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By Howard A Norman. 1997
Ten stories from Inuit oral tradition include portrayals of tundra wildlife - puffins, a wolverine, a seagull, a narwhal, and…
geese. The Biblical Noah appears in "Noah Hunts a Woolly Mammoth." In the title piece, a young girl's ability to help maintain the village food supply by dreaming about geese is challenged by a shaman. Grades 4-7. 1997.By Laurie Alberts. 1987
Leaving a trail of menial jobs behind her, Allie Heller arrives in an Alaskan fishing village. She falls in love…
with Sonny who is bent on self-destruction. A tragic accident forces her to choose whether she herself will survive. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1987.By Jacqueline Guest. 2000
Leigh Aberdeen is determined to win the hockey championship with her new all-girl team, the Chinooks. Then her dad, who's…
also the coach, adds a know-it-all boy to the team which makes Leigh furious, and her best friend Tina, the goalie, starts mysteriously dropping practices just as the Chinooks show they can win. Leigh realizes that the team will need to overcome their problems on and off the ice before they can get it together and win. Grades 4-7. 2000.By Jack Cady. 1994
"Faith was the thunder, Hope was the wind, and Charity the bright robes of lightning that thunder wore." Thus opens…
the mystery of the seven-year-old murder of Harriette's father, thought an accident at the time. It's 1957 and her mother has just died with the secret of his death. Thirty-year-old Harriette returns to the North Carolina hills to face her Cherokee heritage and its mysticism, and to investigate. 1994.By Jan Hudson. 1990
When a horse is captured from the Snakes and brought to the Blackfoot tribe, Kit Fox knows that she is…
meant to ride it. The horse is sent to a camp where women are not allowed, but when an attack sends the men into battle, Kit Fox is left to master the beast. For junior and senior high readers. 1990.By James W Bennett. 1994
Floyd Rayfield, fifteen, who has lived in foster homes most of his life, believes his destiny is to become a…
Dakota warrior. No longer able to tolerate his situation, he heads for the Pine Ridge reservation to undergo a vision quest and find a place he really belongs. Some strong language. For junior high readers. 1994.By Martha Brooks. 1997
When her father wills her a cabin on land in rural Manitoba, Alexandra meets a young man who shares her…
Indian heritage and her experience of being haunted by spirits. Grades 5-8. 1997.By Don Sawyer. 1988
Nancy Antoine seeks release from grief after the suicide of her close friend. She finds an inner strength which points…
the way to true values and recovery, not only for herself and her Native people, but for all people. For senior high and adult readers. 1988.By Scott O'Dell. 1995
In this sequel to Island of the "Blue Dolphins", Zia, a fourteen-year-old Indian girl and her brother, Mando, make plans…
to rescue Aunt Karana using a boat they found washed up on the beach. Their aunt was left behind on the Island of the Blue Dolphins eighteen years ago. Grades 5-8. 1995.A fictional account of the Indian raid on the Warren wagontrain and the brutal aftermath of the attack. Based on…
the views of soldiers, settlers, and three generations of Kiowa Indians. 1974.By Ian S Mahood. 1971
One hundred and fifty years after fur traders arrived, the Nootka tribe of Vancouver Island had shrunk to 1000 people.…
Miners and farmers arrived in the area and failed, so the land virtually was ignored until 1950 when loggers moved in. This book includes an historical novel of the life of the Nootka Indians, as well as a study of the region in present times. 1971.By Nancy Van Laan. 1997
Shingebiss, the little merganser duck, could always find plenty to eat. In all seasons, the Great Lake was full of…
fish for him to catch. But one bitter cold year, the lake freezes over as solid as stone, and Shingebiss must find a way to fish through the ice. And to do that, he must face the fierce Winter Maker. Gracefully told and illustrated with vigorous full-color woodcuts, this ancient Ojibwe story captures all the power of winter on the coldest of northern nights and all the courage of a small being who refuses to see winter as his enemy. Passed down for generations by a people who perceive nature as a teacher, this story shows that those who follow the ways of Shingebiss will always have plenty to eat, no matter how hard the great wind of Winter Maker blows.By Eve Bunting. 1995
"The Indian in us must disappear, they say. It must be tamed. " In the late 1880s, ten-year-old Young Bull…
is sent to boarding school to learn the white man's ways. Eve Bunting's sensitive and poetic text recreates an experience shared by many Native American children in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Irving Toddy's dramatic paintings capture the beauty and color of the world Young Bull has left behind- and the vivid memories he preserves in his ledger drawings.By Thomas King. 1993
Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern…
world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King.By Rudy Wiebe. 2010
Divided into four sections, these 51 entries showcase Wiebe’s diverse concerns. The first section includes tales of warriors, Chiefs, and…
the First Nations’ experiences prior to the imposition of restrictions on their land and freedom by the Crown. The other sections include stories on Mennonite history, Western Canada, and more personal character sketches. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010.By Gary Paulsen. 1990
In 1864 young Apache brave Coyote Runs, cornered in a canyon, is shot by U.S. soldiers during the raid that…
was to make him a man. Over one hundred years later, his skull, with a hole through its forehead, is discovered by Brennan Cole, a fifteen-year-old loner who is camping in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas. Brennan is compelled to learn the story behind the skull, and to bring peace to Coyote Run's restless spirit. For junior high readers. c1990.By Joan Clark. 1995
While on an expedition with his father to get lumber to take back to Greenland, Thrand is captured by the…
native Osweet, who have taken him to replace one of their own who was killed by a Greenlander. For junior and senior high readers. 1995.By Markoosie, Germaine Arnaktauyok. 1970
This first piece of Inuit fiction to be published in English. Young Kamik achieves manhood during a polar bear hunt…
as well as on the long journey home after his companions have been killed. Grades 5-8. 1974, c1970.By Philip Kreiner. 1987
Joe is a white school teacher in an isolated community near James Bay. He decides to learn about the Indian…
way of life, which is in danger because a huge dam is being built in the centre of the Indian's hunting lands. 1987.By Thomas H Smith. 1986
Set in the 1790's. When Davey travels with his father on a surveying expedition along the west coast of North…
America, he befriends a seal pup. After he is captured by Indians, he is declared to be a "spirit child" because he can "talk" to the pup. For junior and senior high readers. 1986.