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Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
One day, legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. When he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas Builds-the-Fire--storyteller, misfit, and musician--a magical odyssey begins that will take them from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Native American Heritage Month - Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Native American Heritage Month - Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Description
Three girls follow their grandmother into her garden, where they examine her collection of rocks, crystals, shells, and meteorites and learn about the marvels they reveal.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 8
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Joe and his longtime enemy, Bobby Fuller, use a vintage baseball card to travel in time, hoping to stop Jim Thorpe from participating in the 1912 Olympics and losing his medals, but instead they watch Thorpe struggle during his first season with the New York Giants.
67) Windigo Island
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. Such stories have been told by the Ojibwe people for generations, but they don't solve the mystery of how the girl and her friend, Mariah Arceneaux, disappeared a year ago. At the request of the Arceneaux...
Author
Series
Lakota Westerns volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand, otherwise known as the Fetterman Massacre of 1866, which was an important victory for the Lakota. This account is told through the eyes of Cloud, a dedicated and able warrior who fought alongside a young Crazy Horse during one of the coldest winters, as well as the white soldiers who mistake Cloud's redheaded wife for a captive.
Author
Series
Killstraight stories volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When we met Daniel Killstraight, he was a young Comanche man willing to risk his own life to prove the innocence of a man convicted of murder. Now Daniel is a "Metal Shirt," a tribal police officer. When an Indian accidentally kills his own daughter after he's had too much whiskey (a prohibited substance), Daniel is instructed to find out who's behind the running of the illegal liquor; but the evidence points to a white man whom Daniel has no authority...
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 16
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls.
Author
Series
Westward America! volume 3
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Jonah Wilde journeys into the prairies of Indiana with his wife and toddler son in the hopes of building a farming empire, a dream that is compromised by an encounter with the Shawnee, who claim the land.
Author
Series
Rendezvous novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Mountain man Sam Morgan struggles to deal with the loss of his lover, widow Paloma Luna, and undertakes a mission to find and rescue two young Mexican girls, kidnapped by Navajo raiders and spirited away into the New Mexico wilderness.
76) The painted drum
Author
Pub. Date
2006, c2005.
Language
English
Description
Faye Travers, a middle-aged divorcee and specialist in Native American antiquities, discovers a rare ceremonial drum while assessing the estate of a New Hampshire man descended from an Indian agent, and, when she hears the sound of the drum without even touching the instrument, she feels compelled to steal it and return it to a North Dakota reservation where its remarkable history is revealed.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Indian Agent is the riveting sequel to The Contract Surgeon. After Crazy Horse's death, McGillycuddy went on to become the youngest agent in history for the Red Cloud Agency, renamed the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, of the Oglala Lakota band of the Sioux.
Author
Series
Ethan Gage adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In William Dietrich's third book, notorious daredevil and explorer Ethan Gage returns. After meeting with President Thomas Jefferson, Gage sets off into the American wilderness, following an archaic map, to track down Thor's hammer, a powerful remnant from an early Norse settlement with the power to control the weather and lightning.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries"--
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