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1) On the rez
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When you hear the phrase "Native American music" you may not think of tubas, trumpets, and Sousa marches. Yet, this rich musical tradition has long been a part of Native American culture...Experience the Native American music scene like never before and get an inside look at contemporary Indian life in this unexpected and engaging half-hour documentary, Sousa on the Rez: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. This captivating narrative is part memoir and part history. Bunnell...
5) 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...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
vii, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A young girl hunts for answers about a string of disappearances, all while being haunted herself in this heart-pounding thriller with a mythological twist, from debut author Nick Medina. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino... and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step--an ancient tribal myth come to life, one that's intent on...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy--beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine--trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young Indigenous girl searching for a sense of home finds strength and courage in her gifts, her deepening connection to the land, and her own cultural awakening in this moving coming-of-age story. The last thing that twelve-year-old Misko wants to do is to move away from the city to spend time on the rez with her grandmother. She feels strangely compelled to go to the place where her dreams have been tugging at her to come home. Maybe she can...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before the new nuclear power plant can be built, the power company must help the Navajo reclaim a long-unused uranium mine. The plan is to collapse the old shafts and refill the area with new soil, but the first explosions trigger unplanned subsidiary collapses. Ella Clah, attending the dedication and purification ceremony, acts quickly when she sees a young child sliding into the exposed tunnels. She saves his life but is herself trapped underground.
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Series
Publisher
[Nantucket Antheneum]
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Ian Frazier is a staff writer at The New Yorker and has been contributing since 1974. He is also the author of eight books, including Dating Your Mom (1986) and Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody, (1987). His 1989 book, Great Plains, began as a three-part Reporter-at-large series for the magazine. Family, (1994) tells the history of his family in America from the early colonial years of middle-class life. His other books include On the Rez (2000),...
12) Rez ball
Author
Language
English
Description
"These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...
13) Racing the Rez
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the rugged canyon lands of Northern Arizona, Navajo and Hopi cross-country runners from two rival high schools put it all on the line for tribal pride, triumph over personal adversity, and state championship glory. Win or lose, what they learn in the course of their seasons, will have a dramatic effect on the rest of their lives...Focusing on five teens living on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, Racing the Rez unfolds over two years of careful,...
14) Bamboo Dogs
Publisher
Stray Dogs
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Four criminals, four cops in a van. On what should have been just another night on the job, police officers Esquivel & Corazon receive an order that seems simple enough at first: fix an arrest mix-up by taking a notorious group of robbers to a camp where they will be let go. But mid-transport, the orders change and Esquivel and his co-policemen find themselves having to choose between carrying out orders or doing what’s right. Official Selection...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--past and present--illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were absurd. In this memoir, Rezaian writes of his exhausting interrogations and farcical trial. He also reflects on his life and childhood.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[English/Spanish version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A visitor from the future tells best friends Bill and Ted that one of their songs can save life as they know it and bring harmony to the universe.
18) God of carnage
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
46 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Intellectually audacious and emotionally compelling, Whitehead shares his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantly-even joyfully-maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial"--
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