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Pocahontas
By Joseph Bruchac. 2003
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the…
Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.Paiute princess: the story of Sarah Winnemucca
By Deborah Kogan Ray. 2013
Documents the life and achievements of the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute leader, examining how her aptitude for languages and diplomacy enabled…
her to advocate on behalf of her tribe. Grades 4-7. 2013.Meet a veterinarian: Candace Grier-Lowe (Career path choices.)
By Kim Ziervogel. 2009
Candace Grier-Lowe was a poor student in high school, but she loved animals and drew on that love to pursue…
a career working with them. She upgraded her skills in order to apply for university and succeeded after much effort. Today she is at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine as a veterinary dentistry resident. Contains a veterinary medicine FAQ page. For junior and senior high readers. 2009.Meet a journalist: Waubgeshig Rice (Career path choices.)
By Kim Ziervogel. 2009
After doing well in high school English, Waub Rice applied to study in Germany for a year and was accepted.…
He found this opened up a world of possibilities and he went to university at Ryerson to study journalism. Now this role model works in Winnipeg for the CBC doing stories about Aboriginal peoples. Contains a journalist career FAQ page. For junior and senior high readers. 2009.Lieux hantés: histoires véridiques d'ici
By Pat Hancock, Lise Binette. 2004
Recueil regroupant des histoires de fantômes provenant de partout au Canada. Ces courts récits racontent des choses étonnantes et parfois…
effrayantes que des gens affirment avoir vues, entendues, ressenties ou senties. Il est toutefois permis de douter de la véracité de certains faits, relatés peut-être uniquement dans un but touristique. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2004. Titre uniforme: Haunted Canada.Environmentalists from our First Nations (A First Nations book for young readers #5)
By Vincent Schilling. 2011
Ten biographies of First Nations/Native activists who advocate not only for the environment but for Native rights. Their stories are…
full of highs and lows, triumphs and setbacks. Environmental trailblazers, these men and women are role models for children everywhere. Grades 4-7. 2011. (First Nations Series for Young Readers)Joseph Brant (The Canadians)
By Auldham Roy Petrie. 1978
Joseph Brant followed his father as an Iroquois chief, and, like his father, swore loyalty to the British in North…
America and was received by British royalty in London. Petrie chronicles the life of Brant, from his childhood and youth, to his first battles as an Iroquois warrior and his crucial aid to the British during the American War of Independence. Grades 5-8. 1978.Come walk with me: a memoir
By Beatrice Mosionier. 2009
Mosionier's memoir in part answers the question: how much of her novel, "April Raintree" (DC37700), is based on her own…
life? She recounts a life of great loss: of family, innocence and dignity. She also shares how she has found fulfilment - artistically, politically, and personally - and describes the recovery of her bond with her mother, one nearly destroyed by the family's separation in 1952. Explicit descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence and some strong language. c2009.Haunted Canada: true ghost stories (Haunted Canada Ser.)
By Pat Hancock. 2003
A collection of chilling true ghost stories, from all across Canada, to send shivers down your spine. From poltergeists who…
terrorize hunters in a remote cabin to a man who gets frightened to death in a graveyard - prepare yourself to be haunted! Grades 4-7. Bestseller. 2003.Haunted Canada 2: true tales of terror (Haunted Canada Ser.)
By Pat Hancock. 2005
Strange fires break out, serpents rise from the waves, and giant beasts lumber through the trees, Ghostly forms drift by…
and eerie discs lower silently from the sky. True tales of terror from all parts of Canada. Sequel to "Haunted Canada: true ghost stories" (DC27614). Descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2005.Counting coup: becoming a Crow chief on the Reservation and beyond
By Joseph Medicine Crow, Herman J Viola. 2006
The last traditional Crow chief, Joseph Medicine Crow (born 1913), recalls growing up on a Montana reservation and relates some…
of his experiences after leaving it. He describes the four coups - war deeds - that he accomplished in Germany during World War II that entitled him to be chief. Grades 4-7. 2006.Bowman's store: a journey to myself
By Joseph Bruchac. 1997
An autobiography detailing the author's earliest childhood memories through age twenty-eight, when his grandfather Bowman died in 1970. Bowman raised…
Bruchac without ever admitting his Abenaki heritage, yet in these reminiscences, Bruchac traces the evidence of Native American customs in his grandfather's behaviour. Senior high and older readers. c1997.Canadian hauntings: true ghost stories
By Michael Norman, Beth Scott. 2004
Houses of evil, child ghosts, and poltergeists - they're all in this collection of true, unexplainable encounters from across Canada.…
From the haunted art gallery in Burnaby, B.C. to mysteries in the Maritimes, this is a grand tour of ghostly goings-on. Descriptions of violence. For Junior and Senior High readers. Bestseller 2005. 2004.Ada Blackjack: a true story of survival in the Atlantic
By Jennifer Niven. 2003
Ada Blackjack was an unskilled 23-year-old Inuit woman from Nome, Alaska, who signed on as a seamstress for a top-secret…
expedition to the far North, to colonize desolate Wrangel Island. When the expedition went wrong, Ada was left on her own but managed to return home, only to be tricked, exploited and hounded by journalists and others. A true story of a woman who survived a terrible time in the wild only to face a different ordeal in civilization. 2003.A stranger at home: a true story
By Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. 2011
10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement - it's been two years since her parents delivered her to the…
school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. But Margaret soon realizes that she's an outsider in the Arctic - she's forgotten the language and stories of her people, and she can't even stomach the food her mother prepares. As she struggles to reclaim her way of life, she discovers how important it is to remain true to the ways of her people - and to herself. Sequel to "Fatty legs". Grades 4-7. 2011.They saw the future: oracles, psychics, scientists, great thinkers, and pretty good guessers
By Kathleen Krull. 1999
Accounts of twelve visionaries--people who predict the future--presented in chronological order from the oracles of ancient Greece to twentieth-century figures.…
Covers the sibyls of Rome, Mayan astrologers, Nostradamus, Hildegard of Bingen, Leonardo da Vinci, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Nicholas Black Elk, Jeane Dixon, Edgar Cayce, and Marshall McLuhan. Grades 5-8. 1999.Witches and witch-hunts: a history of persecution
By Milton Meltzer. 1999
Examines witch-hunts around the world from medieval Europe to the present day. Reveals how innocent people become accused of imaginary…
crimes due to fear, ignorance, and mass hysteria. Includes the Salem witch trials, Shakespeare's witches, and twentieth-century examples of persecution. For junior high and older readers. c1999.True UFO stories
By Terry Deary. 1997
A collection of allegedly true UFO-based stories. Among the stories featured are that of two people who were kidnapped and…
used in horrific experiments by hideous, lizard-eyed aliens. There is also the story of strange beings descending in a beam of light to rescue a girl and her father.Lost cities and forgotten civilizations (Mysteries uncovered, secrets declassified)
By Michael Pye, Kirsten Dalley. 2013
Fifteen essays on mythical lost civilizations such as Atlantis explore the evidence for their existence, their possible connections to extraterrestrials,…
their scientific and engineering achievements, and other questions. Includes a glossary and additional resources. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2013Chronicles the events of August 1835 when the tabloid newspaper the New York Sun published a series of articles declaring…
that the moon was inhabited by unicorns, beavers, and man-bats. Details the hoax's worldwide popularity and the rise of the Sun as the most read newspaper in the world. 2008