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[2023]., Pre-adolescent, Lerner Publications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Gateway biographies (Lerner Publications Company)Summary Note: "In 2021, Deb Haaland made history as the first Indigenous cabinet secretary. Serving as Secretary of the Interior, Haaland has championed climate and the rights of Native peoples. Discover Haaland's early life, her political career, and more"--Provided by publisher.
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[2023]., Juvenile, Lerner Publications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Gateway biographies (Lerner Publications Company)Summary Note: A brief biography of Debra A. Haaland, celebrating her as the first Native American cabinet secretary in the United States. Discusses her life and achievements before becoming Secretary of the Interior--including her military family background, the business she opened to support her daughter, and how she earned her law degree. Highlights her actions as secretary, particularly in creating the Missing and Murdered Unit and the Federal Boarding School Initiative to investigate injustices and crimes committed against Indigenous peoples.
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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.
