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274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
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Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
3) Two roads
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English
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It's 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his Pop have been riding the rails for years after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a "knight of the road" with Pop, even if they're broke. But then Pop has to go to Washington, DC -- some of his fellow veterans are marching for their government checks, and Pop wants to make sure he gets his due -- and Cal can't go with him. So Pop tells Cal something he never knew before: Pop...
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403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists -- but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson...
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"Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike." "Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945,...
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This book concerns itself with the origin of the different types of Navajo rugs, with suggestions on how and where to buy, and with their care. New histotical notes were added to facts previously known. The history of the Navajo People has been sketchily depicted and then only as it concerns their weaving. Includes history of weaving, how a rug is made, rug types and areas, how to buy a rug, how to collect rugs, fact and fancy, the future, 20 color...
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348 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
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English
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"The history of North America, from Christopher Columbus to the present day, is a chaotic struggle for ownership of the land. This text will address questions such as the history of native communities that were displaced or conquered, and even further back to how Native North, Central and South Americans came to these continents in the first place. Historical facts are mainly supported through archaeological findings."--Publisher information.
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American exploration and travel volume 83
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xvii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Details the daily lives and adventures of the 1875 Ferdinand V. Hayden survey team, largely through their own personal narratives region geography, and the American expansionist impulse"--Provided by publisher.
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