriz Arango
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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Man Made Monsters
by Andrea L. Rogers
Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
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Crow Mary: A Novel
by Kathleen Grissom
Married to a white fur trader in 1872, a Crow Native woman has her journey to Saskatchewan interrupted when she steals two guns and saves five Nakota women who were kidnapped by drunken whiskey traders, setting off a culture war.
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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane HawkA bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of short stories by Indigenous authors. These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination.
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Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America
by Michael Johnson
This superb, fully illustrated reference offers the most up-to-date and essential facts on the identity, kinships, locations, populations and cultural characteristics of some 400 separately identifiable peoples native to the North American continent, both living and extinct, from the Canadian Arctic to the Rio Grande.
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