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Joseph Bruchac
2) Two roads
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his pop have been riding the rails for a year after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a "knight of the road" with Pop, even if they're broke. But then Pop has to go to Washington, D.C.--and Cal can't go with him. So Pop tells Cal something he never knew before: He's a Creek Indian, which means Cal is, too. And Pop has decided to send Cal to Challagi Indian School, a government...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On November 20, 1969, a group of 89 Native Americans-most of them young activists in their twenties, led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others-crossed San Francisco Bay under the cover of darkness. They called themselves the "Indians of All Tribes." Their objective was to occupy the abandoned prison on Alcatraz Island ("The Rock"), a mile and a half across the treacherous waters. Under the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the U.S. and the...
6) The Warriors
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Jake has left the reservation for Weltimore Academy and entered a different world. Everyone there loves lacrosse, but no one understands it the way Jake does, as an Iroquois. And no one understands Jake either. To the Iroquois, the game of lacrosse was more than recreation, more than competition. It was sacred. Young men and old played for Elder Brother, He Who Loves to Watch the People Play. Jake always remembered this. One of the best players on...
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Pub
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
xiv, 317 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
About ten thousand years ago in the northeast, the Abenaki– People of the Dawn Land – created a thriving community in social and ecological balance with nature and with each other. One of the finest sons of the People is Young Hunter, who dedicates himself to becoming a pure hunter. But a shadow is crossing over this place, threatening his beloved homeland, and Young Hunter is called to its defense. The deep-seeing...
8) Wolf mark
Author
Publisher
Tu Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Lucas King's covert-ops father is kidnapped and his best friend Meena is put in danger, Luke's only chance to save them--a skin that will let him walk as a wolf--is hidden away in an abandoned mansion guarded by monsters.
9) Found
Author
Series
Publisher
7th Generation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
iii, 107 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A teenage survival expert finds all his skills tested as he's pursued through the Canadian wilderness by men determined to silence him. On his way to teach at Camp Seven Generations, a Native outdoor school, Nick witnesses a murder and then is thrown off a train. Remembering and using the teachings of his Abenaki Elders will prove to be the difference between life and death for him. Although his pursuers have modern technology to help them, Nick has...
10) Talking leaves
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Squanto recounts how in 1614 he was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the colonists.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist."--
19) Rez dogs
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation. She's there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There's a new virus making people sick, and Malian will have to stay with her grandparents for the duration. Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but Malian knows how to keep her family...
20) Chenoo: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 209 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jacob Neptune, a wise-cracking, two-fisted Penacook private investigator with a checkered past, lives in upstate New York--four hundred miles from his tribal community on Abenaki Island. Then one night the phone rings. "We. got. trouble," Neptune's cousin Dennis says from the other end. And trouble is where it all starts in this brilliant, often hilarious novel by acclaimed Abenaki storyteller Joseph Bruchac. Attacked by bikers before he can even...
