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2022 Young Adult winner
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"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth tells the story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters...
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2020 Young Adult honor
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Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text, fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, focuses on middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion...
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2020 Young Adult honor
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"For thousands of years, Inuit women practised the traditional art of tattooing. Created with bone needles and caribou sinew soaked in seal oil or soot, these tattoos were an important tradition for many women, symbols stitched in their skin that connected them to their families and communities. But with the rise of missionaries and residential schools in the North, the tradition of tattooing was almost lost. In 2005, when Angela Hovak Johnston heard...
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2018 Young Adult winner
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"Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate...
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2016 Middle School honor
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A powerful and visually stunning anthology from some of the most groundbreaking Native artists working in North America today.
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2012 Young Adult winner
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A memoir in which Adam Fortunate Eagle, one of the leaders of the Native American takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, provides an account of his experiences as a student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota between 1935 and 1945.