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Paperback, Josephine Woolington, 272 pages, 6 x 9, 9781947845367
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...

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Paperback, Janet Yoder, 240 pages, 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5", 9781954854260
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...

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Paperback, Various, 496 pages, 6 x 9, 9780393356809
Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through" United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates...

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Hardcover, Joy Harjo, 160 pages, 5 X 8, 9781324036487
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...

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Hardcover, Carole Lindstrom, 40 pages, 10 x 10, 9781250203557
Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America,   We Are Water Protectors   issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption ― a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade....

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Hardcover, Damon B. Akins, 384 pages, 6 x 1.4 x 9", 9780520280496
 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...

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Paperback, Cutcha Risling Baldy, 208 pages, 6 x 0.48 x 9", 9780295743448
-"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...

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Hardcover, Angeline Boulley, 400 pages, 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.3", 9781250766588

War Dances
PGWSP07
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9780802144898

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paperback, Kent Nerburn, 192 pages, 5 x 7.5 x 0.5", 9781608683901
The genius of the Native Americans has always been their profound spirituality and their deep understanding of the land and its ways. For three decades, author Kent Nerburn has lived and worked among the Native American people. Voices in the Stones is a unique collection of his encounters,...

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Paperback, Megan Kopp, 48 pages, 7.8 x 0.2 x 9.8 inches, 9780778745310
This book allows the reader to explore the rich worldview of Native North American tribes through their myths and legends. Tales originating from various tribes functioned in a number of important ways: they explained the story of creation, described the relationship of humans to the rest of the...

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Paperback, Matt Dembicki, 248 pages, 8 x 8, 9781682752739
2010 Maverick Award winner, 2011 Aesop Prize Winner—Children’s folklore section, and a 2011 Eisner Award Nominee. All cultures have tales of the trickster—a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of...

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Hardcover, Rebecca J. Dobkins & Tasia D. Riley, 216 pages, 9 x 12, 9781930957855
Since the 1980s, Oregon-based art collectors George and Colleen Hoyt have amassed one of the finest private collections of Northwest Coast art in the United States. Transformations traces the history of contemporary Northwest Coast Native art since the 1950s. Included are works by some of the...

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Paperback, Andrew Schelling, 336 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781640090415
" Tracks Along the Left Coast  more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo’s legacy." ― Rain Taxi "Schelling’s biography of Jaime de Angulo―'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things―presents a fascinating, full-bodied...

There There
PGN379
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Paperback, Tommy Orange, 304 pages, 5 x 8, 9780525436140
NATIONAL   BESTSELLER   •   PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER   •   One of  The New York Times  10 Best Books of the Year   •   A wondrous and shattering novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may...

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Paperback, Joy Harjo, 88 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393313628
Joy Harjo, one of this country's foremost Native American voices, combines elements of storytelling, prayer, and song, informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background, in this, her fourth volume of poetry. She draws from the Native American tradition of praising...

The Wolf at Twilight
IPS267
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Kent Nerburn , 368 pages, 5 x 8, 9781577315780
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...

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Kent Nerburn, 216 pages, 5 x 8, 9781577310792
These thought-provoking teachings from respected Native American leaders and thinkers provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the simple beauties of life. This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning.

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9780802138002

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Paperback, Nan McNutt, 56 pages, 8.5 x 10, 9780882407623
In a story set before the coming of the Euro-Americans in the 1700's, Sulsuliya, a Coast Salish teenager, uses her spindle whorl to prepare yarn for her uncle’s wedding gift, a new robe in tribe’s traditional style. She shows her younger sister the skills she was taught by their grandmother, and...

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Hardcover, Chelsey Luger, 256 pages, 7 x 1.02 x 9", 9780063119208

The Secret Pocket
OBP035
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Hardcover, Peggy Janicki, 32 pages, 8.5 x 10.5, 9781459833722
★ “Captures the sympathy of readers and holds their attention...An age-appropriate telling by an Indigenous creative team of a tragic historical period.”― School Library Journal , starred review The true story of how Indigenous girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into...

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Paperback, Andrés Reséndez, 448 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, Andrés Reséndez
“Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas.”— San Francisco Chronicle “A necessary work . . . [Reséndez’s] reportage will likely surprise you.”—NPR “One of the most profound contributions to North...

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Paperback, Malcolm Margolin, 182 pages, 6 x 9, 9780930588014
Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco–Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds “with a sound like that of a...

The Most Amazing Bird
IPS258
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Paperback, Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, 40 pages, 9 x 7, 9781773214177
A young girl discovers nature’s surprising beauty in this tale from a renowned Inuit storyteller.    When Aggataa goes for a cold winter walk with her grandmother, she’s surprised by a sudden  CRAH ! All the birds have flown south for the winter except one kind—the  tulugarguat ,...

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Paperback, Cherie Dimaline, 260 pages, 8.0 x 0.6 x 5.4", 9781770864863

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9780802121998

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Kent Nerburn, 408 pages, 5 x 8, 9781608680153
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...

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Paperback, Paul Goble, 32 pages, 8 x 10, 9780689716966
"There was a girl in the village who loved horses... She led the horses to drink at the river. She spoke softly and they followed. People noticed that she understood horses in a special way."   And so begins the story of a young Native American girl devoted to the care of her tribe's...

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Hardcover, 96 pages, 8.5 x 10.2, 9781402732638
Welcome the second book in the  Folktales of the World  series! Engaging, inspirational, and above all entertaining, these legends come from Native American peoples across the U.S. Richly illustrated with original art, they capture a wide range of belief systems and wisdom from the Cherokee,...

The Esselen - Book
ROS002
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Paperback, Miranda Rathjen, 32 pages, 7.2 x 0.4 x 8.7", 9781538324592

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Paperback, Lynn Peppas, 48 pages, 7.1 x 0.2 x 9.1 inches, 9780778725732
This revealing book examines how First Nations and Native Peoples have been displaced in the United States and Canada through treaties, empty promises, and military force. Through close examination of primary source images, documents, and first-hand accounts, readers will gain an understanding...

The Cedar Plank Mask
EPP021
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Paperback, Nan McNutt, 34 pages, 11 x 8.5, 9781941890165
The Cedar Plank Maskis the third book in a four part series, preceded by The Bentwood Box and The Buttion Blanket. This book is designed for students of 3rd through 6th greade. The art style represented in this book is called Westcoast style by the people who live on the western most tip of...

The Button Blanket
EPP020
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Paperback, Nan McNutt, 34 pages, 11 x 8.5, 9781941890325
An activity book for kids ages 9-12, includes teaching guide. It tells the story of a Kwakiutl girl making her first ceremonial button blanket. Introduces activities that provide information about the crafts and way of life of the indians living along the Northwest Coast of the United States...

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Amanda Peters , 320 pages, 6 x 9, 9781646221950
2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Finalist A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years "A...

The Bentwood Box
EPP019
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Paperback, Nan McNutt, 34 pages, 11 x 8.5, 9781941890349
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

Ten Little Indians
PGWSP04
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9780802141170

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Hardcover, Roy Goose, 36 pages, 9.25 x 0.3 x 9.25", 9781772274349
Sukaq loves to drift off to sleep listening to his mother tell him stories. His favourite story is the tale of how a raven created the world. But this time, as his mother begins to tell the story and his eyelids become heavy, he is suddenly whisked away on the wings of the raven to ride along as...

Storm Boy
TEN007
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Paperback, Paul Owen Lewis, 32 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781582460574
An Indian boy is thrown from his canoe into a great mystery. Washed ashore at an unfamiliar island, the boy finds his arrival eagerly awaited by the strange and giant people. Beautiful color images.

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Paperback, Bobby Lake-Thom, 224 pages, 7 x 9, 9780452276505
An extraordinary compilation of legends and rituals about nature's ever-present signs. From the birds that soar above us to the insects beneath our feet, Native American healer Bobby Lake-Thom shows how the creatures of the earth can aid us in healing and self-knowledge. “There are ancient...

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Paperback, Filippo Cardu, 80 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781497202153
This exciting new coloring book offers dozens of heavy detailed, highly decorative pen and ink illustrations of exotic spirit animals. Each mystic creature is embellished with exquisite patterns and striking line work. Beautifully colored finished examples are provided, along with a handy guide...

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Paperback, Timothy Egan, 384 pages, 5.3 x 1 x 8, 9780544102767
“A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan’s spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life.” —  Washington Post  Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the...

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Paperback, Joy Harjo, 96 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393334210
A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets. First published in 1983 and now considered a classic,  She Had Some Horses  is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their...

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Paperback, Donna Joe, 24 pages, 7 x 8.5, 9780889711662
Simple and compelling First Nations drawings illustrate this dynamic story that teaches respect for the environment and describes the life cycle of the salmon.

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Paperback, Stephen Krensky, 32 pages, 6 x 0.1 x 9, 9780689848032
Young Sacagawea wants to be as brave as her brother. If only she were allowed to go with him and the other boys on a hunt to prove it! But while gathering wood with her grandmother, an angry rattlesnake shows Sacagawea that there are many ways to be brave.

Rez Ball - Book
HRW225
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Hardcover, Byron Graves, 368 pages, 5.5 x 1.08 x 8.25", 9780063160378

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Paperback, Wahinkpe Topa & Darcia Narvaez PhD, 336 pages, 6 x 9, 9781623176426
Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future. Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and...

Reservation Blues
PGWSP06
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9780802141903

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Paperback, Gerald McDermott, 32 pages, 11 x 0.1 x 9, 9780152024499
Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. But can he find out where Sky Chief keeps it? And if he does, will he be able to escape without being discovered? His dream seems impossible, but if anyone can find a way to bring light to the world, wise and clever Raven can!

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Board, Roy Henry Vickers, 20 pages, 6 x 6, 9781550179040
With bright and bold illustrations by celebrated Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers, this sturdy board book introduces iconic sounds of the West Coast and supports the language development of babies and toddlers. From the “geek geek” of the eagle, to the creak and rustle of cedar branches in...
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