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Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After being caught stealing one too many times, Benjamin Waterfalls is sent to a "boot camp" at the Ojibwe reservation where he searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around and embrace this second chance.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding. In this latest narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex,...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful story about the importance of family acceptance. Phoenix isn't like other boys. He loves to play with dolls and marvel at pretty fabrics. Most of all, he loves to dance--whether it's ballet, Pow Wow dancing, or just swirling and twirling around his house. Not everyone understands Phoenix, but his mom and brother are proud of him. With their help, Phoenix learns about Two Spirit/Niizh Manidoowag people in Anishinaabe culture and just how...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
Description
"Abandoned as an infant in 1930 at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Razor is raised by abusive workers who think of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun" and endures years of beatings "with a broom or radiator brush - whatever was handy." One night, while he is asleep, one of the matrons attacks him with a hammer. In the wake of this savage beating, he finally receives a brief interlude of compassionate care in the hospital
As a...
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Theytus Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Based in Duck Bay, Manitoba, in the 1940s, an Elder shares his experience of packing up to go out to collect blueberries, a traditional gathering that took place every summer. He describes the journey and landscape with humor and such vivid imagery that readers will see themselves there with him, boarding the trail of wagons from surrounding communities and heading east toward the blueberry patch. The Elder's stories offer a journey back in time...
69) Nibi emosaawdang
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Ojibwa
Description
"A translation of The Water Walker into Anishinaabemowin. The book contains both Anishinaabemowin and English. The Water Walker is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother who walked around all of the Great Lakes to protect our water."--
Author
Series
Cash Blackbear novels volume 1
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three and has kept an eye out for her ever since. Cash navigated through a succession of white foster homes, and at thirteen was working on farms. She's tough as nails and makes her living driving trucks. It's a rough place to live -- Fargo-Moorhead in the early 1970s. Wheaton wants her to take hold of her life, stop fooling around with...
71) Indian horse
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better opportunities, but no matter how far Saul goes, the ghosts...
72) Màgòdiz: a novel
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Love after the End, a novel of Indigenous futurism in which Two-Spirit, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and disabled characters--survivors of a devastating war-- fight to save what's left of their world Màgòdiz (Anishinabemowin, Algonquin dialect): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"he iconic activist and cofounder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) presents a no-holds-barred memoir in which he tells the unvarnished truth about the AIM as he lived it, revealing what motivated him to confront injustice and help others gain a sense of pride by knowing their culture,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as Michael Witgen demonstrates, the credit for Native persistence...
Author
Series
Moon apocalyptic novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When a community of Anishinabe people, with their natural resources dwindling, needs to find a new home, Evan Whitesky leads a dangerous mission back to their ancestral home in the Great Lakes region, during which they encounter other survivors, some who thrive on violence"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Canada
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve's chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger's intentions, he teams up with his...
Author
Series
Publisher
North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Education professor Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking of their experiences. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never shared before. She came to an understanding of new terms:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Shy, eight-year-old Liam is anxious about attending a local powwow with his best friend, Zach, but he soon discovers that the venue is full of exciting things to eat and do--from delicious Indian tacos to lively drum circles and dancing.
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