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Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Red Fury: "Frankie is a lost Indian boy taken in by John Handley, a lonely alcoholic rancher. Amelia Andersen is a schoolteacher who fights for Frankie's acceptance in the small town. And Red Fury is the magnificent stallion that only Frankie can tame. Though John and Amelia risk their livelihoods for Frankie, he becomes an outcast when the community rejects him. But when a crisis hits the area, the strength of Frankie and Red Fury's unbreakable...
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Head outdoors and play with favorite PBS KIDS friends. In Molly of Denali, it's Trini's first River Skate, a special event where everyone, in Qyah skates down the frozen river to a bonfire. Molly and Tooey are thrilled to share this tradition with Trini, but will they be able to teach her how to skate in time?
Series
Reading rainbow volume 73
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A Native-American tale about a boy who becomes an artist and brings the colors of the sunset to earth. Artist Dominic Arquero talks about his heritage, painting sunsets, and how paints are made from earth elements. Dolly Naranjo, with her daughter and mother, show how they make traditional pottery. The Concha family prepare for and perform a traditional Pueblo dance.
4085) Wind river
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
4087) The new world
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Captain John Smith leaves the Jamestown fort to explore and trade with the Indians, but he is captured. Princess Pocahontas asks her father to spare Smith's life and they fall in love. When he returns to Jamestown, he finds the people starving. Pocahontas brings supplies, but while saving them English, she falls in disgrace with her people. When the Indians realize that the English will not leave their country, they attack. After a bloody battle,...
4088) Jeremiah Johnson
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
An American ex- soldier heads to the mountains to escape civilization but after Crows kill his family in retaliation for violation of a bural ground he becomes embroiled in a long-running vendetta.
Mother lode: Two bush pilots and a girl travel to British Coumbia to find the gold hidden by the McGee brothers.
4089) The last apache girl
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
For Ned Giles, a 17-year-old amateur photographer, a nightmare of harrowing misadventures begins the day he signs on to the 'Great Apache Expedition'. He is one of dozens of men hoping to free the son of a wealthy Mexican rancher kidnapped by a chillingly ferocious band of Apaches. A huntsman has captured one of their number, a wild young Apache girl, and they plan to use her as ransom. Like an animal, she bites and spits at anyone who comes near...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with...
4093) Skins
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
In the shadow of Mt. Rushmore, lies one of the poorest counties in America, The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Indian existence is brought home every night as he locks up drunk and disorderly Indians, including his own brother. Rudy's frustration leads him to take the law into his own hands. Ultimately, Rudy is able to honor his big brother, and his people with a life-affirming act of defiance....
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Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
"Winter came early the year Bernadette died. It seemed like there wasn't really even an autumn at all that year. And autumn was as pretty a season as there was up in that Duce country. The winters were miserable--cold and gray for the most part. And if there was one thing worse than winter there, it had to be the spring--when all the ice and snow melted, and that cold and gray and miserable little town was bogged down in a sea of brown mud. "God how...
4095) Home by morning
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Consumed by her cause to help ex-slaves prepare for freedom, Prudence Lincoln must decide whether or not she is willing to give up everything for former Cheyenne warrior Thomas Redstone after he declares his love.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation...
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Filmed in the heart of the Oglala Nation by Russ Hopkins, STRONG HEART documents the All Veterans Powwow of 2004, focusing on the warrior spirit that has kept Native American culture alive and strong. Join the Crazy Horse Riders under the arbor of the Daniel Stands Jr. Memorial Arena in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Follow the events that honor the veterans who have fought for the freedom of all Americans. Step behind the scenes and see some of the Oglala...
4098) America's untold story
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
First permanent European settlement in the United States was founded two generations before the Pilgrims arrived in 1565. America's Untold Story uncovers the story of America's past that never made it into textbooks.
4099) Smoke signals
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
4100) Across the sea of grass
Pub. Date
1991
Description
"Across the sea of grass" traces the journey of Lewis and Clark and other early pioneers of the land beyond the Mississippi who made their way across the plains that were home to buffalo, grizzly bears and tribes of Mandan, Sioux, and Pawnee. It shows how thousands of determined settlers turned the wild lands into wheat fields and why the destruction of the buffalo herds had such an impact on the Indian population.
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