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The
Basket Maker and the Spinner
Beatrice Siegel, William Sauts Bock. The lives two
young married women in seventeenth-century New England: a Wampanoag
tribal basket maker, and an English colonist spinner. Wampanoag
(Out of print.)
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The
Birchbark House
Louise Erdrich. An Ojibway girl who survived a smallpox epidemic and
is adopted into a family on Madeline Island in Lake Superior. Erdich
comes from Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway and is best known for her
adult fiction such as Beet
Queen,
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year and Love
Medicine Ojibway
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A
Boy Becomes a Man at Wounded Knee
Ted Wood, Wanbli Numpa. Eight-year-old Lakota Wanbli Numpa's diary
of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wounded Knee massacre. (Out
of print.) Lakota
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Brave
Eagle's Account of the Fetterman Fight: 21 December, 1866
Paul Goble (Illustrator). An imaginary 19 year old Lakota warrior
Brave Eagle, becomes the medium for retelling the Lakota oral histories
of Red Cloud's victory. The resulting Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
reserved the Dakotas, northern Nebraska, all of the sacred Black Hills
and the Powder River country bordering the Wyoming Bighorns for the
Lakota. Lakota
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Children
of Clay : A Family of Pueblo Potters (We Are Still Here
Rina Swentzell, Bill Steen (Photographer), Michael
Dorris. The tale follows an older Pueblo woman as she finds clay and
creates pots. Pueblo
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Circle
of Wonder: A Native American Christmas Story
N
Scott Momaday(Yes, the famous novelist.)
Located on a reservation at Christmas time. Kiowa
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Coyote
and Little Turtle: A Traditional Hopi Tale
Hershel Talashoema, translated and edited by Emory Sekaquaptewa and
Barbara Pepper, illustrated by Hopi children. Glossaries, grammar.
(out of print.) Hopi
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Coyote
and the Winnowing Birds: A Traditional Hopi Tale
Eugene Sekaquaptewa, translated and edited
by Emory Sekaquaptewa and Barbara Pepper, illustrated by Hopi children.
Glossaries, pronunciation section. (out
of print.) Hopi
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Grandfather Bear: A Story Told in Cree,
Madeline Davis, Sr. Illustrated Donna Cameron. Translated Della Owens
and Harriet Landry. British Columbia Cree believe that some of us
are given nature spirit power. The young girl in this story lives
for a year with her grandfather bear. Cree
(Out of print.)
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The Legend
of Eagleman is available on line. Pima
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Longwalker's
Journey : A Novel of the Choctaw Trail of Tears
Beatrice Orcutt Harrell, Tony Meers (Illustrator), Cindy Kane. Choctaw
also faced a Trail of Tears, although the story is less well known.
Choctaw
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Navajo
Code Talkers
Nathan Aaseng. The extraordinary story of how the Navajo language
was adopted for use in the Pacific theater. For grownups see The
Navajo Code Talkers (25th Anniversary Edition) by Doris A. Paul
and the Japanese photographer Kanji Kawan's
pictures in Warriors:
Navajo Code Talkers Kanji Kawano, Kenji Kawano, Carl Gorman.
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The
Night the Grandfathers Danced,
Linda Theresa Raczek,illustrated Katalin Olah Ehling. A Ute girl dances
with the grandfathers. Ages 7 - 10 (Out of print.)
Paiute
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One
Nation, Many Tribes
Children's biographer Kathleen Krull follows two Ojibwa
students attending a school that teaches traditional dancing and drumming
as well as the usual subjects.Ojibway
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Potlatch:
A Tsimshian Celebration
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, Lawrence Migdale (Illustrator)
A 13 year old boy at the ceremonies on Annette Island, Alaska.Tsimshian
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Pueblo
Boy: Growing Up in Two Worlds
Marcia Keegan. hows a Pueblo boy who grows up in both the modern and
traditional worlds. Pueblo.
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Pueblo
Girls: Growing Up in Two Worlds
Marcia Keegan (Photographer) Two young girls who enjoy
both traditional and modern acitivities. Pueblo.
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Pueblo
Storyteller
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith. A 10 year old Cochiti Pueblo girl describes
life in her village.Pueblo.
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Red
Hawk's Account of Custer's Last Battle; The Battle of the Little Bighorn,
25 June 1876
Paul Goble. A wonderful early account of
Custer's last battle based on oral Indian testimony subsequently vindicated
in the grownup's version Archaeology,
History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined
Richard Allan, Jr. Fox, W. Raymond Wood. Lakota
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The
Sacred Harvest : Ojibway Wild Rice Gathering (We Are Still Here: Native
Americans Today)
Gordon Regguinti, Dale Kakkak (Photographer), Michael Dorris How wild
rice gathering occurs among the Ojibway of Minnesota. .Ojibway
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Sanatujut:
Pride in Women's Work: Copper and Caribou Inuit Clothing Traditions
Judy Hall, Sally Qimmiu'Naaq Webster, Jill E. Oakes. Describes the
history, function, and design variations of Inuit clothing. (Out of
print.) Inuit
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Sees
Behind Trees
Michael Dorris. A young nearly blind boy is challenged
by his uncle. Powhatan
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The
Shadow Brothers
A. E. Cannon. A Navajo boy adopted by a non-Navajo family. The story
of the boys' falling out. (Out of print.)
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Skywoman:
Legends of the Iroquois
Joanne Shenandoah, Douglas M. George, Ka-Hon-Hes (Illustrator), Joanne
Shenandoah-Tekalihwa, John Kahionhes-Fadden, Douglas M. George-Kanentiio.
The creation of the earth and the moon, why maple trees lose their
leaves and other stories. Iroquois
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The
Snake That Lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains & Other Ohlone Stories
Linda Yamane. A snake residing in the large redwood trees plots to
squeeze people to death, but is thwarted by the Ohlone.
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Squanto's
Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving Joseph
Bruchac, Greg Shed (Illustrator) I still do not understand why Squanto
helped the Pilgrims, but this is the most sympathetic portrayal of
Squanto for younger readers. Wampanoag
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Trail
of Tears
Joseph Bruchac, Diana Magnuson (Illustrator). The story of the forced
march migration of Cherokees out of Georgia and into barren Oklahoma
lands.The classic adult version is Helen Jehouda's Trail
of Tears. This version is Step 4 from the
Step into Reading Program. Cherokee
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The
Two-Legged Creature: An Otoe Story
Anna Lee Walters, Carol Bowles (Illustrator) Story about the reason
that dog and horse remain close, but man has not.
Otoe
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The
Way to Rainy Mountain
N. Scott Momaday Kiowa stories and Momaday's own family history. Kiowa
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Weaving
a California Tradition (A Native American Basketmaker)
Linda Yamane, Dugan Aguilar (Photographer) Ohlone
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Woman
of Her Tribe
Margaret Robinson A young Nootka woman leaves her village
to attend school in Vancouver only to be caught between native and
white worlds. Nootka
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When
The World Ended; How Hummingbird Got Fire; How People Were Made
written and illustrated Linda Yamane. Three Rumisen Ohlone
(a California tribe) stories: how the world was flooded, how hummingbird
stole fire from the Badger people, and birds create people from clay.
Ohlone.
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Why
the North Star Stands Still
William R. Palmer. A collection of stories from the
Coal Creek Band of Paiutes during the 1930s and 1940s. Also tells
about Paiute astronomy. Paiute
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Two
Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
Velma Wallis, Jim Grant (Illustrator) An Athabaskan
Indian legend of two elderly women who survive abandonment by their
tribe during an unusually harsh winter. Athabaskan
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Waheenee:
An Indian Girl's Story
Gilbert Livingstone Wilson. A woman born in 1839 recounted her life
to an anthropologist in the early twentieth century. Hidatsa
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Waterlily
Ella Cara Deloria, Cara Deloria Ella, Agnes Picotte (Contributor),
Raymond J. Demaillie (Photographer) The aunt of Vine Deloria, born
in the late 1800s, tells the story of her life and relationships with
other women of the Lakota tribe. Ages 12+. Lakota
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The
Whipping Boy
Speer Morgan A mixed-blood Choctaw Indian who goes
to work for a possible swindler of farm lands in the 1890s. Choctaw
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