"Drew Hayden Taylor works his delightfully comic, and bittersweet magic in these two plays about children growing up Native in a non-Native world. In 'The boy in the treehouse,' Simon pursues a vision quest in an attempt to reclaim his...
Indigenous peoples--North America
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Auteur:Shrake, EdwinSommaire:Doc Swift -- half Cherokee, half Irish, part medical doctor, past healer -- seeks the supernatural creature who guards the treasures and wisdom of his tribal ancestors. But first he needs to find the German settler named Gruber who had...
- Auteur:Rebus, AnnaSommaire:
Provides information on the Blackfoot Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
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Auteur:Erdrich, LouiseSommaire:Omakayas and her family live on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the "chimookoman," white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has: every summer...
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Auteur:Hobbs, WillSommaire:As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.
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Auteur:Gauthier, ClaytonSommaire:A mother bear shares with her cubs how to be grateful for all they have in the natural world. The Bear's Medicine shows the interconnectedness of all things in the world they live in and how each season brings changes and blessings for...
- Auteur:Nash, Ronald J.Sommaire:
Account of archaeological work in northern Manitoba and of artifacts found in three sites: Thyazzi, Twin Lakes, and Seahorse Gully. Author's Doctoral thesis at University of Calgary, May 1968.
- Auteur:Kissock, HeatherSommaire:
Provides information on the Algonquin Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
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Auteur:Alexie, ShermanSommaire:Spokane Indian Reservation. Fourteen-year-old Junior, beset with physical problems caused by brain damage, transfers to an all-white town school. Called a traitor by his best friend and Tonto by his new classmates, Junior uses humor and...
- Auteur:Compton, RalphSommaire:
A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their...
- Auteur:Van Camp, RichardSommaire:
Three Feathers bilingual edition includes Chipewyan and English. Three young men-Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert-have vandalized their community and are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing...
- Auteur:Clair, Peter J.Sommaire:
This novel tells the story of two Mi'kmaq individuals, two centuries apart. A girl named Taapoategl shows incredible faithfulness to culture and family in the most difficult of circumstances during the mid-18th century colonization by...
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Auteur:Robertson, DavidSommaire:A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later,...
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Auteur:Robertson, DavidSommaire:When Cole Harper is compelled to return to Wounded Sky First Nation, he finds his community in chaos: a series of shocking murders, a mysterious illness ravaging the residents, and reemerging questions about Cole's role in the tragedy...
- Auteur:Campbell, Maria, Farrell Racette, SherrySommaire:
Stories of the road allowance people are old men's stories, translated by Maria Campbell and given to you in the dialect and rhythm of her village and her father's generation. In the M¿Æis oral tradition, these stories must be said...
- Auteur:Reber, SusanneSommaire:
A teen's suspicious death, a shocking police cover-up and a mother's search for truth: this landmark investigation into justice and Canada's Indigenous people is re-issued and updated here for the first time in over a decade. In 1990,...
- Auteur:Álvarez, NoéSommaire:
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe 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...
- Auteur:Blackstock, CindySommaire:
Spirit Bear is off on another adventure! Follow him as he learns about traditional knowledge and Residential Schools from his Uncle Huckleberry and his friend, Lak'insxw, before heading to Algonquin territory, where children teach him...
- Auteur:Page, AndreaSommaire:
The author's great-uncle John Bear King was a Sioux Indian in the First Cavalry in the Second World War. Her book follows seven Sioux who put aside a long history of prejudice against their people and joined the fight against Japan,...
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Auteur:Vermette, KatherenaSommaire:Ma'iingan knows she is a very good singer. Conflict erupts when her little sister wants to sing just like her. The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in...
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