Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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2022., Juvenile, Penguin Workshop Call No: NL E THU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In her debut picture book, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true story of her path to dance and how it helped her take pride in her Native American heritage"--
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2022., Juvenile, Penguin Workshop Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Details member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and Sandia Pueblo Ria Thundercloud's discovery of her love of dance, first through traditional Indigenous styles of jingle dance and the fancy shawl and then through classical styles of tap, jazz, ballet, modern, and contemporary. Explores how Thundercloud felt like an outsider at school as the only Indigenous girl in class, but dance allowed her to express herself and has taken her all around the world as a professional dancer.
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c1995., Juvenile, Clarion Books Call No: 299 Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Native peoples came together to dance for their shared dream.
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1996., JG Press, inc., : Distributed by World Publications Call No: 299.74 MOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: First published a century ago, The Ghost Dance is a unique first-hand account of a messianic movement against white subjugation that arose among Native Americans of the West and the Plains in the latter part of the 19th-century.
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2000., Pre-adolescent, Morrow Junior Books Call No: E Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.
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[2000]., Juvenile, Morrow Junior Books Call No: E SMI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Jenna, a member of the Muscogee Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.
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[2000]., Juvenile, Morrow Junior Books Call No: E SMI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Jenna, a member of the Muscogee Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.
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[2021]., Juvenile, Minnesota Historical Society Press Call No: 394.26 POWWOW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Simple text and colorful illustrations follow a young Ojibwa girl named Josie as she prepares to dance in her people's next summer's powwow. She gets help from her Mom, Aunty, her Kookum, and Grandma Greatwalker to put together her leggings, moccasins, and--most importantly--find her spirit name.
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[2021]., Juvenile, Minnesota Historical Society Press Call No: E LAJ Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2017., TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES Call No: NL SUPERNAT F JON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew. The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost.
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c1992., National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, with Starwood Pub. Call No: 394.3 0897 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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2020., Juvenile, Orca Book Publishers Call No: 394.26 POWWOW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Orca origins.Summary Note: Part of the nonfiction Orca Origins series for middle readers. Illustrated with photographs, Powwow is a celebration of Indigenous song and dance in North America.
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[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Charlesbridge Call No: Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2004., Juvenile, Rosen Central Primary Source Call No: 978.004 SIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Great moments in American historySummary Note: This book is an account of the last days of Sitting Bull's life, from his vision of a meadowlark to his arrest and death by Grand River Indian police.
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c1993., Lerner Publications Co. Call No: 970.3 KIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: We are still hereSummary Note: A twelve-year-old Ojibwa Indian living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, learns about her tribe's traditional costumes from her grandmother and gets ready to dance at a powwow.
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c1993., Juvenile, Lerner Publications Co. Call No: 394 .3 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: We are still hereSummary Note: A twelve-year-old Ojibwa Indian living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, learns about her tribe's traditional costumes from her grandmother and gets ready to dance at a powwow.
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c1993, Juvenile, Lerner Publications Co Call No: 977.6 Ki Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: We are still hereSummary Note: A twelve-year-old Ojibwa Indian living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, learns about her tribe's traditional costumes from her grandmother and gets ready to dance at a powwow.
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c2004., Michigan State University Press Call No: NL REALISTIC F GAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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1988., Sierra Oaks Pub. Co. Call No: 394.2 08997 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tess shares a part of her Indian heritage with classmates during show and tell as she describes the Round Dance and Pow Wow and invites her class to take part in a Pow Wow held in the school gymnasium.