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The endangered Southern Resident orcas whistle and click their way around the waters of the Pacific Northwest in three small family groups while facing boat noise, pollution, and scarce food. Superpod introduces young readers to the experts who are training scat-sniffing dogs, inventing ways to treat sick orcas, quieting the waters, studying whales from the air, and speaking out. Author Nora Nickum also discusses her own work on laws to protect the...
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"The Earth Shall Weep is a book with a pioneering approach that sets it apart from any history now on the market. Drawing not only on historical sources but also on ethnography, archaeology, Indian oral tradition, and his own extensive research in Native American communities, James Wilson sets out to make the Indian perspective on the past and the present accessible to a broad audience. He charts the collision course between indigenous cultures and...
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TOR
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st ed.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
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435 p. : map ; 18 cm.
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English
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In the dawn of history, a dreamer who followed the spirit of the wolf led a handful of courageous men and women to find an untouched, unspoiled continent.
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Fulcrum Books
Pub. Date
©2010
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231 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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This anthology collects over twenty trickster stories, in graphic novel format, from various Native American traditions, including tales about coyotes, rabbits, ravens, and other crafty creatures and their mischievous activities. All cultures have tales of the trickster, a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes...
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People of the Longhouse series volume 1
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English
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Captured as slaves when their village is attacked, Odion and his little sister are pursued by their tribe's war chief and other rescuers who are unaware that an evil witch-woman is responsible for the abductions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal).
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee...
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee...
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People of the Longhouse series volume 4
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Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
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379 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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A conclusion to the series featuring Dekanawida the Peacemaker finds the growing League of the Great Law of Peace threatened by marauding warriors from the People of the Mountain, who Dekanawida urges to join the League to save their shared world.
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English
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The author describes eleven rival regional "nations" in the United States (Yankeedom, New Netherland, the Midlands, Tidewater, Greater Appalachia, the Deep South, New France, El Norte, the Left Coast, the Far West, and First Nation), and how these deep roots continue to influence our politics today.
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Rich-Heape Films
Pub. Date
2000
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1 videodisc (40 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Discover your Native American heritage, for you, for your children, and for their children after them. Learn how to obtain your tribal membership, obtain a CDIB, and more.
10) Vanishing act
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Jane Whitefield novels volume 1
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English
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Jane Whitefield is in the one-woman business of helping people disappear, teaching fugitives to live with new identities. But this time, Jane walks into a trap that will take all her cunning to escape.
12) Conquest of America: Vitus Bering, Peter Menendez, Francisco Coronado, Henry Hudson, Jean Ribault
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A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
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2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Looks at the campaigns of Bering, Menendez, Coronado, Hudson, and Ribault to explore and subdue the New World.
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English
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This gem from action-adventure writer James Oliver Curwood pairs white-hot romance with the white-knuckle drama of fighting crime. Will the always-honorable police sergeant David Carrigan survive his deadly beat long enough to live happily ever after with his beloved Jeanne-Marie?
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2006.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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24 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 cm.
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English
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"A brief introduction to Native American tribes of the Northwest, including their social structure, homes, food, clothing, and traditions"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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In this first novel by one of the western's most published writers, mistaken identities bring together a schoolmarm from the East with a sheep man believed to be an outlaw. While menace endangers its central characters on the plains of Wyoming, love overtakes the hearts of not one but two young couples. (Goodreads)
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