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Powwow Day - Book
PGN402
In this uplifting, contemporary Native American story, River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she ever dance again? River wants so badly to dance at powwow day as she does every year. In this uplifting and contemporary picture book perfect for beginning readers, follow River's journey from feeling isolated after an illness to learning the healing power of community. Additional information explains the history and functions of powwows, which are commonplace across the United States and Canada and are open to both Native Americans and non-Native visitors. Author Traci Sorell is a member of the...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 9
Author: Traci Sorell
ISBN: 9781580899482
$1799
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Transformations: The George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Northwest Coast Art - Book
UWP013
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 region's foremost Native artists of the past half century, including Robert Davidson, Doug Cranmer, Beau Dick, and Susan Point. The collection of over six hundred prints and carvings by over one hundred artists is a promised gift from George and Colleen Hoyt to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Richly illustrated with color photographs, the book...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 12
Author: Rebecca J. Dobkins & Tasia D. Riley
ISBN: 9781930957855
$5000
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Voices in the Stones - Life Lessons from the Native Way - Book - Paracay
Voices in the Stones - Life Lessons from the Native Way - Book
IPS260
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, experiences, and reflections during that time. He takes us inside a traditional Native feast to show us how the children are taught to respect the elders. He brings us to an isolated prairie rock outcropping where a young Native man and his father show us how the power of ceremony connects the present with the ancient voices of the past. At a dusty...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7.5 x 0.5"
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608683901
$1800
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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....
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25"
Author: Adam Garnet Jones
ISBN: 9781554519774
$995
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There There - Book
PGN379
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 not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Tommy Orange
ISBN: 9780525436140
$1800
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Sukaq And The Raven - Book
IPS271
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 the entire world is formed! This traditional legend from Inuit storyteller Roy Goose is brought to life through co-author Kerry McCluskey's jubilant retelling.
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 9.25 x 0.3 x 9.25"
Author: Roy Goose
ISBN: 9781772274349
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Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks - Book
UWP006
Among Southeast Alaska's best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native practices and began to pay Tlingit and Haida communities to restore older totem poles and move them from ancestral villages into parks designed for tourists. Dramatically altering the patronage and display of historic Tlingit and Haida crests, this New Deal restoration project had two key aims: to provide economic aid...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 10
Author: Emily L. Moore
ISBN: 9780295743936
$3995
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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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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....
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 9
Author: Gabrielle Grimard
ISBN: 9781554518579
$995
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Book
IPS259
A   New York Times   Bestseller A   Washington Post   Bestseller A   Los Angeles Times   Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020" A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of   Braiding Sweetgrass , reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages.  Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN: 9781571311771
$4000
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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...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608686384
$1895
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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
$1700
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Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition - Book
PGN282
From the author of  How the World Moves --the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American History In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist  Peter Nabokov  presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first encounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confronting Native American culture today,  Native American Testimony  spans five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources--traditional narratives,...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Peter Nabokov
ISBN: 9780140281590
$2100
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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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The Secret Pocket - Book
OBP035
★ “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 their dresses to hide food and survive. Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and family. Always hungry and cold, there was little comfort for young Mary. Speaking Dakelh was forbidden and the nuns and priest were always watching, ready to punish. Mary and the...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 10.5
Author: Peggy Janicki
ISBN: 9781459833722
$2195
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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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Minnow: The girl who became part fish - Book
IPS248
A young Indigenous water protector named Minnow goes on an underwater journey, learning from our ocean-living relatives.   When she returns to the surface, she gathers her community to help make a change.  This story is told in lyrical rhyme and helps children gain a better respect for Indigenous water and land protectors, and the environment around them and helps show children activism at an early age.  We all come from Mother Earth, we all learn from her, and we all live from her.  Mother Earth has many children, not just humans. These children are all our relatives, including animals. This book focuses on our relationship with our...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Willie Poll
ISBN: 9781778540097
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Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated - Book
IPS226
An essential book on California’s Indigenous languages, updated for the first time in over 25 years Before outsiders arrived, about one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California, and many of them are in use today. Since its original publication in 1994,  Flutes of Fire  has become one of the classic books about California’s many Native languages. It is written to be approachable, entertaining, and informative—useful for people doing language revitalization work in their own communities, for linguists, and for a general readership interested in California’s rich cultural heritage. With significant updates by the...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Leanne Hinton
ISBN: 9781597145664
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The Wisdom of the Native Americans - Book
IPS264
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.
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781577310792
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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
$1600
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Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth - Book
PGN405
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 the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Winona LaDuke, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Accompanied by the editors’ own analyses, each chapter reflects the wisdom of Indigenous worldview precepts...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Wahinkpe Topa & Darcia Narvaez PhD
ISBN: 9781623176426
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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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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
$1899
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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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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 1.02 x 9"
Author: Chelsey Luger
ISBN: 9780063119208
$2999
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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...
Product Type : Book
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
$1499
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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.3"
Author: Angeline Boulley
ISBN: 9781250766588
$1999
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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
$2195
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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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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 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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 7.2 x 0.4 x 8.7"
Author: Miranda Rathjen
ISBN: 9781538324592
$1295
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