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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
5) 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.
6) Jim Thorpe
Author
Publisher
Rourke
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Briefly describes the life of famous American Indian Jim Thorpe, from his early years on a reservation in Oklahoma, through his school days in Pennsylvania, to his success at the 1912 Olympics and his professional baseball career.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson...
Publisher
GoodTimes Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Call of the wild: During the Klondike gold rush, a stolen dog becomes a miner's best friend before it joins the wolf pack. The legend of Black Thunder Mountain: Two small children, lost in the mountains, are protected by a great grizzly bear. The leg
10) The Warriors
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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 w
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging their dig.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land allotment and Native tribal reorganization, termination (the...
13) The way of love
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 2
Language
English
Description
Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University's medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help those in need, especially the native populations forced onto reservations and then neglected. When she meets Andrew Gratton, a handsome riverboat captain who has been injured on his ship, she uses her skills to tend his wound, and a friendship grows between them. Andrew admires her strength and willingness to...
14) Snake oil
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Patrick Flint feels a calling to volunteer at the impoverished Indian Health Services clinic on the Wind River Reservation that he can’t completely explain. His wife Susanne supports this—usually—but her family is coming for their first Wyoming visit, twelve-year-old Perry is stir crazy and looking for trouble, teenager Trish is dangerously in love, and she and Patrick are in the final stages of negotiations for their dream house. The Christmas...
15) The tale teller
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee novel
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee novel
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact--a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe's been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware--witchcraft...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Robert Walking Bear's body is found in the Wind River mountains, his death appears to be accidental--except for the fact that he had been hunting for Butch Cassidy's buried loot with a map he had gotten from his grandfather, a map believed to have been drawn by the leader of the Hole in the Wall gang himself. It isn't long before rumors circulate that Robert was murdered by his own cousins to get the map and find the treasure themselves. Despite...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
This inspiring book presents the true stories of 12 people, most of them teenagers or younger adults, from across North America who have done great things for the environment. Heroes include a teenage girl who figured out how to remove an industrial pollutant from the Ohio River, a Mexican superstar wrestler who works to protect turtles and whales, and a teenage boy from Rhode Island who helped his community and his state develop effective e-waste...
18) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a loca
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