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Powwow day
by Traci Sorell
Unable to dance at the powwow this year due to illness, River feels isolated and alone until she discovers the healing power of community, in this uplifting, contemporary Native American story.
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Still this Love Goes On
by Buffy Sainte-Marie
This beautifully illustrated tribute to Indigenous communities everywhere brings to life an Academy Award-winning Cree icons song of the same name, combining meaningful lyrics with breathtaking.
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Berry Song
by Michaela Goade
As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.
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We Sang You Home
by Richard Van Camp
A couple celebrates and welcomes their baby into the world.
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Keepunumuk : Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story
by Danielle Greendeer
Told in a Native tradition, this Wampanoag story of Weećhumun (corn) and the first Thanksgiving shows how the Native people, who already lived on the land where the pilgrims settled, helped the pilgrims survive their first winter.
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We Are Water Protectors
by Carole Lindstrom
When 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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I Sang You Down From the Stars
by Tasha Spillett-Sumner
A Native American woman describes how she loved her child before it was born and, throughout her pregnancy, gathered a bundle of gifts to welcome the newborn.
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We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
by Traci Sorell
This book follows a full year of Cherokee celebrations and experiences, describing how the Cherokee Nation expresses thanks and reflects on struggles all year long. Please note, this title can be found in the Easy Non-fiction section of the library.
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
by
Kevin Noble Maillard
This tale celebrates the Native American tradition of sharing fry bread during family meals in a story about family, history, culture, and traditions, both new and old.
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Fancy Pants
by Dawn Quigley
In this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series, written by an American Indian Youth Literature Honor winning author and illustrated by a Wolastoqey artist, irrepressible first-grader Jo Jo is determined to learn how to be fancy before her aunts wedding, with her own particular flair.
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Wilma Mankiller
by Traci Sorell
Shows how Wilma Mankiller dedicated her life to helping Native Nations and their citizens reclaim their rights, becoming the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation and lists ways readers can follow in her footsteps to make a difference.
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Sky Wolf's Call : The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge
by Eldon Yellowhorn
In Sky Wolf's Call, award-winning author team of Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger reveal how Indigenous knowledge comes from centuries of practices, experiences, and ideas gathered by peoplewho have a long history with the natural world. Indigenous knowledge is explored through the use of fire and water, the acquisition of food, the study of astronomy, and healing practices.
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The Sea In Winter
by Christine Day
After an injury sidelines her dreams of becoming a ballet star, Maisie is not excited for her blended family's midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up.
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Healer of the Water Monster
by Brian Young
When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer...Still, he loves spending time with...his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night...Nathan finds someone extraordinary: a Holy Being from the Navajo Creation Story--a Water Monster--in need of help...With the help of other Navajo Holy Beings, Nathan is determined to save the Water Monster, and to support Uncle Jet in healing from his own pain.
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Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
A collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers that chronicle Native families from Nations across the continent gathering at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story
by Andrea L. Rogers
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi.
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I Can Make This Promise
by
Christine Day
In a story based on the author’s real-life experiences, a girl uncovers a secret that connects her to her Native American heritage, throwing everything she believes about her family into question.
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Indian No More
by
Charlene Willing McManis
When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.
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Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender
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S. D. Nelson
This portrait of the controversial Native American leader traces his mid-19th century opposition to white expansion into Native American territory and the military successes that rendered him a primary influence in U.S.-Native American relations. Please note, this title can be found in the Juvenile Non-fiction section of the library.
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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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The Star that Always Stays
by Anna Rose Johnson
In 1914, Norvia moves from the country to the city, where her mother forces her to pretend shes not Native American, and when faced with numerous changes and the looming threat of world war, Norvia must find the courage to reveal who she truly is.
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The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls
by James Bird
After being caught stealing one too many times, Benjamin Waterfalls is sent to a boot camp at the Objibwe reservation where he searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around and embrace this second chance.
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A Snake Falls to Earth
by Darcie Little Badger
Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families.
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Rain is Not My Indian Name
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper to cover events at the Native American summer youth camp.
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The Firekeeper's Daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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A Girl Called Echo Volume 1: Pemmican Wars
by Katherena Vermette
While adjusting to a new home and school, Echo finds herself traveling back in time to 1816 in the middle of a Métis bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie just before a deadly battle. Please note, this title can be found in the Teen Graphic Novel section of the library.
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Apple: (Skin to the Core)
by Eric Gansworth
Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family--of Onondaga among Tuscaroras--of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters the slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking. Please note, this title can be found in the Teen Non-fiction section of the library.
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Hearts Unbroken
by
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Breaking up with her first real boyfriend when he makes racist remarks about her Native American heritage, high school senior Louise Wolfe teams up with a fellow school newspaper editor to cover a multicultural casting of the school play and the racial hostilities it has exposed.
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