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241) No place like home
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays. Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting. Emjay has taken to disappearing for days, slowing down the family's progress and adding...
243) Yesterday's rain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
vii, 111 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"... Sydney still working through her guilt over having been a bully at her previous school on the White Earth Rservation. When she ends up taking a punch in the face intended for her gay friend, everyone is sure she'll fight back, but her response is a total shocker. Is it really posible for bullies to change?"--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Written in 1894 and recently recovered from the archives of the University of Minnesota, this autobiography tells the story of a Chippewa-Scots-French woman from Madeline Island in Lake Superior. The child and grandchild of fur traders, the author describes her family's starving time on their homestead, and her travels by boat, dog sled, and on foot. She gives her views of the Wisconsin Death March, the Dream Dance, Native American marriage and burial...
246) Apple in the middle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Education professor Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking of their experiences. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never shared before. She came to an understanding of new terms:...
249) Trails of the people
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"He iconic activist and cofounder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) presents a no-holds-barred memoir in which he tells the unvarnished truth about the AIM as he lived it, revealing what motivated him to confront injustice and help others gain a sense of pride by knowing their culture,"--NoveList.
252) Nibi emosaawdang
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Ojibwa
Description
"A translation of The Water Walker into Anishinaabemowin. The book contains both Anishinaabemowin and English. The Water Walker is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother who walked around all of the Great Lakes to protect our water."--
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