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1) There there
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Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Fiction 1 available
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2018. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 294 pages ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Fiction 1 available FIC ORA |
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2018 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come...
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From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?" to "What's it like for natives who don't look native?" to "Why are Indians so often imagined rather than understood?", and beyond, Everything...
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2016 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Checked Out
10 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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"United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions...
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In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty...
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OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Recorded Books, LLC | English | Available Online
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2012 | OverDrive/Libby | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | English | Available Online
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2012 | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | English | Available Online
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.
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Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Fiction 1 available
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[2020] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 451 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Fiction 1 available FIC ERD |
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
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c2012 | 1st ed. | Harper | 321 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Fiction 1 available FIC ERD |
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2012 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2012 | OverDrive/Libby | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2012 | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
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"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....
9) LaRose
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Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Fiction 1 available
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[2016] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | x, 373 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Fiction 1 available FIC ERD |
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2016 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with...
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Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Non-Fiction 1 available
976.6 GRA
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[2017] | First edition. | Doubleday | x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Non-Fiction 1 available 976.6 GRA |
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Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Audio Book Shelves 1 available
AUD 976.60 GRA
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[2017] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 7 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Audio Book Shelves 1 available AUD 976.60 GRA |
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2017 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2017 | OverDrive/Libby | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2017 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"This book is an essential resource for young readers to learn about the Reign of Terror against the Osage people--one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, thanks to the oil that was discovered beneath their land. Then, one by one, the Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances, and anyone who tried to investigate met the same...
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2021. | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | 494 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Fiction 1 available YA FIC BOU |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out
4 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | English | Available Online
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2021 | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | English | Available Online
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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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Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts...
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"When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared...
14) Native America
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Explores the world created by America's first peoples. The series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...
16) Lakota woman
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Story of Mary Crow Dog, nee Mary Brave Bird, who rebelled against the life of the South Dakota Indian reservation and participated in the beginning of the tribal movements of the sixties and seventies.
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"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for...
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"Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the...
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