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Neither Wolf nor Dog - Book
IPS266
Against an unflinching backdrop of 1990s reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas,  Neither Wolf nor Dog  tells the story of two men, one white and one Indian, locked in their own understandings yet struggling to find a common voice. In this award-winning book, acclaimed author Kent Nerburn draws us deep into the world of a Native American elder named Dan, who leads Kent through Indian towns and down forgotten roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Along the way we meet a vivid cast of characters — ranging from Jumbo, a 400-pound mechanic, to Annie, an eighty-year-old Lakota woman...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608686384
$1895
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Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest - Book
IPS230
Reconnect with the natural world through essays that blend science and prose.  In her debut work, Josephine Woolington turns back the clock to review the events that have challenged Pacific Northwest wildlife in an effort to provide a deeper sense of place. Only then can we imagine how these imperious effects might be overcome. Join Woolington as she sheds light on the diverse species whose populations are slowly declining from the lands, seas, and skies of the Pacific Northwest. Only by acknowledging this truth can we understand that our impact on the Earth is deeper and far more significant than we ever imagined. Through...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Josephine Woolington
ISBN: 9781947845367
$2495
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We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms And The Revitalization Of Women's Coming-Of-Age Ceremonies - Book
UWP017
-"I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you." So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe's Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition, undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and medicine women and details found in museum archives, anthropological records, and oral histories. Deeply rooted in Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people transformed...
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Dimensions (IN): 6 x 0.48 x 9"
Author: Cutcha Risling Baldy
ISBN: 9780295743448
$3000
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Reservation Blues - Book
PGWSP06
Sherman Alexie has been hailed as “one of the best writers we have” (The Nation). Reservation Blues is his “irresistibly stunning debut novel” (San Francisco Chronicle).One day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. When he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire—storyteller, misfit, and musician—a magical odyssey begins that will take them from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. This is a fresh, luxuriantly comic tale of power,tragedy, and redemption among...
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ISBN: 9780802141903
$1800
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Where The Language Lives: Vi Hilbert And The Gift Of Lushootseed - Book
IPS284
The life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who, more than anyone, revitalized her native language—Lushootseed—and shared it and the culture it expresses with the world. In 1978, Seattle writer Janet Yoder took a Lushootseed class at the University of Washington. She was expecting to learn a little about this Salish language, and while Yoder did begin her Lushootseed lessons, what followed was lifelong learning and lots of adventures with Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert. Drawn from thirty years of friendship and interviews,  Where the Language Lives  is a tribute to Vi Hilbert’s life, work, and her quest to...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5"
Author: Janet Yoder
ISBN: 9781954854260
$1695
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We Are The Land: A History Of Native California - Book
IPS297
 A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White's California Exposures. - Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as  California, there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of...
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Dimensions (IN): 6 x 1.4 x 9"
Author: Damon B. Akins
ISBN: 9780520280496
$2995
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The Bentwood Box - Book
EPP019
The Bentwood Book is an activity book for kids from ages 9-12, including teaching guides. It tells the story of how indians from the Nortwest Coast made boxes out of bent wooden planks. Introduces activities that provide information about the crafts and ways of life of these people
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Activity Book
Dimensions (IN): 11 x 8.5
Author: Nan McNutt
ISBN: 9781941890349
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War Dances - Book
PGWSP07
In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories that expertly capture modern relationships from the most diverse angles. War Dances brims with Alexie’s poetic and revolutionary prose, and reminds us once again why he ranks as one of our country’s finest writers.With bright insight into the minds of artists, entrepreneurs, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with average men on the brink of exceptional change: In the title story, a son recalls his...
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ISBN: 9780802144898
$1600
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Lila and the Crow - Paperback Book
IPS202
Lila has just moved to a new town and can't wait to make friends at school. But on the first day, a boy points at her and shouts: “A crow! A crow! The new girl's hair is black like a crow!” The others whisper and laugh, and Lila's heart grows as heavy as a stone. The next day, Lila covers her hair. But this time, the boy points at her dark skin. When she covers her face, he mocks her dark eyes. Now every day at school, Lila hides under her turtleneck, dark glasses, and hat. And every day when she goes home, she sees a crow who seems to want to tell her something. Lila ignores the bird and even throws rocks at it, but it won't go away....
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 9
Author: Gabrielle Grimard
ISBN: 9781554518579
$995
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The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo - Book
IPS265
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the “old ones” still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex, unforgettable characters we have come to know from  Neither Wolf nor Dog  and  The Wolf at Twilight . Part history, part mystery, part spiritual journey and teaching story,  The Girl...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608680153
$1995
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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years - Book
WWN860
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet. Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice” (John Freeman,  Boston Globe ) that speaks “from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5 X 8
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9781324036487
$2500
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Haboo - Book - Paracay
Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound - Book
UWP022
The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another. Vi Hilbert grew up when many of the old social patterns survived and everyone spoke the ancestral language. Haboo , Hilbert's collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth Age, before the world transformed. Animals, plants, trees, and even rocks had human attributes. Prominent characters like Wolf, Salmon, and Changer and tricksters like Mink, Raven, and Coyote populate humorous, earthy stories that reflect...
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Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9
Author: Vi Hilbert, Thom Hess
ISBN: 9780295746968
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The Wolf at Twilight - Book
IPS267
A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood. In this fictionalized account of actual events, Nerburn brings the land of the northern High Plains alive and reveals the Native American way of teaching and learning with a depth that few...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781577315780
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Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book - Paracay
Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book
HCT061
In Of All Tribes, Abenaki children's book icon Joseph Bruchac tells the stirring history of the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans, which established a precedent for Indian activism. Alcatraz is not an island. It's an idea. - activist Richard Oakes (Akwesasne Mohawk) On the night of November 20, 1969 - the end of one of the most tumultuous decades in American history - eighty-nine young Native American activists crossed the San Francisco Bay under cover of darkness, calling themselves the Indians of All Tribes. Their objective? To claim the former prison island of Alcatraz, basing their actions on an 1868 treaty that said...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.9 x 1.0 x 8.3"
Author: Joseph Bruchac
ISBN: 9781419757198
$1999
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Four Faces of the Moon - Book
IPS188
On a journey to uncover her family’s story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land—creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel.   In the dreamworld she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls. They stand as a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the Plains bison to near extinction-- a key tactic to starve and contain the Indigenous People onto reservations. On this path, Spotted Fawn knows she must travel through her own family history to confront the harsh realities of the past and reignite her connection to her people and the land. Her darkroom becomes...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Amanda Strong
ISBN: 9781773214535
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Blasphemy - Book
PGWSP05
"Alexie once again reasserts himself as one the most compelling contemporary practitioners of the short story. In Blasphemy, the author demonstrates his talent on nearly every page. . . . Will appeal to fans of Junot Diaz, George Saunders, and readers new to Alexie will find this enriching collection to be the perfect introduction to a formidable literary voice. . . . [Alexie] illuminates the lives of his characters in unique, surprising, and, ultimately, hopeful ways."—Boston Globe"Told in [Alexie's] irreverent, unforgettable voice . . . You'll feel you've been transported inside the soul of a deeply wounded people. But they are a people...
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ISBN: 9780802121752
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Killers of the Flower Moon - Book - Paracay
Killers of the Flower Moon - Book
RANSP45
#1   NEW YORK TIMES   BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of   The Wager   and   The Lost City of Z,   “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."— New York Magazine •   NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST   •   NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE “A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask?”— USA Today “A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” — The Boston Globe In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 X 8
Author: David Grann
ISBN: 9780307742483
$1900
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Ten Little Indians - Book
PGWSP04
Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.In Alexie’s first story, “The Search Engine,” Corliss is a rugged and resourceful student who finds in books the magic she was denied while growing up poor. In “The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above,” an intellectual...
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ISBN: 9780802141170
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Fire Song - Book
PGW290
How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves - his friend, David. Things go from bad to worse as Shane's dream of going to university is shattered and his grieving mother withdraws from the world. Worst of all, he and David have to hide their relationship from everyone....
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Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25"
Author: Adam Garnet Jones
ISBN: 9781554519774
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Indian Killer - Book
PGWSP09
“Part thriller, part magical realism, and part social commentary, Indian Killer . .. lingers long past the final page.”—Seattle WeeklyA national best seller, Indian Killer is arguably Sherman Alexie’s most controversial book to date—a gritty, racially charged literary thriller that, over a decade after its first publication, remains an electrifying tale of alienation and justice. A serial murderer called the Indian Killer is terrorizing Seattle, hunting, scalping, and slaughtering white men. Motivated by rage and seeking retribution for his people’s violent history, his grizzly MO and skillful elusiveness both paralyze the city with fear...
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ISBN: 9780802143570
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass: Penguin Modern Classics Edition - Book
PGN395
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.   Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
ISBN: 9781039000612
$1950
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The Toughest Indian in the World - Book
PGWSP08
A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise." Now his acclaimed new collection, The Toughest Indian in the World, which received universal praise in hardcover, is available in paperback. In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A...
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ISBN: 9780802138002
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Otter Doesn't Know - Book - Paracay
Otter Doesn't Know - Book
OBP039
Indigenous artist and storyteller Andrea Fritz tells a tale of a salmon and a sea otter who learn it's ok to say "I don't know" and to ask for help. Thuqi' the sockeye salmon knows it's time to spawn, but she is lost in the Salish Sea and doesn't know the way to Sta'lo', the river. When she asks Tumus the sea otter for help, he doesn't exactly know either, and he dismisses her questions. But when Tumus becomes lost in some weeds, Thuqi' shows him that it's okay not to know something - you can still find a way to help a friend in need. In this original story set in Coast Salish Traditional Territory, author and artist Andrea Fritz uses...
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Dimensions (IN): 8.75 x 0.25 x 10.75"
Author: Andrea Fritz
ISBN: 9781459836211
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The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well - Book - Paracay
The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well - Book
HPC172
In this revolutionary self-help guide, two beloved Native American wellness activists offer wisdom for achieving spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge. When wellness teachers and husband-wife duo Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins founded their Indigenous wellness initiative, Well for Culture, they extended an invitation to all to honor their whole self through Native wellness philosophies and practices. In reclaiming this ancient wisdom for health and wellbeing - drawing from traditions spanning multiple tribes - they developed the Seven Circles, a holistic model for modern living rooted in...
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Dimensions (IN): 7 x 1.02 x 9"
Author: Chelsey Luger
ISBN: 9780063119208
$3200
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My Powerful Hair - Book - Paracay
My Powerful Hair - Book
HNA062
From the award-winning and bestselling author of We Are Water Protectors comes an empowering picture book about family history, self-expression, and reclaiming your identity Our ancestors say our hair is our memories,our source of strength and power,a celebration of our lives. Mom never had long hair - she was told it was too wild. Grandma couldn't have long hair - hers was taken from her. But one young girl can't wait to grow her hair long: for herself, for her family, for her connection to her culture and the Earth, and to honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her. From Carole Lindstrom, author of the New York Times...
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Dimensions (IN): 9 x 0.65 x 11"
Author: Carole Lindstrom
ISBN: 9781419759437
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Hunting by Stars - Book - Paracay
Hunting by Stars - Book
HNA073
From the acclaimed author of The Marrow Thieves comes a thrilling new story about hope and survival that New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley called a revelatory must-read. A 2022 American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Book Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones. Soon, residential schools pop up -...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.9 x 1.65 x 8.6"
Author: Cherie Dimaline
ISBN: 9781419753473
$1999
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Rez Ball - Book - Paracay
Rez Ball - Book
HRW225
This compelling debut novel by new talent Byron Graves tells the relatable, high-stakes story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be. These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team - even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his dream of...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 1.08 x 8.25"
Author: Byron Graves
ISBN: 9780063160378
$1999
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Firekeeper's Daughter - Book - Paracay
Firekeeper's Daughter - Book
MPS264
Angeline Boulley's debut novel, Firekeeper's Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding...
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Dimensions (IN): 6.6 x 1.5 x 9.3"
Author: Angeline Boulley
ISBN: 9781250866035
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Warrior Girl Unearthed - Book - Paracay
Warrior Girl Unearthed - Book
MPS265
Angeline Boulley takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen history. Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off of what belongs to her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry begins to question everything. In order to reclaim...
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Dimensions (IN): 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.3"
Author: Angeline Boulley
ISBN: 9781250766588
$1999
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Harvest House - Book - Paracay
Harvest House - Book
PGN443
NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith delivers a thrilling cross-genre follow-up to the acclaimed Hearts Unbroken. Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show - until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an Indian maiden, a ghost inspired by local legend, will headline....
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Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith
ISBN: 9781536236187
$999
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The Marrow Thieves - Book - Paracay
The Marrow Thieves - Book
OBP040
Winner of 2017 Governor General's Literary Award (Young People's Literature - Text)Winner of 2017 Kirkus Prize Winner of the 2018 Sunburst Award Winner of the 2018 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award Winner of the 2018 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Metis Young Adult Literature Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability...
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Dimensions (IN): 8.0 x 0.6 x 5.4"
Author: Cherie Dimaline
ISBN: 9781770864863
$1995
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The Esselen - Book - Paracay
The Esselen - Book
ROS002
Approximately 8,000 years ago, American Indian groups settled in the Monterey Bay area of California. Some groups, including the Esselen, have disappeared entirely. The arrival of the Sebastian Vizcaano and his fellow Spanish explorers brought about the end of the Esselen. These people contracted diseases to which the Europeans were immune, had their customs and traditions stripped from them, and eventually intermarried with other American Indian groups from the area. What was life like before the Europeans arrived? This book provides readers with evidence of the Esselen lifestyle and illustrates the importance of respecting the cultures...
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Dimensions (IN): 7.2 x 0.4 x 8.7"
Author: Miranda Rathjen
ISBN: 9781538324592
$1295
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