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c2007., Chelsea House Call No: 940.54 Hol Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Landmark events in Native American history.
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2018., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: NL REALISTIC F GAN Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: If I ever get out of here Volume: 2Summary Note: In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and some of the teenagers feel they have fewer options than they'd like: 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 and Maggi have to make a place for themselves.
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2022., General, Viking Call No: 970.004 Kee Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated--if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today--and the fight to preserve language and traditions"--Provided by publisher.
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2013., Arthur A. Levine Books Call No: SET F GAN Edition: First edition. Availability:9 of 10 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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c2010., University of Oklahoma Press Call No: NL 371.8 FOR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Click here to view Summary Note: Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions.
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2014., Primary, Tilbury House, Publishers Call No: E SOC Edition: Second edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: In 1900 during the Passamaquoddy winter migration in Maine, Baby Zoo Sap falls off the family bobsled and the forest animals hearing his cries, gather to protect him until his father returns to find him.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: NL HISTORICAL F BRU Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
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[2013]., Random House Call No: HISTORICAL F PAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Pearl, a young girl in a Pacific Northwest Native American tribe in the 1920s, deals with the death of her father and the loss of her tribe's traditional ways with courage and determination.
