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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
3) Powwow
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A photo essay on the pan-Indian celebration called a powwow, this particular one being held on the Crow Reservation in Montana.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In a high school gym full of color and song, people dance, sell beadwork and books, and celebrate friendship and heritage. Young protagonists will meet relatives from faraway, mysterious strangers, and sometimes one another (plus one scrappy rez dog).
They are the heroes of their own stories.
Featuring stories and poems by:
Joseph...
Author
Series
Powwow mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow along as twins Jamie and Marie spend their summer visiting powwows with their grandparents. When a dog steals food and disappears will the twins be able to solve the mystery on where the dog went?
7) Josie dances
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As she prepares for her first powwow, an Ojibwa girl practices her dance steps, gets help from her family, and is inspired by the soaring flight of Migizi, the eagle. Includes glossary.
10) Powwow day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
11) The powwow thief
Author
Series
Powwow mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twins Jamie and Marie Longbow are excited about spending the summer with their grandparents, traveling from powwow to powwow selling goods they helped make. But when their grandmother's necklace goes missing, it's up to the twins to solve the mystery.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Uncle and Windy Girl attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers and listens to the singers. She eats tasty food and joins family and friends around the campfire. Later, Windy falls asleep under the stars. Uncle's stories inspire visions in her head: a bowwow powwow, where all the dancers are dogs. In these magical scenes, Windy sees veterans in a Grand Entry, and a visiting drum group, and traditional dancers, grass dancers, and jingle-dress...
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