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61) Rock your mocs
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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English
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In this happy, vibrant tribute to Rock Your Mocs Day, observed yearly on November 15, author Laurel Goodluck (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian) and artist Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw) celebrate the joy and power of wearing moccasins--and the Native pride that comes with them. A perfect book for Native American Heritage Month, and all year round!
62) Lost birds
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Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
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English
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Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client's adoption was questionable,...
63) The Blackfeet
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about the Blackfeet. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8" --
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xvi, 302 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Some food historians say that 1491 to 1493 are the years the world began in terms of food, that is. Prior to 1492, eight plants -- corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao -- existed only in the Americans. Italy didn't have the tomato; Ireland didn't have the potato, nor Russia the vodka distilled from it; and there were no chiles in South Asia. When these ingredients crossed the ocean, they drastically transformed the way the...
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369 pages : genealogical table, map ; 24 cm
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English
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One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a...
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264 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Terrorized by a shadow from the past, an afflicted farmer attempts suicide under a rotting burial elm, inadvertently unearthing a dark ancestral history and exposing diseased generational roots of abandonment and abuse. But a secret also waits to be discovered, deep in the ordinary soil of the Oklahoma Panhandle, that holds the redemptive power to save both the man and the land."--Front inside jacket flap.
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320 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
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English
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"Lace up your hiking boots for the next in Lonely Planet's highly successful Epic Hikes series, this time exploring 50 of the Americas' most rewarding treks and trails. From Canada's longest hut-to-hut hike, the Sunshine Coast Trail, to a descent through Havasu Canyon in the USA, and the Santa Cruz Trail of northern Peru, we cover a huge variety of themes and experiences across routes that range from one-day walks to multi-day treks. Each of the featured...
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xxi, 593 pages : illustrations, ; 25 cm.
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English
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"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"--
A collection of short stories about the North American wilderness and outdoor life. They reveal the many ways in which the North American literary landscape has shaped -- and is shaped by -- our conceptions of the wild. Mystery, myth and magic, danger and survival, retreat and solitude, and even tales of environment and extinction fill these pages. Fuss includes an introductory...
70) Blood sisters
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371 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown -- scarred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis -- and never looked back. Now, she lives in Rhode Island...
71) Little Bird
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2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
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231 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 29 x 32 cm
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English
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"Enigmatic rock art featuring a myriad of symbols and designs can be found throughout remote and arid landscapes of the Greater Southwest, from the Four Corners region of the American West to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. This vast gallery of ancient art offers intriguing questions. Who created these images on stone and what were their motivations? What do they mean? Are they to be taken literally or might they stand for something else?...
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xiv, 239 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Catalogs a lifetime of bird sightings to explore the part-Lakota author's search for identity and his reckoning with colonialism's violence against Indigenous humans, animals, and land."--
"Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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America's national mammal sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations before being driven to the brink of extinction, eventually prompting an unlikely collection of people to rescue it from disappearing forever.
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328 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Over-achievement isn't a bad word -- for Berlin, it's the goal. She's securing excellent grades, planning her future, and working a part-time job at Pink Mountain Pizza, a legendary local business. Who says she needs a best friend by her side? Dropping out of high school wasn't smart -- but it was necessary for Cameron. Since his cousin Kiki's disappearance, it's hard enough to find the funny side of life, especially when the whole town has forgotten...
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