Native American

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, History, American lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

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 notebo...

Inspired by the many Indigenousled movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruptiona bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade.Water is the first medicine.It affects and connects us all . . .Whe...

Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together afte...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, American, History lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

1932, Minnesota?the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O?Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent?s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a...

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Awardwinning author Louise Erdrichs grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant pr...

One of the most revered novelists of our time a brilliant chronicler of NativeAmerican life Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood...

Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained cl...

A boy discovers his Native American heritage in this Depressionera tale of identity and friendship by the author of Code TalkerIt's 1932, and twelveyearold Cal Black and his Pop have been riding the rails for years after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a "knight of the road" with Pop, even if they're broke. But then Po...

A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deli...

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo se...

Some cats are good luck. You pet them and good things happen. Woogie is one of those cats. But as Woogie gets into one mishap after another, everyone starts to worry. Can a good luck cat's good luck run outThe first children's book from an acclaimed poet whose honors include the American Book Award and the William Carlos Williams AwardCelebrates t...

A tender and gripping novel about family, identity, and loss. Fourteenyearold Tess is having a hard enough time understanding what it means to be part white and part Navajo, but now she's coping with her sister Gaby's announcement that she's going to enlist and fight in the Iraq war. Gaby's decision comes just weeks after the news that Lori Pie...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, FoodHobbies, Food, Hobbies, Children's lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the native North American languages. These several hundred languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. The book includes an overview of their special characteristics, descriptions of special styles, a catalog of the ...

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When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long braided hair and beautifully colored clothing Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residen...

Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10yearold Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It?s been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the darkcloaked nuns and brothers. Coming ashore, Margaret spots her family, but her mother barely recognizes her, screaming, ?Not my girl.? Margaret realize...

There is a river called Bok Chitto that cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between the States, in the days before the Trail of Tears, Bok Chitto was a boundary. On one side of the river lived the Choctaws. On the other side lived the plantation owners and their slaves. If a slave escaped and made his way across Bok Chitto, the sla...

"When I Was Eight" was called "utterly compelling" by "Kirkus"in a starred review."Margaret can't wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected."Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders' school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family but her ...

A look at modern Native American life as told by a citizen of the Cherokee NationThe word otsaliheliga (ohjahLEEhayleegah) is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express gratitude. Beginning in the fall with the new year and ending in summer, follow a full Cherokee year of celebrations and experiences. Appended with a glossary and the co...

When Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, what he discovered were the Taino Indians. Told from a young Taino boy?s point of view, this is a story of how the boy tried to warn his people against welcoming the strangers, who seemed more interested in golden ornaments than friendship. Years later the boy, now an old man, ...

In her debut middle grade novel?inspired by her family?s history?Christine Day tells the story of a girl who uncovers her family?s secrets?and finds her own Native American identity. All her life, Edie has known that her mom was adopted by a white couple. So, no matter how curious she might be about her Native American heritage, Edie is sure her fa...

"Dream a little, Kulu, this world now sings a most beautiful song of you."This beautiful bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by all the animals of the Arctic.Lyrically and tenderly told by a mother speaking to her own little Kulu; an Inuktitut term of endearment often bes...

From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son. Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as big Thunder, but little thunder doesn't want to share a na...

A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of historymaking women pilots.At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their ...

This fascinating picture book biography tells the childhood story of Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born around 1839. Through her true story, readers will learn what it was like to be part of this Native American community that lived along the Missouri River in the Dakotas, a society that depended more on agriculture for food and survival tha...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Relationships, Family, Fiction, Children's lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Bee stings on the backside! That was just the beginning. Tim was about to enter a world of the past, with bullying boys, stones and Indian spirits of long ago. But they were real spirits, real stones, very real memories? In this powerful family saga, author Tim Tingle tells the story of his family?s move from Oklahoma Choctaw country to Pasadena, T...

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an allwhite farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.Heartbreaking, funny, and beautif...

Tink, tink, tink, tink, sang coneshaped jingles sewn to Grandma Wolfe's dress.Jenna's heart beats to the brum, brum, brum, brum of the powwow drum as she daydreams about the clinking song of her grandma's jingle dancing.Jenna loves the tradition of jingle dancing that has been shared by generations of women in her family, and she hopes to dance at...

The team behind How Chipmunk Got His Stripes retells an Abenaki fable that warns against arrogance and honors the importance of keeping your promises. Azban the Raccoon loves to race on his long legs. He is the fastest of all the animals, but he?s also the most conceited, mocking everyone with his speed. When the other animals grow tired of his a...

Nineteenthcentury American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, awardwinning author Louise Erdrich's first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the spirited, 7yearold Ojibwa girl Omakayas, or Little Fro...