This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged as part of a conspiracy with the murder of a white man.
Indigenous peoples--North America
- Author:Spence, GerrySummary:
- Author:Dimaline, CherieSummary:
In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population-- and it is their...
- Author:Stewart, ElizabethSummary:
Between 1882 and 1968 there were 4,742 lynchings in the United States. In Canada during the same period there was one—the hanging of American Indian Louie Sam. The year is 1884, and 15-year-old George Gillies lives in the Washington...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
As Larry, a Native American, grows up in the small town of Fort Simmer, he lives according to his own rules and becomes involved in several activities that could cause danger to his future. When Johnny Beck moves to town, however, the...
- Author:DePaola, TomieSummary:
Little Gopher follows his destiny, as revealed in a Dream-Vision, of becoming an artist for his people and eventually is able to bring the colors of the sunset down to the earth.
- Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:
Molly's father grew up on the Mohawk Reserve of Akwesasne, where he learned the best scary stories. One of her favorites was the legend of Skeleton Man, a tale about a man with a deadly hunger. But ever since her parents...
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
William Little Bear Tucker and Sarah love to explore the caverns of the Sacramento Mountains, but are they clever enough to find an exit from both the maze-like cave and the dangerous men lurking in the darkness one afternoon?
- Author:Ikuutaq Rumbolt, PaulaSummary:
In The Legend of Lightning and Thunder, a traditional legend that has been told in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut for centuries, two siblings resort to stealing from their fellow villagers, and inadvertently introduce lightning and...
- Author:GREY, ZaneSummary:
"He'd rope the devil and tie him down-if the lasso didn't burn," it was said of Buffalo Jones, one of the last of the famous plainsmen who trod the trails of the Old West. Killing was repulsive to him and the passion...
- Author:Smith, RolandSummary:
When Jake, a teenager, takes his grandfather on a visit to their Hopi tribal homeland in Arizona, he finds himself fighting to save an endangered Mexican wolf.
- Author:Collins, GarySummary:
Inspired by True Events
Long after Demasduit’s skull has been stolen from her grave, and years after Shanawdithit has died, one Beothuk and his family survive.
Bursting out of the pages of Newfoundland history appears Kop...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
When Richard's class from Big Spirit School takes a canoe trip, he and his classmates chance upon an ederly woman. She tells them the story of her grandfather, John Ramsay, of the Sandy Bar community on Lake Winnipeg. Ramsay's land was...
- Author:Marshall, JosephSummary:
A gifted storyteller and historian and a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux, Joseph M. Marshall III, has dedicated his entire life to spiritual fulfillment and to teaching others the essence of Lakota wisdom. In The Lakota Way ,...
- Author:Banting, ErinnSummary:
Provides information on the Ktunaxa Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:Banks, Lynne ReidSummary:
As Omri, his father, and other members of his family learn more about the cupboard in his room, together and separately they are caught up in several dangerous adventures that reveal more about its powers.
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
Migizi loves his Gookem. Can he find the perfect gift to show her how much? The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in these seven stories for children. Set...
- Author:Van Camp, Richard, Gray Smith, Monique, Gear, AlisonSummary:
From award-winning authors Richard Van Camp and Monique Gray Smith come two honest and memorable middle-grade novellas on residential schools and reconciliation. The novellas will be bound together in a 'flip-book' format, which offers...
- Author:Lomberg, MichelleSummary:
Hundreds of years ago, five American Indian nations came together to create one of the worlds first democracies. This was known as the Iroquois Confederacy. Learn more in The Iroquois, one of the titles in the American Indian Art and...
- Author:Banting, ErinnSummary:
Provides information on the Inuit with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:Eastman, Charles AlexanderSummary:
Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, this book aimed to set forth the status and outlook of the North American Indian. Eastman addressed issues such as Indian schools, health, government policy...
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