Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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c2000., Primary, Abdo Pub. Call No: 970.004 GAINES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Native AmericansSummary Note: Presents a brief introduction to the Apache Indians including information on their society, homes, food, clothing, crafts, and life today.
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[2019]., Blue Rider Press Call No: HI-INT 796.323 POW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where dark and cold descend fast and there is little else to do but roam mesa tops, work, and wonder what the future holds. The town has 4,500 residents and the high school arena seats 7,000. Fans drive thirty, fifty, even eighty miles to see the fast-paced and highly competitive matchups that are more than just games to players and fans. Celebrated Times journalist Michael Powell brings us a narrative of triumph and hardship, a moving story about a basketball team on a Navajo reservation that shows how important sports can be to youths in struggling communities, and the transcendent magic and painful realities that confront Native Americans living on reservations. This book details his season-long immersion in the team, town, and culture, in which there were exhilarating wins, crushing losses, and conversations on long bus rides across the desert about dreams of leaving home and the fear of the same"--Provided by the publisher.
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2004., Juvenile, Rosen Central Primary Source Call No: 979.004 972 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of famous people in American historySummary Note: A biography of Cochise, the Chiricahua chief who led his people in battle for many years, trying to preserve their independence.
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-- Rugged road to freedomBy Tingle, Tim[2014], Adolescent, 7th Generation Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Pathfinders (Summertown, Tenn.)Summary Note: Having escaped from Fort Davis, Texas, seventeen-year-old Danny Blackgoat, a Navajo, must still face many obstacles in order to rescue his family from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and find freedom after the Long Walk of 1864.
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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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-- Rawa 'Kashtyaa'tsi Hiyaanic2004., Pre-adolescent, University of Arizona Press Call No: 398.2 Ort Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Two boys are sent by their people to the west to visit the Shiwana, the spirits of rain and snow, and bring back rain to relieve a drought.
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By Noël, Alyson2013., Adolescent, St. Martin's Griffin Call No: Fantasy FIC Noel Book 4 Edition: First edition. Genre: Fantasy Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Soul SeekersSummary Note: With the Richters close to gaining ultimate power and the destruction of all she loves imminent, Daire Santos, sundered from her love, Dace, comes into her own as the last of the Soul Seekers to keep the evil of the Richters at bay.
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2003., Benchmark Books / Marshall Cavendish Call No: 970.1 BIA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great journeysSummary Note: Presents an overview of the history of the Navajo Indians, with a detailed account of how the United States Government, represented by Kit Carson, forced them on a 300-mile walk from their homeland in the Southwest to a prison camp at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, in 1864, and their eventual return home after the United States-Navajo Treaty of 1868.
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-- Native boy from the Chesapeake Bay areac2002., Juvenile, Distributed to the book trade by Publisher's Group West In association with Beyond Words Pub. ; Distributed to the book trade by Publisher's Group West Call No: 975.2004 TAYAC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: My world--Young Native Americans todaySummary Note: Details a day in the life of a rural Maryland boy of Piscataway and Apache descent, looking at his family, the history of his tribe, and some traditional ceremonies and customs that are still observed today.
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c2003, Pre-adolescent, Blackbirch Press Thomson/Gale Call No: 979.004 9745 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Tribes of Native America.Summary Note: Color maps, population graphs, and other visuals help trace the history of the Ute tribe, providing information on their culture, religion, social structure, and beliefs.
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[2022]., Primary, CHARLESBRIDGE PUBLISHING Call No: E Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--Provided by the publisher.
