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Author
Publisher
Caxton Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"[The author] tells the stories of twelve mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their identities in a rapidly changing world. In an era when most white women had limited opportunities outside the home, these mix-blood women often became nationally recognized leaders in the fight for Native American rights. They took the tools and training the whites...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This is the first book in which spiritual leaders among Native American women portray in their own words their ancestral knowledge, philosophies, and traditions. Steve Wall traveled across North America, visiting the Mohawk and the Hoh, the Chumash and the Seminole, the Tewa and the Ojibway, the Oneida and the Seneca, the Cowichan and the Northern Cheyenne. He talked at length with the women elders and their families as well as with the members of...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Moving backward in time, Dorris's critically acclaimed debut novel is a lyrical saga of three generations of Native American women beset by hardship and torn by angry secrets.
Publisher
Harper Collins Pub
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
"This is the first book in which spiritual leaders among Native American women portray in their own words their ancestral knowledge, philosophies, and traditions. Steve Wall traveled across North America, visiting the Mohawk and the Hoh, the Chumash and the Seminole, the Tewa and the Ojibway, the Oneida and the Seneca, the Cowichan and the Northern Cheyenne. He talked at length with the women elders and their families as well as with the members of...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dale Ann, Theresa, and Margie, a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observe their coming of age and the intersection of their lives as they navigate love, economic hardship, loss, and changing family dynamics on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation.
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Alberta, the star-crossed romance between Martin Forbes, a young white missionary, and Running Fawn, an Indian maiden. She is one of his most promising pupils, but so is Silver Fox and it is he who gets her in the end.
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors."--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change."Readers who are content to take the primitive and ruthless Maria del Valle on her own terms will treasure her and return to her again and again." --The New York Times"Mr. Waters has created in Old Maria a character of vital and lyrical intensity. His 'people...
15) Native Americans
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Through the centuries and across tribal boundaries, countless Native Americans have made history, despite prejudices against them. The nine men and women in this collection are just a few of them. Jim Thorpe, a Sac and Fox, won the 1912 Olympic decathlon and is considered by many experts to be the greatest athlete the United States has ever known. Will Rogers, often billed as "The Cherokee Kid", was the most popular entertainer in America in the early...
18) Wise Women: from Pocahontas to Sarah Winnemucca, remarkable stories of Native American trailblazers
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
20) Circle of stars
Author
Series
Druid circle volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
While the new Christians fight the ancient Druids for control of Wales, Madoc, the prophesied savior of the Druids, leaves on a perilous odyssey to a land that will one day be known as America and encounters a young woman named Cougar.
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