![]() Poetic, Newbery Medal-winning story of a Navajo boy studying to be a shaman. But her first time alone proves to be a near disaster when she goes off exploring and forgets the time. For years, after the tide goes out, she and her mother have gone into the beautiful under-the-ice world to collect mussels. A young Inuit girl goes to "walk on the bottom of the sea" alone for the first time. Biography of Ohiyesa, 19th century Sioux leader. Charles Eastman: physician, reformer, and Native American leader. Traces the roles of George Washington and participant Native Americans and tells the stories of individual settlers, land speculators, and politicians. Crucible of war: the Seven Years' War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754-1766. Describes the festivities at Crow Fair, the biggest Native American powwow in North America, for grades 3-6. Historical novel depicts the growth of cities, the dynamic social changes, and the destruction of the Native American way of life as Brazil's frontier was opened to the cultivation of cacao at the beginning of the 19th century. Describes her career as the first Navajo woman surgeon and her belief that integrating tribal ways into traditional western medicine improves healing. Poems of nature and the poet's Native American heritage. ![]() Stories of various Native American tribes, focusing on women and the shamanistic tradition. Grandmothers of the light: a medicine woman's sourcebook. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name. wants a normal name or one that's special and all his own. Stories of the Native American rock band, Coyote Springs. 22 stories about life on a Spokane Indian reservation. The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. When an elusive serial killer stalks and scalps white men around Seattle, the focus falls on Smith as a prime suspect. Adopted by white parents as an infant, John Smith grows up dispossessed of his Native American heritage and identity. Called a traitor by his best friend and Tonto by his new classmates, Junior uses humor and wit to bridge the cultural divide. Fourteen-year-old Junior-beset with physical problems caused by brain damage-transfers to an all-white town school. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian. In the 1790s when American Indians are losing their land in the Midwest to American settlers, teenaged Billy Calder, son of a British officer and a Mohawk mother, leaves school to join Shawnee chief Tecumseh in his efforts to unite the Indians. A professor of religious studies discusses how nature has played a part in various beliefs systems and ritual forms, and how it has been a guide for everyday life in America. ![]() Nature religion in America: from the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. Later separated from the group, Running Crane courageously tames a legendary stallion and rescues wounded Wolf Eagle. Although newly arrived in the Kainaa band of the Blackfoot people, Running Crane, a Siksika youth, is chosen by Wolf Eagle to accompany the horse raiders. Inspired by General Colin Powell, ex-basketball star Abdul-Jabbar volunteers to assist in coaching a high school team on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. A season on the Reservation: my sojourn with the White Mountain Apache. How a select corps of Navajo marines confounded the Japanese during World War II. These books feature Native American history, culture, and protagonists and are all available from the Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library catalog.Īaseng, Nathan.
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