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Use the listed call numbers to find the books on the third floor, unless otherwise specified. To learn more about call numbers, view the Finding Items in the Library Tutorial. For eBooks, click the title and log in with your Office 365 account if prompted.
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Chair of Tears
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Call Number: eBookThe best stories create traditions, and this novel by celebrated Native American writer Gerald Vizenor is a marvelous conjunction of trickster stories and literary ingenuity. -
Ten Little Indians: Stories
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Call Number: PS3551.L35774 T46 2003Nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heart-rending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love. -
The Night Watchman
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Call Number: PS3555.R42 N54 2020Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. -
This Tender Land
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Call Number: PS3561.R766 T46 20191932, Minnesota--the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. -
House Made of Dawn
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Call Number: PS3563.O47 H6 1989This 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of a young American Indian struggling to reconcile the traditional ways of his people with the demands of the 20th century. -
Touching the Fire
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Call Number: PS3573.E4944 T68 1993When the Europeans invaded this continent, they took land and water, but ignored what may be the greatest riches of all: the dazzling wealth of Native American spiritual and psychological wisdom. Now, adopted Omaha tribesman Roger Welsch, a.k.a. Bull Buffalo Chief brings a new collection of stories about an imaginary midwestern tribe, the Turtle Creek Nehawkas, the way they are, the way they were. -
The River of Kings
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Call Number: PS3602.R722894 R58 2017In The River of Kings, bestselling author of Fallen Land Taylor Brown artfully weaves three narrative strands--two brothers' journey down an ancient river, their father's tangled past, and the buried history of the river's earliest people--to evoke a legendary place and its powerful hold on the human imagination. -
There There
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Call Number: PS3615.R32 T48 2018As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow--some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent--momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. -
To the Bright Edge of the World
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Call Number: PS3609.V54 T6 2016An atmospheric, transporting tale of adventure, love, and survival from the bestselling author of The Snow Child, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. -
Flight of the Sparrow
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Call Number: PS3552.R6839 F58 2014Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader, made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. -
Calling for a Blanket Dance
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Call Number: PS3608.O482755 C35 2022A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own. -
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
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Call Number: PS647.I5 N48 2023A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?"
Use the listed call numbers to find the books on the third floor, unless otherwise specified. To learn more about call numbers, view the Finding Items in the Library Tutorial. For eBooks, click the title and log in with your Office 365 account if prompted.
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Native Nations
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Call Number: E77 .B65 2017Combining historical background with discussion of contemporary Native nations and their living cultures, this comprehensive text introduces students to some of the many indigenous peoples in North America. -
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
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Call Number: E77 .T797 2019Beginning with the tribes' devastating loss of land and the forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools, Treuer shows how the period of greatest adversity also helped to incubate a unifying Native identity. -
Killing Crazy Horse
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Call Number: E81 .O74 2020The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. -
Religion and Culture in Native America
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Call Number: E98.R3 C7553 2021Religion and Culture in Native America presents an introduction to a diverse array of Indigenous religious and cultural practices in North America, focusing on those issues in which tribal communities themselves are currently invested. -
Empire of the Summer Moon
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Call Number: E99.C85 P3835 2010Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. -
Killers of the Flower Moon
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Call Number: E99.O8 G675 2017Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. -
Come Home, Indio
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Call Number: E99.W7 T47 2020In his memoir, we are invited to walk through the life of the author, Jim Terry, as he struggles to find security and comfort in an often hostile environment. Between the Ho-Chunk community of his Native American family in Wisconsin and his schoolmates in the Chicago suburbs, he tries in vain to fit in and eventually turns to alcohol to provide an escape from increasing loneliness and alienation. -
The Native South
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Call Number: eBookIn The Native South, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. -
The Search for the First Americans
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Call Number: eBookWho were the First Americans? Where did they come from? When did they get here? Are they the ancestors of modern Native Americans? These questions might seem straightforward, but scientists in competing fields have failed to convince one another with their theories and evidence, much less Native American peoples. -
The Lost City of the Monkey God
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Call Number: F1509.M9 P74 2017Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God - but then having committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a new quest. -
Defend the Sacred
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Call Number: KF8407 .M37 2020The remarkable story of the innovative legal strategies Native Americans have used to protect their religious rights
Use the listed call numbers to find the books on the second floor in the Youth Collection, unless otherwise specified. To learn more about call numbers, view the Finding Items in the Library Tutorial.
Picture Books
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Fry Bread
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Call Number: PICTURE ALL/FAMILIES / MAILLARD, K. / FRY BREADFry Bread is a story told in lively and powerful verse by Seminole Nation member Kevin Noble Maillard, with vibrant art from Pura Belpre Award winner Juana Martinez-Neal. -
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker
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Call Number: PICTURE FOLKTALES / ROBERTSON, R. / HIAWATHA ANDHiawatha, a Mohawk, is plotting revenge for the murder of his wife and daughters by the evil Onondaga Chief, Tadodaho, when he meets the Great Peacemaker, who enlists his help in bringing the nations together to share his vision of a new way of life marked by peace, love, and unity rather than war, hate, and fear. -
We Are Water Protectors
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Call Number: PICTURE COMMUNITY / LINDSTROM, C. / WE ARE WATERWater is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all. When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. -
Knots on a Counting Rope
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Call Number: PICTURE CULTURE / MARTIN, B. / KNOTS ON ABoy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses and his grandfather reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse, and an exciting horse race. -
Crossing Bok Chitto
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Call Number: PICTURE FOLKTALES / TINGLE, T. / CROSSING BOKThere is a river called Bok Chitto that cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between the States, in the days before the Trail of Tears, Bok Chitto was a boundary. On one side of the river lived the Choctaws. On the other side lived the plantation owners and their slaves. If a slave escaped and made his way across Bok Chitto, the slave was free. -
Little You
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Call Number: BOARD BOOK / VAN CAMP, R. / LITTLE YOUCelebrating the joy babies bring into the world. -
Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
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Call Number: PICTURE FOLKTALES / GOBLE, P. / GIRL WHOThe story of a young Native American girl devoted to the care of her tribe's horses. With simple text and brilliant illustrations. Paul Goble tells how she eventually becomes one of them to forever run free. -
When We Are Kind = Nihá'ádaahwiinít'íigo
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Call Number: PICTURE ALL/BEHAVIOR / GRAY SMITH, M. / WHEN WE AREThis dual-language beautiful picture book looks at how the simple act of being kind, to others and oneself, affects all aspects of a child's life. In English and Diné
Chapter Books
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In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.1.M3728 In 2015Through stories of Lakota leader Crazy Horse, a boy learns about his heritage and himself in this American Indian Youth Literature Award-winning novel from acclaimed author Joseph Marshall III -
Indian No More
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.1.M46365 Ind 2019Regina Petit's family has always been Umpqua, and living on the Grand Ronde reservation is all ten-year-old Regina has ever known. Her biggest worry is that Sasquatch may actually exist out in the forest. But when the federal government signs a bill into law that says Regina's tribe no longer exists, Regina becomes 'Indian no more' overnight -- even though she was given a number by the Bureau of Indian Affairs that counted her as Indian, even though she lives with her tribe and practices tribal customs, and even though her ancestors were Indian for countless generations. -
Waterless Mountain
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.A715 Wat 2014Younger Brother lives in a dry land, and he dreams of finding the wide water of the Pacific Ocean. This gentle coming-of-age story, rooted in the traditional culture of the Navajo, recounts Younger Brother's journey toward finding his vocation as a medicine man. -
Woods Runner
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.P2843 Woo 2010Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston. But the war comes to them.
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Julie of the Wolves
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ 7 .G2933 JuThe thrilling Newbery Medal-winning classic about an Eskimo girl lost on the Alaskan tundra. -
Julie
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ 7 .G2933 Ju 1994Twenty years after the publication of the Newbery Award-winning Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George takes up at the moment Julie decides to leave the wolf pack that adopted her and return to the Eskimo tribe of her father. -
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.A382 Ab 2007Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. -
More Than Good Enough
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.C37275 Mo 2014Half native. Half white. One hundred percent nothing. My mom doesn't want me. My dad just got out of jail. They want me to go live with him on the reservation, in the Everglades. Trouble is, everybody there just ignores me. At least I get to work with Pippa on my film project at school. -
White Girl
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.O51775 Wh 2004Until she was fourteen, Josie was pretty ordinary. Then her Mom meets Martin, "a real ponytail Indian," and before long, Josie finds herself living on a reserve outside town, with a new stepfather, a new stepbrother, and a new name&8212;"Blondie." -
The Trap
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.S6397 Tra 200617 year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.
Use the listed call numbers to find the video on the second floor, unless otherwise specified. To learn more about call numbers, view the Finding Items in the Library Tutorial. For streaming videos, click the title and log in with your Office 365 account if prompted.
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500 Nations
Call Number: MEDIA E77 .F58 2004Presents a history of Native American peoples of North America, their leaders, customs, political systems, and lifestyles using accounts of events and dramatization. -
A History of American Indian Achievement
Call Number: MEDIA E77 .H59 2008This original, eight-part series on four volumes, documents the history of American Indian achievement, its defining role in the growth of the country, and its influence on current events. The series highlights the many contributions of American Indians that have influenced and shaped the history of the United States. -
What Was Ours
Call Number: MEDIA E98.M34 W6 2016What Was Ours is the story of how a young journalist and a teenage powwow princess, both of the Arapaho tribe, traveled together with a Shoshone elder in search of missing artifacts in the vast archives of Chicago's Field Museum. -
?e?anx the Cave
Call Number: MEDIA E99.T78 E25 2009A hunter on horseback accidentally discovers a portal to the afterlife in this fantastical version of a true Tsilhqwoti'in story. -
Teotihuacán's Lost Kings
Call Number: MEDIA F1219.1.T27 T468 2016Follow a team of international scientists documenting an archeological sensation: the exploration of royal tombs beneath the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacán. Not much is known about this long-lost society. -
Reel Injun
Call Number: MEDIA PN1995.9.I48 R44 2010Travelling through the heartland of America, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond examines how the myth of the movie "Injun" has influenced the world's understanding - and misunderstanding - of Natives. With clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, and candid interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native directors, writers, actors and activists, including Clint Eastwood, Robbie Robertson, Sacheen Littlefeather, John Trudell, Charlie Hill and Russell Means, Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema's depiction of Native people from the silent film era to the present day. -
File Under Miscellaneous
Call Number: MEDIA PN1997 .F55 2010Set in a dystopic metropolitan hellscape: a spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi'gMaq man has resolved to assimilate into the ruling culture. He visits a surgical clinic - the display window littered with skin and limb samples - and undergoes a gruesome procedure to rid him of his red skin.
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Smoke Signals
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SMOKE SIGNALSDepicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father. -
Drunktown's Finest
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DRUNKTOWN'SOn a beautifully desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people, a college-bound, devout Christian woman; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous but gorgeous transsexual woman, search for love and acceptance. As the three find their lives becoming more complicated and their troubles growing, their paths begin to intersect. -
Imprint
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV IMPRINTA Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying farther. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind. -
Skins
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SKINSIn the shadow of Mt. Rushmore, lies one of the poorest counties in America, The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Indian existence is brought home every night as he locks up drunk and disorderly Indians, including his own brother. Rudy's frustration leads him to take the law into his own hands. Ultimately, Rudy is able to honor his big brother, and his people with a life-affirming act of defiance. -
Winter in the Blood
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WINTER IN THEVirgil First Raise wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana. He stumbles home to his ranch on the reservation only to learn that his wife, Agnes, has left him. Worse, she's stolen his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find her, beginning an odyssey of inebriated intrigues with a mysterious "Airplane Man," a beautiful barmaid, and two dangerous men in suits. -
Wind River
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WIND RIVERA rookie FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past to investigate the mysterious killing of a local girl on a remote Native American reservation. -
Native America. Episode 1, From Caves to Cosmos
Call Number: StreamingFrom Caves to Cosmos traces ancient knowledge and cutting-edge science to uncover the roots of Native America.
